Takara Tomy beginning to take action against 3rd products in Japan?

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wow igear really are taking things too far. now they're going to steal a Transfans work to do their Ultra Magnus upgrade.

Death Penalty!

Yeah, I just read that also - How ridiculous!
It is clear that iGear would rather rip-off others than do their own hard work as they sell more KO stuff now than anything of their own - I hope that HasTakTom and China come down on them (Not Death Though) even if it is the Store Holder approach.

I'd even suggest a Boycott of their KO products but if people want to buy that sort of thing then that is completely up to them, I guess...

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Isn't it alleged that this was exactly what they did with the coneheads too?

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Isn't it alleged that this was exactly what they did with the coneheads too?

According to what I've read, apparently so - Hell, it's even arguable that both of the 3rd Party Arcees are 'stolen' design concepts but I wont be complaining in that department.

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Both Arcees are. I believe they're "borrowed" from a design called the "Cyberfembot". The original website for it has been hacked, but here's something from Google's cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co....google.com.au

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Here's better info:

http://thirdpartytransformers.wikia....rFemBot_A.R.C.

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Here's better info:

http://thirdpartytransformers.wikia....erFemBot_A.R.C.

Holy crud - there truly is a wiki for everything.

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The board didn't like the fact that link ended with a period. I've fixed it. It should work now.