You messed up with an iconic object
No, no, you see, In CoH, Optimus Prime is blue and runs the black market, while the TARDIS is red. It's like one of those bizarro worlds where stop signs are green.
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"Bubble up for safety!"
Maybe it's a Glasgow police box! Those were red, if I recall
(seriously, the BBC trademarked the image, so it's in ye olde intereste of not getting sued)
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Messed up? No. It's a nod to it, not a direct (and lawsuit inviting) copy.
You're right, I forgot about that, I believe there was a problem between BBC and the Police at some point, about this trademark.
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... you can just hear him going "That was awful."
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You're right, I forgot about that, I believe there was a problem between BBC and the Police at some point, about this trademark.
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They got slapped down.
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In 2002 the Patent Office ruled in favour of the BBC, pointing out that there was no evidence that the Metropolitan Police—or any other police force—had ever registered the image as a trademark. In addition, the BBC had been selling merchandise based on the image for over three decades without complaint by the police. |
"Now, I'm not saying this guy at Microsoft sees gamers as a bunch of rats in a Skinner box. I'm just saying that he illustrates his theory of game design using pictures of rats in a Skinner box."
Correct.
Remember, a trademark doesn't necessarily mean 'we are the originator & owner of this design/word/whatever.' It means "we want to use this likeness in a specific field of business to represent ourselves."
The police had never registered the police box in a way to indicate they believed it was their exclusive likeness in any field and had allowed toys, signage, and other media to be adorned with it long before anyone thought to register it as a trademark, so their objections weren't that strong.
![](https://sites.google.com/site/chasyork/_/rsrc/1286288783877/home/chasebanner.jpg)
Yes, except it's red.
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On a related note, on reading up on the article, I realized that the Police Precincts in Paragon seem almost more like Japanese Koban style police 'boxes'. (which are indeed, not boxes at all except in the vaguest sense)
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Seriously, what's with the red color ?![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
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This looks better like this:
We could start a friendly contest:
Create a doctor/companion/monster and take a screenshot with the police box.