Re: WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]

At 16:51 -0500 5/1/02, Eric Anondson wrote:
>IMO, a bigger blunder was Hasbro paying George Lucas $600,000,000 (yup,
>that is the correct number of zeros) for the license to Star Wars toys,
>and then watching what Lucas did to devalue the entire Star Wars
>franchise with The Phantom Menace overkill.  This certianly hasn't been
>a good time for management at Hasbro.
>
just an honest mistake.  could *anyone* have guessed, based on the
first three movies, or even Lucas' record in general, that Phantom
Menace would be such dreck?  i kinda figured it wouldn't live up to
anybody's favorite of eps 4-6, but i expected it'd be better than the
vast majority of non-Star Wars SF movies, rather than beneath even
the median.
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