Remember everyone. It is just not the toys that will be going up. It is everything across the board...gas, utilities, food, etc. It would be great that it was only products but it is not. Better hope Hasbro to spread the waves out more or to continue to have more repacks of figures. I am glad that they are doing repacks, it helps me find figures I\'ve missed.

 

I'm just grateful that we are getting a lot of good to great toys from this trilogy. More series, more Transformers...all good for MOST fans.

 

I\'d guess they got raw dogged on Ghostbusters, seeing as the toys have basically been done for a year or so now and have just been sitting around waiting on a street date.

The entire point of the Netflix cartoon was simply to exist and be publicized on Gizmodo and IO9 and other \"nerd content\" aggregator services to remind people that hey, you can still buy Transformers!

They aren\'t supposed to be good. They\'re just supposed to be there.

 

I think it's fair to say (at least to my eyes anyway as I peruse toy shelves multiple times a week) that Hasbro is not experiencing the same shortages as other industries. There seems to be plenty of product and although collectors snatch up entire waves of things the second they drop on shelves (good luck kiddos) when product is out there's enough of it. Good on them for making sure their supply chain issues are the least impactful that they can be given the current global environment.

 

If the Netflix shows got people to buy TFs, especially new buyers or severely lapsed buyers- great! Job completed!

The optimist in me says that Hasbro understands two very important things: 1. Listen to the fans. 2. Good stories matter.

They’re listening to fans as evident by many examples current and past. Just look at Legacy and it’s expansion outside of G1.

Beast Wars got revived and Beast Wars has a strong fandom because it was so well written. My hope is that the next TF Netflix animated series gets a bigger budget and more oversight on its writing.

Partnering with Netflix is a recipe for success. Let’s Go!

 

I wonder if Mr. Stephen Davis will be able to come back to Hasbro, and become the very next CEO of Hasbro.

 

Sounds like the franchise is going from strength to strength.

The Eone 30 properties thing has my attention as might finally get the Micronaughts, MASK, ROM and Visionaries stuff thats been batted about for a while.

 

How about restocking and bringing back Transformers that some of could not find or reissue some that were popular I don\'t like paying double for stuff on Ebay. 

 

100% disagree.

Too many scalpers today clearing out product. Come November, eBay even sends out messages to toy sellers, listing which toys they should snatch up locally.  

Hasbro is not doing enough to combat this. They are releasing more and more store exclusives, which exacerbates the problem.

Local shelves are barren, save for the one product with no re-sale value: BB Cyberverse.

 

They're not going to tell their investors that.

 

Understandable, and I agree with most of this. However, this is not a problem Hasbro needs to step in to. Hasbro produces and distributes product, how it sells is out of their control.

Take Pokemon cards. It fell to the retailers to limit or cease the sale of product because of problems.

I'm not offering a solution because I don't have one, but to expect Hasbro to get involved at the retail level is a bit unrealistic.

 

Exactly. Let’s also not pretend scalping is a Hasbro exclusive problem. Scalping is just old fashion “gig” work for some folks. Something they can do on the side to squeeze a little bit more money into their pocket.

 

This is a great point and I think is applicable in any media where the influence is something from toys/comic books and the property is very healthy. The MCU for instance takes the often storied and lush history and incorporates much of that into the movies, including costumes that (although heavily 'tuned up' for the big screen) evoke the root character and context perfectly. The Bay movies kind of went a different way with Transformers, but the lush history was still there even if the characters themselves were reskinned. The point being, as you said Magnus as long as companies and producers of media at least listen to the fans and pull from the history they run less risk of failure.

 

PS5 and Xbox Series X say hello!

 

I don't know how/where Netflix get their ratings but if they have the numbers to back that, they can tell whatever story they like. For example if we use rotten tomatoes, it's getting decent overall rating. Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege

 

Bumblebee Cyberverse is AWESOME!
That is all.

 

How much they make is though. With enough product there isn't much reason to resell.