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[Santa Claus] How damaging is Santa's activity to the legitimate manufacturers and retailers of toys?

It is common knowledge that the night before Christmas Santa Claus visits the home of hundreds of million (if not billion) children providing them a variable amount of toys for free with the sole condition of them being considered "good" on his personal evaluation. 

Interesting enough, Santa is not only a distributor of toys: his headquarter in the North Pole houses a state of the art factory where a workforce composed entirely by elves produces directly the toys that are being carried by Santa on his slay. Considering that to please modern children Santa no longer delivers generic toys (teddy bears, wooden trains, rag-dolls) but branded toys from major companies (Barbie Dolls, Lego, game consoles) we can deduce that Santa's toy factory is capable of producing perfect imitations of all the toys on the market (including boxes, serial numbers and instructions) violating every conceivable laws of intellectual property and copyrights.

That being said how hard are damaged the legitimate companies producing and distributing toys by the unfair competition provided by Santa? The old man distributes toys for free to hundreds million of households in a period where the general public is in a spending spree, denting severely the market share of the toy makers and distributors and, even worst, he produces perfect imitations of established brands. 

I can begin to quantify the amount of the economic damages produced by Santa, someone could speculate on it?
gpt
Despite the long and proud tradition of Santa's elves working tirelessly to make toys for all the good little boys and girls of the world, hardly *any* of the toys are manufactured at the North Pole facility anymore.  It's been that way for several decades now.

The toy manufacturers and retailers of the world get significant tax breaks by donating some of their inventory to Santa, and it's pretty good for their public relations.  The manufacturing parts of Santa's operation are currently more focused on building and maintaining high-magitek sleighs that can haul such large amounts of gifts without sacrificing speed or safety.