Quote Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime View Post
The creator of those digibashes, Ryan Yzquierdo, has had many excellent ideas fleeced appropriated by FunPub over the years..
Considering the sheer volume of digibashes he does (like, hundreds), there are bound to be some similar ideas showing up by FunPub, who also does hundreds of ideas (that are whittled down to about 20 a year by Hasbro). And both of those groups are mostly focussed on homages of known characters... unlike Hasbro that does a large portion of new character toys.
But it would be like saying that Hasbro copied a fan's creative figure on some fan-forum somewhere, if they eventually released a redeco that is similar.

There are a lot of obvious ideas that multiple people come up with (just look at the creative sections of fansites), especially of high-demand characters... and FunPub and Hasbro are not going to avoid obvious or high-demand ideas just because someone else came up with it first - in fact, it's best that they keep track of what the current trends and demands are, so that they provide us with items we are already wanting (like non-toy characters).