@David: My apologies if I came across as more than a little annoyed late last night.

This sometimes happens in online discussions. If you’re not really upset or angry, consider adding an emoticon, as Rocko did, to indicate that you’re joking or sarcastic. If you’re really annoyed, upset, or angry, consider counting to ten instead of typing. Writing something down is permanent. :)

Shall we get back on topic? ;-)

In regards to copyright, keep in mind that all of the customs you see are the original work of the designers of the custom accessory businesses. True, they may resemble items from popular works of science-fiction, but the weapons and armor are far from direct copies of those items and as such, are solely the intellectual property of BrickArms and Brickforge, respectively.

Keep in mind that accessories that suit the minifig need to fit the building toy aesthetic. That involves a good deal of abstraction and caricature, so even items that may or may not have been inspired by other media tend to have several key differences from what you consider to be their basis. Will Chapman spends a good deal of time designing each BrickArms accessory and prides himself on his distinctive, unique works, and I have no doubt both Issac and Kyle of Brickforge do as well.

Taken together, the uniqueness of the accessories, the fact they are never marketed as being something other than BrickArms and Brickforge-specifi designs, and that the copyright holders of HALO-related properties are likely never to be interesting in a building toy license mean as long as BrickArms and Brickforge follow their current course of actions, there should be no problems.

David, you’re frequently the first commenter to take the tone of the discussion negative, and that’s not something that makes me particularly happy. I love your participation and enthusiasm, but I don’t believe this is the first time I’ve said “Watch it.”

As an employee of said “stupid” company, I need to watch what I say myself. Having no inside knowledge, I’ll only observe that BrickArms has had their BA-M5 and BA-M6 in the market for quite some time without any legal complications that I’m aware of.

Internet drama! ;)

Onto the point Obxcrew brings up, I agree. They all look great apart from the sure-to-be best selling color. Hopefully it looks right in some lighting. I really wanna buy some for my friends, but I might give ‘em other colors instead of sand green since it’s such a poor match.

Last thing: The turbans look great, I’ll be getting a couple of those. As do the Megaguns, I’ll have to get 2-4 of those in each color. All the other things look neat too, but they’re not really in my style of building.