Howdy :) And happy Saturday everybody and welcome to the fastest growing
Furby newsletter around.  Currently there are 110 subscribers to The Post,
20 more than when the last edition was sent out.  Thanks to everyone who
passed the word about the letter :)  

I'd also like to thank everyone for sending information to me regarding the
new Wizard Furby.  It seemed as soon as I posted the last issue that people
were sending me pics and info, and thanks to them, I think Kat/Furbster got
lucky and grabbed one up before they were all sold out :) The subscribers
who sent info to us were:

Vicky (Spldbrtbch@XXXXX.XXX)
Møüsér (vrunicorn@XXXXX.XXX)
Ethel (LcBluIz@XXXXX.XXX)
April (XXX69otica@XXXXX.XXX)

Thanks again to everyone who sent us help, it's greatly appreciated :)

If you have new information about Furbys and would like a forum to post it
in, send it along to us at:

MAILTO:capngo@earthlink.net

and we'll get back to you immediately and be more than happy to credit you :)

And now...onto some statistics
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Currently there are 1450 Furby related auctions on Ebay.com, 1668 auctions
on Yahoo! and 233 auctions via Amazon.com.  

The Mystic Fortress server logs (which counts every hit) currently totals an
average of 1531 a day! 

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Furby Post Trivia Question of the Issue: This is a new area and here's how
it works.  You read this question and try to figure out the answer, at the
end of the letter we'll have the question reposted with the answer given.
Sound like fun? You bet! :)

Dave Hampton had an assistant when making the original designs for Furby, is
his name:

A) Roger Schiffman?
B) Stewart Sims?
C) Marc Rosenburg?
D) Caleb Chung?

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And now for the News:

McDonalds has released an earnings statement this week which notes that the
Furby Happy Meal promotion was the most successful toy give away, second
only to the Beanie Baby Happy Meal toys.  The earning statement
unfortunately didn't give figures, but I know my comsumption of Happy Meals
went up about 8000% so I'm sure that McDonalds made enough to consider doing
it again (hopefully, all speculation on my part).

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For those of you who have not had the chance to purchase of see a Wizard
Furby in real life, I suggest you make all efforts to pick one up through
any means necessary.  I personally think that this little guy is the cutest
special edition that Tiger has released so far.  All black ears and feet,
black body, purple tummy, purple cape and hat adorned with yellow stars,
tied off with a red bow.  Sorry, you can't take off the bow and cape and
make your other Furbys wizards too, but these guys are still great.  These
are unnumbered, but are limited to 90,000 and are exclusive to Toys R' Us. A
pic of him can be seen at:

http://www.mimitchi.com/html/furbn8.htm

Thanks to Vicky for the image :)

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A few days ago Kat and I were in Kay-Bee toys and bought two Furby activity
books.  I'm not sure how new they are (though they were copyrighted 1999)
but they are authorized by Tiger and are really pretty neat.  I'm sure
anyone who enjoys furbys will like them.  The best part is that they were
really cheap, both under $2.00.  According to the back of the books, there's
two more in the series that we weren't able to find.  The four books are:

Furby Books,
Furby Coloring and Activity Books,
Furby Coloring and Activity Pads,
Furby Giant Coloring and Activity Books.

One more note about Kay-Bee, they've recently dropped their price for Furbys
down to standard $29.99 retail in both their stores and online market.
Special editions and foriegn Furbys are still $39.99 though.

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According to sources, Walmart has already begun to place sticker ads in its
isles announcing the forthcoming Furby Babies.  They will sell for about
$26.95 and should start selling around 8-25-99.  Hopefully the stock will be
large enough for everyone to get some.  An image of the babies can be seen here:

http://www.mimitchi.com/html/furbn36.htm
 
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Just a warning to finish off the news:  We've heard from alot of people that
because retail stores don't sell rip-off furbys (Furbish, Foobie, etc.),
they are frequently being sold online, and in most cases, are being sold at
flea-markets/swap-meets.  The problem with this is that alot of times at the
flea-markets, the rip-offs are being passed off as real furbys.  So if you
happen to send out a grandmother of someone who's looking for a Furby to
buy, who might not know exactly what they're looking for, you may want to
pass off the simple information "Furby does not have arms".  Also, look for
the words Tiger Electronics on the box (small icon in the lower left hand
side of most panels), that'll be the tip off that what you're getting is an
original Furby.

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The Furby Post would like to dedicate part of the next issue to online
sellers of Furby and Furby Accessories and we need your help.  These Furby
items do not need to be liscensed by Tiger, but the sites must sell Furby
(not Fooby, Furbish etc) items.  If you have a URL to a *reliable* seller of
goods, please send them along to:

MAILTO:capngo@earthlink.net

and they'll be posted in the next issue.  All URL's will be checked, and
those sites who have stolen (as in no credit or permission granted) images
or content from Mystic Fortress will be disqualified from being posted.
(Note: if the URL that you are sending to us does not belong to you, please
ask permission from that site's webmaster before sending it along to us.)

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The online Furby Poll has been updated and we'd love to hear your responses
to it.  It only takes four mouse clicks to complete, so if you'd be so kind
as to fill it out, the URL is:

http://www.mimitchi.com/html/fpoll.htm  

Thanks in advance :)

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The Furby Post Trivia Answer:

Dave Hampton had an assistant when making the original designs for Furby, is
his name:

A) Roger Schiffman
B) Stewart Sims
C) Marc Rosenburg
D) Caleb Chung

If you said D) Caleb Chung, you were exactly right :)  Roger Schiffman is
the President of Tiger Electronics, Stewart Sims is Senior Vice President of
Marketing at Tiger, and finally, Marc Rosenburg is Tiger's Vice President
for Public Relations.  Thanks for playing :)

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That's all for this issue, hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did, and I
hope you tune in next issue for more wonderful Furby Fun :)

Thanks as always :)
Brendan Quinn,
Editor in Chief of The Furby Post


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