How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy [The Verge]

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How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy
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Making Disney licensed toys is a legal nightmare even for Hasbro

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