New questions for Magnús for interview June 2010

[LazyPooky]

Re: New questions for Magnús

yo beticaforever, how do u actually know Magnus? im quite curious

We all know him, he's the maker of LazyTown

[Deep4t]

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yo beticaforever, how do u actually know Magnus? im quite curious

[Glanni's Girl]

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A lot of these are good questions..LT Extra on dvd and such...

Thanks :)

[Stingy]

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*confused* Are these good questions or not? :?
- Why was viacom not interested in promoting lazytown in the united states even though the ratings were strong? (so many rumours and speculation but no direct answer ever)
- why was LT merchandise only being sold at K-marts mostly?

The first is a good question, but not a good question to ask because he wouldn't be able to answer it. At the very least until their contract runs out and he has no motivation to be nice to them.

The second isn't haha. No offence ;)

[Lily_Kaelar]

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If I was there, I would give him one of my trademark Happy Hugs O' Doom.

That's what I would ask if I was there..."Can I has a hug, Mr. Magnus, sir?" ;)

[Zokita]

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I think they're good and I'd love to hear the answers. I just don't think you'd get a straight answer from him.

[Lily_Kaelar]

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Well my point was, I haven't seen them sold here for quite some time. Perhaps they were discontinued here. I wanted to know what happened there and if they'll start making/selling them again.

[LazyPooky]

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*confused* Are these good questions or not? :?


- Why was viacom not interested in promoting lazytown in the united states even though the ratings were strong? (so many rumours and speculation but no direct answer ever)
- why was LT merchandise only being sold at K-marts mostly?

[Zokita]

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Haha, yeah. McDonalds promoting LazyTown is like PeTA having a meat sale.

Anyway, I don't think Magnus would talk openly about whatever Viacom thought they were doing. Oftentimes, it's against someone's contract to air dirty laundry like that. But I suspect the reason is that unlike Nick Jr's other shows, Viacom didn't fully own LazyTown and didn't get the full profit from it. They preferred to focus on shows they fully owned.

The same thing happened with Cartoon Network ditching their DC Comics animated shows in favor of CN originals and Disney ditching Power Rangers in favor of their fully owned boys' action shows on Disney XD. (but now Saban has PR again and is relaunching it with a huge marketing blitz, so the last one doesn't quite apply anymore)

[Stingy]

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Well it's not like it's his decision or anything. He doesn't sit in a corner office thinking "Yes I want K-Mart, and Costco, and Target to sell LazyTown stuff, but not Walmart."

The way it works is, distributing companies will sell items from a manufacturing company that has bought a license from LazyTown to make LazyTown items. In come cases, the manufacturers are also the distributors.

Like with K-Mart for example, K-Mart doesn't actually make the toys. Hasbro (just an example) does. So it's really up to the distributors on whether or not they think LazyTown items will be a good investment for their stores.

LazyTown does however have the power to reject requests to distribute. Like they could reject McDonalds from premoting LazyTown stuff (and I understand they have).

The moral of the story is asking why stuff isn't avaliable here or there is a good waste of a question haha

[Lily_Kaelar]

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Yeah, the DVDs are not sold on any major store website that I can find...I want to know if he can put LT merchandise back on the shelves of major retailers here in the US so I don't have to buy them from eBay or shady websites...

[merlin55]

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Alot of these are good questions..about the stageplay and LT Extra on dvd and such...but I wanted to just say we really should try to not ask the same damn questions I've seen in the majority of his video/newspaper interviews over the years. STuff like "what is it like to work with stefan/julianna", "what inspired you to start Lazytown", etc have been asked and answered before so people should take some time and look over the old interviews out there via google search or searching on here or what not.

One of the main questions I want finally answered from his mouth is

- Why was viacom not interested in promoting lazytown in the united states even though the ratings were strong? (so many rumours and speculation but no direct answer ever)
- why was LT merchandise only being sold at K-marts mostly?

[Lily_Kaelar]

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What's your favorite animal? Is it cats?

[Glanni's Girl]

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Me: Have you seen/liked any specific YouTube fan videos?
Magnus: No, I'm too busy.

I can't think of anymore questions! :|

[Stingy]

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Maybe you should ask that PR lady how many to ask eh?