Edited sentence: A major toy shop in the United States and another in Britain had store sections earmarked exclusively for Potter-related toys and merchandise.An animated version, for example, gave Peter buck teeth, a fourth sister Hopsy, and an American accent while another video retelling cast Peter as a Christian preacher singing songs about God and Jesus midst a group of children and vegetables.By 1998, modern technology had made available video versions of the tale, audiocassette retellings, a CD-ROM, a computer program, and Internet sites.Considerable variants on the original format and version of The Tale of Peter Rabbit as well as spinoff merchandise based on the Potter library have been made available over the decades since the story's first appearance.Frederick Warne & Co owns the trademark rights of the Beatrix Potter characters.However, most of the stories are in the US public domain as they were published before 1923.In Britain's Lake District (where most of the tales are set) and in the Covent Garden  area of London, many shops were devoted entirely to the Potter-related merchandise.Other materials for both children and adults included puppets, mobiles, stuffed animals, crib toys, board games, dishes and china figurines, clocks and music boxes, hand-knitted sweaters and books of patterns, bolts of fabric, baby and children's clothing, tea, jam, toothbrushes and soap, placemats and coasters, wall stencils, stickers, paper towels, and even a cake was sold in supermarkets in Britain.Peter Rabbit was the first soft toy to be patented, in 1903, making him the oldest licensed character.Pirating of the Potter materials flourished with products only loosely associated with the originals.Variant versions include pop-up books, toy theatres, and lift-the-flap books.Warne and its collaborators and competitors had produced activity books and a monthly educational magazine