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Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:54:49 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> fOn Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:31:42 GMT, "Mike Walsh"
> <mike_walsh@mentorg.com> wrote:
> > Hasbro (I think) paid a $750M licensing fee to LucasFilms for their rights
> > to make action figures. The article then mentioned that Hasbro needs to
> > sell
> > $3B worth of action figures to make a profit.
> I'm thinking very hard whether I wanna post this.... what kind of
> Billion? :)
Sorry, that was $3 BULLION.
Hasbro is lacking the BEEF for such a venture. The decided that it wasn't
worth their SALT, and so they CHICKENed out. It's a shame -- I thought it
would SPICE up their selection a bit, and introduce a new FALVOR into the
market. Now I'll have to FERRET out action figures from different sources.
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| | I'm sorry Dave, but Abort, Retry or Fail?
|o| Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
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