So, obviously this would require a huge amount of starting capital but what if someone were to have a workshop built on the North Pole, hire a crew, and become Santa Claus? Imagine how much you could sell Toys from the North Pole for.... you'd have to make your money back, no matter how much you spent setting it up and shipping goods to and from. Or if it were just some bored old rich fool who had nothing better to do, it would still be awesome. Any inherent problems in this idea other than "it's really cold there and it would take a lot of money"?
wtf this is totaly random lol... but i think Donald Trump has enough capital to start a north pole operation. lol :maha:
that has to be one of the funniest things i have ever heard. you have my vote. make this man an admin
Thank you... *bows* Pity I don't have enough money, I'd be there already instead of just talking about it and all you good kids would really have a Christmas to remember this year :tehe:
The actual North Pole is just ocean. Water. No stable land mass, with ice flows moving around it. So making a factory there would be pretty difficult, if not dangerous. No country owns the North Pole, and unless this was a world agreement, it would be impossible for somebody to get the permits to build something there. Since, as you've mentioned that it would be extremely expensive to run a factory in such a place (heating bill, getting electricity in a place far from civilization, transport, semi-permanent lodging for employees etc), that means the toys would have to be more expensive to make a profit. What's to stop a parent from buying cheaper toys and telling their kids it's from the same place? There are lots of toy companies out there. The kids won't know the difference. And that's exactly what's happening now. So, not only would it take a lot of money to establish, I don't think it would make a lot of money. The only way I could see it happening would be if you made supremely superior toys, and that you charge them at an exorbitant amount, and that only wealthy people would buy it for the novelty. But isn't Santa for everybody? And the idea of Santa Claus is that he gives away toys. Not that you have to buy them from him. Any advertising done by the factory would expose kids to the fact that while Santa Claus is real, he charges for his toys. And if you don't advertise, how would people know you exist? I could imagine it happening if it was some wealthy person, wanting to make a childhood dream a reality, but there are better ways to spend that amount of money.
Damn, you're right. In becoming Santa Claus, you'd pretty much destroy the image. It might still be profitable... and a lot of companies don't care what they leave in their wake... but that wasn't what I was shooting for. You'd really just have to be a multi-billionaire willing to make one of the worst investments in history to pull it off.
what? that doesn't make any sense....i know i am sure there is someone rich enough and had enough childhood problems to become Santa. Micheal Jackson could run kiddie amusment park, why can't warren buffet become santa?
I hear Bill Gates is retiring........ If anyone were to delude themselves into thinking they were Santa.......AND he has the cash.......Lets write a letter.
the whole idea behind santa is that he makes toys all year, and then delivers them, for free, to every house in the world on one night.. you might possibly be able to fund the operation, being that you have an entire year to make the toys, but delivering them all in ONE night, to EVERY house in the world that has a child.. that would be the impossible part.. anything else would just be gimicky..
I was thinking about this again today.... stupid as it is.... if it really was done, imagine the reality shows (Being Kris Kringle; The Next Top Elf; etc.), all the TV specials - because everyone's going to want to have a Christmas show with St. Nick, the CDs, not to mention the toys, elf girl posters, the possibilities are staggering.... And about ruining Santa Claus' image, I don't know anymore... I mean, no one gets anything for free now anyway, do they? So what's the difference? You can't even get to Santa Claus in a mall now without passing a cash register first and forking over the Green God. So the only people still buying into the Santa fantasy are young'uns who don't pick up on any of this - it doesn't register that mom's money is going in a register. Which I think means that you could advertise and merchandise without fear of "destroying the dream". Now someone loan me 2 billion dollars so I can get this idea off the ground.
Lol... NOT. I'm a better man than Santa Claus already, without giving out toys! Santa does one good thing a year... I do ten - twenty a day? Hands down, I win. Santa should be trying to figure out how to become me.
You probably would need a fleet of youths in Santa suits to do it. And you'd have to pay them. A LOT. And a sleigh wouldn't cut it, you'd need some kind of jet and/or a fast moving vehicle. Perhaps the Bat-mobile? Nah, that's not feasible... :zzz: