Please don’t confuse unlicensed with illegal. I have no idea about these models, so I can only speak for myself. To date, I have done three model kits from the Oddworld universe and none of them is officially licensed. I tried to obtain a license, but they were not issuing licenses for anything at the time.
But I did get permission from Lorne to produce a small number of my sculpts as garage kits. Of course, the first copies were sent to Oddworld Inhabitants. He was also gracious enough to give a nice quote for painting article that was run in Amazing Figure Model.
However, if these kits are done without permission, it is stealing and wrong by US copyright laws.
The problem with supporting knock offs is that the company doesn’t get any money for that sale and therefore they eventually stop making product. Sure, what’s a dollar here or there, but when thousands of people do it, it means big money.
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