Kenner Products, the official licensee for STAR WARS-branded toy figurines, sought a preliminary injunction against Ideal, alleging both copyright and trademark infringement. Ideal felt that “science fiction films were chancy,” and that “ Star Wars itself was a rather ordinary property.” After the film smashed all box office records, Ideal “reexamined its opinion” and created a line of STAR TEAM-branded action figures, including the evil “Knight of Darkness” and the inseparable android buddies, “Zem-21 and Zeroid” (the Ideal catalogue advised that the purchase of additional Zeroids would increase the likelihood of defeating Darth V… I mean the Knight of Darkness). Here they are in chronological order:īefore the first Star Wars film came out, the Ideal Toy company turned down a chance to make officially licensed products associated with the film. Well, I couldn’t bear to sit through I, II and III again in any order so, instead of binge-watching six films, I binge-researched copyright and trademark opinions involving the Star Wars franchise and picked the six I found most interesting.

Should you watch them in narrative order (I through VI) or in film release date order (IV-VI and then I-III)? Apparently, the preferred order is: IV, V, I, II, III and then VI. Haven’t seen the new Star Warsmovie yet? The pop culture zeitgeist recommends that you binge-watch all six of the prior Star Wars movies before going to see Episode VII, The Force Awakens and, according to the Washington Post, there is some controversy about the proper binge-watching order.

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