The rights to these images were licensed from Twentieth Century Imports (TCI). Rather than create their own original robot art, FASA decided to use already-extant designs that had originally been created for a variety of different Japanese anime, including Dougram, Crusher Joe, and Macross.
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CGL continues to hold the license to this day with the end of the MechWarrior: Dark Age miniatures game, the name of the traditional tabletop game has reverted to simply BattleTech. At that point Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) acquired the license from Topps. FanPro held the license to the original tabletop game (which they rebranded as "Classic BattleTech") until 2007. Topps bought Wizkids in 2003, but this did not change any publishing agreements at that time. They reworked the IP to launch their MechWarrior: Dark Age collectible miniatures game, but licensed the rights to continue to publish products for the old game to FanPro (itself a subsidiary of Fantasy Productions). The name of the game was changed to BattleTech in the second edition because George Lucas and Lucasfilm claimed the rights to the term " droid" the machines themselves were renamed BattleMechs from the second edition onward.Īfter FASA Corporation closed its doors in 2000, Wizkids bought the rights to the game in January 2001. The game was at first called BattleDroids. Further information: List of BattleTech gamesĬhicago-based FASA Corporation's original 1984 game focused on enormous robotic, semi-humanoid battle machines battling in a science-fiction feudalistic dark age setting.
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