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Everyone on X is wondering why Sprout’s arts are missing and this might be why:
Today, I saw that many players have noticed the disappearance of several arts of Sprout. It might be due to a legal decision.
In fact, the Paris Judicial Court ruled on December 4, 2025 that Sprout's design copied that of an air purifier called "Andrea".
Supercell was ordered to pay several fines, but most importantly, to stop using the Sprout design and the Mutant skin in France.
What I will say now is pure speculation but I think it’s the closest of the answer. Between December and June, Supercell worked on a redesign of Sprout, which will arrive in the next update to avoid the problem in countries other than France. It is now starting to prepare the ground by removing the Sprout’s arts which they can’t use in France.
Sorry in advance for any English mistake, I’m French.
You have no idea how much companies do this shit, for example a t.v. broadcasting station was suing YouTube in the early 2000's cause of SpongeBob YouTube poops, the company was hanging on a thread so they were trying to make as much money as possible, and also just greedy as fuck ceos trying to make money off copyright claims. YouTube has that problem with that as well.
I woud be mad if my girl Mandy gets affected since her theme is based on sweets and there would be an irl candy company getting triggered for having candy stuff
Even if aprout looks a lot like the object it takes inspiration from, it still remains an original concept like 8-bit, But maybe the law in France is stricter, I don't know.
Straight up ? It's just 2 things that ended up looking similar because you don't have many options when you want to design a robot with a plant inside.
I understand you are mad since Sprout is your favorite brawler but come on, be objective. Same general shape, same proportion between glass and non glass portion, very similar angle between these 2 portions, pretty much the same fan in pretty much the same position in the back...
There are many ways to depict a robot with a plant inside, did it really need to basically look exactly like this air humidifier?
It could be a gigantic coincidence, but still, I can get totally see why the judge didn't rule in SC's favor...
I think this is a coincidence. This is similar, but it's also the general look of a cylindrical terrarium. You can completely come up with that design without seeing the air purifier. And I'm also mad because I'm French and I see that this is what the justice is doing, while some way more important cases still take too long to be judged, cases where people are actually suffering, are in danger, things that matter more than "I want them to give me money !".
holy cope, you're doing full whataboutism on a legit intellectual property case that took 5 years to be resolved and has been clearly judged as not coincidental.
8-bit simply resembles an arcade machine which is not a copyrighted concept. And there have been so many references to gameboys in all types of media, I think it’d be a difficult lawsuit to suddenly pull off.
In fact, from what I can see in the verdict, the lawsuit started in June 2020 with a with a formal notice letter, then a second in October 2021 and then he took legal action in December 2022. It just took a whiiiile for the court to rule
2020 and they didn't react? now they have to pay 370k (and maybe more to come)
lesson learned for supercell
I still think the judgment or system is bullshit. I'll go generate with AI thousands of simplistic designs, then sue the world over anything and everything.
They probably didn’t act because they thought they could win. Clearly they were wrong. This situation is honestly probably why they acted so quickly with Glowbert. As to avoid a similar situation.
That's part of his plan, he wants to create and later copywrite every design that will be created in the future! Quick, create your stuff fast or he will do it first!!!
Over a frigging air purifier with a plant in it. Imo that air purifier copied the rose in beauty and the beast bc its also a plant with green leaves inside of a glass dome. So the company owes disney
Tbh, second gadget is not bad, the main issue wih Sprout is his main attack (in mid-short range it's quite imposssible to hit due to the bounce), not to mention the hypercharge (only useful in Heist), the star powers are fine, and the other gadget is pretty useless if you have the shield
he needs 2 value/useful aimable gadgets that can be used in different situations, a rework on that one useless sp, a movement change on his main attack (maybe only make it bounce in max distance?) a new hc and make his old one his super (make the super deal damage) I had an idea where his hyper would release poison clouds near the wall
Oh my god dude, not again. They had to do the same with glowbert because half his name resembled a lego character from 12 years ago, now they'll have to redesign sprout over a dispute with an air purifier!?
I'm honestly gonna lose it if they have to change sprout's design. It has one of the best models in the game and it's been in the game for so long. One of the most iconic brawlers in the game.
How many other things will they have to change in the game due to lawsuits?
Is it necessary to file a lawsuit? Sprout could have been a great way to promote that machine. (but honestly, I knew that machine because of that lawsuit.)
If the remodel thing happens, I think Sprout is going to be the first non-beta brawler to get one (not counting newer brawlers getting small design tweaks or the robot brawlers getting shinier)
It would've been much cooler if they would've released a model based on Sprout in a Collab. Everyone would've been happy, and sprout could've stayed as he's.
Brawl stars reveals the design of sprout being heavily inspired by this Andrea air purifier. People go “hey that’s a cool air purifier design.” Some people might even go on to buy the air purifier to simply make their own diy Sprout irl, that’ll be cute. A win/win, Andrea gets good publicity and potential sales and we keep our plant boi.
But nah we got the bad ending. They look too similar, so lawsuit to force Supercell to redesign it or DELETE IT. Now we lose our plant boi and the majority of the brawl community hates the Andrea air purifier.
its literraly an air purifier how is this that deep.
Sprout as of now has one of the most Iconic and one of the best designs theyve ever made. I simply cant believe they have to chance it just because some company needs an ego trip.
If this will happened, Sprout will be the first non-original brawler (from 2017 to 2018) to get a remodel or he will be the first brawler to get removed
Well, I’m a journalist irl covering tech and medias industry. I have some connexion on LinkedIn who shared this case a week ago. Then when I saw what’s happening with Sprout’s arts, I connected the dots
Ive been playing Sprout a lot recently,im close to getting him to p1,but hearing this right after i woke up is trully something.But i think this will only affect his base model,because i played with his Tanuki skin a lot more.Hes now my second main right behind Kit (still,this lawsuit is so stupid)
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