Resisting the impulse to just merchandise the hell out of the show from day one, particularly in questionable areas, has certainly been ironic (and costly) since the ONLY area I get an actual, real (if small) percentage of the show (the studio will always work the books so it never shows a profit on paper) is in merchandising.
>And has there been any fake B5 >merchandise spotted?
Plenty. If you've bought a link or an EA insignia at a con, it's a fake. All patches sold other than through the B5 fan club are fake. There's a huge amount of fake 4th season posters that flooded in from Germany (you can tell the fakes by checking the poster: if it's unusually heavy photoreproduction paper, and the B5 logo is blurry...it's a fake). The White Star models that are out there are unlicensed...it goes on and on....
jms
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