BattleTech's visual influences are disputed in the exchange. Gundam is named as a source of BattleTech imagery; a wider comparison introduces Transformers and a participant's recollection that its imagery came from Macross. The explanation of the Unseen is that legal action prevented certain designs from appearing in artwork afterward. The exact origins of the borrowed images remain unsettled in this conversation.
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BattleTech's Unseen and disputed mecha influences
The history of BattleTech's Unseen raises a dispute about borrowed mecha designs and artwork excluded after legal action.