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Calvin & Hobbes softtoys

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  • 16-03-2005 3:20pm
    #1
    BattlingCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭


    Hey people,

    Anybody know of a site where I can buy a Hobbes "teddybear" or soft-toy??
    I've tried the usual suspects, google, amazon, e-bay etc but no avail.

    Thanking you in advance



    Umm think I found the answer to my own question.
    Couresy of wikipedia.com

    Merchandising
    Bill Watterson is notable for his insistence that cartoon strips should stand on their own as an art form, and he has resisted the use of Calvin and Hobbes in merchandising of any sort. This insistence stuck despite what was probably a cost of millions of dollars per year in additional personal income. This also explains why the strip has never been made into an animated series.

    Except for the books (see below) and two extremely rare 18-month calendars (1988–1989 and 1989–1990), all Calvin and Hobbes merchandise, including T-shirts as well as the ubiquitous stickers for automobile rear windows which depict Calvin urinating on a company's or sports team's name or logo are unauthorized; after threat of a lawsuit, one of the sticker makers (Custom Vehicle Graphics) replaced Calvin with a different boy.


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