75292 Razor Crest renamed following trademark issue

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LEGO has had to rename the forthcoming Star Wars set 75292 The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport due to a trademark issue.

Apparently, Lucasfilm does not own the trademark for the name Razor Crest, in Europe at least, which allowed German LEGO-compatible toy maker Modbrix to claim it back in January for its own, unlicensed, version of the spacecraft. StoneWars published a lot of well-researched information about this earlier in the month.

At first, it was thought that this would affect Europe only, but the product page at LEGO.com in the US and Canadian shops has been removed and is currently leading to a 404 which suggests a wider problem. In Europe, it's been reinstated with the revised name and description, which you can view after the break, and in Australia and New Zealand it's still called The Razor Crest.

It's interesting to note that the full URL of the set at LEGO.com is lego.com/en-gb/product/default-the-mandalorian-bounty-hunter-transport-au-the-razor-crest-nz-the-razor-crest-75292

This may have implications if you've pre-ordered it because Brick_t_in France has noticed that his order status is now 'contact customer services'.

Given that the name of the craft is printed on the boxes, LEGO has presumably needed to re-box at least some of the sets produced so far and I would not be surprised if there's a delay in shipment, although LEGO.com still claims it'll be available on September 1st. What a mess...

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browny333

why did this all happened?

Astrobricks

browny333 said:

why did this all happened?

Read the article

andhe

It would be one thing to be fighting for the trademark 'Razor Crest' was an existing men's wear or beer brand or something, but to have trademarked the name to sell an unlicensed reproduction of the actual ship of a Disney property seems like its asking for trouble...

Imagine if one of these custom minifig printers copyrighted the name off a newly featured character from a marvel movie to sell a minifigure before Lego could... 

CCC

andhe said:

It would be one thing to be fighting for the trademark 'Razor Crest' was an existing men's wear or beer brand or something, but to have trademarked the name to sell an unlicensed reproduction of the actual ship of a Disney property seems like its asking for trouble...

Imagine if one of these custom minifig printers copyrighted the name off a newly featured character from a marvel movie to sell a minifigure before Lego could... 

You would hope the studio or Marvel would have copyrighted character names way before the release of a movie.

SumoLego

If the Child's name is revealed to be 'Gordon' or 'Yogurt, they'll have similar trademark problems.

mattytreks

They should literally put 'default-the-mandalorian-bounty-hunter-transport-au-the-razor-crest-nz-the-razor-crest' on the box.

Fireheart

So has anyone got one that’s been renamed on the box? Or are all of those shipped “The Razor Crest” , received my pre order today (along with the signed Visual Dictionary at last!), and it’s Razor Crest on the box. 

Shropshire

Mine are coming today between 2 and 3... was hoping they stick to original name i.e. they expect the trademark issue to go away.

Shropshire

Update: arrived and as per above have original name on them. No stickers !!! Yay

The_Rancor

Maybe we’ve got things wrong - the stickered boxes (assuming they exist) will be the valuable ones and the normally named ones will be the vanilla?

As an FYI I ordered That Ship The Mandalorian Pilots on September 1st rather than preordering - i’ll let you guys know if there is any difference to the standard Razor Crest naming.

DougTemplar

To be clear - there's no extra value in keeping the box with "The Razor Crest" text on it in the hopes of a crazy Osprey style Ebay bidding war is there? Because I really want to open mine and build but if there's some numpty out there willing to pay silly dosh for a proper named box and I can pick the replacement for RRP it's worth it to me!

560Heliport

Has anyone seen a stickered box yet?

Fireheart

The_Rancor said:

Maybe we’ve got things wrong - the stickered boxes (assuming they exist) will be the valuable ones and the normally named ones will be the vanilla?

As an FYI I ordered That Ship The Mandalorian Pilots on September 1st rather than preordering - i’ll let you guys know if there is any difference to the standard Razor Crest naming.

That was my thinking.. and we will have another round of the 75188 Resistance Bomber box art collection to collect.. 

Shropshire

I just think they have taken a prudent step to walk back from openly advertising.. i.e. stop promoting the name / trademark publically... but keeping it on the boxes they have made would likely be seen as reasonable and the worst case (if they lost, which is unlikely) would be to pay damages for inappropriate use of trademark.. 

Likewise I feel any sensible lawyer will be confident that this issue either goes away when Disney/Lucasfilm/Lego etc outspend him on legal fees beyond his capacity... eg. to over turn the trademark or go after for copying their idea without licence (trademark being a different thing to use of IP), he might have trademarked the name, but would assume he hasn't licenced their IP.. or they pay him off as it's cheaper/easier/quicker...

Bottom line is I think the name change is temporary and all roads lead to continuing as The Razor Crest. just my opinion.

DougTemplar

Wohoo @Shropshire while you aren't a lawyer I presume (or play one on TV) you have given me comfort in knowing I'm not losing out to open and build the set asap.

560Heliport

DougTemplar said:

Wohoo @Shropshire while you aren't a lawyer I presume (or play one on TV) you have given me comfort in knowing I'm not losing out to open and build the set asap.

Yes, build it! I'm very satisfied with mine. 

browny333

Brickset.com said:

LEGO has had to rename the forthcoming Star Wars set 75292 The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport due to a trademark issue.

Apparently, Lucasfilm does not own the trademark for the name Razor Crest, in Europe at least, which allowed German LEGO-compatible toy maker Modbrix to claim it back in January for its own, unlicensed, version of the spacecraft. StoneWars published a lot of well-researched information about this earlier in the month.

At first, it was thought that this would affect Europe only, but the product page at LEGO.com in the US and Canadian shops has been removed and is currently leading to a 404 which suggests a wider problem. In Europe, it's been reinstated with the revised name and description, which you can view after the break, and in Australia and New Zealand it's still called The Razor Crest.

It's interesting to note that the full URL of the set at LEGO.com is lego.com/en-gb/product/default-the-mandalorian-bounty-hunter-transport-au-the-razor-crest-nz-the-razor-crest-75292

This may have implications if you've pre-ordered it because Brick_t_in France has noticed that his order status is now 'contact customer services'.

Given that the name of the craft is printed on the boxes, LEGO has presumably needed to re-box at least some of the sets produced so far and I would not be surprised if there's a delay in shipment, although LEGO.com still claims it'll be available on September 1st. What a mess...

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Source: https://brickset.com/article/53520

LEGO has needed to rename the inevitable Star Wars set 75292 The Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Transport because of a brand name issue. Obviously, Lucasfilm doesn't possess the brand name for the name Razor Crest, in Europe in any event, which permitted German LEGO-viable toy creator Modbrix to guarantee it back in January for its own, unlicensed, variant of the rocket. StoneWars distributed a ton of all around explored data about this before in the month.