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- <text id=90TT3309>
- <title>
- Dec. 10, 1990: Business Notes:Toys
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 73
- Business Notes
- TOYS
- Kooshing Kousins
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Meet Grinby, Boingo, GeeGee, Slats, T.K. and Scopes, cousins
- of the popular Koosh Ball toy--a "cross between a porcupine
- and a bowl of Jell-O" that goes "koosh" when you catch it.
- </p>
- <p> OddzOn Products, Kooshmakers to the world, has literally put
- a new face on its product. By Christmas, these six fibrous
- friends will sit beside cash registers at 30,000 stores
- nationwide. Price: $7 to $8.
- </p>
- <p> For the past three months, Koosh Kins have ranked among the
- top 10 non-TV-promoted toys, according to The Toy Book, a trade
- publication. Says associate publisher Jim Silver: "If [OddzOn]
- created some sort of animation, they could do even better."
- That may be next. OddzOn hopes to spin off a TV program (Koosh
- Kin Kartoons?) and may soon have Koosh Kins klinging to
- sleeping bags and lunch boxes.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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