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unusual facts about Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics



1993 UCF Golden Knights football team

The name change was proposed in 1993 by then athletic director Steve Sloan as a way to boost the popularity of the program and to boost merchandise sales.

Adam Houlihan

He instead returned to his earlier interest in horse racing, hosting a horse-racing tips show with Brett Phillips and Nick Evans on radio station SEN 1116 and training jockeys in diet and fitness.In 2007 he chose to take some great advise from mentor and now business partner Bruce Armstrong and start his own promotional merchandise business called CorpEdge Marketing.

Apple Mighty Mouse

Prior to launching the device, Apple received a license to the name "Mighty Mouse" from Viacom, and subsequently CBS Operations, as owner of the Mighty Mouse cartoon series, the title having been registered in the U.S. as a trademark with respect to various merchandise (such as T-shirts and multivitamins) associated with the character.

Atkinsons

The store has been trading for over 130 years and sells a broad range of merchandise including clothing, furnishings, lighting, gifts, jewellery, toys, cookers and televisions.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer video games

These games and spinoffs are generally not considered as part of the Buffyverse canon, although the games have been licensed as official Buffy the Vampire Slayer merchandise.

Campbell Arcade, Melbourne

The arcade is located underground off of Flinders Street and features a selection of indie merchandise, ranging from fashion and jewellery shops and a record stores.

Charmander

Created by Ken Sugimori, Charmander first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise.

Clarecraft

It is one of the few large scale vendors of Discworld merchandise, along with Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby, and Bernard Pearson.

Cole Swindell

From 2007 to 2010, Swindell sold merchandise for fellow Sigma Chi member Luke Bryan.

De Bereboot

Later children's channel Kindernet (now Nickelodeon) took over with more success; by 2000 new merchandise was available including double VHS-tapes.

Dennis Ferguson

On 8 July 2012, Ferguson was spotted by The Daily Telegraph at Circular Quay in the Sydney CBD, selling RSPCA merchandise under the name, Ray Ferguson and holding up a tin of kangaroo-shaped biscuits.

Deweyville, Utah

Saloons, a brewery, two boarding houses, a barber shop, and lumber, hardware, and merchandise businesses were opened.

Djevara

Djevara also donated (and continue to donate) a percentage of revenue from merchandise and CDs to their chosen supported causes (at time of writing: Oxfam, Amnesty International, The Big Issue Foundation and TOSE Respite Care Home (Zimbabwe)).

Genevieve R. Cline

(McLaughlin, 1940) When the U.S. Customs Service assigned Cline to be the appraiser of merchandise at the port of Cleveland, Ohio in 1922, she was the first woman to hold such a post.

Goldcliff Priory

In 1334 the prior Phillip Gopillarius ("Philip de Gopylers") was charged—along with a monk, some clergy and fifty other persons from Newport, Nash, Goldcliff, Clevedon and Portishead—with stealing wine and other merchandise from a vessel wrecked at Goldcliff.

Hardin Bigelow

Bigelow gained popularity when he advocated and carried out the construction of Sacramento City's first levees and dams in the aftermath of the destruction caused by the 1850 Sacramento flood in January, which devastated the commercial operations on Sacramento City's Embarcadero and washed away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of store merchandise.

Harvey Jacobson

The group annually supplies merchandise with a value in excess of £250 million and employs over 300 people across the UK at its premises in Rawtenstall, Oldham, Northampton &London.

Irish Music Hall of Fame

The museum was a memorabilia-filled display telling the story of Irish music through exclusive and personally donated merchandise from many important Irish musical artists including Van Morrison, U2, Sinéad O'Connor, Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, The Undertones and Boyzone.

John H. Merrifield

He also operated a general merchandise store for several years, and later worked as Station Agent for the Vermont line of the B & W Railroad.

John Shelton Lawrence

Matthew Kapell and Lawrence’s co-edited book, Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics (2006), examines the myths, the stereotypes, sexualities, the toys, and the critical response to the two Star Wars trilogies.

Latias and Latios

Created by Ken Sugimori, Latios and Latias first appeared as central characters in the film Pokémon Heroes, and later appeared in the video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise.

Little Jackie

On August 3, 2011 Little Jackie digitally released their sophomore album, Made4TV, on Bandcamp.com, a website that allows artists release their music and merchandise directly to their fans.

Needful Things

The prices are surprisingly low, considering the merchandise, such as a rare Sandy Koufax baseball card, a carnival glass lampshade, and a fragment of wood believed to be from Noah's Ark.

