I honestly thought he was named after the vacuum company because he sucks up stuff like a vacuum cleaner does.
This case was absolutely wild too.
Universal was arguing that Nintendo infringed on their brand, as they have done with a bunch of companies in the past.
Those companies typically just adhered to C&D rather than fight it, but Kirby was sure he could win it.
Kirby spent the first part of the case arguing all the ways that Donkey Kong was different from King Kong, and then closed his argument by citing a case between Universal and RKO pictures(The studio that made King Kong), where they themselves had successfully argued that King Kong was in the public domain.
So…RKO Pictures makes king kong. Universal pictures then gets sued by RKO, and Universal argues it’s in the public domain.
Then universal tries sueing Nintendo to protect their IP. Nintendo then shows King Kong is in public domain.
Soooooo…if I make Danky Kang, as a new IP, who wants to bet Nintendo would instantly sue me?
One way to find out
Make it a donkey instead of a gorilla.
Now Nintendo sues you if you call an ape in a video game “Kong”. Probably.
And then there’s Chunky!..he’s dead…
TIL there’s a Kirby vacuum company.
And of course someone else already said this lmaoooo
He’d be a ghost white character when he was named. Kirby’s first appearance was on the OG monochrome GameBoy, and he was white on the box art. He picked up his pink & red color scheme in his second game, on the NES.
No, he was always meant to be pink and is depicted as such on the Japanese box art. The North American box art got it wrong.
Okay but why does White Kirby look like that one Mario character? (I think his name is Boo/Teresa?)
Boos don’t have feet. Ipso facto Kirby is just round, not a ghost.
A pre-death ghost, if you will.
Okay, I’m not even into videogames like that (used to play Super Mario Bros 2 for the 3DS when I was 11 or so, but not anymore), but oh my stars this is awesome, I friggen love this!!
Did you do this yourself?
Oh no, I’m not that talented! It was posted on the creedxdesign Instagram account.
