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This appears to be a pretty straight ripoff of Boosted Boards, down to color. Though with an obvious price difference.

I don't think boosted invented their style of board. I've seen many long boards that have their exact style. I guess if you've only seen boosted first, you'd think everyone is ripping off from boosted.

IIRC Boosted boards are based on boards from Loaded Longboards. If these guys also used Loaded Longboards, they are going to look very similar. Wheels as well are going to be one of the commodity items on the board. Bright orange, green and Grimace purple are some of the most common colors for longboard wheels.

Loaded makes awesome boards and their bamboo construction is excellent and quite springy (great for pumping and carving).

It's got a common longboard design with a common wheel color. The tech is the differentiator, and yea, as you said, 1/3 the price.

I thought Loaded Boards was attributed for creating this style?

It's a very generic shape. Loaded started out making flexy boards, from bamboo, aiming at the more casual cruising/carving/dancing market.

They've recently released some stiffer boards, more focused on downhill and slides.

I'm honestly just talking about logo design and color. The Boosted board is from Loaded.

I fail to see similarities between boosted's logo and e-go's logo. They are so incredibly different. E-go's logo looks more similar to ubuntu's logo, so one could argue that boosted borrowed their style from ubuntu?

Yup, such a blatant copycat attempt. All the way down to the angle the photos are taken from. Good thing for Boosted that you can't just copy a well engineered drivetrain.

Actually, Yuneec Technology started our E-GO Cruiser design even before Boosted Boards launched their Kickstarter campaign. Yuneec are experts in Electric Propulsion Systems, be they for light aircraft, ultralights, drones or electric longboards. We design and manufacture everything and our new and substantial office and warehouse in California is creating plenty of US jobs.

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