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Trendmasters
Trendmasters was a toy company that produced licensed products throughout the 1990s. Though they produced some original toys, they were best known for their tieins for classic film and television science fiction, such as Godzilla, the Ghostbusters, Lost in Space, and Forbidden Planet. They also produced toys for contemporary movies like Battlefield Earth, Independence Day, and Mars Attacks! and a popular line of animated watches based on Austin Powers, Star Wars, and Pokémon.
The company went out of business in 2002, with its intellectual property rights acquired by JAKKS Pacific.
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, The Ambiguity of Play (Harvard University Press, 2001)
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