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Non-Tech : GRIN (Grand Toys International Inc) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: OTC JOE who wrote (20)	11/16/1998 4:05:00 AM
From: Frank McVerry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 495

Joe, I agree with you on the advertising - there seems little point in advertising until it stops flying off the store shelves. I heard somewhere that a new kids program might be created with Furbies as characters - something like 'Toy Story' I guess. Again there seems little point in doing that until supply comes in step with demand. I also see renewed selling of more Furbies to the early buyers as the price drops, because they interact with each other as a group through the infrared links in their heads - singing/dancing together, passing on colds etc. It just looks huge and long-lasting and even I can see the follow-ons into future new toys. GRIN's license agreement with Habro looks like becoming one of their more valuable 'family jewels'. On buying more stock - looks like the rise is slow and steady at the moment. I bought another chunk on Friday at $3 and think I'll probably limit myself to my present holding. I also agree with you on the toy itself. Personally, I have been quite disappointed until now by the use of electronics in kids' toys - dolls that repeat phrases or cry are just copies of much older pre-electronic versions. Then there are the kids' computers or hand-held games with their little grey LCD screens - yuck ! Furby is a breakthrough toy and several steps beyond anything we've seen to date. Frank