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Asrialys
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:01 pm
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Haha, wow. 1984 suddenly popped into my head.
Are they denying that it still exists or that it ever existed?
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Sunday Silence
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:18 pm
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Quote: | However, the representative acknowledged, "Since there are reports of similarities, we are currently working on modifications." |
Translation: Taking a hacksaw to the base and letting it topple to the ground and cleaning it up before the park opens the next day.
Right now, the scrap is probably in a steel mill ladle in Shenyang.
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TheAncientOne
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
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Location: USA (mid-south)
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:20 pm
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I think we have found where the old Iraqi Information Minister is working now.
This is getting downright comical.
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Animerican14
Joined: 19 Aug 2006
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Location: Saint Louis, MO
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:51 pm
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Quote: | I think we have found where the old Iraqi Information Minister is working now.
This is getting downright comical. |
Good sir, what drivel are you spewing that dare contradict that man? It was only one of Saddam's secret doubles that was found in a rabbit hole, and Saddam is now posing as al-Maliki, ready to pounce with the revival of the Ba'athist Party as soon as occupation forces leave!
Anyway, back to the joke I was going to make on the article at hand:
In Communist China, Gundams own you.
err...
In Communist China, Orange Gundams build you?
In Communist China, Angsty Teens watch you?
Drat, can't think of any really good Russian Reversal-type jokes here...
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matrixdude
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:06 pm
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We all know they didn't take it down, they just told news agencies to stop reporting that it's there.
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Jaymie
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:19 pm
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Quote: | Park officials also denied the existence of the statue to the news agency Agence France-Presse. |
What the hell? This is 2010. You can't just... pull stuff like that.
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John Casey
Joined: 31 May 2009
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Location: In My Angry Center
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:24 pm
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"Nonsense! We never had a 50-foot Gundam statue located anywhere on the premises of our relatively flat-park area. These false accusations are confounded, baseless, and frankly offensive!"
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ikillchicken
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:48 pm
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Quote: | Park officials also denied the existence of the statue to the news agency Agence France-Presse. |
Continued the park officials: "What 50 ft statue? There's never been any statues! STATUES ARE A MYTH!!!"
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Sailor S
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:03 am
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Silly China and their inferiority complex. First it's 15 meters, then I suppose someone mentioned how Japan's was 18, so naturally they changed the listing to 20 meters. I'm surprised they took it down. China has never given a damn about copyright law, so I'm not sure what Sotsu would have been able to do even if China had copied the Gundam down to the smallest detail.
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Emerje
Joined: 10 Aug 2002
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:05 am
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ikillchicken wrote: |
Quote: | Park officials also denied the existence of the statue to the news agency Agence France-Presse. |
Continued the park officials: "What 50 ft statue? There's never been any statues! STATUES ARE A MYTH!!!" |
i.e. China rejects our reality and substitutes their own.
You just had to bring up "myths"...
Emerje
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DuelLadyS
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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Location: WA state
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:08 am
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Note to self: Visit Bootleg-Land if I ever go to China.
Preferably more than once, becuase anything I saw the first time will likely 'never have been there' the second.
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The Xenos
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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Location: Boston
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:00 pm
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Wow. That is the largest Chinese bootleg figure ever!
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Cheesecracker
Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:27 pm
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When did they start caring about infringement?
Intellectual Property? What's that?
Maybe they are learning? No cookie yet.
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Nerv1
Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:30 pm
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"Its an original design" I couldn't stop laughing after I read that.
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stryker65
Joined: 22 Dec 2010
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:26 pm
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Technically IT IS AN ORIGINAL DESIGN. They just forgot to mention it wasn't theirs and they didn't come up with it.
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