In retrospect, they realized they shouldn't have rebranded to nine-elevenga.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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What choice did they have? “Crazy Osama’s Dubious Demolition Derby” couldn’t fit on the box without making the font too small too read.
Don't you mean 'Dubya's Dubious Demolition Derby'?
The competing product that won the market!
The wood had better graphics and a sweet southern charm.
With a little plane on a stick instead of your fingers
What happened?
smh … you said you’d never forget
The Jenga market collapsed, kinda like... a building... or two.....
The appetite for falling towers seems to have dropped for some reason after 2001. Could be anything really!
In retrospect, the Jenga Twin Towers edition was not the wisest marketing move at that point in time.
Is this a real thing?
No, but there was a crazy coincidence back then that Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers came out in 2002
just collapsed entirely
Melted into nothingness
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Thanks, I didn't make the connection.
U forgot
What are the rules if you're born after?
Embryotic memory transfer rules apply, as you were briefed at birth
Jet fuel can't melt jenga sales!
Sales were going down, plummeted after 9/11, and then started going up for some reason? What caused the resurgence?
if you ignore the dip, it wasnt so much of a resurgence, and just an unpause of the original downward trend.
9/11 was just a disruptor for i thik obvious reasons