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So, why do you think Lucasfilm got away with Star Wars ripping of Star Fox entirely? I mean, both the ships, the characters and much of the plot are just stolen right away.... how could Nintendo just let them run with it? Because i never heard anything about them getting sued... did they?

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Which Starwars are you talking about? The originals (Ep: 4-5-6 For those of you who go with canon) came out waay before Starfox (1993), like late 70's, mid 80's. Unless your talking about the newest ones... er, I won't start on those... Plus I really don't see much similarities, could you explain?

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Guest Julius Quasar

Which Starwars are you talking about? The originals (Ep: 4-5-6 For those of you who go with canon) came out waay before Starfox (1993), like late 70's, mid 80's. Unless your talking about the newest ones... er, I won't start on those...

Agreed!

I see the resemblances in some of the ships, but...if you're talking about the originals, then if anything, Star Fox copied them, as did Independence Day (the evil aliens' fighter ships resemble dark A-Wings), and many other space sci-fi movies

lots of movie and game franchises/series copy one another to some point, or they copy off of the classics (Heck, Star Trek is essentially a jazzed up "Homer's Odyssey"....)

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It's mere coincidence, that's all.

That's what they said about the Katina level in Starfox 64 and Independence day.
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Guest Julius Quasar

Huh... now that I think about it, your right Julius. Those ships look alot like A-wings...

yep....thanks!

yeah, and Star Fox definitely copied Independence Day for the Katina level of SF 64...

WARNING, Video Contains Swearing:

Also, the following quote:

:peppy: "Never give up! Trust your instincts!"

was from Star Wars as well (first said by Obi Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker, I believe)

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Yus yus, I know, I was just knoticing that conidince about the A-wings, I wasn't in any way thinking that lucasfeelmz ripped off Starfox, I mean, two diffrent Ideas which share some similarities...

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Guest Julius Quasar

Yus yus, I know, I was just knoticing that coincidence about the A-wings, I wasn't in any way thinking that lucasfeelmz ripped off Starfox, I mean, two different Ideas which share some similarities...

it's cool, it's cool, man...I agree with you...  :|

hey, if you notice, some of the Rebel's cruiser ships from Star Wars resemble the cruiser ships used by Oikonny's Ape Soldiers, or the Sargasso Ruffian's Cruisers, in Star Fox Assault...cool, huh?

and to be honest, my fan character, Todd McCloud, has a ship, "The Malestrom", similar to the Millennium Falcon, minus the gun turrets on the side, and minus the satellite dish thing on top, Todd's "Malestrom" ship is more streamlined...

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it's cool, it's cool, man...I agree with you...  :|

hey, if you notice, some of the Rebel's cruiser ships from Star Wars resemble the cruiser ships used by Oikonny's Ape Soldiers, or the Sargasso Ruffian's Cruisers, in Star Fox Assault...cool, huh?

and to be honest, my fan character, Todd McCloud, has a ship, "The Malestrom", similar to the Millennium Falcon, minus the gun turrets on the side, and minus the satellite dish thing on top, Todd's "Malestrom" ship is more streamlined...

Lando: *knocks dish off of  Falcon while flying into the second Deathstar* Whoops! once again Star wars came before starfox so Starfox Ripped off Star wars and the reason for simlair designs is  IT WORKS

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Guest ReEfiniZ

I do see a little 'resemblence' between StarFox and Starwars, but whether StarFox stole or took similar aspects of StarWars, I still think that StarFox is just a anthrophomorphic version of StarWars sometimes lmfao.

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Guest Para Astaroth

I do see a little 'resemblence' between StarFox and Starwars, but whether StarFox stole or took similar aspects of StarWars, I still think that StarFox is just a anthrophomorphic version of StarWars sometimes lmfao.

two things:

1)  No lightsabers nor 'force' powers

2)  No weird races and species

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