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How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy [The Verge] (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Making Disney licensed toys is a legal nightmare even for Hasbro

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Smart to have a buyback clause in the contract, otherwise this would've been lost and locked until the patent expired.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

…one step at a time.

Wait… Star Wars has feet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

the "always has been" astronaut meme. The first astronaut is looking at Earth, with overlaid, warped images of the feet of Yoda and Darth Maul. The first astronaut is saying, "wait...it's about feet?" and the second astronaut is saying "always has been."