Taking a direction it had never pursued before, it-produced lines of toys around two blockbuster movie franchises, Star Wars and Harry Potter. ... And the Star Wars and Harry Potter toy lines, because of the volatility of their demand, almost bankrupted LEGO. While the four Star Wars and Harry Potter movies released between 1999 and 2002 boosted sales of the LEGO toys tied to those films, there were no new movies from either franchise in 2003 or the first half of 2004. ... They went back to the drawing board and came up with many new characters and stories what children loved about...

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1. Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Even though they are all dealing with different issues, almost all of the stories have something in common – alte...

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Iron Man (Favreau 2008), The Lord of the Rings series (Jackson 2001), Harry Potter series (Columbus 2001) or Avatar (Cameron 2009) are not only the examples of high-grossing Hollywood films over the last decade, but also the illustrations of how visual effects have transformed Hollywood filmmaking. ... However, it was criticized for depending too much on the computer graphic without offering an attractive story or characters (McClean 2007). ... It is the practice of recording a physical performance data of the actor and then applies the coordination data on the 3D model to form the basis of C...

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