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===Acclaim Entertainment ownership (1990β2000)=== Acclaim closed LJN's toy division and shifted the company's focus to video game publishing.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 6, 1990 |title=Acclaim and MCA Dispute Final Price in LJN Toys Deal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98045939/newsday-nassau-edition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321010251/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98045939/newsday-nassau-edition/ |archive-date=March 21, 2022 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=[[Newsday]] |page=45 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> It fired 45 of the company's 70 employees and moved its headquarters from [[Lyndhurst, New Jersey]] to [[Oyster Bay, New York]], the same place as Acclaim's headquarters.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 14, 1990 |title=Acclaim Buys LJN Toys Ltd. For $30 Million |page=45 |work=[[Newsday]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition/154430410/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901171130/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition/154430410/ |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 24, 1990 |title=LJN Toys Relocating To N.Y. |page=C3 |work=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record/154430566/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901171350/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record/154430566/ |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 25, 1990 |title=45 losing jobs at LJN Toys |page=E8 |work=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record/154430649/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901171449/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record/154430649/ |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Lawrence Kanaga filed a lawsuit on behalf of Clark Thiemann on January 31, 1990, against LJN, [[Nintendo]], and [[Major League Baseball]] claiming that the game ''[[Major League Baseball (video game)|Major League Baseball]]'' was falsely advertised to Thiemann stating that it would allow him to simulate being a baseball team manager and Kanaga stating that the game was advertised as having all of the players, but instead only had their uniform numbers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 1, 1990 |title=9-Year-Old Sues over Video Baseball Game Boy Says Tape Strikes Out - Wants Nintendo, Major League to Return $40 |url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/2/1/18844093/9-year-old-sues-over-video-baseball-game-br-boy-says-tape-strikes-out-wants-nintendo-major-league-to |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319061414/https://www.deseret.com/1990/2/1/18844093/9-year-old-sues-over-video-baseball-game-br-boy-says-tape-strikes-out-wants-nintendo-major-league-to |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |work=[[Deseret News]]}}</ref> In 1991, the [[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]] recalled LJN's Sling 'Em-Fling 'Em wrestling ring toys based on the [[WWE|World Wrestling Federation]], which sold 1.4 million products from 1985 to 1989, due to multiple children between six and ten being injured by the toys.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 4, 1991 |title=LJN "Sling 'Em-Fling 'Em" Wrestling Ring Toy Recalled |url=https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1991/ljn-sling-em-fling-em-wrestling-ring-toy-recalled |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316072747/https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1991/ljn-sling-em-fling-em-wrestling-ring-toy-recalled |archive-date=March 16, 2022 |work=[[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]]}}</ref> Acclaim closed LJN in 1994, but reused the company's name for the release of ''[[Spirit of Speed 1937]]'' in 2000.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carlisle |first=Rodney |title=Encyclopedia of Play in Todayβ²s Society |date=April 2, 2009 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 30, 2000 |title=Hands On: Spirit of Speed 1937 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/01/hands-on-spirit-of-speed-1937 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321010120/https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/07/01/hands-on-spirit-of-speed-1937 |archive-date=March 21, 2022 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=[[IGN]]}}</ref>
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