Cap Toys also trademarked a number of other Vac toys including Vaclings, Vac Heroes, Insta-Vac and Vactopus. As well as some Stretch Armstrong varients that never made the cut.
The trademark for Vactory was made in November 1994 and an extention was granted on 7th September of 1996. Weirdly however, an abandonment was registered stating ‘no use statement filed’ on 29th November 1996, less than 3 months later. A statement of use is defined as; a sworn statement signed by the applicant or a person authorized to sign on behalf of the applicant attesting to use of the mark in commerce.
So Cap Toys just let abandoned the trademark in the same year that the Vactory was released. Not a success then I guess.
It seems that Vactory and the Vac pac were licensed out to the Italian company Giochi Preziosi under the name ‘Bumbastik’. Weird name right? From what I can tell this name is pretty meaningless too but damn the Italian commercial is awesome!