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<DIV><STRONG>A News of the Weird Classic (September 2002): </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Reports in the <EM>New York Post </EM>and the <EM>Toronto Star,
</EM>quoting parents’ website “reviews” of the Mattel $19.99 Nimbus 2000
plastic-replica riding <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>broomstick</FONT></STRONG>
from the (then-)latest Harry Potter movie, highlighted its battery-powered
special effect—<FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>vibration</STRONG></FONT>. </DIV>
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<DIV>Wrote a Texas mother:</DIV>
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<DIV>“I was surprised at how long (my daughter and her friends) can just sit in
her room and play with this magic broomstick.” </DIV>
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<DIV>Another said her daughter fights her son for it but complains that “the
batteries drain too fast.” Still another mother, age 32, said she enjoyed it as
much as her daughter.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
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