lol how do i gramar

As bad as I spell I never spelled fish.. ghoti

No worse than 'gaol'.

^That's okay, I didn't need to sleep tonight...

So not only are they ripping off 40k, they're ripping off 40k from about 20 years ago?

Maybe they thought nobody would notice.

But if there is one penny-pinching evil miser of a company that would notice, it's GW.

They just might have gotten away with the obscure Ork tank, but what the hell were they thinking with the Baneblade?

They may have licensed them. Who knows?

That relies on two things: EA not trying to steal something or burn the parent company to the ground: and GW wanting to play nice.

Neither of those things will ever happen, in fact, I'm sure that those two together would constitute a sign of the apocalypse.

Plus THQ has the video game rights through Relic.

It's always funny when GW goes after someone on IP grounds, since they built their universe from a pastiche of different sources.

I think they've got a case there, but EA has much bigger lawyers.

I'm really sure how much you can protect some generic tank designs though. If they were naming them the same thing then maybe.. but to me this isn't much different than when a Transformer "sort of looks exactly like" an Astin Martin but isn't.

Hasbro can get sued over that if the courts decide the design is close enough. That's why they had to license the Bianltech/Alternator designs.

In the Diaclone/G1 days the car companies weren't being as strict about it.

Yeah but they still do it. One of my hobbies is trying to figure out what cars are which . The Aston Martin example was Energon Hot Shot.

And Prime Cliffjumper is obviously a 69(ish) Dodge Challenger.

I dunno if you can call the infamous "Eleven Barrels of Hell" generic.

Here's Cybertron Hot Shot if you're interested...

Re: last page's pic: Aren't the WH40k tanks pretty heavily based on some real designs?

I wanna drive/paint that in Forza right now it looks fun

The evil scientist in those games always reminded me of Dr. Wily.

he finally finished his journey ~~

I was wondering how long it would take.

So my coworker desided to have some fun with a light kit I tore out of a standee for Madagasgar 3
I had alread done thing slike make the little light blink faster and brighter but he desides to put the death nail it this kits coffin by tossing it in his glass of water and to our suprise the little light worked!

So we deside to try hot woter where the light stoped working but when pulled out of the water came back on and put back in cold water worked still! ...yeah we where bored on a slow wendsday

Talk about over-analysis!

face it no one dose better mech design then japan

I'm pretty sure it's subjective to the taste of the individual, bro.

Man, if the old battletech stuff wanted to rip it off, they would've just yoinked the design whole-hog anyway, wouldn't they?

Pigeon-toed?? Maybe my eyes are bad but it looks like the toes are facing outward.

I think it refers to the upper thighs, how the right lower leg is dramatically off while the upper leg sort of turns inward. It looks weird and kind of painful.

Actually, the staff at FASA got permission from the original Japanese animators to use the designs they borrowed.

The problem came in the fact that some of the designs they borrowed hailed from Macross.

Cue Harmony Gold getting their shorts in a bunch and trying to sue the snot out of FASA.

FASA won the first round, but the tide turned when Harmony Gold gave Playmates the license to produce Robotech toys for the mid-90s revival of the franchise. FASA had successfully sued Playmates a few years back because a prototype Exo Squad vehicle was little more than a slightly altered Battletech design, and so when both companies learned they had a common enemy they tag-teamed FASA in the courts. FASA, who was faltering at the time, wound up losing the case on a technicality.

The result of the suit was that FASA stopped using all borrowed designs, and even reprinted several manuals to remove the mecha based on those designs and replace them with others (even though one of the manuals made use of images designed specifically for FASA by Victor Industries, and so FASA co-owned them to begin with).

In time, Fantasy Productions - who inherited the Battletech license when FASA went bust - got confirmation from Sunrise and Bandai that they could freely use the images borrowed from the anime they owned. The rest were re-designed from scratch so that HG couldn't complain anymore.

and this has been another...useless infodump from Fortress Ironhold.