no, this really is work related

so i'm not sure if anyone actually picked up on this, but the general tendency lately has been to convey tales from the workplace that is this toy company. it's far more interesting than the pathetic things i do at night or on the weekends in the humdrum metropolis that is los angeles. hmmm. a refreshing of the side links is in order. definitely. eh, i'll get to it later.

there's a huge licensing show going on in NYC right now. latest news is that Disney is book-to-movieing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe due out in summer and christmas 2005 respectively. not to mention that a Davey and Goliath 44 minute holiday spectacular is in the works entitled "Davey and Goliath's Snowboarding Christmas." personally, I prefer the Ruldolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys.

Mighty Beanz, who knew? after being nominated for "Activity Toy of the Year," Nintendo Game Boy Advance is releasing a Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles game today. i'm not too sure how i feel about this. i remember back in the day when i got my old school, gray boxed, green and black dot matrix Game Boy at a baseball card trading show in a mall when i was in 5th grade for $75. how much fun can this be? there's a reason GBA hasn't picked up crossword puzzles or electronic word searches. but if Spin Master wants to whore out a 10 million unit-sold license, that's their right.

another one of my friends got a job today working for a government defense contractor. so far my collection consists of a Lockheed fighter plane safety engineer, a Northrop Grumman space satellite systems controller, a Boeing Peculiar Ground Support Systems engineer, and a Raytheon Unmanned Aereal Vehicle systems coder. i guess wars are good for something.

and if you want a taste of what i've been tasting, try one of these on for size: Mattel, Hasbro, JAKKS Pacific, Leapfrog
- posted by yeah...about that... @ 4:31 PM