{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)'s status on Friday, 05-Aug-11 11:01:06 UTC","author_name":"Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ceruleansparkold","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/357208","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/2047\" class=\"url\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">leonkfox<\/span><\/a><\/span> Small runs of toys aren't profitable. Regardless of how many they make, they still have to go through the routine I've mentioned before, and that's pure cost, and a lot of the costs are fixed, regardless of how many ponies you actually make at the end. If they can't dump a Xmillion of them into the market to cover the cost of making sure that eating the hair of 10 fluttershy brushables doesn't destroy a child's intestinal tract, then it's not worth bearing it in the first place."}