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Va'al wrote:I agree with PrymeStriker here.

The article is obviously biased towards Transformers and its fans, depicting the actions of My Little Pony fans as negative and damaging the franchise and company.
Which is exactly the same thing Hasbro says about third party companies producing Transformers inspired toys.

I understand the 3rd party thing, but once again, harder to take legal action if they aren't located in the US, which is Hasbro's home turf. Those 3rd parties that are, if any, in the US are gonna be much easier targets for Hasbro.

True. But as I said, there is a definite bias to the article, as it's praising the Transformers franchise and not the My Little Pony one.

I don't know how big the latter is out of the English-speaking world, and I don't follow it and don't get it, personally. So someone can prove us wrong or right here.

Hasbro did ban all third party companies from its officially endorsed Transformers events, including non-US based ones, though.

On the lighter side, Ryan is in the freakin' New York Times! Admittedly for a soundbite, but who among us original Transfans could have envisioned this long strange trip coming this far for any one of us?

Manterax Prime wrote:Typical brony.....always wanting to argue anytime somebody insults their precious ponies.

You quoted my whole post just to type this?

Bashing another fanbase for doing something that their own fanbase does is being downright hypocritical. This is common sense, not "typical brony."

morphobots wrote:On the lighter side, Ryan is in the freakin' New York Times!

I've seen other members of other fan sites get mentioned in famous news articles, but had never imagined it would happen to Ryan. Cool for him, right?

I thought I said "End of discussion". You just proved that most bronies can't control themselves when it comes to MLP.

And I didn't say anything about the fandom until you brought it up. I was just saying that Hasbro was sticking to MLP being aimed towards little girls, with little nods to the adult fanbase, instead of catering to the bronies. And yet you proceed to start an argument about it.

Adult transformers fans have been around since G1, so it's only natural Hasbro caters to the adult transfans as they've been around the longest.

DON'T YOU DARE tell me about common sense. I may be a dedicated Transformers fan, as well as a fan of other things, but at least I can control myself, unlike most bronies, who absolutely flip out over a mere, minor negative comment towards the show.

So, STHU! You wanna reply, go ahead, don't expect me to reply back.

morphobots wrote:On the lighter side, Ryan is in the freakin' New York Times!

I've seen other members of other fan sites get mentioned in famous news articles, but had never imagined it would happen to Ryan. Cool for him, right? [/quote]

My point precisely. One of the best spokespersons for us in the fandom got a shot to share his passion with a respected (maybe ) news outlet.

Manterax Prime wrote:I thought I said "End of discussion". You just proved that most bronies can't control themselves when it comes to MLP.

And I didn't say anything about the fandom until you brought it up. I was just saying that Hasbro was sticking to MLP being aimed towards little girls, with little nods to the adult fanbase, instead of catering to the bronies. And yet you proceed to start an argument about it.

Adult transformers fans have been around since G1, so it's only natural Hasbro caters to the adult transfans as they've been around the longest.

DON'T YOU DARE tell me about common sense. I may be a dedicated Transformers fan, as well as a fan of other things, but at least I can control myself, unlike most bronies, who absolutely flip out over a mere, minor negative comment towards the show.

So, STHU! You wanna reply, go ahead, don't expect me to reply back.

Awesome response. Not.

But you are right, "END OF DISCUSSION". If I see this argument continue, or any further posts that drive the thread off topic, warnings will be issued.

Feel free to take it private. For now, thread back on track.

Sales in its boys business fell 23 percent in the quarter from the same period in 2011, the year the last Transformers movie came out.

I wonder what Hasbro's sales figures were like in the G1 days? What % was attributed to TF's?
We all know the movie didn't detonate the box office, but i'd be curious to see how TFTM affected Hasbro's sales.

Seibertron.com is in the news!

(Is that back on track enough, Burn? )

Ew bronies.