Good day, everyone and welcome to the Mattel second quarter 2008 earnings conference call. Today’s call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Mike Salop, Treasurer and Senior VP of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Thanks, Melissa. As you know, this morning we reported Mattel's second quarter 2008 financial results. In a few minutes, Bob Eckert, Mattel's Chairman and CEO, and Kevin Farr, Mattel's CFO, will provide comments on the quarter and then we will open the call up for your questions. Certain statements made during the call may include forward-looking statements about management’s expectations, strategic objectives, anticipated financial performance, and other similar matters. Such forward-looking statements may include comments regarding performance of our brands and product lines, new product introductions, entertainment properties, retail inventory levels, input cost pressures, litigation expenses, effects of price increases, margins, income tax provisions, foreign exchange gains and losses, capital deployment, retail expansion, and legal matters. A variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control, affect the operations, performance, business strategy, and results of Mattel and could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors are described in our 2007 report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and Mattel's other filings made with the SEC from time to time, as well as in Mattel's other public statements. Mattel does not update forward-looking statements and expressly disclaims any obligation to do so. Information required by Regulation G regarding non-GAAP financial measures is available on the investors and media section of our corporate website, mattel.com, under the heading financial information and earnings releases. Now I would like to turn the call over to Bob.

Thank you, Mike and good morning, everyone. Before begin my remarks as it relates to the quarter, I wanted to take a moment to address yesterday’s jury verdict in favor of Mattel in the Bratz case. The jury’s verdict was a victory not only for Mattel but for all those who believe in fair play. Mattel has pursued this case as a matter of principle and we are very satisfied that the justice system has helped uncover the wrongdoing that occurred. While the case has been very complicated, the underlying principal has been a simple one; you shouldn’t take what isn’t yours. As many of you are aware, this verdict is just part one of a two-part trial, so although it’s an important step in the right direction, the trial hasn’t yet been concluded. The next phase of the trial will determine if the Bratz products infringe on the drawings and sculpts determined to be owned by Mattel and if so, what damages should be awarded. We look forward to continuing to present our case in the next phase of the trial, which is scheduled to begin next week. Moving on to the quarter, we experienced good top line growth with a double-digit revenue increase, boosted by contributions from toys tied to key summer entertainment properties. We also saw nice improvement in several of our key core brands, including Fisher Price core and American Girl. While international markets around the world continue to lead our growth, partially aided by foreign exchange rates in Europe, our U.S. business also delivered improved revenue in the quarter. Kevin will discuss the financial results in more detail in a few minutes but in general, improvements in profitability from revenue growth, foreign exchange, our June price increase, and reduced recall related costs, were countered by…

Thank you, Bob and good morning, everyone. I’ll begin my review for the second quarter with a discussion of worldwide gross sales shown on exhibit two of today’s press release. Total worldwide gross sales for the quarter increased 10%, including a six percentage point benefit from changes in currency exchange rates. U.S. sales grew 3% and international sales grew 15%, including a 10 percentage point benefit from foreign exchange. On a regional basis, sales in Europe were up 7%, including an 11 percentage point positive impact from exchange rates. Sales in Latin America were up 22%, including an 11 percentage point positive impact from foreign exchange. And sales in Asia-Pacific were up 16%, including a six percentage point positive impact from changes in currency exchange rates. I will now review our core categories and brands for the second quarter. Worldwide sales for Mattel girls and boys brand segment increased 13%, including a six percentage point positive impact from changes in currency exchange rates. Worldwide Barbie sales were down 6%, including a six percentage point positive impact from foreign exchange. Barbie sales in the U.S. declined 21%, while Barbie sales in international markets increased 3%, including a nine percentage point benefit from foreign exchange. On a worldwide basis, growth in our fantasy business was more than offset by declines in collector and My Scene. Our U.S. retail inventory levels for Barbie, however, ended the quarter down significantly from a year ago as consumers sell through declines much less than shipments. Worldwide sales of other girls brands increased 27%, including an eight percentage point positive impact from exchange rates. Sales in the U.S. were up 23%, while international sales of other girls brands were up 30%, including a 14 percentage point positive impact from foreign exchange. The sales growth worldwide was once…

(Operator Instructions) We’ll go first to Sean McGowan with Needham & Company. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : Thanks. Good morning, guys. I have a couple of quickies here; could you comment on what the increase in prepaid expenses is related to?

