Delicon wrote:ScottyP wrote:Am I missing something? I don't see any reason there wouldn't be.xRotorstormx wrote:william-james88 wrote:Pretty sure this means no dealer area right? Looks more like an expo.
Certainly seems that way to a lot of folks, which would be a total downer.
Yeah, I was confused by that, too. Dealer room (or rooms) allows Hasbro to sell space to vendors which equals easy money. Why would Hasbro not want that revenue?
william-james88 wrote:Delicon wrote:ScottyP wrote:Am I missing something? I don't see any reason there wouldn't be.xRotorstormx wrote:william-james88 wrote:Pretty sure this means no dealer area right? Looks more like an expo.
Certainly seems that way to a lot of folks, which would be a total downer.
Yeah, I was confused by that, too. Dealer room (or rooms) allows Hasbro to sell space to vendors which equals easy money. Why would Hasbro not want that revenue?
Thats a very simple way of looking at things, and the corporate world is not that simple.
Firstly, that revenue is small potatoes for all the hassle it brings. There is a reason Hasbro much preffers licensing their names to shows (expos, cons, ect), nothing falls back on them. Limited to no liability. But this isn't the case here, it's their event, their show. If xRotorstormx buys a complete G1 Liokaiser only to realize later that one of the components is a KO, Hasbro is liable. Plus the contacts are no longer internal or corporate, you are now dealing with individual sellers, and have to worry about how they bring their own merchandise in, if all your licenses are in check, run backgrounds on the vendors, you have to police it, ect. A lot of factors which you can simply eliminate by having all merchandise be internal. Oh the exclusive you bought is broken? No worries contact Hasbro customer service.
Now about the added revenue, it probably wouldnt help Hasbro in any positive way. By not leasing any space for outside vendors, they are maximizing the show floor with their own stuff, writing it all off as a marketting expense. The higher the expense is, the less taxes they have to pay at the end of the year. So in reality, that added revenue you speak of (which comes with significant liability) could augment their taxes 2 fold by 1) not using that space for something of their own that they could write off and 2) increasing revenue that will have to be taxed.
Delicon wrote:PS - I know more about the business world than you think. I used to own one.
william-james88 wrote:Emerje wrote:I'm also very concerned about this convention being a little too family and kid friendly at the risk of alienating the die hard adult fans and collectors that other conventions (especially BotCon) cater to. I don't know if as a single adult I'm going to feel comfortable sharing space with a bunch of kids and judgmental parents. How do you do a Transformers panel without talking over the kids heads and talking down to the adult fans?
We could ask the ton of adults who attend Star Wars celebration every year.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote:Hasbro runs on Dunkin!
SureShot18 wrote:Cobotron wrote:Hasbro runs on Dunkin!
Can we get a Dunkin Donuts themed repaint of Trypticon?
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote::lol:
Seriously now... I'm not sure I see how this would imply that they would pull their presence from SDCC.
It Is Him wrote:Hasbro right now, "If only we had a place to reveal our upcoming Transformers before September..."
YoungPrime wrote:No real shock. Disney does the same thing when they have their D23 club event every other year. As a result you won't likely see much about the MCU appearing at SDCC this year either. Especially with them all being so close together.
That's not to say that both Disney and Hasbro won't be at NYCC in Nov.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
fenrir72 wrote:Izzat bad? No SDCC?
fenrir72 wrote:Izzat bad? No SDCC?
nycPrime wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Izzat bad? No SDCC?
I think it would only impact Hasbro's ability to connect with casual fans (not people on this forum). A few years ago I didn't know anything about current TF toys, but I knew of SDCC. I mainly paid attention to see what was announced regarding the more mainstream comic book movies. That may have been the only opportunity for Hasbro to connect with me and other casual fans.
william-james88 wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Izzat bad? No SDCC?
NOt reallly. All it really did in the past was push and promote the current line, especially the Titan Class, since they would always have a special edition titan sold there.
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