Star Wars Simplicity patterns being taken off the shelves?

A friend of mine that works at Hancocks just told me that they were ordered to remove all the Star Wars Simplicity patterns and destroy them. Is this something new from Lucasfilm?? Can anyone else confirm this or know anything more??

Thanks!

 

OMG!!!

That is SO WRONG!!!

Someone intercept the patterns! Or at least someone please scan them on a really good scanner!

So wrong...so damn wrong...<sigh>

 

I work at Joann's and havent heard such a thing. But i'll keep an ear out

 

I heard this many a months ago. Grabed them then and glad I did, but I suspect they'll be available if you search at stores that really don't care.

 

Saw them on the shelves at JoAnn's on Tuesday.

 

I saw them at my local Hancock's yesterday...

 

I have all of them !
fortunatly !

 

Holy cow! Don't let that be true! I guess I need to run to the store today and pay full price for a pattern I was thinking of adding to my stash. Grrrr...

I wonder if it is in reaction to the lawsuit LFL won over the stormtrooper armor dude in England? Maybe the pattern company is afraid that the patterns and the look of the models copies the SW designs too closely and they don't want to be targeted for not liscensing this through Lucas? This is just speculation.

 

I wonder if it is in reaction to the lawsuit LFL won over the stormtrooper armor dude in England? Maybe the pattern company is afraid that the patterns and the look of the models copies the SW designs too closely and they don't want to be targeted for not liscensing this through Lucas? This is just speculation.

Seems likely. Though, ever since the very first one came out, I was wondering how long it would take to get them destroyed (not that they're bad, but I had a feeling nothing was ever approved by Lucasflim) Do you know when they are to be destroyed, Maggie?

~Spacelady

 

OMG !!!!

one chance, me too have all of them !

 

I don't know much of anything, really. I know that one friend what works at Hancocks was told they needed to pull all the SW simplicity patterns and destroy them. But that's all I know - so I don't know if this is isolated, widespread, or where the directive is coming from. Simplicity? Hancock? Lucasfilm?

 

I think that it is simplicity, because the company is afraid to have as of the money has Lucasfilm for the rights...

 

I noticed they dropped some of them off their site a while back. I just assumed the company was letting them go out of print like so many other types of patterns after flooding the market with them. I could be wrong though.

 

yeah, i know they dropped the Padme Battle pattern a while back, because i never could find it when i wanted it, and my local Hancock's never had the Jedi-sort of one filed correctly.
so far as i know, though, ours are still here, and i'm in Tennessee.

 

I remember that Master Replica has the licence for official costume( I remember seeing this at C3 for fall 2005).....

 

no avaiblality on their website.........

 

Well, as is typical for retail - the Hancock's by my house still had the Star Wars patterns. So I got an extra peacock/leia pattern.

 

I jumped on those patterns as soon as they hit the stores. Maybe I should pick up some extras to have for the future. Being an avid costumer, I've always just modded other patterns and the ready made patterns simplified some steps, but still have to tweek them for movie acurracy. I bet after Halloween they will be harder if not impossible to get. It is a sweet help while it lasts.

 

I'm beginning to wonder if my store is lazy....

we havent recieved a letter from the Man(haha) about the patterns. Usually we get a little memo, saying "Pull these patterns" and "write down how many you find"(so employees cant steal them).

 

There's two outcomes here, one: either this is just a local thing and most of you don't really need to worry about it, or...two: they will remove them from the shelves, but after Halloween. Some people are actually smart. Maybe they realize how much of a money increase they'll get by having those patterns around during the time of year that most people buy things for costumes. Not sure if any of you have seen it, but I'm definitely seeing many more people in fabric and pattern stores.

But, if they are taken down, it's not a big deal to me. I did happen to get that white jumpsuit pattern and it was horribly off.

~Spacelady

 

Or perhaps, some stores have decided just to "sell out" the rest of their patterns, since they won't be re-orderable.

 

I read this on randomsabers.com: this is all because of the stormtrooper armor in England. That is why they are supposed to take it off all shelves. Darn it... WHY?! Oh well, luckily I've got the only guy pattern that they make, #4450.

 

Singapore whose Simplicity Pattern Stock came from Australia (which gotten it from US several months to a year later than US) cease to have the Battlesuit Pattern for at least a Catalog or 2 ago I think. I was just thinking of asking someone in US to get it for me when the patterns next go on sale.

Anyway, I thot it was mentioned here or at the LOTR_Costumes ML that as long as 3-5 things about the pattern is different, company can escape from being sued by LFL/WB/NLC?

The Padme Peacock-Leia Outfits are quite different from its intended design if I am not mistaken isn't it cause of the Raggled Sleeves Dress, Headdress etc etc. And the Padme Battlesuit need a lot more work on the chest part to add more details and the featured picture dun have arm bands, shin guard, not correct no. of pouches etc.

So is Simplicity jumping the gun upon hearding about the LFL Sueing Case?

Darn! Now I got to garb any of the Jedi Pattern left, or even the Padme Peacock-Leia one as a spare.

 

The "white jumpsuit" pattern was discontinued last Halloween, but it went out with a regular discard, along with quite a few other patterns, but this is the first time our Hancocks has ever received a "pull and destroy immediatly", without having a new batch of patterns or regular discard. Wal*Mart no longer has the patterns in their drawers either, but they still have the ones on their Halloween stand, because they have promotional numbers, not regular drawer numbers, so I think they just were asked to remove the 44-- numbered patterns.
Who knows....

 

I almost wonder, if the models were not so intentionally dressed as characters from Star Wars and the costumes displayed on the pattern covers so close in color to the real things - if then simplicity would be then be able to get away with the actual pattern designs. In other words, it might be not be enough to deviate slightly from the construction of the real costume. The fact that the models are dressed up like Star Wars characters could be enough for LFL to have an issue. Bummer. That really takes the fun out of Halloween for a lot of people.