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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Not only did we not care.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So now we're starting to enter my wheelhouse.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

You can just sell what you sell and pay us for those.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Not only did we not care, these smaller ones are vastly superior to the older ones.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Whatever you don't sell, you can return to us.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

We'll take them back.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

We'll send over a team in your store to set up these big interactive marketing displays.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Oh, you think?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So we agree on a lot of stuff.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

But I would say this is the one thing that divides us more frequently than anything else is whether the original big GI Joes or the second wave small GI Joes are better.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And we'll take on all of the risk, and all you guys got to do is try and sell some of these.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And they went, yeah, all right.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

That was a great Joe Pesci, by the way, I meant to say.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

All right, let me ask you, sir.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Have you ever held in your hands and played with a 12-inch GI Joe with a Kung Fu grip?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Oh, Joe Pesci.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So, yeah, they did this in 500 stores.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And normally when you did like kind of a soft test release of something like this, you might choose like Topeka, Kansas or somewhere that no one cares about, right?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I would not touch one.