I think it’s mainly prepaid advertising and some prepaid royalties, Sean. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : What would make that go up more than normal?

Well, I think the biggest piece is just increase in deferred tax assets as we ended the year, as well as some prepaid value-added taxes. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : Okay. On the other non-operating expense line, is that a line that we should expect to be consistently an expense through the balance of the year?

Well, I think it really depends on what happens with regard to the Venezuelan currency. It’s been appreciating against the dollar. But going forward, we’ll continue to have excess foreign exchange gains or losses related to Venezuela in the non-operating line if the currency moves significantly. However, as we saw in this quarter, we would continue to counter any gains or losses elsewhere in the P&L due to Venezuela/U.S. dollar liabilities. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : Right. Okay, and what would be your expectation for a tax rate for the balance of the year?

Our current estimate is consistent with the first half, which is about 22.3%, so somewhere between 22 and 23. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : Okay, and then last question for now is the American Girl’s line, what are you seeing in the sales of dolls other than Kitt Kittredge, particularly the new doll, Julie, launched last year?

It continues to do well, Sean. In general, the business is up almost across the board and by distribution channel. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : When you say across the board, do you mean across product lines? So it’s not like Kitt is offsetting declines in other things?

Well, naturally in any product line that large, there are some decliners but the growth has come from more than just Kitt. Sean McGowan - Needham & Company : Okay, that’s good. Thank you very much.

We’ll take our next question from Felicia Hendrix with Lehman Brothers.

Good morning, guys. Just to stay on American Girl for a second, Bob, I think you just said that it was -- business was up across the board and across distribution channels. Does that mean that your catalog business is performing better now too?

Yes, it does.

Okay, great. And then just switching gears, in terms of your entertainment properties, just a couple of questions; I was wondering if you could provide some granularity regarding Speed Racer and Dark Knight and how they each performed, domestic and internationally. Kevin, in your preamble you didn’t really give us any color on the international performance of Entertainment.

Let me do that. Speed Racer has done quite well in the U.S., particularly in light of the box office performance. It has not performed well outside of the U.S. and in fact, the movie didn’t even air in some relatively important markets to us. But overall, if you look at Speed Racer, we’ve been pleased with the performance of the toy line. Batman is doing well around the world. It’s very early but the products are moving well. The movie is getting rave reviews. It is a fabulous movie so we’ll have to see how that one goes but in general, I would say if you look at both Kung Fu Panda and Batman, our sales, our shipments so far have been right about as we expected.

Okay, and then as you enter, or we’ve entered it, as we’re in the third quarter, I’m just wondering what the takeaway has been for reorders and how the inventory levels look for those properties.

I don’t know specifically and I probably wouldn’t want to get into third quarter orders by product line but in general, I’ll just tell you that as we look at the entertainment portfolio, it’s performed about exactly as we expected so far this year and I don’t know that it’s going to change that much in the near-term.

Okay, just a little picky question -- Speed Racer, it’s split between Entertainment and Wheels. In the last quarter, it was about 50-50. Is that about the same in this quarter?

It’s about 70 Wheels, 30% Entertainment.

Okay, and final question -- just wondering with the declines in MyScene, when do you foresee those stop being a drag on Barbie?

Well, in the U.S. the decline happened in the fall of last year, so we’ll see it probably by the fourth quarter. Internationally, MyScene, while it’s declined so far in the first half, it continues to be a pretty good sized business, so we’ll have to see how that one plays out. We have not discontinued the product line internationally.

Okay, great. Really appreciate it, thanks, guys.

We’ll take our next question from Tony Gikas with Piper Jaffray.

