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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.

Stuff You Should Know
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.

Stuff You Should Know
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.

Stuff You Should Know
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?

Stuff You Should Know
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.

Stuff You Should Know
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.

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

So you can't even say then.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Have you played with a small one?

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

Yeah, man, I had tons of small action figures.

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

Yeah.

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

But they went full bore and hit New York City.