{"id":790,"date":"2008-12-04T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:01:22","slug":"stuff-on-my-mind-today-120408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Stuff on my mind today 12\/04\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bratz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Bratz\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a7\/Bratz_Cloe_01.jpg\" alt=\"Bratz Doll Chloe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bratz Doll Chloe<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=thecansho-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0019FE498&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A federal judge is forcing the makers of the Bratz dolls (MGA)\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0stop producing them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Judge is \u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0 also forcing them to recall the dolls from store shelves.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The recall won&#8217;t happen until after the holiday season.\u00c2\u00a0 The ruling supposedly isn&#8217;t a competition issue.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s due to the guy who designed the Bratz dolls did it while working for Mattel toys.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He apparently signed a non compete agreement when he was employed by them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He broke the terms by taking his design for the Bratz\u00c2\u00a0dolls\u00c2\u00a0to MGA.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I personally don&#8217;t think\u00c2\u00a0the non compete agreement\u00c2\u00a0would have been an issue, but the sales of Barbie have declined 15% since the Bratz line was introduced.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If I was a speculating man when it comes to toys&#8230; This is a line I would expect to jump in value.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Especially if MGA looses their appeal.<\/p>\n<p>I had a blast at UNI yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 What a fun game.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We car pool to the games and last night I got to ride back to Cedar Rapids with Jared Aahrons the Sports Director from KGAN\/KFXA.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Not only is he a &#8220;Sports Junkie&#8221; he&#8217;s also an action figure collector and a huge movie fan.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s an even bigger fan of the FOX show 24.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If we can work out some scheduling issues, he might even\u00c2\u00a0geek out with us on a future episode of The Canman Show!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I got for now- Canman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge is forcing the makers of the Bratz dolls (MGA)\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0stop producing them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Judge is \u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0 also forcing them to recall the dolls from store shelves.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The recall won&#8217;t happen until after the holiday season.\u00c2\u00a0 The ruling supposedly isn&#8217;t a competition issue.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s due to the guy who designed the Bratz dolls did it while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,350],"tags":[633,632,631,628,629,626,627,47,630],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coolstuff","category-stuff-on-my-mind-coolstuff","tag-barbie","tag-bratz","tag-iowa-state","tag-jared-aarons","tag-kfxa","tag-kgan","tag-sports-director","tag-the-canman-show","tag-uni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pj1zv-cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecanmanshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}