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‘Angry Birds’ Staying Power Tested With CEO Hatching Movie

On a recent visit with his two children to a toy museum in Espoo, Finland, Mikael Hed was struck by a display of action figures from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” series.

“The only toys I felt were still very cool and still worth playing with were the ‘Star Wars’ toys,” said the 35-year-old chief executive officer of the Finnish mobile-phone game developer that’s still riding its first big hit, “Angry Birds,” after designing games the past eight years.