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frustratedpilot) wrote2010-08-19 12:46 am
frustratedpilot) wrote2010-08-19 12:46 am
Entry tags:
- action force,
- design,
- ideas,
- law,
- science-fiction,
- the 1980s,
- toys,
- war,
- writing
Suit And Suitability
More than one kind of "suit" too.
Powersuits. They were EVERYWHERE in Eighties/Nineties-era sci-fi, and you'd halfway expect them to be in use now by police departments, armies, security guards, firefighters, and so on. Heck, my very-start-of-my-blog columns included a powersuit story as part of my "Dirty Laundry". No, I was NOT original.
Which brings me to my blog entry related to This Lawsuit's Resolution. Why am I interested?
Hasbro, in its corporate domination of the end of the previous century, swallowed up Kenner, Tonka, Galoob and Coleco, and between them, they either created or marketed...
* Centurions
* Spiral Zone
* STARCOM
* Sky Commanders
* UniFighters
Plus the additional vehicle-related lines Battle Squad, M.A.S.K. and Megaforce.
In theory, Hasbro can incorporate any and all of these into a new property, possibly tied-in with G.I. Joe. The trademarks would have lapsed, and so would the industrial design rights...but the copyrights for all of them would still be valid.
This new property could serve as a "refresher" for those years when Joe's popularity is in a neap tide.
Just thinking aloud, of course.
Powersuits. They were EVERYWHERE in Eighties/Nineties-era sci-fi, and you'd halfway expect them to be in use now by police departments, armies, security guards, firefighters, and so on. Heck, my very-start-of-my-blog columns included a powersuit story as part of my "Dirty Laundry". No, I was NOT original.
Which brings me to my blog entry related to This Lawsuit's Resolution. Why am I interested?
Hasbro, in its corporate domination of the end of the previous century, swallowed up Kenner, Tonka, Galoob and Coleco, and between them, they either created or marketed...
* Centurions
* Spiral Zone
* STARCOM
* Sky Commanders
* UniFighters
Plus the additional vehicle-related lines Battle Squad, M.A.S.K. and Megaforce.
In theory, Hasbro can incorporate any and all of these into a new property, possibly tied-in with G.I. Joe. The trademarks would have lapsed, and so would the industrial design rights...but the copyrights for all of them would still be valid.
This new property could serve as a "refresher" for those years when Joe's popularity is in a neap tide.
Just thinking aloud, of course.