Neo-pop

Ken Done in Australia became world famous for his businesslike approach to art related merchandise including tea towels, key rings, t-shirts, sarongs.

Neversoft

They initially found work for Playmates Interactive Entertainment a then division of Playmates Toys, who were about to release a line of toys called Skeleton Warriors and wanted a video game to go along with the toys and the cartoon series.

Outside the Lines

More recently, former NBA player John Amaechi appeared on the February 11, 2007 edition to publicly come out as gay, and the May 11, 2008 edition reported that former USC basketball star O. J. Mayo had allegedly received thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise from a runner for a sports agent dating back to his high school career.

PlayGroundOnline

In the year 2010, PlayGroundOnline launched FIFA world cup soccer merchandise offering products such as T-shirts, books, Videos and Other memorabilia of soccer teams.

Polish Festival @ Federation Square

A range of services and merchandise is sold at marquees around the main stage, while food stalls along the Yarra Terrace serve traditional Polish dishes, snacks and beverages.

Pop Market

PopMarket is a deal-of-the-day website launched by Relentless Generator in November 2010 that offers 24-hour deep discounts on albums, box sets, and merchandise to its members from major music artists and bands like Santana, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, and Pearl Jam.

Primal Rage

Toys, comics, a novel (Primal Rage: The Avatars by John Vornholt) and other merchandise tie-ins were also produced.

Purity Ring

The same day that Purity Ring opened their online merchandise store, they released a cover of Soulja Boy's "Grammy" on February 11, 2013 with a free download.

Roberto Marcos García

In addition, a week before his assassination, Marcos García publicized an article about gangsters stealing merchandise coming in by ships to the port city of Veracruz, Veracruz.

Scarchives Vol. 1

The DVD includes a gallery of all unreleased merchandise from 2002 and the full video from Lordi's first concert in Helsinki in 2002, which can also be seen with commentary audio by Mr. Lordi.

Scyther and Scizor

Both Scyther and Scizor have been featured in different kinds of merchandise, including the Pokémon Trading Card Game and various figurines.

St Mary's Grammar School

Student who excel in the various activities get to win prizes which are always linked to the Irish Language, such as Gael Linn or Foras na Gaeilge merchandise.

Star Wars Scrapbook: The Essential Collection

Star Wars Scrapbook is a book with pull-out reproductions of Star Wars merchandise/artifacts, in a similar fashion to the books Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Tupac Shakur Legacy.

StarLight Live

Later, her company was able to contact the Dick Bruna head office in Holland and to Joey's surprise they agreed to collaborate and make some concert merchandise for StarLight.

Steve Asheim

On 25 January 2007, when making a trip to a bank in Innsbruck, Austria to make a deposit from Deicide merchandise sales, he was arrested on suspicion of connection with a recent bank robbery.

Stroudwater Navigation

There was a dip in the carriage of merchandise in 1810, when the Kennet and Avon Canal opened and provided a more convenient route from Bristol to London, but it picked up again after 1819, when the North Wilts Canal opened, providing a link from Latton to Abingdon via Swindon and the Wilts and Berks Canal, which was easier than using the Thames.

Sundance Cinemas

The first cinema, Sundance 608, opened May 11, 2007 at the Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and contains six stadium-seated auditoriums, along with a cafe, bistro, bar, rooftop bar, and Gallery 608, which sells local and Sundance-related arts and merchandise.

The Summoned

However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy/Angel merchandise.

Titan Entertainment Group

The newest division of TEG, Titan Merchandise produces high-quality licensed merchandise for global properties, including Marvel Comics, Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, and Hammer Horror.

Todd General Store

Customers would trade chickens, roots and herbs and other items of value for merchandise or receive "W.G. Cook" tokens that were only redeemable at this store.

Trustkill Records

It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994.

Vostok watches

2013, Vostok is the official watch merchandise of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan.

Wal-Mart v. Dukes

In 2004, journalist Liza Featherstone published a book about the case, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart in which she contends that Wal-Mart's success is based not only on its inexpensive merchandise or its popularity but also on bad labor practices, a charge she repeated in an article about the case for The Nation.

WASTE

The English rock band Radiohead named their website's merchandise and fan WASTE network W.A.S.T.E. after Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49.

Wherehouse

Ray Tabano started up the club, writing newsletters and selling merchandise out of the building.


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