There's also a legendary Star wars merch rights agreement that only expired because the rights holder forgot to send Lucas a check while the franchise was inactive.
Billions of dollars gone because of an oversight.
Arguably they didn't know Lucas was going to bring it back.
There's an argument to be made that Lucas wouldn't have brought it back if they didn't miss the check. A little over half a mil of it's budget came from the initial payout of the new Hasbro deal.
Billions of dollars gone because of an oversight.
Arguably they didn't know Lucas was going to bring it back.
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