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Gears of War Final MUNNYby *E-Mann

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This is the "Infamous" gears of War Munny I got in trouble for making. It was a a Christmas gift for My cousin who is a huge fan of the game. Essentially Epic Games's lawyer served me with cease-and-desist letter sighting me for a whole list of infringements and such. You can read a little more about it on the links below.

Heres a nice write up [link]

Heres when it hit the fan. [link]

In the end EPIC Games realized there mistake and released a public apology. [link]

Here's a knots to every one who does fan art. Be careful when you do fan art Because If companys are real antsy about there properties they will threaten you with legal action.

If you want to see more of the MUNNY

Here's A little site My friend Chris made which shows progress and more angles of the Munny and the box I moded.. [link]

The material presented here is my original creation, is not official and is not endorsed by Epic Games, Inc. Gears of War, Marcus Fenix and the Crimson Omen are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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~gr8edcheez Nov 26, 2011 Hobbyist Artist

first of all, this is EPIC. Second, where can I get a munny fugure? I'm from the middle east and i don't see any of these anywhere

*E-Mann Nov 28, 2011 Professional

There will only ever be one.

~writtenrhythm1 Nov 25, 2011

It should be a compliment to you that Epic Games was threatened by this piece of awesomeness!

~SiddTheFrickingNayak Jun 26, 2010

Man, screw Epic Games, who do they think they are, doing shit like that? I mean, who the **** doesn't love this munny and its cuteness?! People like that really piss me off.

*E-Mann Jun 27, 2010 Professional

I don't think it had to do with them liking it or not in fact when all this stuff came to a close I was contacted by the the vice president of Epic Game who said they loved it. It was really Epic's legal guys that were heading the witch hunt. I think what set them off is the fact that it looked like an it might be an official product. Even though I specifically said it was a one off and there was not going to be anymore got lost in translation. I think a lot of independent company like Epic games get really get antsy when people start doing fan work that looks official. In fact I was contacted by lots of artist who were having similar issues with Epic and people who were afraid it might happen to them. I Don't hate Epic Games I just think that their legal team overreacted, Gears was their first mega hit IP and I think even they weren't fully prepare for what was to come. In the end What came out of this was epic put up a fan art policy.

*kidchuckle Feb 9, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

wow Epic has serious money to throw around... for such silly things.. but at least its a great story to tell!

~aaronobst Dec 10, 2008

lol nice job on PWNING EPIC

~FlashDrive45 Oct 25, 2009

cutest damn thing ever!

~trapperkeeper Nov 17, 2008 Student Traditional Artist

Never has this total bad ass ever looked so adorable=EPIC WIN

~curvedlines Nov 16, 2008

I really wish they would comission these because I'm jealous. That however, shall never happen. Great, simply great!

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