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Originally Posted by RansakWORK
They changed their open license for D&D (people can create content using D&D ideas and systems) and can profit off it. Think things like Critical Role.. Amazon primes Vox Machina and a game who's name escapes me. Hasbro came out saying they want 25% of what everyone makes off of it and that they can steal whatever they make with a *3 month warning* and without compensation.
Lets not also forget that Hasbro prevents American distributors from selling figures of certain scales limiting the competition. Why you cannot readily get a lot of the foreign figures at retail.
My point to this.. I said Hasbro is has been having financial problems. They will say they are doing great publicly because they are a publicly traded company looking for investors. If you put all the news articles and metrics together it paints a much different picture.
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Makes sense. I forgot about the WOTC/D&D things.
I've been side-eying Hasbro for a while lately. The constant price increases while claiming "record profits." It's never really added up.
As it stands, I have the stuff I want from the deluxes pre-ordered at A3U. I put in an order at Pulse today just in case.
The constant price increases are defintely making TFs more of a "luxury" items for not really much more. Not all other toy companies have had the same level of price increases. Comparable Mattel products remain less price.
I mean, there's no chance of Hasbro going belly up or TF vanishing. But we could see some changes. Ah well!
It's also possible cos you noted the movie thing. If ROTB is a success, and drives toy purchasing, that is good for TF as a whole. I don't like the Bay movies, but their success and toyline success (until AoE stuff and esp TLK stuff started warming) was good for all TF.
But you gotta wonder when you see things like Devcon, AxleGreese, the more niche/esoteric things in mainline if that's gonna continue going forward if sales are dumping. OFC this wave also has a super desireable character like Beachcomber.
Anyway... I'm still waiting for Core Grimlock to come in from my GS preorder. The voyagers and deluxes for *THAT* wave did lol
just really weird if it's ONLY the deluxes from the announced wave aren't coming to canada, but the core/voyager/leader are.