diff --git a/bin/typescript-angular-v2-petstore.sh b/bin/typescript-angular-v2-petstore.sh
index ac9a2004a4b..250217a4b78 100755
--- a/bin/typescript-angular-v2-petstore.sh
+++ b/bin/typescript-angular-v2-petstore.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ fi
 
 # if you've executed sbt assembly previously it will use that instead.
 export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Xmx1024M -DloggerPath=conf/log4j.properties"
-ags="$@ generate -i modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml -l typescript-angular -o samples/client/petstore/typescript-angular-v2/default --additional-properties ngVersion=2"
+ags="generate -i modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml -l typescript-angular -o samples/client/petstore/typescript-angular-v2/default --additional-properties ngVersion=2 $@"
 
 java $JAVA_OPTS -jar $executable $ags
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptAngularClientCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptAngularClientCodegen.java
index 21ed141b5f7..3367fad76c9 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptAngularClientCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptAngularClientCodegen.java
@@ -176,8 +176,6 @@ public class TypeScriptAngularClientCodegen extends AbstractTypeScriptClientCode
     public String getTypeDeclaration(Schema p) {
         if (p instanceof FileSchema) {
             return "Blob";
-        } else if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(p.get$ref())) {
-            return "any";
         } else {
             return super.getTypeDeclaration(p);
         }
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptFetchClientCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptFetchClientCodegen.java
index b223a3bf45b..fbc57d033ea 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptFetchClientCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptFetchClientCodegen.java
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ public class TypeScriptFetchClientCodegen extends AbstractTypeScriptClientCodege
             return "any";
         } else if (p instanceof BinarySchema) {
             return "any";
-        } else if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(p.get$ref())) { // model
-            return "any";
         } else {
             return super.getTypeDeclaration(p);
         }
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptInversifyClientCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptInversifyClientCodegen.java
index d701891bec1..eab76efc8e3 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptInversifyClientCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/TypeScriptInversifyClientCodegen.java
@@ -156,8 +156,6 @@ public class TypeScriptInversifyClientCodegen extends AbstractTypeScriptClientCo
     public String getTypeDeclaration(Schema p) {
         if (p instanceof FileSchema) {
             return "Blob";
-        } else if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(p.get$ref())) {
-            return "any";
         } else {
             return super.getTypeDeclaration(p);
         }