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Originally Posted by StlBen
Are people this upset about like every musician that also sold the rights away to their music? Or are people throwing fits in the Squid Games card thread because that creator doesn't make any money off it's products? Or that George Lucas no longer makes money on Star Wars cards?
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Nah, it's not being a sellout or something, in this case his likeness was functionally stolen from him without compensation. It's well-documented that the people who acquired the rights to the Bob Ross likeness are terrible people who really abused their relationship with Ross and his family. Ross himself went out of his way to severe all ties with them and leave everything to his own family, but they got really excessively litigious about it all and only own everything due to legal loopholes they found to dive through.
I'm personally a fan of Bob Ross and a set like this would otherwise completely be up my alley, but I'm buying exactly zero of this because I do not like what those people have done to Ross and his family and long resolved against ever giving them any money. Really, really dumb that Topps doesn't realize or care how controversial Bob Ross Inc currently is and think it's cool to form a partnership like this with such a dirty, underhanded company.