Raymond101 wrote:With some Cybertron toys we got awesome planet maps and extra goodies. Now with with the movie toys all we've got is a crummy instruction sheet. A waste of storytelling potential if you ask me. What gives Hasbro?
GetterDragun wrote:Raymond101 wrote:With some Cybertron toys we got awesome planet maps and extra goodies. Now with with the movie toys all we've got is a crummy instruction sheet. A waste of storytelling potential if you ask me. What gives Hasbro?
Um, we got a Blockbuster movie instead?
Flux Convoy wrote:GetterDragun wrote:Raymond101 wrote:With some Cybertron toys we got awesome planet maps and extra goodies. Now with with the movie toys all we've got is a crummy instruction sheet. A waste of storytelling potential if you ask me. What gives Hasbro?
Um, we got a Blockbuster movie instead?
There's also the bios on the back of each package. The protoforms had mini posters. All the movie toys come with litle product catalogs. Some of the Target exclusive Sector Seven themed basics come with their respective planet keys. What did the planet maps really add to the Cybertron product that blew you out of the water so much to say that hasbro dropped the ball? You're not really getting anything less than you should. Instead of blaming Hasbro for some imagined slight, why not take a step back and think about what it is you really have to complain about.
Raymond101 wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:GetterDragun wrote:Raymond101 wrote:With some Cybertron toys we got awesome planet maps and extra goodies. Now with with the movie toys all we've got is a crummy instruction sheet. A waste of storytelling potential if you ask me. What gives Hasbro?
Um, we got a Blockbuster movie instead?
There's also the bios on the back of each package. The protoforms had mini posters. All the movie toys come with litle product catalogs. Some of the Target exclusive Sector Seven themed basics come with their respective planet keys. What did the planet maps really add to the Cybertron product that blew you out of the water so much to say that hasbro dropped the ball? You're not really getting anything less than you should. Instead of blaming Hasbro for some imagined slight, why not take a step back and think about what it is you really have to complain about.
To address both points: We got a cartoon series for cybertron. Yeah, I know, I started a topic once asking why so many people hated the Cybertron series, but a lot of fans also dislike the new movie (I'm not one of them). Besides, thank Michael Bay - I'm talking about Hasbro products.
Bios on the back of each package - Cybertron also had them, and other lines had a more aesthetically pleasing layout of technical data too - the ones for the movie line seem to be just afterthoughts, whereas remember the 'clip and collect' cards from Beast Wars/Machines? They were probably the most systematized and coolest collectable pieces of hard paper I knew. Even something like 'Technical Data' or 'Tech Specs' would have done a lot for me, instead of going on and on about Automorph (don't get me wrong - I love the toys themselves - but for me Automorph only works well on a couple of the toys).
Protoforms had mini-posters? What the? Did I get the wrong Protoform Prime, because seriously all I got was the instruction sheet and figure. I swear I never threw anything away except the plastic and wire stuff. Where is this mini-poster?
Little product catalogues? Have I been missing something? Do you mean the 'Also Available' pictures? Cuz if you don't mean that then I have no idea what you're talking about.
And I never threw away anything else I got in the package.
Where was all this extra stuff? And I know full well the exclusive basics had their Energon/Cybertron attributes; redecos as far as I'm concerned aren't good or bad.
BTW: I am in Australia right now - I realised what you talked about might have been unique to the States - but I find that unlikely.
Flux Convoy wrote:My Protoform Prime came with a mini poster, yes.
Fortress_Maximus wrote:Yup they are definitely getting lazy and failing to meet the needs of the marketplace with all the movie demand for the toys. This is just plain stupidity on their part, they knew the movie would be big and the merchandising tie-in huge, but chainstores cannot even stock the inventory enough to meet demand. Who dropped the ball, Hasbro; wake up and get with it already!
Electron wrote:sledge your comments are like a fat chick raping a hot dog, its unpleasent to watch but in the end its gonna happen
Mr O wrote:I'm part Irish, part Scottish, very Welsh, mostly drunk, somewhat Transformers nerd and all bastard.
D-340 wrote:Fortress_Maximus wrote:Yup they are definitely getting lazy and failing to meet the needs of the marketplace with all the movie demand for the toys. This is just plain stupidity on their part, they knew the movie would be big and the merchandising tie-in huge, but chainstores cannot even stock the inventory enough to meet demand. Who dropped the ball, Hasbro; wake up and get with it already!
Hasbro didn't drop the ball, big retail did. It's got nothing to do with Hasbro being lazy, scalpers buying everything, ect., it's all big retail. When they heard of another movie toy line they immediately thought Spiderman, FF4, PotC, and the other movie toy lines clogging shelves, not making them money. So what do they do, order less TF movie merch so they don't eat it likethey did with the other lines. Of course, the line was a hit, so big in fact that BIG RETAIL, NOT HASBRO failed to meet demand. I used to work retail, I know how this works. I've even made the mistake of not ordering enough of an item to meet demand. It sucked on all ends, especially cuz I had to answer to those who were looking for said product. But it happens, that's why it's called a mistake.
So maybe do your research the next time before telling the wrong people to "wake up and get with it".
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