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...(Current Affairs) — Bomb blows up French wine war (Wine Searcher) — The NSA’s Furby docs just dropped (404 Media)...
...shearling-lined styles from Acne Studios, waterproof designs from Snow Peak, a puffy version from Dries Van Noten, and the hottest women’s model according to Lyst: Emma Brewin’s fluffy hat seemingly sewn from a Furby...
...Beanie babies, furbies and pet rocks were all once so popular that demand bordered on mania. There are not many takers now. Even bell-bottomed jeans were once hot. Until they were not....
...As toy makers recover from the Toys R Us collapse, he added, he is optimistic that soon parents will be scrambling over the 2020s equivalent of the Furby or Cabbage Patch Doll....
...It’s like those Furbies . . . RG: Sir Ivor, doesn’t this deal at least safeguard the business, after Apple said it would stop using Imagination’s chips? Sir Ivor Haylow: It is a very sad day, Ray....
...But if you asked the average investment professional/your grandmother/a Furby whether it is a good idea to stick over a quarter of so of your assets into a highly levered pharma roll up the answer would...
...A new version of the 1998 electronic pet, Furby, complete with a Bluetooth connection and app, is at the top of NPD’s best-selling toy list, but most are old-fashioned games, dolls and Lego sets, says Ms...
...“Our initiatives for the second half of the year feature innovative offerings for Hasbro Franchise Brands and Partner Brands, including newly announced products such as FURBY CONNECT and SPEAK OUT, and support...
...Furby continued to be a drag on sales in the girls segment at Hasbro, due to difficult year-on-year comparisons from a relaunch of the furry electronic robot, and struggling sales of Equestria Girls, the...
...Hasbro relaunched Furby last year, with about 37 per cent of its annual sales coming in the third quarter....
...I’m reminded of my childhood Furby, the owl-shaped toy robot that was all the rage in the late 90s until adults realised it devoured batteries and children figured it could only relate in non-sequiturs....
...It also struggled in its girls segment, where revenues slumped 22 per cent to $127.5m, due to poor demand for its Furby owl-like fluffy robot and My Little Pony....
...This Christmas, the company has high hopes for the reinvention of its popular 1990s plush toy, Furby....
...This Christmas its hot picks include a Doc McStuffins doll and a Furby. When the FT called the Times Square store to ask if it had any Star Trek toys the answer was no....
...Pleo represents major advances in robotics, only 8,000 people are signed up to PleoWorld, Pleo’s online community, suggesting this is only a niche product at present, unlike its mass-market forebear, the Furby...
...I can imagine the Furby modding fraternity loving this aspect of the toy and creating different personalities and abilities for Pleo....
...However, Mr Chung likens Furby to “a single-cell organism, talking broccoli, but just enough to get you engaged”....
...Sony may have abandoned its Aibo robot dog but metal pet lovers will soon have a replacement in Pleo, a lifelike dinosaur robot being unveiled on Monday by the co-inventor of the Furby....
...Toy makers have been noticeably less successful in recent years at producing blockbuster toys, such as “Furby” and “Tickle Me Elmo”, without which no Christmas used to be complete....
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