Aerethan wrote:Almost every vehicle in the original Star Wars movies were essentially kitbashes of existing model kits, which were slapped together and then recast in copper(plastic would melt under the heat of movie lighting during close ups).
Tamiya and Revell should sue George Lucas.
Granted, it would be a grim task to try and identify where each piece of the Millenium Falcon came from.
That is, indeed, the legal grey area.
Regardless, this isn't a matter of taking items from one medium and selling it as another medium.
This is taking parts of a model and selling it as another model; it's the same medium.
It's like ripping parts of popular songs, shoving it on repeat, and applying bad rappin... oh, nevermind...