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Is there really going to be an Ice Age 3? Ice Age: The Meltdown was the end of the ice age and anyway, even if there is an Ice Age 3, who said it will be released in 2009?

Scrat: definitely deserves a individual Entry in Wikipedia.

Some fun stuff: Scrat in 3D (best viewed with red/green anaglyph glasses) - [1]

[edit] First appearance/second appearance

I removed the "First appearance/second appearance" list because Scrat only has four film appearances (Ice Age, Gone Nutty, Ice Age: The Meltdown, No Time for Nuts), all of which are already listed in the article. --Metropolitan90 18:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legal controversy

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Ivy Supersonic claims the Scrat character concept is a trademark infringement on her "Sqrat" as reported in 2002 on CNN by Jeanie Moos. Ivy's Sqrat is a combination character concept of a squirrel and a rat as new species and Ivy is credited with coining that term for New Yorkers to describe Central Park rodents in 2000, and a small product line of related items was available at that time. Since her trademark was established prior to the movie release of Ice Age, it would appear that 20th Century Fox attempted to skirt the concept, look and feel, and trademark by naming their adaptation as a "Scrat" spelled with a "c" rather than a "q", but the Squirrel/Rat composite was applied to the character now in the Ice Age movie. It is reported that Chris Wedge presented the "Scrat" after exposure to Ivy's Sqrat, and the movie producers liked it enough to take the risks associated with similarity to Ivy's Sqrat. This has spawned a heated debate in and out of court that is on-going.

Reasons for deletion:
1. The information was not properly referenced.
2. The only external link in the section was to the website of the paintiff in the dispute.
3. The information was POV, favoring the plaintiff
4. The related lawsuit was dismissed, here: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20040728200516564 I suspect the paragraph was written by someone related personally or professionally to the plaintiff in the case. Wikipedia is not the place to air this dispute. Carboncopy 03:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

These allegations were put back in, and I have removed them again. Get a court to rule in your favor, and you are welcome to reference the decision in the main article. Until then, there is no way to independently substantiate the claims, and hence it does not meet the standards for inclusion in an encylcopedia. Carboncopy 15:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YES, THERE GONNA BE A 3RD MOVIE!

Is there really going to be an Ice Age 3? Ice Age: The Meltdown was the end of the ice age and anyway, even if there is an Ice Age 3, who said it will be released in 2009?

YES, in 4th of July 2009. You can see it in the official website. There is also a trailer. It's not exactly a trailer, because there is almost nothing on what the movie is gonna be about. It's shows a little movie on Scrat. =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.125.104.155 (talk) 19:28, 21 April 2008 (UTC)