by Riotflea » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:24 am
Chuckdawg's got it right.
If the "execs" were so confident that this movie would do well, there wouldn't have been the massive influx of (good-selling) classics stuff.
It's preposterous to me, the idea that the people at Hasbro are somehow unable to differentiate Transformers old with Transformers new.. that they'd ditch the whole franchise because a super-shit movie bombed.
They (they, as in Hasbro, not the movie creators) are not deaf to the public outcry so far. Nor are they blind to what has sold and what will not.
In order to not "accidentally" support this movie, thereby sending the wrong message that such things are acceptable, I WILL download it first to gauge if it should be supported.
There will be no "I paid for a ticket because I just wanted to see how it was" revenue coming from MY pocket.
And there is ZERO fear that this means the end of Transformers.
Never.
Happen.
Hey Hasbro, if it bombs and that leads to the line going on hiatus for awhile, well, that's the price you pay for making the wrong decisions when you KNOW it's wrong.
We'll sit here patiently, awaiting it's return. We've had to do it once before, when other bad decisions were made.
We're used to it.