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Carlton Calvin secured a $600,000 toy show order for scorpion slammers
“A guy walked by who was a, happened to be in the pog and the slammer business, was a toy distributor, and he said, if you don't leave this toy show today, you know, it's the first of three days, if you don't leave today, and you sign an exclusive contract with…”
Carlton Calvin hired 75 scorpion arrangers and converted bakery racks into ovens
“I had like 75 scorpion arrangers, and then I took bakery racks. And converted them into makeshift ovens with light bulbs, with, like, insulation on the outside of a bakery rack, and I would stick bakery trays in there of scorpions.”
Calvin lost his Scorpion Slammer profits to inventory when Pogs collapsed
“So I, I'm saying, I'm selling, you know, 75,000 scorpions, slammers a month. I need to order, like, a few 100,000 more scorpions to be ready to, and that, and the price of the scorpions went up, so all my profits were tied up in, you know, my second order of, …”