This mayb be an old topic but...

[daspudding]

THE FACULTY RIPPED OFF ANIMORPHS DAMMIT.

There, I'm sorry, but thats been building up for years and no one really understands what I'm talking about.

[traycon3]

I hate to say it...but I'm going to have to be included in that number of people who don't know what you're talking about...What's the Faculty?

[Chad32]

What is The Faculty, and how do you think they ripped Animorphs off? Explanations help people understand better.

[daspudding]

It was a movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faculty

"The Faculty is about a fictional high school, Herrington High School (said to be located somewhere 'in the middle of Ohio'), at which the faculty and staff become taken over by alien parasites. In turn, the faculty then infects the students with the organism."

Basically, parasitic slug-like creatures invade, take over your brain, and control you.

[Duff]

actually the idea of a secret alien invasion of slugs was around long before The faculty or Animorphs. (Invasion of the Body Snatchers for one) So technically animorphs stole the idea haha

[AniDragon]

I've seen that movie, and I think it's actually meant to be a sort-of sequel to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Although I did think the exact same thing as you when I first read the description of it.

[esplin]

dude! i actually saw this movie on my friends TV one night and it was totally just like Animorphs!
I actually thought it was a cool movie, ive never seen invasion of the body snatchers so animorphs was original to me.

[Essam 293]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a fairly old thing for kids to remember when Animorphs was first coming out, so I thought Animorphs was all original too at the beginning. I still don't mind that it's not. Animorphs was original in the sense it combined several elements to make something new for itself, which is what I think made it work and stand out.

[XenomorphLV426]

ZOMG, Animurfs ripd off lots of 50's sci-fiz tewz!

[traycon3]

Don't forget the '60s, and by proxy the '70s. Let's face it, have you ever seen an Andorian? Like one whose antenna doesn't break off...Ala "Journey to Babel".

[yrkd88]

OMG I remember seeing The Faculty in the movie theaters a long time ago and the whole time I was totally thinking "Yeerks!!!" LMAO

[XenomorphLV426]

It's nothing LIKE Animorphs, aside from the "alien possession/infestation" thing, which has been used in like a gazillion sci-fi things in the last hundred years.

[Azguard]

for sho, think Stargate...the Goa'uld...

[XenomorphLV426]

...Stargate is still recent, and b-quality, and rips off a billion other things.

[Dameg]

This movie was cool ^_^ I still watch it sometimes... too funny!
And yes, I also thought about Yeerks, as I did with Stargate... But they're right: this idea about invasion is quite old. ^_^