Thank you. Good morning, guys. Nice job on the quarter. A couple of questions; what were the incremental legal fees in the quarter, and any update for the year? Second question, could you just comment on retail shelf space thus far in the year and what are you hearing from your retail partners on shelf space allocation for the toy category in total over the holidays? Is shelf space going to be flat or down this year at all? The third question would be just on commodity inflation. What’s sort of the impact to the back half of the year? Maybe just an updated comment there. Are your costs set at this point? Do you feel like you have pretty good visibility? And then I have a follow-up.

Let me take the first one; about half of the increase in SG&A expense, or $25 million, is due to higher litigation fees. As we said in January, we expect sizable legal costs this year and we’ve got a lot of litigation around the world relating to things like product recalls, as well as the MGA case. And with respect to that $25 million, about two-thirds of the increase is related to the MGA trial and the balance relates to recall related litigation. We’ll continue to make these investments until legal matters are resolved. For the MGA case, which has represented the largest piece of our litigation spending so far this year, costs should recede as the trial wraps up in the next few weeks. Dates for further litigation matters with MGA have not yet been determined, so that’s about all the guidance I can give you, Tony, on that.

On shelf space, I don’t have measurements right now but I can just tell you the anecdotes that from what I’ve heard from retailers, I have no reason to believe that shelf space would decline for the toy category. Historically, the toy category has held up pretty well in tough economic times. That certainly was true both in the second half of last year and so far in the first half this year. And so I don’t see any big change coming.

And then with regard to commodity cost, we set our prices earlier this year and oil prices have subsequently continued to rise. But in addition to differences in timing of resin prices, there’s a variety of other moving parts, Tony, including currency that will ultimately impact our margins. In Q2, we only had price increases in place for one month and we benefited from lower recall costs. Combined with positive foreign exchange, we were able to offset higher input costs and additional testing costs. And we expect to continue to have cost headwinds with regard to commodities for the balance of the year. So for the second half, we’ll -- we won’t know if our pricing is enough until we have had the benefit of hindsight to see exactly what costs were for our input costs when we use them. But over the long-term, our goal is to improve margins and if inputs and -- if resins and key input costs continue to rise, we’ll have to adjust our 2009 pricing accordingly.

Okay, and then just two other quick follow-ups here; as it relates to Barbie during the quarter, were there any standout products last year that might have created the -- I guess the miss, or at least the appearance of the miss this quarter, the down sales? And then last question; is there any reason you didn’t buy back more stock during the quarter? I mean, business was firming up in a pretty stable category and the stock went fairly low during the quarter.

Well Tony, on Barbie I’d cite two things, although again in a product line that large, there’s always some things declining and some things growing. From the good news side, the Spring entertainment property, Mariposa did quite well, and that was very important to us because we didn’t do so well with that last year for the first time in many years. The two product lines I’d cite that really dragged things down beyond MyScene overall were: one, in our collector business, last year we had Wizard of Oz that did quite well and this year, we don’t have a good comparison against that. And the second thing, in the Barbie reality segment, which didn’t do as well as our younger girl fantasy segment, last year we were shipping the MP3 player. You know, it was kind of played out in the second half but shipments were pretty strong throughout the middle of the year.

And with respect to share buy-back in the quarter, as I said we repurchased 40.5 million or 2.1 million shares at an average price of $19.07. At the end of the quarter, we had approximately 460 million remaining in an authorization. As you know, we generally don’t comment on the timing of prospective share repurchases and it’s difficult for you to determine a purchase pattern because there are many times we’re unable to be in the market for legal reasons, or maybe temporarily holding cash for other potential purposes. Over time though, we will continue to execute under our capital investment framework and be disciplined and opportunistic as we deploy capital to create shareholder value. And as you know, Tony, last year we spent over $800 million on share repurchases, all in the second half, and since we implemented the capital investment framework in 2003, we’ve repurchased over $2 billion of stock.

Perfect. Thank you, guys. Good luck.

We’ll take our next question from Linda Weiser with Caris. Linda Weiser - Caris & Company: Thank you. I was wondering if you could tell us, just in a rough sense, what percentage of your shipments fall in the month of June in the quarter?

