Talk:Customizing

Should we have a section for fan-made kitbashes? ZeldaTheSwordsman 19:12, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

No. The only reason we'd have pictures or info on fan-made kitbashes would be if Hasbro themselves explicitly ripped one off. You could *almost* make a case for putting one of Don F's old Macromasters up, but that'd still be pushing it. Hooper_X 19:30, 18 June 2009 (EDT)

Legal analysis

What's the legal issue with mass-produced fan-made kitbash stuff that's obviously meant to be a preexisting TF character (but not called as such), like that P.E. Shadow Warrior thing or the Fansproject Springer lookalike? Is it just as legal as official TF products whose vehicle modes are obviously meant to be a real thing but tweaked to avoid licensing fees? Or are they as illegal as knockoffs?

I'm pretty sure the answer to this should be somewhere on this wiki. Item42 01:40, 14 March 2010 (EST)

Hey, if my question is irrelevant someone should tell me. Item42 04:49, 5 June 2010 (EDT)

They're knockoffs. That's pretty much always been this wiki's policy. -hx 11:12, 5 June 2010 (EDT)

Move to customizing

Personally I had always heard of it as customizing, but the real reason I'm proposing this move is because BotCon holds customization classes not kitbashing classes. Thus customizing is the "official" term, just as "retool" is the official term instead of "remold". Khajidha 08:22, 8 April 2010 (EDT)

I'm actually for it, as "customizing" is a broader term than "kitbashing." Kitbashing implies parts mixed from multiple toys or scratchbuilt, while "customizing" is a term that can cover repaints (as BotCon does), kitbashes, and so forth.--Rosicrucian^Talk 13:48, 5 June 2010 (EDT)