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...mouth and bulging eyes. It looks a lot like creatures from the movie Gremlins. ("I do have a sense of deja vu when I look at those things," says film director Joe Dante. Warner Bros., which made Gremlins, has voiced concern to Hasbro, the corporate parent of Furby manufacturer Tiger Electronics, about the similarity...
...When Tiger finished the Furby--on schedule, in October--many more parents than usual knew about the new toy. Initial shipments sold out almost immediately. Now Furbies vanish from Target stores within a few hours of arriving from China. The Web's eToys.com has so few left it will hold a Furby giveaway sweepstakes after Thanksgiving. "If we got 30,000 tomorrow, we could sell 30,000 tomorrow," says eToys exec Phil Polishook. They have only about...
Though some toymakers have reportedly tightened initial supplies to heighten interest (think Beanie Babies), Tiger had no such conspiratorial plans. "People need to realize that when we make toys, we make as many as we have orders for," says an exasperated Marc Rosenberg, Tiger's publicist. Before September, retailers had ordered 1 million, and a confident Tiger produced 1.3 million. But after all the publicity, perhaps 5 million could sell...
Sources: Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones News Service, International Council of Shopping Centers, FAO Schwarz, Tiger Electronics...
They may find a weakness in the Tigers' defense. Princeton opened the season with a 9-1 loss to Boston University. Right now, the Tigers do not have a top goaltender, still trying to find a replacement for the graduated Erasmo Saltarelli, who finished his career with the best save percentage in Tiger history...