I don’t think we would do that. We’ve never gotten that kind of granular with results. Linda Weiser - Caris & Company: Okay. And just on the CapEx, it was up a little bit year over year. Is that because of the boutique openings or -- and then, can we expect modest increases in CapEx for the rest of the year?

I think as I mentioned, capital expenditures for the second quarter increased $14 million to $47 million, which is primarily due to manufacturing operations initiatives at our facilities in Asia as we try to optimize those things, renovations in our El Segundo design center and the move of American Girl Chicago to Michigan Avenue at Water Tower Place. If you look at full year, our 2008 CapEx spending is likely to exceed 2000 levels as we invest in House of Barbie Shanghai, move the current American Girl Place Chicago store to a new prominent location at Water Tower Place, renovate our design center in California, but we should still be below our long-term range of $180 million to $200 million. And with regard to the boutiques, last year we opened two boutiques; this year, we’re opening two boutiques, so those should sort of net out. Linda Weiser - Caris & Company: Okay, and is there any way you can give -- I mean, I would assume like Cars sales were down in the quarter, but can you give us some rough idea as to the rate of decline? Is it like a double-digit decline or is it more like slightly down?

I think it was down double-digits, but also recognize it’s still an evergreen property for us. It’s one of our top-selling brands, and to the point that we even extended the license with Disney and Pixar through 2011 during the quarter. So we like the Cars business. We have some new products coming out with Cars this fall and I think it’s going to be around for a long time. Linda Weiser - Caris & Company: Great, and just one last thing; on the Batman products, from what you’ve seen for consumer takeaway in the short time it’s been out there, have you been able to decide yet whether you are trying to increase production even more in anticipation of the holiday season for those products, or is it too early to decide on that type of thing?

Well, just from a shipment standpoint, Linda, I’d tell you were are just -- we’re right on track with the Entertainment properties. You know, it’s too early to comment on what takeaway might be, although again, takeaway has been quite good, even before the movie hit. So it’s an evergreen brand. We’ll continue across the portfolio. Some toys will do well and we’ll want to increase production but at the same time, some other toy, maybe even some other brand won’t do as well and we’d want to cut back production. Linda Weiser - Caris & Company: Okay, thanks. Good quarter.

We’ll take our next question from Greg Badishkanian with Citigroup.

Thanks. Just a few questions here; just with respect to inventory levels, you mentioned that you had clean inventory levels exiting the quarter, which is good. How does that compare with the last year? Is it down and can you maybe quantify that a little bit?

Our point of sale, or retail sales that we get from our top U.S. retailers, is pretty consistent with the first quarter; that is, we’re just a bit north of flat and retail inventories, which started the year maybe 10% or 15% over the very low levels of the prior year, by the end of the first quarter, they were down slightly versus year-ago and as we progressed through the second quarter, they’ve declined more versus year-ago. So they are at lower levels than they were a year ago. I think that’s consistent with how retailers see their business today. But again, we focus on POS, on what sells to consumers because ultimately that’s what retailers buy, and I find it pretty encouraging.

Good. And as you look out to product costs, I think at the investor day, you mentioned it was going to be about a point-and-a-half as a percentage of sales. Is that this quarter, and can you give a little bit of color on what those costs are?

Greg, I think you are talking about incremental testing costs.

Exactly.

And I think what we’ve said in addition to incremental testing costs for lead, which we previously announced was approximately 1% of cost of goods sold, we’ve currently enhanced our testing and quality control procedures for a variety of heavy elements and other chemicals. In combination with lead costs, we now estimate total incremental testing and other quality control costs at approximately 1% and 1.5% of cost of goods sold, and I think our experience in the quarter was consistent with that.

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

We’ll take our next question from Drew Crum with Stifel Nicolaus.

Good morning, everyone. Kevin, can you quantify any impact from the voluntary recall from the Speed Racer line?

It was about $5 million.

Okay.

And it was, Drew, we recalled products beyond just Speed Racer. We had some other entertainment properties as well. Those products didn’t meet our internal specifications and certain country standards outside the U.S., but the product was determined to be absolutely safe, so there was no reason for a recall.

Bob, is that included in that $5 million number?

Yes.

