A gold hockey puck mouse

[mindthegap]

I've got this gold color hockey puck mouse from Japan. Is this from third-party company?

 

[Phipli]

Modified I think, either a new ball and the one plastic moulding, or a new ball and a painted part. It has genuine apple parts by the look of it.

If I was making them, I'd paint them, and the brand name on the side would be done with a heated stamp (quite literally branding). It would be way cheaper to use extremely good paint than to make new plastic parts in small quantities.

 

[finkmac]

The colourful plastic side "skins" are trivial to remove

Macway was (is?) a peripheral maker akin to Macally/Mathey. Presumably they offered replacement mouse "skins".