Title. The Retailator was NOT made in 2012. I have a Retailator myself (that I got off of Amazon) and its copyright is 2011. Unless, was the Retailator released in 2012 and made in 2011? This confuses me.
Title. The Retailator was NOT made in 2012. I have a Retailator myself (that I got off of Amazon) and its copyright is 2011. Unless, was the Retailator released in 2012 and made in 2011? This confuses me.
Generally a blaster's copyright date is the year before its release, when it was in the process of being created and worked on by toy engineers at Hasbro. It's hard to distinguish if this is also the case for older blasters, as we have less info on when it was released, but this is definitely the case for modern releases.
Good info JetCell. Learned something new this evening. Thanks.
Yeah, I learned that the copyright dates are dates one year before the official release.
The modulus has copyright 2014, even though it was clearly released in 2015.
So my guess was the shell was made a year earlier than the release date.
Probably due to the length of time it takes to copyright these days. I have a brother in the manufacturing business. Many retail products are two or more years in the making. Molds, packaging, production runs, assembly, warehousing, distribution. It doesn't surprise me there's a year lag.
Well, I guess I learned something new and interesting tonight.