Transformations No More...

This is bloody lame, great way to screw over your fanbase.

Yeah, this is terrible. You know, I really am at a point where I hate Hasbro's treatment of the TF property. With everything else they are doing wrong in terms of TF's, it is a wonder that there are any fans left. I know my dedication to TF's has been severely damaged over the last few years. At this rate, I may end up giving up on them altogether at some point.

Blackstreak wrote:Talking about bogus nitpicky dimwittery. How gay can Hasbro get over such a technicality? They act like they invented the word 'transform' to begin with."

You should see what they do with anything resembling the word 'monopoly'.

I admit I am a little surprised that Hasbro is doing this, I mean it's not like yhey don't have permission to hold the convention. What's next the TFCC must loose change it's name?

Since what's done is done, has anyone submitted some names?

*edit for proper grammer, because I speak the english good now.

Well, since it is a big company they really can't let anyone have leeway with potential trademark infringements; the reason is that if they do it can be used as a legal precedent. Once that happens others with not-so-good intentions can take advantage of the leeway that the one good example got...then suddenly Hasbro is up a creek with their legal rights as far as the name goes. This is part of the reason why it's difficult for people to get Public Aid in the US, why insurance rates are so high, and why the tax codes are so complicated. Once one person finds a loophole- and legal precedent is certainly a HUGE loophole in a country with 1 lawyer per 75 people- it is taken advantge of until it's fixed. Then another loophole is found, etc., and finally things are just so complicated that they are impossible to understand.


I was rambling I think...

I say the convention should be called The Giant F---ing Robots Polka.

Hasbro realy sucks sometimes!

this is really silly. it seems that hasbro is afraid that the name of the convention will dilute the trademark that is transformers. if you ask me a convention about transformers, if truely backed by hasbro, wouldn't have any impact on anything. im not going to wake up and be oh i love transformations and i cant wait to go to transformer.

Raymond T. wrote:The rules are that that name Transformers or parts of that word may not appear in the name.

I guess words like "Transgender" or "Format" is out. I wonder how long it'll be before Hasbro claims copyright on those words as well. Could you imagine the "Z" shaped finger-snaps they'd get for copyrighting that first one? Ha-ha.

Anyway, like Metallica, Viacom and so many others, Hasbro needs to learn how to properly tread the fine line between copyright infringement and free advertising to not stumble into that bottomless, inexcapable pit of bad publicity.

This brings back memories of Adobe going after people for saying that you "photoshopped" something. Using the name of the program as a verb can cause the trademark to become a Genericized trademark. Which in turn can cause the company to lose the name completely. Same with saying "hey, I'm going to build this using Legos", or "mind if xerox that submittal first?"

Regardless, this is quite moronic on Hasbro's part. It's not even the same word as their brand so I don't understand why their in such a huff about it.

This really is too sad...
To me it was clear that Hasbro does not really care about the fanbase, just to make as much money as possible.
It is pretty obvious looking at how many repaints to throw at you but hey, since some of us are still buying them, who can blame them.
But now... A celebration of a toy brand, supported by Hasbro Netherlands, and they have to shoot it down...
Instead of supporting it, they have to make sure that everybody who is spending their own hard earned money and free time to get this thing going, will hate Hasbro, and probably Transformers, for the rest of their life!
Are they even aware that Gobots are still available in Japan? These things can transform too and are cheaper to come by than that zillionth repaint of a crappy figure!!!

To me it is clear that Hasbro has no idea what to do with fans of their brands... very clear...

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The collection can than be picked up in Holland by truck because about half is still sealed in box or on card.