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SWCA Blog: Star Wars in the Legal System and the LP logo
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<blockquote data-quote="Tommy_Garvey" data-source="post: 307825" data-attributes="member: 6084"><p>No, they'd always planned on doing that in order to get something on the shelves in time for Christmas. While I'm sure worries about another company, like Ideal, coming along and releasing Star Wars-ish figures and stealing Kenner's thunder played a role in that strategy, they'd always planned on releasing the Early Bird certificate. The choice was rather controversial back in the day though, with many newspapers and commentators calling them out for selling kids an empty box. You can read a bunch of different articles saying as much here:</p><p></p><p>http://theswca.com/hobbyarchive/1977-1989/newsstand.html</p><p></p><p>Tommy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tommy_Garvey, post: 307825, member: 6084"] No, they'd always planned on doing that in order to get something on the shelves in time for Christmas. While I'm sure worries about another company, like Ideal, coming along and releasing Star Wars-ish figures and stealing Kenner's thunder played a role in that strategy, they'd always planned on releasing the Early Bird certificate. The choice was rather controversial back in the day though, with many newspapers and commentators calling them out for selling kids an empty box. You can read a bunch of different articles saying as much here: http://theswca.com/hobbyarchive/1977-1989/newsstand.html Tommy [/QUOTE]
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