It may slice and dice, but is it the real thing? The growing smoothie fad has been lucrative for the manufacturer of the Magic Bullet, a 21-piece blender kit sold via infomercial. In 2007, the company warned that an unknown number of fake Bullets were being imported into the U.S. from China. The bogus blenders could injure users, start a fire or pose a risk of electric shock, it cautioned.