Harari: Spin Master's follow-up Redikai was a 'huge disaster'
Ronnen Harary · Spin Master/PAW Patrol: Ronnen Harary · Dec 20, 2021 · at 47:17
Ronnen Harari, co-founder of Spin Master, discusses the commercial failure of the Redikai card game and animated show following the success of Bakugan.
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“And then after Bakugan, we launched a show called Redikai, which was based on this really innovative card system that we created. Everybody was excited about it. All the retailers bought into it, and it was a huge disaster. Like, you could not give the product away. It probably took the retailers like two, three years to actually clear out the products.”
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