Hasbro Incorporates A New Solution To Streamline and Centralize Product Development

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by SilverOptimus, Jun 9, 2015.

  1. Cheebs

    Cheebs Well-Known Member

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    Literally all this means is some poor CAD designer is going to have to check out files from a database storage library and putz around with some spreadsheet he doesn't want to deal with before he can get down to his actual work.

    It won't mean a thing for us.
     
  2. General Magnus

    General Magnus Da Custodes of the Emprah

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    Because every fan can afford +100$ toys amirghte?
     
  3. bradforj

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    I quit caring about Hasbro's offerings long ago. For years, I would stroll through the action figure aisle every time I went to Walmart. Over the past five years, I have found that I only occasionally bother to take a look at any toys at all. Hasbro is dead. Long live 3P.
     
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  4. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    I've actually gone backwards in collecting, buying older TFs (beast wars-movie) because they are better than current TFs. Just bought some DOTM Human Alliance toys the other day.
     
  5. bradforj

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    You can't go wrong with Beast Wars :) 

    I've gone back even further, working on a sealed movie Targetmasters collection. I just need Blurr and Cyclonus.
     
  6. MnemonicSyntax

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    So help me understand something. What's the difference between the quality of Hasbro toys now, versus a blocky, brick for articulation, three-step changer Transformer from back then?
     
  7. Autobot Burnout

    Autobot Burnout ...and I'll whisper "No."

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    Die cast construction
     
  8. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    At the prices retailers are currently charging, you can buy, shipped, older toys in sealed boxes that feature more parts, gimmicks, paint, articulation, detail, less hollow areas, and/or electronics. It's not so much quality as it's the quantity of what you're getting vs what they're selling now.

    You're paying $10+ now for a combiner a wars basic that a year ago, cost $8-10 and came with an additional tf that was a triple changer (vehicle/robot/weapon). Year by year you're getting less and less in terms of what they toys do and offer.

    Right now, I think the combined wars are the only thing worth it because they at least combine & be swapped around in addition to the usual transforming and posing. I'm just surprised that they lack missile launchers. And it seems that the hollow areas on these toys now are existing more for parts that hide in them for vehicle mode and not so much for cost cutting measures.
     
  9. MnemonicSyntax

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    That's all? Where weight issues made things like Optimus Prime's feet hang down in alt mode because the weight of the metal caused them to drag?

    And I think we tried that once, yeah? Titanium? That turned out real well.

    I mean, I'm all for a retry, but besides the material, what else?

    Yeah, but again plastic ain't getting cheaper. I can't think of anything off the top of my head though recently that feels like you're getting nothing for something more than you paid for previously. Generations Blitzwing and Springer were both fun as hell, came with weapons that fired as well as melee weapons, and Rhinox was... just fantastic.

    I'm all for examples here, but besides paying more (which is expected from several years ago) for the same thing, I don't see a difference.
     
  10. Gepard

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    A lot of Transformers now use friction-fit parts where once they would have had metal pins. That's a pretty sizable difference. It definitely contributes to the newer toys feeling chintzier than the older ones, regardless of other factors.
     
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    I'm sure checking out files is a part of their infrastructure already; instead of under Solidworks it's now under PTC.

    But I agree that we won't see any of this on our end.
     
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    Yup.
    Clip on wheels for example.
     
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    Ball joints need to go away.
     
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    No they donĀ“t.
     
  15. netkid

    netkid Where's my Goddamn shoe!

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    How bad are ball joints really? I played the shit out of my beast wars toys and they're all able to still stand up and hold poses. So it really makes me wonder what the hell you folks are doing to them.
     
  16. General Magnus

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    And RiD Car Brothers, and Universe repaints, and Cybertron scouts and Movieverse scouts...
     
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    It's just standard process evolution and modernization. Ways to add more efficiency to development -> Manufacture using newer technology and integration. All successful businesses do it. It really doesn't mean anything bad for us. All it will mean is that from the point of initial design, to start of manufacture, will take less time and likely need to pass through fewer hands and manual review stages. What the software essentially does is instead of a product being designed, then going to department A for evaluation, then B then C returning for redesign at each step. All departments are looking at and doing their evaluations within the same suite of tools. so changes can be made and evaluated without the constant stop and go and passing back and forth. It minimized downtime waiting for another departments feedback.