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Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Doom
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Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:41:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Either that or they want to get M$ and Disney to bid against either other for
> the sale of the company in 2005. :-)
So long as TLG remains privately owned, they remain free from hordes of
stock analysts and professional chattering classes (and Yahoo Finance
yahoos) telling them how they should run the company.
"Come out with movie tie-ins! Everybody else is doing it!" "Give up your
focus on old-fashioned stuff like bricks!" "Make video games!" (Goes to show
that the chattering classes are superfluous noisemakers anyway, as all that
happened without them.)
But, if one of those scenarios happened, we armchair folk could apply for
those new pundit jobs. Merrill Lynch, next Tuesday, will realize that its MS
analysts need a full-time Lego geek, and put out a job req...
By the way, do you know what Hasbro's proudest growth area is? Board games.
They're recovering from Silver-Plated Star Wars mania and
Internet-dot-bomb-induced delusions of software, and marketing their basics.
-Erik
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| (...) 5 Words ... Star Wars, Disney, Harry potter? (...) But From my reaserch one of thier software arms was Europress Intreactive.. (that before it got absorbed into 'American-Megacorp Toy Holdings Inc'. used to write brillant software like Klick n (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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