Elon wants to buy Hasbro to mine all of the IP for his new game company. Who would be your dream team for him to hire to fix Hasbro?For me it would be subcontracting the 3rd party transformers engineers from china to create a mid tier masterpiece line shooting for $60 figures.Also mass producing the Hiya figures and taking all of the licenses away from super 7. For the board game division, it would be nice to have an AR tabletop app that would connect to other gamers via your phone so you could just jump into a DnD game with a preconfigured character and then jump out. I don’t have the time to coordinate a 3-4 hour gaming night, but I can jump in for 20 minutes and help out and make dark jokes and then leave.Similarly it would be nice to have a MtG app on the phone like the Yugioh app, but have it be a subscription with no gatcha card BS.
People would have an incentive to keep paying the monthly subscription as balance changes and new cards keep the game interesting. There would need to be a simplified version to keep the games from being a solitaire viewing experience like Yugioh.
>>11247721More money than sense
>>11247721Can this guy fuck off?
>>11247721If he actually did it, hasbro would immediately lose the Disney licenses.
>>11247721He would fire all of the artists and make it all AI
>>11247733He'd sue them then/have the government go after them.
>>11247733Disney is loosing Hasbro money anyways
>>11247733this would be an improvement
Who cares?
What is there that he doesn't want to buy? Does he just want to own the whole planet?
>>112477211. Get OLM (or some other low-budget studio) to make a new 50-episode Transformers anime where at least 75% of the frames contain robots or some other futuristic vehicle, hire Masami Obari to direct the stock footage transformations and attacks, and hire Simon Furman to write the scripts and setting.2. Gut Studio Series, gut baby toys like 1-step changers, make Legacy 20% of Transformers' output, focus on making toys that have both great gimmicks and great articulation/accuracy to appeal to both kids and collectors, and include pack-in character bios and tech specs again.3. Make Collaborative 30% of Transformers' output, and make it a line that appeals to both kids and collectors with both gimmicks and articulation/accuracy. Begin including transforming robots from Japanese mecha anime, such as the Brave series, Galvion, Webdiver, Megazone 23, Macross, Mospeada, and transforming Gundam mechs, to make mecha toys that are easily available and have excellent transformation engineering (i.e. no partsforming). 4. Localize ToQger, Lupinranger vs Patranger, Kiramager, Zenkaiger, and BoonBoomger, and import/mass produce all of Bandai's toys for these series. 5. Make a new GI Joe cartoon that heavily leans into future vehicles with toned-down military connotations.6. Reboot MASK.7. Invest in developing original boys' toys concepts and ideas with multimedia campaigns. 8. Get rid of Marvel Legends and Black Series and make action figures for both kids and collectors, sort of like the 2011/2012 Clone Wars figures and playsets.
>>11247733Oh no!... Anyway...
>>11247748...why and how? Because they don't wanna do business with him?
>>11247757You are a good man with good taste.
>>112477211) it's a meme. Cause that's how him buying twitter started, he now just asks how much to buy stuff whenever someone suggests he should buy itEven if it's not for sale2) hasbro has 2 or 3 giant fucking problems that could be fixed fast, but 1 that needs time.First, they need to return to plastic packaging. They switched away from plastic bubbles to be "green" but now the kids can't see the toys before they buy them, just pictures. So they don't buy them. Not to mention cardboard weighs more than plastic, so shipping costs go up. Not to mention they pay people to assemble the boxes now instead of using machines because it allows them to quickly replace someone who can't work anymore, but the QA went to shit. Second they need to start advertising again, in the spaces people watch. Seriously, I don't think they've even MADE transformers toy commercials in years. Advertising is the cheapest it's ever been and they're just trying to rely on movie ads to drive you sales. Third, on that note, they need to shift investment from 6 year old targeted TV shows like earthspark to splitting it between more teenage marketed adult stories like the comics in the 80s were via triple a games or weekly on demand comics a la manga, and leave the kid stuff to 15 min YouTube videos.The big one that'll take awhile is to create a truly global manufacturing network instead of doing everything in Vietnam and then shipping across the globe. They should be like car companies. Set up plants in your major zones, then import to the smaller ones
>>11247737Modern artists for megacorporations have the same uninspired style. It might as well be AI already.
>>11247773That’s because they’re told to fit a mold.AI can virtually replace any artist, no artstyle is save once it gets enough info.
He'd unironically be good at making toys since his engineering is all shit that only works in toy form.could easily grab TF and shill his company with it desu.
>>11247721stop with the BAFs already
>>11247769>they need to return to plastic packaging.they already did that, genius
>>11247769>First, they need to return to plastic packagingFriendly reminder that this shithole is infested with grifters and bots since amerigolem elections of 2016. These creatures don't actual have any real interest in hobbies and are only here to shit out their political diarrhea.
>>11247721which noteworthy IPs does hasbro have? Also elon is an insufferable faggot. He plays fucking diablo 4 as his only game. I expect absolute troon tier garbage from this father of a tranny
He’s been trolling like this for a long time and asking how much each company costs in the thread he enters on X. It’s basically become a meme, please don’t post this garbage bait on here; anyone with a brain should think before posting. This belongs on /pol/ or /biz/, not here. >bbbut hasbroPlease save us and yourself a few brain cells and stop shit posting>>11247920He doesn’t even play games and has someone else do it for him. Do you also believe he made tesla? He bought it and claimed to have made the cars when he’s just using the base model the founders created. This is a known fact over /o/, his only contribution was the polygonal piece of shit that just came out
>>11247759>Howlol who is his best friend?
>>11247930Musk doesn't have friends
>>11247721Well they’re getting sued for making too much disney goyslop. Nobody wants all of the brown and asian character’s toys
>>11247950They're getting sued for keeping to much MtG stock in inventory instead of selling it
KEK, please make it so.US will be no 1 in salt production, domestic and international.
