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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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We're talking about legendary toy stores and how they can compete today with comedian Gianmarco Soresi, who's in the new Netflix series "Verified Stand-Up" and editor-in-chief of The Toy Book, James Zahn. Plus which toys are made to become stars of the silver screen (did somebody say Barbie?) and which are destined to flop.
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0:00.0 | You could argue that many of us are clinging to nostalgia more than ever these days. |
0:08.0 | The Barbie movie mania amp that up and there was a new teenage mutant Ninja Turtles flick that jumped on the bandwagon. |
0:14.3 | Target is across the street. We must use stealth and cunning to infiltrate the human world and retrieve. |
0:20.8 | Go Gert! We've seen it time and again brands cashing in on those warm fuzzy |
0:26.6 | feelings of remembering childhood or are the fun of introducing your own kids to the things you |
0:31.6 | once loved. |
0:33.0 | In a move that surprised almost everyone, Toys or Us, is opening new stores hoping to tap |
0:39.0 | into Gen X and millennial nostalgia. |
0:42.2 | But is that enough to drive sales and is there still a role for brick and |
0:46.0 | mortar toy stores? Here to talk about all that and more is comedian John |
0:50.0 | Marco Sorresi and James on he's editor-in-chief the toy book and senior editor at the |
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1:33.2 | Everyone leaves a legacy. |
1:35.1 | I like Mr. Gorbachev. |
1:36.6 | We can do business together. |
1:38.2 | For some, the shadow falls across decades, even centuries. |
1:41.6 | It is unacceptable to have figures like roads glorified. |
1:48.0 | But it also changes. |
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