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Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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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.
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> 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. ;-)
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> 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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