Okay. And then I wonder if you guys could comment -- go ahead.

No, I just needed to yell at Kevin for a minute.

Okay. I wonder if you guys could comment on the weighted average pricing increases during the period and what you are hearing from retailers in terms of their willingness to accept pricing and just your overall thoughts on pricing for the Spring product, given the cost environment we’re in.

Well again, I don’t think we’ll comment on pricing by month. But I will say --

For the quarter?

Well, for the quarter, you know, a portion of the quarter was up and a portion of it wasn’t but I don’t want to get into pricing by month. As we look at our pricing, when we took our price increase going into this year, there was some anxiety among retailers that we might have been pretty aggressive but we were projecting costs and in a rising market, you need to step up. Now with the benefit of hindsight, with oil, even if it’s down to $130 or so dollars a barrel, that’s a lot more than it was when we took our price increase. So with the benefit of hindsight, I’m certainly glad we went up as much as we did and we may need to go up more. So as we’re talking to retailers now about next spring’s line, we are anticipating more cost increases and to the extent we cannot offset those with good productivity improvements, we’ll have to raise prices again. No retailer likes to raise prices. We don’t like to raise prices but the fact is, the costs are increasing and we need to reflect those costs, and retailers know that. Most of the major retailers are making their own toys or sourcing their own toys for private label so they see the costs coming at them. It’s totally cost justified.

Okay, and moving to the entertainment properties, given the success of Kung Fu Panda, are there any plans to extend the number of SKUs in conjunction with the DVD release in the fall. And do you have this for just one film? Because it seems like it’s going to be a franchise for Dreamworks.

I don’t know. I believe we only have it for one film but I’ll have to confirm that and we’ll get back to you on that. The product line isn’t going to change between now and the fall. It’s been performing right on our expectations. Certainly with the box office success of the film, as I mentioned in my comments, we’re hopeful that it extends the legs of the franchise. Certainly I don’t think any of us three years ago would have expected Cars to still be one of the top performing properties in the toy business. It’s had no entertainment for three years. So Kung Fu was a great movie. I mean, the animation is just astonishing to me and it was a great story and the toys have done well and we hope they continue to do well.

And in pursuing licensing opportunities, are you seeing any change in terms of minimum guarantees, royalty fees, et cetera?

No, that’s always an issue. We’ve been clear since the very early days of the year 2000 that we are going to approach these sorts of arrangements with win-win propositions. Our presentation to intellectual property holders, the movie studios is we’ll sell more toys and make you more money if you work with Mattel, but we like to do things on a variable basis so that everybody wins when something does well.

Okay, thanks, guys.

We’ll take our next question from Tim Conder with Wachovia.

Thank you and congrats, gentlemen. A couple of items related to -- just a clarification on American Girl. I know there were a few questions before on it but what were your comp store sales and then what were the sales of the stores that effectively would not have been in the comps?

We don’t disclose that, Tim, but the fact is the stores did well whether they were older stores or newer stores.

Okay, and Kevin, you had given the -- talked about the ’08 tax rate. What type of rate are you assuming for ’09? I know there’s some concerns about a couple of tax credits that may or may not be renewed.

I think as we look at ’09 tax rate, in the last couple of years we benefited from the 2000 tax act which provided favorable treatment to U.S. taxation of foreign earnings of foreign subsidiaries. This treatment was applicable for 2006, 7, and 8 and had the impact of lowering our effective rate by three to four percentage points. So as you look at ’09 and beyond, assuming that this provision expires in ’08, which it’s scheduled to do, that the rate would be up by 300 to 400 basis points in ’09 and beyond.

Okay, and relating to your receivables, they were up just a little bit more than sales but given the price increases that you implemented June 1 on, assuming 30-day terms at the end of the month, roughly. Was there any pull forward of ordering that could have driven that increase in receivables?

No, we don’t see a lot of that, Tim. You know, retailers try and buy what they anticipate selling. We don’t see a lot of, if you will, trade inventory push as related to price increases in this business.

Okay, I just needed to check on that. And then, Barbie is probably the disappointment here in the quarter but how much of a substitution effect do you thin was High School Musical? And then is it correct to assume that margins on High School Musical products are less than Barbie?

