Father-Husband-Marketer-Geek

There may be no corporate initiative to extend their brand, or no need exhibited by their passionate customer base for them to go beyond ceramic buildings, but being a public company, there is always a need to build revenue and growth. I came up with a few ideas: * More product placement in movies and television shows * A line of fictional books placed in the different village scenes * Paintings and prints of village displays * A set of collectible trading cards, one card for each building and accessory * Collectible houses for kids, maybe a plastic holiday village, to get them started * More new series ideas. See our poll on the sidebar. Some of these ideas were generated in a previous post on " creative ideas Department 56 should consider ". We also had a popular post on ideas for new Snow Village Halloween pieces .