LTEC! Fashion designer.

[LTEC!]

For dolls. They don't whine if you pinch them and save on materials.
Alternate source to support my newest (oldest) Barbie vice. I'm selling it.

[Jon Miller]

and I was going to ask you for a nice design.,...

Jon Miller

[LTEC!]

you'll whine... you know it.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
and I was going to ask you for a nice design.,...

Jon Miller

It's not that I'm surprised to hear this, I'm surprised to hear it from you.

[Jon Miller]

someone had to say it, I might as well be first

and I am at the epitome of fashion sense, ask KH or Shi or others who met me last month

JOn Miller

[Alexander's Horse]

How about a Barbie Mutilated?

[LTEC!]

sheesh...men.

[chequita guevara]

Yet another thread to hide from Bunnygrrl.

[Alexander's Horse]

I just checked informally with my legal eagle staff who confirmed my impression that what you are doing could be a trademark infringement. You might want to get that aspect checked out before marketing into the US or indeed in Mexico given NAFTA.

Otherwise you might get a nasty bit of correspondence from Mattel.

[H Tower]

Design something similar for MtG then take a few pictures

[chequita guevara]

BTW, I think that design kicks serious bootay.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I just checked informally with my legal eagle staff who confirmed my impression that what you are doing could be a trademark infringement. You might want to get that aspect checked out before marketing into the US or indeed in Mexico given NAFTA.

Otherwise you might get a nasty bit of correspondence from Mattel.

There's already an established market for third-party stuff. Mattel doesn't mind* since it helps drive up demand for their stuff, and squashing collectors isn't in their interest. Unlike Paramount and Universal and some others, who want to monopolize their properties.


* Assuming you don't misrepresent that you're them or endorsed by them, and you do standard trademark acknowledgments.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by H Tower
Design something similar for MtG then take a few pictures

Do you really want to pass from this mortal coil with that being the last thing you ever see?

(actually, it'd be the after the last thing I ever saw, cuz I wouldn't be caught dead in such get up. )

[chequita guevara]

They're not very keen on Barbie art, i.e., art using Barbies. But I've seen a lot of "mods" for Barbies. A friend of ours in Chi-town had life size Ken and Barbies. And yes, he is the queeniest person I've ever met.

[Alexander's Horse]

Interesting - remarkably liberal attitude from Mattel - I would thought marketing say "Barbie The Crack Whore" might be considered to injure their brand image and therefore infringe their trademark.

Otoh, taking someone to court over it only gives free publicity to a niche cottage industry which is no real threat to their market so maybe they are smarter than some other corporates as you say.