Hallo alle zusammen!
Für die Gene Fans unter uns dürfte diese Info (siehe Anhang unten), die ich über eine andere Mailing Liste bekommen habe, evtl. von Interesse sein.
Lassen wir uns überraschen, was bezüglich Gene und Konsorten neues auf uns zu kommt. Bei dem derzeitigen Preisverfall war es ja eigentlich nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis Ashton Drake reagieren musste. Aber, ob das jetzt nicht etwas zu heftig ist?
Ich persönlich hoffe jedenfalls, dass es Gene und Freunde noch weiterhin geben wird. Nur ganz so viele verschiedene Puppen pro Jahr müssen es nicht unbedingt sein (finde ich). Und über die Limitierung läÃt sich ja auch streiten ..... Und die Neu-Preise sind innerhalb der letzten zwei Jahre ja auch rasant gestiegen ....
Sicher ist wohl, dass die Verkaufszahlen gesunken sind. Sonst würde Ashton Drake nicht so reagieren (denke ich mal). Ãber das "Warum" kann man ja streiten (Preise, Produktionszahlen, zu viele verschiedene Puppen, neue Konkurrenz ....).
Liebe GrüÃe
Susi
The message below concerning Gene and Ashton Drake was forwarded to me today. Since I know we all collect various and sundry dolls, I thought that those
who may not have seen or heard the rumors concerning Gene might be interested.
Suzanne
<< In an unexpected turn of events, Ashton Drake has disbanded the Gene team. All of the former Gene team with the exception of Borum Kim are now assigned to other departments. She told me, "Everything is set for this year, Joan and I are scrambling to make things happen for the rest of the year." However, Wendy does not know what the future holds for Gene except that AD apparently does plan to keep producing the doll, maybe as a smaller line. Wendy did not know how this would effect Mel or the designers or what their future relationship with AD would be. Joan will still be a director, but will work on other projects. Wendy said they are all "shell shocked" over this.
When she emailed me today with permission to tell you guys, this is what she said,
"I spoke with Kirk about the current state of events around here, and asked him if Joan was going to have any kind of official statement or press release done up. He told me that something would be released directly after our return from Toy Fair.
If you want to tell people about what I told you, I think that would be ok. But it just won't officially be announced to the public until next month." >>