Hasbro Cutting Jobs Due...

[Nguyen_Dragon]

http://tformers.com/transformers-hasbro-cutting-170-jobs-in/17311/news.html

 

To sluggish holiday sale... Maybe they should have put the Prime stuff out earlier... Stores cant keep them in stock around my area...

[Superpowers1980]

Hasblow should of done a number of things right that they did wrong.

 

1. Should be making more Generations than the garbage main lines with figs nobody wants, especially that movie junk. Seriously, we need a better Generations Megs without goofy wings and colors and a larger Prime. Optimus is NOT smaller than Megs by cartoon standards.

 

2. Need to make better joes instead of the crappy cartoon junk nobody wants. They still can't make a decent original silver plated cobra commander

 

3. Let's debut the return of Marvel Legends AFTER the holiday shopping season........dumber and dumber.

[Nguyen_Dragon]

I agree with 1 and 3... I like Classics Prime but an updated version would be nice...

 

I dont know about your area but Renegades is selling like crazy around here...

[Dark Horse]

Hasbro will never take the blame that their toys simply aren't as good lately. It is impossible for them to admit fault.

[Wheeljack35]

LOL I have been saying the movie figures don't sell.Every store I go in they are allways full of the movie line figures..If they sell so damned well why is it always full?

[OB1Killa]

LOL I have been saying the movie figures don't sell.Every store I go in they are allways full of the movie line figures..If they sell so damned well why is it always full?

@loll@ For real...to this date...i still havent' bought any movie TF's... @hmmm@

[BigBot84]

Hasbro only sees the retailers buying the figures. Once they realize no retailer wants Transformers anymore when they can't even clear their movie stock, maybe Hasbro will change their selling model.

[Agent Adam]

Hasblow should of done a number of things right that they did wrong.

 

1. Should be making more Generations than the garbage main lines with figs nobody wants, especially that movie junk.

 

Transformers was one of Hasbro's properties that actually did well last year, a year with primarily movie figures.

 

 

LOL I have been saying the movie figures don't sell.Every store I go in they are allways full of the movie line figures..If they sell so damned well why is it always full?

 

Having stock left over does not mean the movie figures didn't sell enough to be considered successful. It just doesn't work that way.

[Nguyen_Dragon]

Hasblow should of done a number of things right that they did wrong.

 

1. Should be making more Generations than the garbage main lines with figs nobody wants, especially that movie junk.

 

Transformers was one of Hasbro's properties that actually did well last year, a year with primarily movie figures.

 

 

LOL I have been saying the movie figures don't sell.Every store I go in they are allways full of the movie line figures..If they sell so damned well why is it always full?

 

Having stock left over does not mean the movie figures didn't sell enough to be considered successful. It just doesn't work that way.

 

The movie made a lot of money but are you sure the toys did as well... Did they make their numbers public?...

[Agent Adam]

The article linked in the one you posted states Hasbro's boy division was up 35% led by Transformers and Beyblade. When Hasbro released their earnings report a month or two back, it went into more detail about it but essentially said the same thing. Hasbro never releases exact numbers, but that is pretty standard.

[spystreak]

the Prime stuff is selling at my Zellers even at $24.99 for a deluxe

[CaptainTriumph]

Any lose of jobs is bad regardless of the reasons unless its to restructure a company to prevent it from going under altogether.

[Nguyen_Dragon]

The article linked in the one you posted states Hasbro's boy division was up 35% led by Transformers and Beyblade. When Hasbro released their earnings report a month or two back, it went into more detail about it but essentially said the same thing. Hasbro never releases exact numbers, but that is pretty standard.

 

I still think pushing out Prime a bit earlier would have bumped that percentage up...

 

On a side note... I didnt know Beyblade was that big of a property...

[Agent Adam]

 

I still think pushing out Prime a bit earlier would have bumped that percentage up...

 

 

For all we know, Prime's release timing had as much to do with when retailers wanted them.

[OB1Killa]

Hasbro needs to make more Marvel character transforming vehicles... @smilepunch@

[Nguyen_Dragon]

Hasbro needs to make more Marvel character transforming vehicles... @smilepunch@

 

A prime example of letting people that knows nothing about toys come up with ideas...

