Is Hasbro In Jeopardy?

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Dire 51, Jan 25, 2023.

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Is Hasbro In Jeopardy?

Poll closed Feb 24, 2023.
  1. Yes! Have you seen these prices?

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  2. No. Everything is fine.

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  1. barry

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    Uncertain on how to respond to this.
     
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    Based on my 27 seconds of exhaustive research, “oir” is Gaelic for “gold”. Be thankful he didn’t also include “shower”. Haha.
     
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    SO MANY "experts" in here!
     
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    I think hasbro would likely want a hit movie by now.
     
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    I shouldn't laugh at this, but I can't help it.
     
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    It reminds me if "beatings will continue until morale improves"!

    You could let me be the big spoon once in a while. :oops: 
     
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    Who wants to be the big spoon? Everyone knows little spoon is where it's at...
     
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    OK OK let's get back on topic, I think we are embarrysing him!
     
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  9. barry

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    I hope this thread is never closed by mods. Could a mod contact me privately to discuss why we definitely shouldn’t close this thread? I prefer landline if possible but can do Teams, Zoom, Skype, or WhatsApp in a pinch.
     
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    LMAO
     
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  11. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    That's a funny way of spelling "middle spoon."
     
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    :lol  Touche'
     
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    This is a fairly eloquent way of summarizing how I've also felt about Hasbro's actions as a whole. It's hard not to be pessimistic when their tactics are getting more obvious and intrusive. Let's also not forget that hasbro has been making record profits the past 3 consecutive years.

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    Hasbro's been doing phenomenal, but at the detriment of it's product and customers. Things could start to be looking down for them if they don't change something.
     
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    Hasbro had noticed that the stock market is rewarding companies that are doing layoffs. Look at all the tech companies doing lay offs at the moment. The stock price is going up. This is a business decision that is not only related to sales performance. Remember Hasbro is a corporation and the first priority is unfortunately to the stock owners, not collectors.
     
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  15. KFGatri

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    Which is a problem because they need to keep both happy. Hasbro can't keep the shareholders happy unless we keep buying, and there's only so much "increasing prices while cutting corners" collectors will tolerate. I'm long past the point where a figure has to be something novel and interesting and well done to get my money - I simply can't afford to do impulse buying anymore. I passed on impulse buys twice this week because the prices were far above my cutoff for "I just want a new toy to fiddle with." Hell, even the "kiddie" stuff is overpriced now!

    At some point, Hasbro will have to back off from their current trajectory. They can't keep increasing prices for lower quality indefinitely.
     
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    Personally I feel like them kinda are,I mean Star Wars and Marvel are lines that constantly end up with alot of unsold product. I feel that only transformers are the main line keeping them a float,look at the whole dnd licensing thing that happened a little bit ago. If Marvel and Star Wars remain semi-profitable then hasbro is in jeopardy with no choice but to cut off thoese two brands like a tumor. I mean look at Haslab,only TF stuff ever really gets the major funding with all the extra goodies. As someone who witnessed the semi death of one brand (Bionicle) I was super ivested into,I would absolutely hate to see Transformers suffer the same fate.

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    Star Wars and Marvel needs to either fix themselves and become more profitable,Transformers can't be the main brand to sustain the whole company for forever.

    I hope that my grim prediction are wrong,but there's more evidence that makes me super bummed
     
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    This showcases the ridiculously myopic view of action figure collectors. Hasbro makes a shitload more money from Play Doh, Monopoly. Playskool, and Magic the Gathering than Star Wars, Marvel, and Transformers. The brands you're focused on are not "keeping them afloat"
     
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  18. RKillian

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    If Hasbro doesn't want to make action figures, they should release those licenses so that somebody who does can use them.
     
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    Except there's no indication in any way Hasbro doesn't want to make action figures. They're making a shit load of action figures. And they ARE licensing them as well. That's why we're getting Mezco and Super7 and Flame Toys among others making toys of Hasbro IP. And licensing is specifically called out as an area they'll be devoting more focus to, so it seems to be working for them.
     
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  20. volatus

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    What I'm thinking here is that we need some Play-doh Transformers. Like an Optimus Prime where his matrix is actually a play-doh extruding nozzle. I seem to recall they did Transformers Monopoly a while back but it was a limited run and long since sold out. Wasn't there talk of a Transformers Chess Set that didn't get made?
     
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