ScottyP wrote:fenrir72 wrote::-(
This was a poorly written, borderline irrelevant post that reflects poorly on the Seibertron.com community. I urge you to do better in the future and focus on the facts presented rather than associate them with carefully selected talking points that have nothing to do with the article posted.
It was rambling, but the basic point is valid. The more the companies that Hasbro is producing licensed items for do things to disenfranchise the fans (ie Kathleen Kennedy & Rian Johnson) the more it's going to affect the sales of the products that Hasbro sells and hurt Hasbro's bottom line. My figure buying habit was seriously affected by the lunatic rants of the earlier mentioned individuals. You throw out hate at your fan base, it's going to affect your bottom line.
Solo, although not a great movie was a fun one, was negatively affected by the the drama surrounding TLJ, so again product didn't sell (I still want figures from that line but I figure they'll end up on clearance soon enough). Star wars had really been a power house for Hasbro, until the people running Star Wars derailed the gravy train.
The quality of the Disney princess dolls hasn't really improved since Hasbro took over. They have more of a variety of faces and heads, but the same crappy articulation the Mattel ones had. They put a lot into the Decedents original line, and that sold well, but the sequel dolls are shelf warmers until clearanced out.
Marvel Comics could possibly be a thing of the past in the near future. Disney is already starting to license out characters to other companies. That is a direct result of the current batch of writers being well, I'll say it SJWs. Probably my favorite Comic in recent years was the Kamala Kahn Ms Marvel, then they got super political with it, and I stopped reading, although I did just buy her Marvel Rising doll, along with Ghost Spider.
Marvel Studies is more or less keeping the political stuff to a minimum, as is the Animation side of Marvel, but if they go the way of Star Wars, you'll see the Marvel figure revenue drop significantly as well.
That will have a negative effect on the Hasbro Bottom line, and Transformers will be negatively affected. Look at the number of terrible stickers they used in the POTP line (i mean seriously they had stickers on Starscream that you couldn't press flat because of details on the parts the stickers covered), when the previous lines had few on anything smaller then Titan Class. We could see more cheaply made figures for more money.