No, we don’t disclose margins by segment but I don’t know if I would make that assumption. We still have work to do on Barbie but we believe the strategy of first improving our entertainment offerings, second introducing innovative and strong play value products like in the reality segment, and third, engaging older girls with new types of play, like Barbie iDesign or Barbie Girls VIP will move us in the right direction. So we still have work to do on Barbie but I think the strategy is right.

Okay, and given that a competitor of yours is tied up with several different entertainment properties, how are you going about pursuing maybe some other properties from Disney Pixar? And then you mentioned, Bob, that you renewed Cars out through 2011. I think the sequel to Cars has been announced for 2012. How are things going related to that?

Well, I think the studios prefer to make announcements at their time and when they are ready. You are correct, I’ve heard 2012 for the next Cars movie. I mean, three years ago, I started launching a campaign to try to get them to make it faster because it’s been a fabulous toy property, and I know it’s more than just a toy property; it’s been a great property for Disney in general but they’ve got a lot of movies they are pursuing. But in general, I know that we told you when you were here at Investor Day that we are pursuing entertainment properties for several of our own core brands, like Masters of the Universe or Hot Wheels and those sorts of things. But entertainment will continue to be an important part of the portfolio. But the mix of entertainment and non-entertainment properties really hasn’t changed all that much since I’ve been in the toy business.

Okay, and last question, gentlemen; obviously you talked about your price increases, you’ve talked about the input cost increases, but would it be out of the realm of reason that, given that, given efficiencies and given the easier comps that you have with the absence of recall costs, could your gross margins reasonably come in flattish, or would that be asking too much?

That’s why you all are so good at what you do.

Okay, so the door is not closed, I guess?

It’s your door, Tim. You can open it or close it, kind of like the Cubs and the Cards right now -- it’s not over until it’s over.

Okay, thanks.

Did you get that one, Mike? Cubs and the Cards? Mike’s a Cards fan too. This is the year.

We’ll take our next question from Gerrick Johnson with BMO Capital Markets.

Good morning. Three questions, if I may; I was wondering about your performance in the U.K. for the quarter. Second, have you been seeing or hearing open-to-buy dollars are being reduced at some of your key U.S. retailers? And third, what movie properties are you making toys for next year? Thank you.

Good, no, and we don’t have a lot of movie properties next year other than, you know, Batman will be evergreen, Cars will continue to do well. I think WWE, which we’re expecting to be a very important franchise for us, starts in 2010.

Great, thanks, Bob.

We’ll take our next question from Margaret Whitfield with Sterne Agee. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Good morning. I was wondering if you had seen any signs of anecdotal evidence that the rebates might have aided your Q2 business. I guess specifically if you could look at your key retailers and if certain ones did better than the rest, that might be an indication. Also, Bob, inventories are in very good shape at retail. What is retailer appetite for toys, given the macro environment? And also, Europe, I don’t have all the numbers in front of me but it looks like it was all currency for the gains this quarter, as well as for Barbie itself. Any signs of slowdown there, or anything going on to make currency the reason why business was up in Europe?

No, Margaret, we’ve generally done well in Europe over the years. Certainly the first half of this year has been a little bit slower in Europe. It’s confined to a handful of markets. It’s not across the board. As an example, Germany is one of the markets where we haven’t shipped as well, and most of this relates to the retail inventories coming out of Christmas last year. I think broadly speaking, retailers didn’t have as good a Christmas as they expected last year, so they had some inventory to burn off. But I don’t see anything systemic in Europe that would lead me to believe that we shouldn’t continue to grow there. But you’re right; you are correct, currency was the source of growth in Europe this past quarter. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: So are the inventories flushed through now, Bob, so that in Q3, there might be shipments into the countries that you mentioned?

