Surfin' the mail flat stanley musical11/14/2023 ![]() ![]() You could put leaflets or postcards in with his journal, and maybe even send a postcard to me at school from Stanley! When you receive this book, please journal to say it's arrived, then entertain Stanley for a few days and write in his journal. This book is travelling with a Flat Stanley, who is hoping to have lots of adventures and learn about the world. NOTE: Normal rules do NOT apply to this bookring! Better yet, send him a supportive e-mail along with an interesting Flat Stanley photo for the collection.This is going out on a very special bookring. ![]() If you want to scope the situation out further or just peruse the hundreds of photos, visit Hubert’s before it morphs into yet another merchandise-flogging site. To be fair, this legal mess isn't entirely one-sided Hubert himself filed for a trademark on Flat Stanley in 2006, which further complicates matters, but it seems to have been a defensive move done on the advise of a lawyer. This doesn’t sit right with me and I shudder to think of what Hollywood, corporate branding and a marketing blitz could do to a grass-roots, classroom-friendly effort like the Flat Stanley Project. And somehow I doubt that literacy, travel and pen-pal activity will be the focus of any commercial effort. They’re willing to let the Flat Stanley Project continue on a different site, but this entity would be profiting from all of the traffic and recognition that Hubert has built up, leaving him out in the cold. Given the expanding popularity of Flat Stanley (a musical was produced in 2007 and Universal has apparently bought movie rights to the character), the Brown estate wants that domain -which Hubert owns. ![]()
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