Jenga sales in the continental United States

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logicbomb@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 2y (4 replies)

In retrospect, they realized they shouldn't have rebranded to nine-elevenga.

ikapoz@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What choice did they have? “Crazy Osama’s Dubious Demolition Derby” couldn’t fit on the box without making the font too small too read.

TheBat@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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theangryseal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

The competing product that won the market!

The wood had better graphics and a sweet southern charm.

oldGregg@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

With a little plane on a stick instead of your fingers

ubermeisters@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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theangryseal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Never forget what?

I’m sorry if I’ve forgotten.

ubermeisters@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 2y (14 replies)

What happened?

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 2y

smh … you said you’d never forget

xpinchx@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y

The Jenga market collapsed, kinda like... a building... or two.....

sab@kbin.social · 36 pts · 2y (5 replies)

The appetite for falling towers seems to have dropped for some reason after 2001. Could be anything really!

paddirn@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

In retrospect, the Jenga Twin Towers edition was not the wisest marketing move at that point in time.

Masimatutu@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

No, but there was a crazy coincidence back then that Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers came out in 2002

crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

just collapsed entirely

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

Melted into nothingness

LostXOR@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y (5 replies)

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Thanks, I didn't make the connection.

GBU_28@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

U forgot

kandoh@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What are the rules if you're born after?

GBU_28@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y

Embryotic memory transfer rules apply, as you were briefed at birth

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
stanka@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y

Jet fuel can't melt jenga sales!

TheBat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net · 41 pts · 2y

if you ignore the dip, it wasnt so much of a resurgence, and just an unpause of the original downward trend.

9/11 was just a disruptor for i thik obvious reasons