Reply: King of Tokyo:: General:: Re: Cyber Bunny/Cyber Kitty Story a Lie?

by ras2124

grarrrg wrote:

Magicovore wrote:

About CyberBunny:
We can't use CyberBunny's art/visual design for legal issue, which implies that we can't reprint the old cardback (with the bunny on it) or any version of CyberBunny.

The Evolution cards of CyberBunny doesn't use the art nor the design of Cyber Bunny so we can reprint it (no legal issue here).

ras2124 wrote:

Thank you for your response. However, it still is not clear why, when redoing all of the art, you didn't simply do a complete redesign of Cyber Bunny from the ground up instead of changing to Cyber Kitty.

It's likely there are limited exemptions in place (from the legal issue).
For starters, while they cannot -make- more Cyber Bunny anything, they are not required to 'recall' anything already produced.
It's possible that a "non-art name-only reprint of existing product" is allowed.

Well we know it is not the first case. The lawsuit issues have been going on since before summer and at that time, the plan was to release the new Power Up with only the new monsters and KoNY powers for them. The current plan to release the old monsters instead of KoNY was just recently decided and announced, and presumably is currently in production as it is slated for a release some time in 2017 so even at this point, there is nothing to recall.

The second case is possible, but it still seems that since they redid all of the monster art, that a recomplete revamp of Cyber Bunny would be possible. As they stated above, the issue was with the art, not the name, so a completely unrelated design seems like it should be within their legal capabilities.

Maybe you are right though and it is just not possible. The whole thing has been extremely annoying though, and will likely be the end of the line for KoT for me. I went through this with Pandemic as I refuse to rebuy the game and expansion just to play the new content.