The gremlin was PDGA approved in 2007. CE plastic was long gone by then.
Lol...The Gremlin was a great big goof.
There was a Ching disc called the Sniper that was a modified Panther. Lets call it a Panther X. The Sniper was sold by Ching and PDGA approved.
The Gremlin that people rave about was essentially a Sniper X. Or a Panther XX. Anyway, it was a modified Sniper, which was a modified Panther. Somewhere along the line, Innova forgot how the PDGA rules on approval work and never submitted the Gremlin for approval. They were doing a lot of L wing/X wing variants on discs using the same name that under the rules did not need to be approved and forgot that the X wing variant they made out of the Sniper wasn't being called a Sniper and needed approval.
Then...nobody noticed. Gremlins were in production. People threw them. The disc wasn't listed on the PDGA approved list. Nobody seemed to care.
Then about five years later there was a dust up over discs not being approved when Innova started selling discs that previously were called Starfires, TeeBirds and Firebirds as SL's, TL's and FL's. It was a name change and the discs had to be approved, and finally somebody complained to the PDGA about it. During that dust up, somebody finally noticed that the Gremlin wasn't on the list, either. So the SL, TL, FL and Gremlin all have 2007 approval dates but were in production for a long time before that.
About a year later somebody noticed that the Blowfly II wasn't approved, either. In had been in production for about a decade, so I think that is the record holder for the longest time between release and approval.
The funny aside about the Gremlin is that after releasing them in the Sniper X/Panther XX configuration, they switched the wing back the the Sniper/Panther X configuration. Guys who really know Gremlins can tell the good ones from looking at the wings.