[Agent Adam]

A prime example of letting people that knows nothing about toys come up with ideas...

 

What?

[OB1Killa]

I didn't buy any of the previous Hasbro Marvel Vehicles...i thought it was ridiculous... @firedevil@

[Wheeljack35]

 

LOL I have been saying the movie figures don't sell.Every store I go in they are allways full of the movie line figures..If they sell so damned well why is it always full?

 

Having stock left over does not mean the movie figures didn't sell enough to be considered successful. It just doesn't work that way.

 

 

Why do you constantly like to fight me on this when I see the sam old stock EVERYTIME I go to the Transformers section of any store? It is always harder to find the Generations and Prime figures then it is for this..They over produced these crappy monsterlike toys.My Walmart just redid the toy section and guess what just sold out and guess what is still sitting there

[Nguyen_Dragon]

A prime example of letting people that knows nothing about toys come up with ideas...

 

What?

 

Not everyone at Hasbro knows what they are doing... I am guessing whoever came up with this idea thought ramming two popular franchise together would be a sure winner... Probably the same group that thought up Power Core Combiners...

[OB1Killa]

Quick question, and this is off track here, but why did Hasbro stop making the commemorative box reissues?

[Nguyen_Dragon]

Quick question, and this is off track here, but why did Hasbro stop making the commemorative box reissues?

 

I dont think Hasbro ever made an official statement...

[Agent Adam]

Not everyone at Hasbro knows what they are doing... I am guessing whoever came up with this idea thought ramming two popular franchise together would be a sure winner... Probably the same group that thought up Power Core Combiners...

 

The only problem with that is how long they lasted. (The marvel transformers) They were around for a good 3-5 years. If retailers were still ordering them past the first year, then they were selling them and Hasbro was profiting off of them. I'm not sure how you could reach the conclusion that they "didn't know what they are doing" based on that. It's not anymore or less of a bad idea then Star Wars TF and those are still around.

 

Quick question, and this is off track here, but why did Hasbro stop making the commemorative box reissues?

 

It's not that Hasbro stopped making them, it's because retailers (TRU) didn't want them.

[OB1Killa]

Not everyone at Hasbro knows what they are doing... I am guessing whoever came up with this idea thought ramming two popular franchise together would be a sure winner... Probably the same group that thought up Power Core Combiners...

 

The only problem with that is how long they lasted. (The marvel transformers) They were around for a good 3-5 years. If retailers were still ordering them past the first year, then they were selling them and Hasbro was profiting off of them. I'm not sure how you could reach the conclusion that they "didn't know what they are doing" based on that. It's not anymore or less of a bad idea then Star Wars TF and those are still around. I actually bought one, millenium falcon Chewbaca.. @loll@

Quick question, and this is off track here, but why did Hasbro stop making the commemorative box reissues?

 

It's not that Hasbro stopped making them, it's because retailers (TRU) didn't want them.

That's bad, I actually liked them and only waited for Ramjet to complete my coneheads..never came out. @grumpy@

[Nguyen_Dragon]

Not everyone at Hasbro knows what they are doing... I am guessing whoever came up with this idea thought ramming two popular franchise together would be a sure winner... Probably the same group that thought up Power Core Combiners...

 

The only problem with that is how long they lasted. (The marvel transformers) They were around for a good 3-5 years. If retailers were still ordering them past the first year, then they were selling them and Hasbro was profiting off of them. I'm not sure how you could reach the conclusion that they "didn't know what they are doing" based on that. It's not anymore or less of a bad idea then Star Wars TF and those are still around.

 

Quick question, and this is off track here, but why did Hasbro stop making the commemorative box reissues?

 

It's not that Hasbro stopped making them, it's because retailers (TRU) didn't want them.

 

Most of the stuff outside of the regular figures have not done well... That is enough for me to make an educated guess... Plus someone had to have made wrong decisions or people wouldnt lose their jobs... Lets see how these Bot Shots is going to do...