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Originally Posted by CMIII

You can say I am a bitter DC fan, But I am going to say that you are only kissing Scotts butt for the MOTU stuff. You cannot Blame the Failure of Mattycollector.com on Bryan Stockton (Mattel's CEO) you can spin it every way and you won't be able to do that. Managers are held accountable for failures in their department thats the way business works, It's an ugly truth but thats the way it is. Blaming Bryan Stockton would be like blaming President Obama for a local politican using Town Money to take a Vacation. In the end the guy is gone Like it or not.

I'm not blaming Bryaon Stockton. I'm also not kissing anyone's butt. I'm pointing out simple business realities: There are probably multiple levels of management between the "head" of Mattycollector.com and Bryan Stockton. Many of the failures could likely fall squarely just about anywhere in those multiple levels.

Tell me, how is a manager supposed to make something a success if, hypothetically speaking, that manager's bosses are not giving them the resources (Effectively unlimited tooling and production budgets) required to achieve that success?

You have such a simplistic view of how business works that I have to question if you've ever actually worked in a corporate environment (If not..good for you). Higher level managers and bosses screw over lower-level ones every single day. A lot of the time it's not even intentional...just a side effect of someone making a decision that pads profit margins and/or helps the "bottom line" without serious regard for how it might affect segments of the business under them.

And yeah, the guy's gone. Congratulations. Guess what? DCU is still gone too, and now even less likely to return anytime soon in a form you seem to want.