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Re: Star Wars weapons - My rant
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:21:32 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Adam Murtha writes:
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> > Maybe its a license thing with Lucasfilm or George Lucas, or whoever.
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> Oh, no, it's not Lucasfilm licensing saying they can't have guns.
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> When Kenner made the first line of Star Wars toys way back in '77, they called
> Lucas into their office to look over the line. Lucas took one look and said,
> "where are the guns?" The executives from Kenner explained to Lucas that
> because of the Vietnam debacle, people didn't really like toy guns, and they
> felt they would sell better without them, etc etc etc. Lucas looked around at
> the toys again and said, "but where are the guns?"
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> And so Kenner included the guns.
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> Even so, for Stormtroopers at least, you can make better looking guns. I
> really wish that Han came with his blaster, though.
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> eric
...and Princess Leia, she should have one too, she couldn't have saved the day
without one :-)
Julie
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| (...) Oh, no, it's not Lucasfilm licensing saying they can't have guns. When Kenner made the first line of Star Wars toys way back in '77, they called Lucas into their office to look over the line. Lucas took one look and said, "where are the guns?" (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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