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Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Tue, 27 May 2003 03:28:10 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell writes:
In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Whoa... do you have more info on that? Hasbro tried to buy TLC? When was
that? I did some googling to try to find more info, but it was inconclusive.

Sounds like a fascinating subject for a Forbes or HBR article. Any info you
might be able to share would be gladly received at least by this reader.

    My boss receives a variety of industrial publications focussing on
plastics and technology, and I believe he was the one who mentioned it to
me, so it might have been buried in one of them.  Industry news sometimes
takes a while to trickle out into civilian news, assuming it ever makes it.
I actually found out about the latest round of LEGO layoffs a few days
before it started showing up more publicly, and I was reading about it in a
publication that had been sitting on the front counter for at least a week
before I poked through it.

David,
Any info on this would be well-appreciated.  I'm interested on the specific
word choice of TLC. ;-)

Fun/scary facts:
Hasbro is the world's largest manufacturer of toys, but did you know that...
...TLC is the world's largest manufacturer of tires?
...Mattel is the world's largest manufacturer of clothing?
BAH!  That's some great trivia!  Thanks!

-Andrew


GardenSLUG



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  Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
 
(...) Okay, here's what I've got after chatting with my boss about it. What he distinctly remembers is that about five years ago, Hasbro was actually set up to purchase Little Tykes, but the FTC nixed that because Hasbro already has a very similar (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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  Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
 
(...) My boss receives a variety of industrial publications focussing on plastics and technology, and I believe he was the one who mentioned it to me, so it might have been buried in one of them. Industry news sometimes takes a while to trickle out (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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