Pontimax 01 wrote:Everyone that says they are not bothered by this news of cancelling more unreleased figures because they are just movie figs should keep it in mind that they seem to be setting a very noticeable pattern here with all the lines lately. It will continue to happen in other lines you may actually like.
Hasbro needs some sort of management shake up. Its becoming clear they cannot handle the schedule they have set for themselves.
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Yes, exactly.
Let's go way back in time for a moment.
Energon combiners, Wing Saber, Dinobots, Quintesson. All came towards the tail end of the line and while some did see them because they were released, others never saw them and still haven't had a chance to get them due to their prices. That was the first sign trouble was coming in TF land.
Classics, meant to be a filler line, but they gave us hope and started adding figures to the roster and then killed it in favor of TF 1's toyline.
TF1's came and they weren't prepared for the onslaught of popularity.
Animated came along, late I might add, then they killed it in both the toys and show.
ROTF came along and while they figured this one out better than some of the previous lines...they overproduced Bumblebee and the twins. Stores are STILL sitting on stock of those three. Plus a random Jolt here and there. (I mean the ROTF version, the original!)
Universe 2.0 came along during all of this and was chock full of repaints, bad ones, I might add and finding the new molds was a real pain. Distribution was AWFUL. Again, curtailed in favor of the movieverse.
Generations comes along and it was hard to stock, some places didn't get the Wheeljack/Warpath wave until close to EIGHT months later! Again, curtailed in favor of the movieverse.
DOTM comes along and it's very lackluster, hard to move and stores are still trying to find ways to get rid of the stock and instead of putting out the molds people actually wanted and needed....they not only canceled the line, they canceled the toys without giving people an option to get them.
Prime? Well, we know that whole mess.
Point is, Hasbro clearly doesn't get it. They say they heard us and they're going to put their focus on Generations with something like 40 figures, which most of them will come out in spring...2013! And they're already prepping themselves for the 30th anniversary. Great, it all sounds great, but with their track record...it worries me. And it should worry all of you, too.
As time goes on, their offerings get less and less impressive, their words aren't worth the breath wasted to utter them, the trust they gained with us has been lost and we already know they're transitioning from toy company to multimedia company. Which means that shifted focus will make things suffer.
I said that the toys would suffer and I still believe they will. I have a feeling we'll see a day when they outsource the toys to someone else, or drop them altogether. And you can't say that's impossible, because Hasbro's proven that anything can happen.
NOTE: Realize that I am not a perfect Christian, nor do I profess to be. I apologize if anyone's ever offended by me, I'm not perfect. Don't hold my posts and opinions against other Christians.
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