What was "Tell Me Again Teddy Ruxpin"?

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I was doing some searching through old trademarks recently, and found one registered by Hasbro in 1994, which was abandoned in 1995, for "Tell Me Again Teddy Ruxpin".

It says that the products covered were "Prerecorded audio and video cassettes, compact discs, video discs, digital audio tapes, cd roms, and computer programs featuring children's stories and music, audio cassettes sold as a unit" and "Children's books and children's books" (someone call the Department of Redundancy Department! ).

The dates are from well within the time that Hasbro was manufacturing Teddy under their Playskool brand. Was this the catch-all title to be given to a new line of stories and related merchandise, perhaps?

Does anyone know for sure what this trademark was meant to be for?

[TRO Admin]

Interesting find.

My best bet would be that the trademark was simply being secured because Playskool was going to attempt a 'reboot' of sorts with Teddy. The addition of 'compact discs' to the generic list of merchandise associated with Teddy is the most interesting. To this day, the compact disc is the one medium Teddy's never had his paws on. Playskool's license expired in 1996, so my other gut feeling would be this was probably abandoned because they couldn't come to an agreement to continue that license. As we know, Teddy got the re"boot" two years later when Yes! made their half hearted version. Even knowing as little as I do about "Tell Me Again Teddy Ruxpin" I'm still pretty sure I wish Playskool would have been the manufacturer in the late 90's instead.

[kaylathehedgehog]

I'm still pretty sure I wish Playskool would have been the manufacturer in the late 90's instead.

Me too. It would've been great to have three of my most favorite 80's properties under the same umbrella.