Cooked up
Ersatz
Ersatz adjective - Being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials.
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Captain Ersatz: During the early '30s, Rudolph Ising of the Harman and Ising duo (who were both former employees of Disney) cooked up an incredibly blatant Mickey Mouse clone named Foxy for their Warner Bros.
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