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- <text id=89TT3089>
- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Toys
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- TOYS
- Fuzz Busters Not Included
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The hot new cars this fall feature aerodynamic design,
- quick acceleration and two interchangeable engines. They are
- also about six inches long and cost ten bucks.
- </p>
- <p> Toymaker Hasbro Inc. is launching its new line of Record
- Breakers miniature racing cars with a $6 million advertising
- campaign highlighting their principal selling point: speed. The
- company says the battery-powered vehicles can go the equivalent
- of 500 m.p.h. in an adult-size automobile. Record Breakers are
- imported from Japan, where they are a national craze. While
- some analysts predict smaller U.S. sales, Mattel, Matchbox and
- other toy manufacturers are releasing their own superfast cars.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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