Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-9477495-20140224014454/@comment-5065259-20140503220033

GameGear360 wrote: Not exactly. It's common for the copyright date to not be in line with the official year of release. Just as the Bow N Arrow is said to be from 1990, it did not exist in pre-1991 packaging and was not in 1990 catalogs. It's all a matter of when in the year the product was released, and in the Slingshot's case, it's likely it had an early 1992 release given the copyright date.

I have no clue of its official release, though, so take my word with a grain of salt.

make sure you understood what i said, mr.k told me that regarding the copyrights. its not dead accurate but provides for better accuracy. before n-strike, the copyright was either a year early or the year released. the closer to 2000, the higher the chance of the copyright being a year early.

example: maverick was 2004 but released 2005. - this is when copyrights started to become a year early, the trend continues onward to NSE, MEGA...