Just to be That Guy for a moment: The Japanese designs that appeared in the original BattleTech weren't ripped off. They were licensed fair and square from properties that were at the time quite obscure in North America. They had to be removed from later editions because those licenses expired.
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Date: 2008-06-03 05:24 pm (UTC)