They are kinda close and I do actually like the drawn idea better but they are not so close as to infringe on anything, in my opinion. One has a shark eating the head and has the shark eyes as the Sackboy eyes whereas the other one has the head popping out of the mouth, pretty close though.

Thats the thing about posting your stuff on the internet on someone elses site, you have no rights and anything you write/post can be taken and used without you getting anything for it as when you post it it becomes that sites property.

Serious business.

Yeah I have to agree with Blind Assassin here, the "Stolen" entries are all pretty generic. The shard one is the only one that eve remotely comes close to being possibly stolen. With the popularity of penguins in general it's a no brainer they had one in the can, and come on of course they'll have a Motocross/Atv helmet wearing Sackboy considering one of the other draws of the ps3 is Motorstorm.

Did they ever think that maybe they didn't win the competition because they had similar plans/designs already made? Until I see an ORIGINAL idea that's been ripped off, I'll have to say it's people jumping the gun here

I would find it more suspect if they weren't so basic in the first place. A shark, a penguin and a motocross guy that looks almost exactly like the MotorStorm icon (which in turn is just a generic helmet). Unless they invented sharks and helmets respectively, there isn't much of a case.

Wow, not one person pointed out it might be the other way around? What if these costumes were built before the competition came to be? Maybe that's why the costume never made it to the winner's circle in the first place. There are always two sides to this coin. If Media Molecule ripped these people's entries then "for shame." is in order.

Still waiting for my Pedobear to be turned into DLC.

sharks didn't exist before that costume entry.

They stole it tell them to be quit jewing the contestants and give them a share of the profit

@elsteveo - Thats pretty racist man, and there is no reason for it. Go back to whatever cave you crawled out of.

The rules to the competition simply stated that all entries submitted became property of MM and maybe even sony I think. Even if they did "steal" the ideas it was no longer property of the creator. Most comps like this state that anyways. If any of the people who entered bitch... they're dumbasses for not reading the fine print.

I like the fan version better.

When something more concrete comes along, then call their bluff. This is still a little too generic.

Brutal, but not unexpected considering it's Sony.

There's really only so many costumes you can dream up and most people are going to come up with pretty common ones.

Hell, the one i was going to but never did submit looked 99% identical to the robot costume in the game already.

As far as a shark hat goes, it seems like a pretty likely coincidence. Now if they had sold a hulu outfit in the same group of DLC, then I could see that being a downer for this contestant. No legal ramifications would come out of this anyways since Sony has that sealed tight like a sharks butt, water tight!

why are you always so SMARMY

I'm not sure if you all know this but the DLC is already on the disc... purchasing it from PSN just 'unlocks' it.


So it was bundled and shipped with the game quite some time ago.

I would just like to say that I am the creator of the penguin costume. And yeah I feel a little ripped off.

Unlike this other kid, I am not looking for monetary compensation. I just want them to give shout out, or say something like "these costumes were inspired by some creative submitters from our costume contest" and maybe list the PSN names of some really good ones.

Personally, to the people saying that there were probably hundreds of penguin submissions and that the idea of having a penguin costume is generic, I have to disagree with you. I kept tabs on the contest and of the ones posted online that I could find, and I didn't see another penguin submission. I highly doubt that "hundreds" of people submitted a penguin design. I am also pretty sure that there were barely 100 submitted drawings for this contest. Maybe 2 - 300 if you really want to push it. I just don't think the number of submissions was high enough to justify that there were "hundreds" of repeats.

You know how many species of penguins there are? Why does it have to be the a similar type of penguin that I drew? I feel like they changed their own design just enough so they could say they didn't rip off my idea. And what's worse is that their design IS WORSE THAN MINE! At least my penguin doesn't look like a gay version of Chilly Willy, haha

What makes me think they ripped off my design even more is that these costumes were the first ones to be released. I just find the timing odd and that they look so very similar to the submissions that were given to them.

Look, at the end of the day, I know i signed my soul away to MM and Sony. I know that they don't have to do jack shit to make me happy or this other kid. But it really seems like a low blow when you put all this work into something and you don't even get as much as a shout out saying that you helped create something that they are now using and making money from.

It really hurts brand loyalty and will make me think twice about wasting my time on another contest. Which is sad because I find them to be a fun and creative outlet.