Hasbro's SW Fighter Pods

[SheepEater]

http://www.hasbro.com/starwars/en_US/discover/news/fighterpods.cfm

Making Star Wars adorable. Gee, I wonder where they took that idea from.

[HawkLord]

Actually, Hasbro took the Fighter Pods design from the popular Squinkie toys that are out right now.

Really, neither Fighter Pods nor Squinkies can be looked at as an idea taken from Lego. Fighter Pods are non-poseable figures that exists in a game environment. Lego minifigures are poseable figures that exist in a construction block building environment. Collectible, small figures have always been around.

[Brickdoctor]

I fixed the misspelled title for you, and I'll move this to Community, since that's where clone brand sets and the like are discussed.

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

And a similar idea has been done before with Super D Star Wars figures. They aren't really stealing anything from Lego.

[Bilbo Baggins]

I actually think that they look really fun. And in my opinion this are no kind of LEGO rip-offs.

Edited June 17, 2012 by Bilbo Baggins

[Percabeth]

They're not a clone of Legos, but they aren't entirely original. We've seen Galactic Heroes, Squinkies, Crazy Bones, Go-Go's Crazy bones, various 25 cent toys( which ware now like a dollar ), M.U.S.C.L.E.S,......the list goes on

[jedi1984]

I always thought that Kubrick figures were Lego rip-offs and SW did a line of them some time ago

[K-Nut]

Exactly how did they get this from LEGO? The only similarities I see is that they're both small figures and they'r both Star Wars.

[Greedo24]

Exactly how did they get this from LEGO? The only similarities I see is that they're both small figures and they'r both Star Wars.

I also thought that,Until I figured out that pegs vary on the bottom of the figures,and that mid-sized figures fit on studs!!