Quote Originally Posted by gdmetro View Post
Also notice how none of the FP stuff has been targeted? Perhaps this validates that FP designs do not encroach on the IP enough to be actioned against. Or it could just be a minor oversight.
Awesome point! FansProject is the only company that has actually gone through a huge effort not to step over the line and infringe on copyright despite the obvious similarities in their products to official TF characters. As it has been argued before, Defender may look like Springer but when you study and compare the Hasbro toys/character models in detail, there is actually very little that is similar. The most prominent aspect is the colors theme that tributes the official character and even that is not 100% the same and there can't be copyrights on color.

On the other hand, the same could be argued about Headrobot's stuff as they too have been careful with copyright infringement but they didn't scape Takara's notice despite 'Blood' being little more than a generic skull head when disembodied.