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Post by ljacone on Nov 2, 2010 10:03:15 GMT -4
WWE has released a series of "old school" apparel, including gear with the classic block WWF and Wrestlemania logos, plus shirts for Survivor Series, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and King Of The Ring. Most intriguing is a classic WCW shirt! www.wweshop.com/search.asp?searchterm=old%20school&page=1I really want that Survivor Series shirt (always my favorite PPV as a kid), but yeesh, that's pricey!
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Post by graymar on Nov 2, 2010 10:31:47 GMT -4
Really surprised they are releasing F logos!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2010 10:34:28 GMT -4
Really surprised they are releasing F logos! I'm surprised they have a WCW shirt for sale...
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Post by wildfire on Nov 2, 2010 11:00:01 GMT -4
Some of those are pretty cool, buy $28 for a t-shirt (probably plus shipping) is pretty steep.
And yeah, I wonder how they can get away with the old logo on a shirt when they have to blur it out on mics and the ring in the DVD sets.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Nov 2, 2010 12:31:15 GMT -4
The can show the old WWF logo, just not the attitude era WWF logo I don't know why, but that is the case with Classics OnDenand and the DVDs
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Post by graymar on Nov 2, 2010 14:11:59 GMT -4
Per Wiki...
Name dispute In 2000, the World Wide Fund for Nature (also WWF), an environmental organization, sued the World Wrestling Federation. The Law Lords agreed that Titan Sports had violated a 1994 agreement which had limited the permissible use of the WWF initials overseas, particularly in merchandising. Both companies used the initials since March 1979. The last televised event to market the WWF logo was UK based PPV Insurrextion 2002. On May 5, 2002, the company launched its "Get The F Out" marketing campaign and changed all references on its website from "WWF" to "WWE", while switching the URL from WWF.com to WWE.com. The next day, a press release announced the official name change from World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., or WWE, and the change was publicized later that day during a telecast of Monday Night Raw, which emanated from the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
The company had also been ordered by the Lords to stop using the old WWF Attitude logo on any of its properties and to censor all past references to WWF, as they no longer owned the trademark to the initials WWF in 'specified circumstances'. Despite litigation, WWE is still permitted use of the original WWF logo, which was used from 1984 through 1994, as well as the "New WWF Generation" logo, which was used from 1994 through 1998. Furthermore, the company may still make use of the full "World Wrestling Federation" and "World Wrestling Federation Entertainment" names without consequence.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Nov 2, 2010 14:15:04 GMT -4
Whatever the reason, the World Wildlife Fund finally found some bleeding-heart liberal who wanted to "show wrestling" and awarded them the case. What a fucking joke!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2010 14:24:57 GMT -4
Whatever the reason, the World Wildlife Fund finally found some bleeding-heart liberal who wanted to "show wrestling" and awarded them the case. What a fucking joke! The World Wildlife Fund like many organizations look for their piece of the pie and they went after the World Wrestling Federation and got what they wanted and now they allow the WWE to have back a little of what it once was known as, I find it funny as hell because this is how our world works in many cases...
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Post by ljacone on Nov 2, 2010 14:42:54 GMT -4
As I recall from the time, a lot of this lawsuit was predicated on the huge gains the WWF was making at the time, including the insane ratings and general awareness. The World Wildlife Fund evidently was alright with sharing the WWF moniker with the McMahons so long as they didn't get "too big for their britches." Once the WWF was outstripping the World Wildlife Fund in public awareness worldwide, they went after them. Hence the specific daming of the Attitude-Era logo and not the original or New Generation logos. If WWF had stayed at their New Generation-era levels of popularity and awareness, then the World Wildlife Fund never would have sued them.
Of course, no judge is going to award something to the McMahons over the Panda Bear People, so now we have WWE.
The whole situation was (and still is) inane and stupid. The WWF (as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation) existed as a corporate entity for over a decade before the Fund was created. Furthermore, the Fund took them to court in the UK, knowing full well that a US court would be more likely to side with a domestic firm than an international organization based in Switzerland. The British House of Lords holds no formal jursidiction over the United States (or, frankly, any other country except those formally enjoined into the United Kingdom), so they have little standing to enforce this ruling domestically, other than typical EU bullying tactics. Finally, the Fund is now named the World Wide Fund For Nature, so as far as I am concerned, Vince should sue them to reclaim the WWF moniker, since they clearly are attempting to abandon it.
Fucking pandas.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2010 14:54:37 GMT -4
The only shirts I want from this line (as of now) are the WCW shirt, the red Monday Night RAW shirt, and maybe the Royal Rumble shirt. If they start releasing old school wrestler shirts (ie the mid 90s Bret/Taker/Shawn shirts with the picture of the guy over a background with the guy's logo/name), I'd buy them all.
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Post by lwffantrav on Nov 2, 2010 14:58:26 GMT -4
I just never got that lawsuit either. Hell, there are plenty of other companies with the same names, initials.
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Post by tyguy on Nov 2, 2010 15:10:50 GMT -4
I never got how McMahon lost the case either and thought he should have fought harder. Still sucks it's the E now.
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Post by ljacone on Nov 2, 2010 15:12:20 GMT -4
The only shirts I want from this line (as of now) are the WCW shirt, the red Monday Night RAW shirt, and maybe the Royal Rumble shirt. If they start releasing old school wrestler shirts (ie the mid 90s Bret/Taker/Shawn shirts with the picture of the guy over a background with the guy's logo/name), I'd buy them all. That Royal Rumble one is great. I love that it's yellow! I am disappointed that they don't have the original SummerSlam logo, though! The "Basics" shirts are sort of a throwback to those old school shirts you are talking about, Switchfoot. They are also not INSANELY priced, either! If Zack Ryder ever gets one of those I'll be on it like a spray tan bro. (WWWYKI)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2010 15:17:16 GMT -4
The only shirts I want from this line (as of now) are the WCW shirt, the red Monday Night RAW shirt, and maybe the Royal Rumble shirt. If they start releasing old school wrestler shirts (ie the mid 90s Bret/Taker/Shawn shirts with the picture of the guy over a background with the guy's logo/name), I'd buy them all. That Royal Rumble one is great. I love that it's yellow! I am disappointed that they don't have the original SummerSlam logo, though! The "Basics" shirts are sort of a throwback to those old school shirts you are talking about, Switchfoot. They are also not INSANELY priced, either! If Zack Ryder ever gets one of those I'll be on it like a spray tan bro. (WWWYKI) Yeah, but the Basics top out at XL. Size too small.
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Post by ljacone on Nov 15, 2010 11:11:46 GMT -4
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