Another round of shows over and now time to reflect. Great buzz around, especially on press day, at Toy Fair.
Once again, great product and, hopefully, at the right price points to encourage the money into tills across the country. What would be nice is a little bit of profit in them to make it worthwhile.
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Another year of shows out of the way, and there was plenty of buzz around Toy Fair as most retailers seemed to come out of the year with less stock and buoyed by a good first couple of weeks in January (let?s not mention what?s happened since though).
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