Re: Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece Inferno - Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:07 pm
"IP infringing item" would probably be the most apt description for a third party product, and which can also apply to the classic dollar store/outlet store "bootleg" kind of knockoffs.Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Third party figures are a kind of knockoffs. They just knockoff visual IP designs rather than physical ones, regardless of how many artistic liberties and/or adjustments they may or may not make to said visual IP designs.Kurona wrote:They're talking about third parties rather than knockoffs.
As far as I knew the definition of a knockoff - at least in the context of Transformers - was to try and replicate an already-existing toy. Third Parties stand distinct from that in that they are completely original toys, just based on existing designs (unless it's something like that fansproject glacialord thing)