After the Crocodile Dundee ‘That’s not a knife, this is a knife’ scene, did sales of big knives increase afterwards? Were there ramifications?
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There’s really no way to know, because there is no public data on knife sales with that kind of granularity, and certainly not going back that far. It may exist as private research, but there are no public sources that I can find.
It seems like a reasonable supposition, though, because movies that feature edged weapons prominently usually spawn spin-off merchandising, which implies that there is a market for the merchandise. This has been happening for a long time.
The balisong craze of the 1970s was spawned by martial arts movies. By the 1970s, they had become mainstream in movies like TNT Jackson (1974). By the time “Big Trouble in Little China” came out in 1980, there were a raft of state-level restrictions on balisongs, prompted by the same movies that created a market for them.
The other thing to realize is that knives are part of a much wider market for “outdoor equipment,” and compete with other items for consumers’ dollars. This can be most readily seen when panic buying of firearms starts — knife sales…
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