SpacerAM2 wrote:Poor instruction manuals, shortage of movie toys, refusal of releasing anymore g1 reissues, failure of listening to us the consumers on how we feel. All sums up hasbro. When will Hasbro ever listen? If they ever listen? Are you listening yet Hasbro? Knock , knock!
when will you realize the collectors are only a small percentage of their target consumers? You know who these toys are really aimed at? LITTLE KIDS. The only bones we are thrown every now and then are the g1 homages, etc.
THE SHORTAGES ARE NOT ENTIRELY DUE TO HASBRO. Hasbro, and a lot of people here obviously, are surprised as to how well the toys sold, especially with all the negative feedback from fans before the toys even hit shelves. Its only recently that they've been incredibly overwhelmed with the demand, and are beginning to put production into 2nd gear, with shipments arriving at stores more frequently (yes it is happening, I work as a stocking manager in Walmart, and beleive me, the amount of scheduled shipments have doubled, if not tripled since the initial shortage back when the movie first came out. While each shipment actually has a smaller number of figures, looking at the stock numbers now, it is significantly higher overall in total figures hitting the shelves, and with shipments arriving begininning to arrive much closer together, hopefully the demand will finally be quenched at least alittle bit, but with the holidays upon us, you can't expect it to get better yet.)
And the refusal to release g1 reissues is because the last few waves of the reissue series they ran SAT ON SHELVES FOR MONTHS, NOT MOVING EVEN AFTER HUGE MARK DOWNS. I'm sorry, but even I, a die-hard g1 fan, wouldn't be that fu**ing stupid to try it again, after how big of a flop the first time ended. The initial waves (really only wave 1 and wave 2) did well because they were rather small as production runs. But then that brings us to supply and demand again. People were demanding more and more, but Hasbro gave into those demands, and each run grew larger and larger, as more people demanded more. Well the people ended up demanding more, and then guess what happened? They weren't buying the toys anymore. Plus with Takara's reissue line, a large number of the "target" consumer for the reissues went for those, and simply ignored hasbro's reissues. This put an even bigger dent on market, and thus the hasbro reissue series failed. Miserably.
If you seriously beleive hasbro doesn't listen ever, then you're horribly mistaken, they do listen to us believe it or not, however, business comes first, and business usually doesn't involve catering to the fans on everything. Infact, quite the opposite, business usually involves only throwing the fans a bone here and there, while making much more money off the general consumer.
Don't like it? Deal with it. Thats how business works, and I'm getting really sick of reading things that basically boil down to "Hasbro sucks"
If you live in the UK or Canada, then you have a right to complain, but if you live in the US, then please go ask how our friends the Brits or our Friendly neighbors to the north (canada) how they get treated by Hasbro Uk, and Hasbro Canada.
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