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Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:06:17 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:54:49 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote:
> 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? :)
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> Sorry, that was $3 BULLION.
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> 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.
Ferret? I haven't tried that variety before. Could I weasel some outa you?
-- Terry K --
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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