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They could still sue Megabloks. AFTER Armada.

They could still sue Megabloks. AFTER Armada.

Dude, you can't sue someone for using an idea before you did.

 

Armada was years ago.

Heh heh heh... That seems like it might've not been such a good idea for Lego, if they wanted to sue Megabloks for the NS Ah well...

They could still sue Megabloks. AFTER Armada.

Dude, you can't sue someone for using an idea before you did.

 

Armada was years ago.

Ohh. It thought it was recent. I ain't 'hip' with all the young peoples things.

I fail to see your reasoning. What does Mega Bloks have to do with Transformers have to do with cheap knock-offs have to do with Lego have to do with Nintendo?

 

~Zhalath

... Lego can't sue Mega Bloks over having similar designs, because Hasbro would sue Lego over having the concept of robots attaching to bigger robots.

I fail to see your reasoning. What does Mega Bloks have to do with Transformers have to do with cheap knock-offs have to do with Lego have to do with Nintendo?

 

~Zhalath

If LEGO is able to sue MegaBloks because the Neo Shifters are similar to the Bohrok or whatever, then Hasbro can sue LEGO because the Phantoka/Mistika and Matoran can connect, much like the Minicon & Transformers can.

Just because something transforms into a ball doesn't mean LEGO can sue them. THAT's why.

 

I mean, LEGO would have sued them long ago if they felt it would be a good decision. They didn't. And Transformers doesn't think it wise to sue LEGO for being able to put Matoran on toa.

I fail to see your reasoning. What does Mega Bloks have to do with Transformers have to do with cheap knock-offs have to do with Lego have to do with Nintendo?

 

~Zhalath

If LEGO is able to sue MegaBloks because the Neo Shifters are similar to the Bohrok or whatever, then Hasbro can sue LEGO because the Phantoka/Mistika and Matoran can connect, much like the Minicon & Transformers can.

 

BUT the matoran/toa are not single items, they are a bunch of pieces. Anything can attach to a bionicle/lego, whereas the TF line is single purpose.

... So who sue's what?

 

~Avlok O's: Good for Your Heart.~

You know, the ones where you could attach the Minicon, the smaller robots, to the larger robots?

"Our powers are no match for yours, we can not win the fight. So now we join in harmony, Skorbiter-totem unite!"

"Unite and Annihilate"

 

 

Sorry, that kinda of made me think about that.

In a sense, BIONICLE is already a ripoff of Transformers.

 

*Dodges pitchfork*

 

In a sense, BIONICLE is already a ripoff of Transformers.

 

*Dodges pitchfork*

 

*Throws another pitchfork*

*sends army of badly drawn roman soldiers at you*

 

I hardly think that. Just because BIONICLE is comprised of robotic toys doesn't mean that it's a rip-off of Transformerface.

In a sense, BIONICLE is already a ripoff of Transformers.

 

*Dodges pitchfork*

 

 

Nah, unless having round bugs fold up their limbs to "transform" (They're already round! >_>) Counts as transforming, TF can't sue...

 

Megablock's Neo Shifters are Trasbioformicles.

No one can sue.

 

They have middle ground.

 

Except for the Minicon thing.

 

[-The Alchemyst-]

If Bionicle is a transformers rip-off, they're ripping off More than just Armada.

 

In the late 1990s, Hasbro ended generation on with something unprecedented: Beast Wars. This was about transformers who were techno-organic, that is to say, they were bio-mechanical.

 

In Generation one, there was a subgroup of transformers, primarily Nebulans, who were integral to their partner transformer's functioning. Without them, their power was at least halved. They were called Headmasters. Sound like masks at all?

 

Just some things you need to know if you're going to accuse Bionicle of being a transformers rip-off.

 

EDIT: Also, the Combiners? Transformers has had those since G1 as well.

And I thought scale was already screwed beyond belief...

However, Then you could say Transformers ripped off about a hundred other Japanese combining or transforming robots. =P

Don't forget those new Mini-robots on Exo-force sets this year.

But the concept of little things attaching to big things has been around forever.

And if Hasbro doesn't own a copyright, then their case is kind of a stretch.

 

Lego can't sue Mega Bloks either. Just because their sets have turned into balls doesn't mean that they own the copyright on that idea.

 

However, Chuck Norris can sue them all for copyright infringement because they used awesome without his permission.

 

~Zhalath

Which came first, Power Rangers or Transformers?

 

I'm thinking Transformers.

Nah, Power Rangers.

 

Actually, Transformers has a ten-year head-start on PowerRangers at least.

Actually, Transformers has a ten-year head-start on PowerRangers at least.

Transformers: 1984

Power Rangers: 1993

Super Sentai: 1975

 

So Sentai came first so technically it seems Transformers would rip off the original series PR is based upon.