Well, I never want to get into the projection business, but inventories have certainly come down and retailers worked very hard, particularly in this kind of environment, running lean inventories, as they have all over the world. And to your other question, I haven’t seen any real change in appetite for the toy business. Retailers understand that it has historically performed well in tough economic times. There’s no reason to believe based on what we’ve seen so far this year or last Christmas, that the toy business won’t continue to perform well for them. So we’ll have to see how it goes, but retailers are pretty sophisticated. They want to buy what sells and as long as we keep focused on point of sale and have good consumer demand, they’ll buy toys. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: And the rebate question?

The rebate is hard to tell. I don’t know the impact of rebates and I’m not sure our retailers can calculate the importance of rebates. Certainly I think historically there is some evidence that people spend that money, but whether they are spending it on gasoline or food or toys, I really don’t know. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Finally, in terms of a holiday preview, I’m sure we all expect Elmo Live to do well. Any other key products that retailers are particularly enthused about?

Boy, that’s a tough one. You know, I love all my children and I love all my customers and I wouldn’t want to get into which customer likes which child better right now, other than to say you are correct; October 14th, which I believe is the launch date for Elmo Live, should be a great day for the toy business. It’s just a fabulous toy. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: Anything to drive Barbie’s business in the back half?

Boy, I sure hope so. Margaret Whitfield - Sterne, Agee & Leach: So do we all. Anything you can point to though, Bob.

Not as much as I do, Margaret.

We’ll take our last question from John Taylor with Arcadia Investments.

Good morning. Good response. So let’s see -- could you give us any characterization of what’s going on with Barbiegirl.com in terms of versus expectation, whatever those might be?

No, it’s still early, JT. I think we’re at 13 million registered users since we launched Barbie Girls in I think it was April of ’07. We just launched the $5.99 subscription model, the VIP launch in early June and it really is too early to pass judgment on it. And it’s one of those things where we don’t have an experience curve like we do in the core toy business, where we have some idea of how demand ramps up, and we still have a lot of girls who bought that MP3 device. They get a year’s free, I believe, Mike, a year’s free access to VIP, so that sort of clouds a trend or an analysis that is already pretty murky.

Okay. Have you done much advertising of that, other than on the site itself?

No, I don’t think we’ve started really any advertising at all. It’s very early in its life cycle and we want to see how it goes on its own first.

Okay, great. And then if you took a basket of like-for-like goods, things that really didn’t change much from this year versus last year, could you tell us what the -- give us a ballpark of what the actual bill of goods, bill of materials increase was out of China, roughly?

Double-digit.

You don’t want to go any further than that?

I mean, just order of magnitude, Kevin, 10%, 15%?

Yeah, I think things like resins have gone up over the last 12 months about 15% to 20%, so I think it’s in double-digit increases.

Okay, great. And then Bob, you seem to be one of the experts on this -- apparently the dock workers are slowing things down a little bit. Are you hearing anything through your back channels about how things are going there?

Well, I certainly wouldn’t describe myself as an expert on this. I’m --

You’re an expert in --

-- than anybody here but the fact is, the six year I think it was, labor agreement expired on June 30th, so the West Coast ports today are working without a contract. We expect it would take several weeks to reach an agreement but everything I’ve heard is that the negotiations have been respectful and positive and well-organized. So there could be some short-term disruptions during the negotiations but at this time, I certainly anticipate and am hopeful that an agreement will be reached without anybody doing anything extreme.

And it’s still early days. We’re not really hitting the heavy arrival time yet.

Correct.

Okay, last question -- the Shanghai store, can you talk a little bit about the merchandising mix there, what lines you are drawing on, whether you are doing anything special for the store, et cetera?

We are doing some special things for the store. It’s going to be quite interesting. We’re going to do some core Barbie, because Barbie is a new brand in China. But we are also going to do some unique things and importantly, some experiential things modeled after the experience we’ve had here with American Girl. So it’s going to be a blend of core product. There will be some unique product and there will be unique experiences.

And then how does your distribution channel look like throughout the rest of China, in case all of a sudden word starts to spread?

We do well in China in distribution. There are some accounts we distribute directly to and there are other accounts that are serviced by a local distributor who has done a good job for us. Boy, I’d love to have that problem anywhere in the world. We’ll figure out how to fill demand if it’s there.

Okay. Thank you.

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