David Hargreaves FAcSS was Associate Director for Development and Research of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Foundation Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences... (wikipedia)
I think there's a much greater level of caution -- you could also say it's a much higher level of responsibility.
Overall, I would certainly agree that it is not helpful that these costs are increasing, but also it is not going to be materially adverse to our potential profitability.
We have an extra ten years to exploit this property. The Star Wars property is a high gross margin area. It generally requires less advertising because its the movie that drives interest in the merchandise.
We are particularly pleased to have re-established year-over-year revenue growth in our Games segment, with continued strength in a number of our traditional board games, as well as new introductions in the plug and play category.
As a result of our strong cash flow and continued efforts to strengthen our balance sheet we improved our year-over-year debt, net of cash position by $300 million despite having repurchased $31.8 million of common stock year to date,