>>8315365They own the trademarks, and characters, but not the original mold designs.
A retool of earthrise ramjet would be fine for leader1
In fact, retooling existing designs would pretty much guarantee their legal protection
Most of the gobots engineering is obselete these days anyways.
If you think about it, if someone owned the g1 snapdragon design but not the character, the earthrise one would be fairly safe considering how much it departs from the g1 transformation scheme.
The other key is making it screen accurate over toy accurate
Bandai owns the toy designs, not the show designs
