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To: Larry Brubaker who wrote (12926)	2/1/2000 2:25:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Respond to of 14266

Thanks, Larry. I think Herb needs to retract his comment about THQ having less reserves than AKLM as well. There's a B of A securities tech conference this week. Not sure if THQ is presenting (I sort of think not) but an analyst there was bullish on Nintendo and Sony. Bodes well. Here's some Scooby stuff. There is a movie coming this year. Marc -------- Subj: Scooby! By: marc4lit Date: 1/31/00 1:57 am Btw, I can vouch for drsmallcap as a long. Marc --------- from COPLEY NEWS SERVICE (and Natorjak on AOL) <<Everywhere you look, there's Scooby-Doo, that lovable television cartoon canine Generation X and Y members adopted in their 1970s and 1980s childhoods. Not just on TV, through reruns and original movies on cable's Cartoon Network, which airs the 30-year-old Scooby-Doo Where Are You! and its subsequent spinoffs in a dozen time slots each week.>> <<And not just in stuffed, talking dolls on toy-store shelves, or on the Internet where there are dozens of Web sites about the show.>> <<About 2 million people currently watch the Scooby reruns in prime time, making it one of the channel's highest-rated shows>> <<In November, the Cartoon Network aired an original animated movie, Scooby-Doo and the Witches' Ghost, which scored a 2.4 household rating (4.1 million viewers), the best rating in that time period this year for any other Cartoon Network program.>> <<Scooby shows seemed to have run their course by 1990, when no new episodes were made. But then, in 1992, the Cartoon Network, a channel owned by Time Warner Inc., which reaches 60 million homes, was launched. It paid about $300 million to acquire the Hanna Barbera cartoon library, of which Scooby-Doo was a major part. Scooby reruns were aired and a new audience was cultivated.>> <<With the demand for new Scooby adventures, Warner Bros. acted in 1998. A direct-to-home video called, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, with the original characters (but new voice artists), was made and released. It later aired on the Cartoon Network. Last year, Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, was broadcast. A new movie, Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders is set for release this year.>> <<"We get about 500 to 1,000 pieces of mail a week," Perez said, "and more than half that is about Scooby-Doo." "We also get a lot of e-mails and drawings from kids about Scooby. Their parents have introduced them to the show.">>

To: Larry Brubaker who wrote (12926)	2/1/2000 5:55:00 AM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 14266

The man is a shill-his forum has zero integrity. Why give them the time of day?

To: Larry Brubaker who wrote (12926)	2/1/2000 8:44:00 AM
From: NeverRight	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14266

I'm glad that Herb gave us the shorts' methodology. It gives me even more comfort that they will be wrong. If my memory serves me right THQ has usually blown away analysts estimates, which means that the analysts have underestimated shipments and sell throughs. THQ has always given analysts very conservative guidance as can be seen by the difference in estimates by the analysts and our own super analyst Todd. Plus THQ could be less conservative and lower their reserves to the industry average to really blow away the numbers.