Panels or singles?

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Speaking of Tatto(o)s, anyone wonder why Topps called them Tattoos in 1960 and Tatoos in 1964 ?

My assumption has always been that they purposely misspelled it in order to create a trademark branding. My guess is that it resulted in an annoying repetition of answering to the question as why it was misspelled with " I know, we meant it that way" so much that the idea was abandoned.

[skil55voy]

I collect Post Cereal and Jell-O cards. My preference has always been to single cards with a box and panel from each year as an example. I also have a run of Detroit Tigers in which I collect the Hostess panels as opposed to the single cards and I buy oddball panels such as the Burger Chef, M & M's etc.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by JustinD

My assumption has always been that they purposely misspelled it in order to create a trademark branding. My guess is that it resulted in an annoying repetition of answering to the question as why it was misspelled with " I know, we meant it that way" so much that the idea was abandoned.

That sounds plausible.

I wonder though if they might have gotten some pushback in states where actual tattoos weren't legal. A change to make clear that theirs were just a sticker of sorts might make sense.

There was actually someone who sued froot loops because they had no fruit. it got tossed because obviously there's no such thing as froot. (I think she also tried suing over crunch berries, also with no success. )