kenner

There is also the fact that Lucas had licensed the game rights to Star Wars to Kenner along with the toys, in a deal that was very much in Kenner's favor.

Apparently the term 'space marine' was never used in the movies, but the alien-themed toys by Kenner from 1992 do use it.

As long as Kenner paid them either 5% of their yearly profits on Star Wars toys and games or 100k, the deal would continue.

Hugh Kenner is good on a surprisingly wide range of things.

The Kenner Electric Mold Master sounds like what you remember.

I can't recommend Hugh Kenner enough on the modernists.

Writing all that out makes me wonder why even as I child I was bummed about not getting the Kenner Millenium Falcon or the GI Joe base.

And I kept all my 1:64 cars in a carrying case with Fast 111s branding, another die-cast line by Kenner whose gimmick was tiny license plate decals on the rear of each vehicle, each with a random state and number.

The critic Hugh Kenner made an interesting case that the extension of copyright in the United Kingdom about 100 years ago had a dramatic effect on the public's impression of what literature was, creating a discontinuity in perception that made the modernists' work appear to have come about without its actual context.

Well, from her list, I do read a few: Kenner and Powers within the last six months; Ransom not recently, but I could recite at least two, maybe four of his poems most of the way through with reasonable accuracy.

Man, even the one in Kenner (New Orleans) memorably described by a Yelp reviewer as "The 9/11 of Italian food" is sold.

The so-called traditional New Orleans accent (“Yat”) is almost by now entirely confined to the suburbs of Kenner, Chalmette, Arabi and parts of the Northshore.

This is a publisher's description of a book called The Counterfeiters, first published around 1968: "Wide-ranging enough to encompass Buster Keaton, Charles Babbage, horses, and a man riding a bicycle while wearing a gas mask, The Counterfeiters is one of Hugh Kenner's greatest achievements.

Where you can at least see what you are buying - think the individual proper Star Wars action figures from Kenner/Hasbro.

I haven't read much of its production, but I recall Hugh Kenner's Joyce's Voices as pretty good.

Ha ha, characters appearing for a few seconds in a background shot just to get their cameo before the inevitable Kenner/Hasbroken figure release.