*For all Pokemon addicts, here's DVUI news & info. PM'd to me:
PHOENIX, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimensional Visions Incorporated (OTC Bulletin
Board: DVUI - news), a Phoenix
based company and a leading provider of HALOGraphix DV3D® Animotion(TM)
solutions today announced that it has
received an initial 250,000 unit Pokemon® order from Plymouth Inc. of Radford, VA.
Plymouth designs and delivers unique
children's ''back to school'' products to Wal-Mart, K-Mart and other mass merchandisers.
John D. McPhilimy, DVI Chairman & CEO stated, ''Needless to say we are ecstatic about
this new order. The introduction of
Pokemon® joins our recent CuddlyCutties®, World Wrestling Federation®, and
Animorphs® collaborations this year.
Together we continue to deliver exciting new images and characters that kids love. I am
sure that the new Pokemon®
Animotions will be a huge success when they reach the stores in the very near future.''
For further information, contact: John D. McPhilimy or Roy Pringle, both of Dimensional
Visions Incorporated, 602-997-1990;
or Michael Behringer of Market Pulse Journal, 716-256-6498, Investor Relations for
Dimensional Visions Incorporated.
This re-order from Plymouth (DVUI has already shipped several different products to the
Plymouth Co) puts DVUI smack into the middle of a growing craze which has already
taken over Japan. Dimensional Visions is going to use their proprietary technology to
produce Animotions of the 4 most popular Pokemon figures...Picachu and Sharmander
are inclued. DVUI will design and produce 12 different 'morphs' of these popular
Pokemon characters and the resulting Animotions will be slapped onto spiral notebooks to
be distributed by the Plymouth Co to major department stores. The order should be
shipped in a couple of weeks and should be on the shelves in 3 to 4 weeks. All parties are
anxious to get these products to market. The Pokemon Animotions supplied by DVUI can
also be applied to many other commercial products and it is hoped that re-orders will
occur quickly.
This Pokemon order and the potential re-orders (we think the notebooks will prove to be
immensly popular...ask any kid btw the ages of 8 and 14 about Pokemon) could have a
significant impact on DVUI's revenues and bottom line. The 9 month revenues ending
3-31-99 are ahead of last year but the company shows a $1m dollar loss for that period.
With approx 5.1m shares outstanding and about a 2.5m share float the impact of
Pokemania on Dimensional Visions could be substantial. The company has also created
Animotions for Disney figures (Mickey Mouse, Tinkerbelle, Winne the Pooh) for products
sold at Disney World and DVUI is presently creating Animotion wrestling figues for the
WWF and the Animorphs. With the addition of the Pokemon figures DVUI is centrally
involved in producing products for the most popular choices of kids today in the
marketplace.
Present management came to DVUI about 18 months ago and almost immediately
engineered a 1 for 25 reverse split to get a grip on the share count and position the
company for some sorely needed financing. Details can be found in the company's 10-K
(yes, they do file with the SEC). The present CEO and Chairman of the company, John D.
McPhilimy, knows how to introduce new technology to the market and grow small
companies into large companies. Mr.McPhilimy has over 30 years of executive and
marketing experience in high-technology industries such as aerospace, air transportation,
and electronic telecommunication networks with Bell Helicopter Textron, Aerospatiale,
Executive Jet Aviation, Travel Teller International, Marketing Works, and Information
Systems Solutions. Over the last 15 years he has been responsible for the successful
marketing penetrations of NetJets® and Travel Teller® which created two new industries
namely “nationwide fractional ownership of business jets” and “electronic ticket delivery
networks”. One of the companies he was intrumental in founding was ultimately sold to
Warren Buffet about 3 years ago for a price tag in the $750m area.
Last week we did a search of large and small cap companies that have a direct connection
to the Pokemon phenomena. One shining example of what the Pokemon connection can
do for a company's stock price can be found at 4Kids Entertainment (KIDE Nasdaq 50
1/4). KIDE's stock was under $10 in March and now it is over $60. Disney and Hasbro
are about the only other large caps we can find directly associated with Pokemon. In the
small cap area we can find only 3 companies: SYCD, (sales of Pokemon videos), PSDE
(music) and now DVUI. That is it. And there is no sideways or indirect or back door
correlation with DVUI and Pokemon. They are producing, through their own technology,
Animotions of the 4 most ppopular Pokemon figures. We think this is the real deal. And
we think that over time, as investors become aware of DVUI's Pokemon connection, the
stock price will reflect the greatest of all the economic realities...the law of supply and
demand. Demand for Pokemon products is going up rapidly , demand for shares of those
companies supplying Pokemon products is rising, and the supply of shares of public
companies meeting that demand remains static. That equation leads to higher stock prices
of those few Pokemon related companies that are public. Maybe much higher.
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