top secret elmo tmx launched !!!!

coolio_2

Get a French one, teach your kids a new language

dejoxy

Does non-stop laughter in French sound different?

gjchester

dejoxy wrote:

Does non-stop laughter in French sound different?

Oui:rotfl:

rdwarr

dejoxy wrote:

Does non-stop laughter in French sound different?

I don't think anybody's ever heard it

gjchester

Soprano wrote:

Fisher Price factories have a lot of days of to produce these muppets..

Dunno really, it's around 70 days to Xmas. A simple web search shows a basic MP3 player has a week to 10 days lead time. Elmo's not simple to make, and I suspect once a factory changes tools to make something else therea a tooling delay too (assuming they are not making them at the moment) Add on to that shipping (they have to sell them in the stores for less than £35, take off the retailers profit and you'll be looking at I guess £20-25 unit cost to the trade, take materials and labour and theres probably not enough left to send them by airfreight so it's a Slow boat from China. The time to make a suitable amount and ship them can't be less thana week or two, and then they need to get to warehouses and on to shops.

Fisher Prices web site has already been updated to say they will not get any more stock until 2007. OK they may make it but any stock coming in (if at all) will be going to the big multiples liek WalMart, who lets face it have the muscle to say "supply us all you have or we drop all Matell toys from our stores"

I think any new stock won't go the the UK Market they'll go to the USA.

While I have been vocal in objecting to peoples greed in this thread, I would take no satisfaction in people getting burned this Christmas when thousands (and I fully believe it will be thousands, there are a lot of people outside this website stocking these up) of Elmos are released on eBay.

Again Person thoughts, but there are rumoured to be 50,000 in the UK, Seems a lot but then there are 12 million kids in the UK according to the 2001 cencus. There were around 650,000 births in the Uk in 2005 so assuming the target elmo market is 18m to 5 years thats a potential "market" of 2 1/4 million kids.

I think your right this is something parents want rather than kids, but the numbers suggest they will not be enough to go around, Even if us bad people are not hording them for ebay there still not be enough anyway.

Pester power is a strong marketing force, as well the marketting people know...

bargainlover2006

I had placed an order with woolworths for 2 more elmos and I was supposed to collect on Tuesday - just received an email that the order has been cancelled. Has this happened to anyone else?

FloFlo

Elmo is No.1. on Amazon.co.uk 100 top toys.

bushcaro

bargainlover2006 wrote:

I had placed an order with woolworths for 2 more elmos and I was supposed to collect on Tuesday - just received an email that the order has been cancelled. Has this happened to anyone else?

I have also had Woolworths order cancelled - I know they are limiting to 5 per customer

thor

The Sun printed their list of 'hot' toys for christmas and elmos was not one of them. I think that this will knock demand for it down quite a bit as the featured toys will know be in the mind of parents.

little_lil

D_J_Fryer wrote:

Just a point (and I haven't read enough of this thread to see if it's been mentioned before) but Elmo is for 18M+ i.e. toddlers. Toddlers won't be the same market as Cybermen heads or many of the other 'hot' toys. As others have said, with Elmo it is parents creating the demand not the kids - the target market can barely say "Mumma"

I know of two eighteen year olds, one thirteen year old and one five year old who have put this down on their list of christmas must-haves.