David Baszucki Quotes

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

It's just insane because, as a longtime WWE fan, I still have all of my action figures in storage. Now to have my own, and to see my nephews play with them, to see kids tweet me pictures with them, and to see people are actually going out of their way searching all of these stores trying to find them, it's really cool and humbling.

I think it's one of the coolest things especially as a young actor, actually at any time - even doing my stuff with Avatar - merchandising, video games come out and action figures and plushie toys. It really ignites the kid in you.

Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.

That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

'Star Wars' was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing with the toys in your backyard, that's where you're first telling stories in your head.

I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.

I'm lucky that I was in retailing during the time that I call the golden age of retailing.

What we learned was that the collective glamour of a specialty store could sell a lot of merchandise.

I grew up playing cowboy, and I still have all my Johnny West toys from when I was a kid. I have my actual toys from when I was five.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.'

'Star Wars' is so accessible that, at any point, you can sort of jump in and become immersed in it.

The kind of contact that they make with the customer is what brings them back to shop. The experience, the feeling that you have in the store is what makes the difference.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.