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Post by Chopperdacat on Oct 8, 2011 21:54:34 GMT -5
Post ideas you wgat you think GW ripped off of other sci-fi/fantasy stories/franchises. I shall start.
Tau battlesuits - Gundams
Tyranids - Alien (the film franchise)
High Elves - LOTR elves
I was gonna say orcs & gobbo's - LOTR orcs, but almost everything orcy, GW or not, is based off of LOTR orcs.
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Post by The Black Jackal on Oct 9, 2011 0:40:02 GMT -5
Space Marines: The idea of an elite power-armor-wearing army with very flexible tactics (commonly deployed by drop pod, no less) was first popularized in Heinlein's classic novel Starship Troopers. In fact, if I recall correctly that's basically how the 40K Marines were in Rogue Trader.
I'm pretty much convinced that when Jes Goodwin was planning the look of the new Dark Eldar, he came across the Wraith from Stargate Atlantis (Seriously, guys, you can't put the two side-by-side and not notice the similarities, and the whole feasting on human life force to regenerate thing only adds to the awkwardness of it all).
Cadians = Starship Derpers (the movie)
The whole technophobia and machine worship thing that the Imperium has going probably came from Dune.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 9, 2011 17:56:11 GMT -5
Valhallans - Red Army
Tallarn - Ww1 style arab tribesmen
DKoK - WW1 germans
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Post by Walrus on Oct 10, 2011 6:30:41 GMT -5
I read the first 80 pages of Dune on the bus home last night and did notice a few similarities actually...
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Post by flamingkillamajig on Oct 10, 2011 11:24:40 GMT -5
It ripped off the real world. Sheesh be original GW . They have done some pretty bad rip offs though. Funny how they're willing to sue blizzard or privateer press.
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Post by cheminhaler on Oct 15, 2011 16:35:37 GMT -5
Why did they try to sue Blizzard?
Orcs in WoW?
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