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Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro -- What's the deal?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 28 May 2003 23:44:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Andrew Saada wrote:
> > Any info on this would be well-appreciated. I'm interested on the specific
> > word choice of TLC. ;-)
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> 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 line of product in their repertoire (Fisher Price, IIRC) and it looked
> more like they were buying out a competitor than expanding their product range.
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> As for the bit with TLC, he can't remember anything about it, including the
> fact that he told me about it (a few years ago he swapped his regular sleep
> schedule for a daughter, so...), but I seriously doubt it went any further than
> asking if TLC was available for purchase.
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> Also, I can't say for sure what the official response would be, but if it
> had been me that they asked, I'm sure it would have been about half an hour of
> uncontrolled laughter followed by about ten seconds of words that shouldn't be
> repeated in polite company.
David,
Well thanks for checking on this. I realized after the last post that our
comments probably should only go to .general and not to the LEGO Company
page...sorry Todd.
Hasbro must think of themselves as awfully sneaky if they thought they'd run
free with Little Tikes. Hurray for the FTC's policy!
And your guess as to the repsonse sounds correct to me.
-Andrew
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