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Re: End of Year Thoughts
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:47:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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> "Arne Lykke Nielsen" <arln@wanadoo.dk> wrote in message news:GnJyEn.K8@lugnet.com...
> > In the Danish TV News this week they said, that TLC's financial performance
> > for 2001 was saved by the tremendous succes of the Harry Potter sets.
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> It would be interesting to know to what extent they were 'saved by Harry Potter'.
> For example, would they have made another loss without HP?
> What lines were successful, which ones were not?
I agree. It would be such fun to see product-by-product, theme-by-theme &
year-by-year how the company performs. I expect we shall never see that sort
of data, but one can dream...
The biggest turkey must be ZNAP.
I expect it is too soon, but I think HP will be a big hitter... perhaps the
biggest.
Any other nominees?
> I would imagine that Bionical was successful too - much as I personally dislike it
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> The problem with being saved by HP is it might give them a smoke screen to hide behind in terms of declaring
> "everything's OK, we increased revenue, we made profit" type statements, wheras it was only the fortunate timing of
> someone elses idea that saved their Danish bacon, and all the other mistakes they made are forgotten or swep under the
> carpet.
I think the product line is getting better. When I vist my LTS I see a lot
of sets I like, that was not the case a few years ago.
Scott A
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> lawrence
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| "Arne Lykke Nielsen" <arln@wanadoo.dk> wrote in message news:GnJyEn.K8@lugnet.com... (...) It would be interesting to know to what extent they were 'saved by Harry Potter'. For example, would they have made another loss without HP? What lines were (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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