DCMT Atomic Jet-Gun Crescent Removal

[Nick Danger]

Here's a particularly esoteric question.  A couple of weeks ago, a DCMT Atomic Jet-Gun sold on eBay.  I'm lucky enough to own one already, and it's a rare toy, so I compared mine to the photos in the auction.  I found one interesting difference.

 

On the left side of my AJG is the logo for DCMT, and on the right is the logo for Crescent, which I believe the Alphadrome community has established as a subsidiary of DCMT:

 

 

 

Here are the photos of the eBay auction.  As you can see, the DCMT logo is the same as mine, but the Crescent logo is obscured.  It looks like they changed the mold:

 

 

 

Did Crescent go bankrupt during the production run of this toy?  Did the good people of DCMT decide to pull it out of the hands of the subsidiary and produce it only under the DCMT umbrella?

 

I'm sure there are a few of these in other members' collections.  Would you mind taking a look and telling me if the Crescent logo is there?

 

 

[Tinplate6]

No Crescent here either…

 

 

[Nick Danger]

The plot thickens!

 

I went down a rabbit hole of research, and discovered an interesting variation on the box for this toy:

 

 

 

The top example is the common version.  I've never seen the bottom version before, but note that there's a sticker over the "Crescent Toys" logo that replaces it with "DCMT" (apologies for the low resolution, but that's all I had to work with).  I think this is evidence that at some point during its manufacture run, DCMT separated the Atomic Jet-Gun from the Crescent subsidiary, and rather than print new boxes, they simply slapped stickers over the outdated logo.