The amount of seething in this thread is palpable. Thanks you guys.
>>11247721He wouldn't fix shit. Just look at the state Twitters in, still probably droves of fags and pedos on there, even after he bought it, I can only assume he won't make much of a difference.
He shouldn't buy hasbro; there's a risk it might recover. I want JotC to fucking die ASAP
>>11247737They already did that.
>>11247721Elon can't run a business without taking huge government subsidies so my dream would be that he drinks a lot of chemicals from under the sink
>>11247757> Simon Furman> wrote the worst Arcee crap> twice> writing so cookiecutter the wiki pokes fun of his furmanisms…only if he's on a leash. There's another Transformers writer from Japan who's much better, and that's Hirofumi Ichikawa. The rest are good. Just get rid of those damn in-hand wrist pegs in their action figures and do what Figma and other companies have done by making hands separate from those wrist ball joints.
>>11247757>FurmanRetard alert
>>11247769>The biggest problem is muh packagingWhat is with you fucking retards and this shit
>>11247721>Elon buys Hasbro>Optimus Prime is either killed or turned into a cybertruck
>>11248026We should just give massive government subsidies to vietnam for production of transformers. We need to turn it into another powerhouse like South Korea.
It's wild to me how many people can look at modern Hasbro and have a problem with someone like Elon coming in and gutting the woke cancer and making it an actual good toy company again. The plastic free packing fiasco was an absolute disaster/embarrassment they had to immediately heelturn on. They ran Power Rangers, an incredibly successful toy brand which thrived for 25 years before them, 6 feet under ground in less than 5 years. Star Wars is a ghost of it's former self, barely occupying a few pegs with shelf warmers. None of their brands are allowed to do sexy females anymore. They actually tried to do a Haslab Black Series Rancor without an Oola. They're more concerned with woke pandering than making good toys, and someone needs to step in and save the company before Chris Cocks does irrevocable damage to the company and it's properties, if he hasn't already.
A bad movie made by dumb Americans who didn't understand Power Rangers appeal and it's corresponding toyline bombing doesn't negate the fact that the yearly TV show toys based on the Japanese Super Sentai designs were a consistent success for 25 straight years until Hasbro took over and completely killed it.
>>11248462What point are you trying to make? Yes, Power Rangers was a glorified toy commercial. It was a very easy and effective toy commercial. Take footage from existing Japanese show, bookend it with American actors. Every year or two the show reinvents itself to stay fresh. How do you fuck that up? It's designed to last forever.
>>11248477That's not what Hasbro wants though. They want a big global multimedia IP that they can fully control themselves but having to reuse footage and work with Toei goes against that.
>>11248502They just need to subtitle the japanese show, and distribute the bandai toys. It’s free money for everyone. They let their shitty ego fuck it up every year.
>>11248579Kids aren't gonna read subtitles.
>>11248579Well yeah that's the better way to go, the Frankenstein approach of replacing footage of Jap actors with American actors while keeping everything else the same is outdated at this point and not even its niche can save Power Rangers or vice versa. But Hasbro is too stubborn to even do that.
>>11248585>>11248586Kids don’t buy $80 combiners either. Bandai sells a couple of imports on bbts and amazon jp. That is not the same as massive walmart distribution.
>>11248586Elon could also pay for an AI dub using the estate of jason david frank.
>>11247721>Similarly it would be nice to have a MtG app on the phone like the Yugioh app, but have it be a subscription with no gatcha card BS.There's already two (formerly three, although Magic Duels is still playable) active MtG digital card games, anon. MtG Online is windows only, and MtG Arena is all platforms except Atari Jaguar.>No gacha card BSThat's just how collectable card games work, though. You're framing it like gacha mechanics are an external corruption of the system, when they're just sorta innate to it instead, at least physically.As far as digital goes, they'd have to be crazy to remove it. It makes up an incredibly massive chunk of not just Magic's revenue and value, but of Hasbro as a whole. Axing it for a subscription model would be an absolutely insane business decision.Beyond that, how would it even work?Can you not play without a sub?Does the sub just keep your cards up to date?How would that even work? There aren't new cards THAT often, why bother? And if new cards don't interest you, then why not let it lapse?And what if you let it lapse for, say, a year?Would re-upping instantly catch you back up? I don't think subscription is a good model for this kind of thing, anon.
>>11247731can companies make actual products again and not just spout ideology?
>>11248759What companies do this, anon? Which companies have stopped producing products and only spout ideology?
>>11247721Please fucking do it. Even if all you do is nuke MTG from orbit, do it. I can't stand to watch this game suffer anymore.
>>11248825You slow or something, boy? We're talking about Hasbro.
>>11248828Enjoy your Spider-Man play boosters you ungrateful nigger.
He'd just fire a bunch of people and use AI a bunch. Make official Trump and Elon MTG cards?Probably have a Cybertruck Transformer. I imagine he'd end up selling off all the IPs or something? Like I doubt he'd really be that interested in running a business that seems to constantly be struggling.
>>11247733Considering the Disney licenses are a part of the reason the company is hemorrhaging money to begin with, it would certainly be a step in the right direction.
>>11248847Not falling for your tired Reddit talking points.
>>11248861>he thinks the head of D.O.G.E. is basedngmi
>>11247906>>11247908>>11248068I have no issue with it, but it's pretty obvious kids aren't getting excited by the toys cause they can't see them.
>>11249334They said that about transformers packaging and you retards bitched about that too
Okay I'm going to type a novel here so bear with me anons. Would Elon buying it be a good thing? Answer: better than the alternatives.For those not in the know, last year /toy/, /horse/, /biz/ and /tg/ teamed up and laid down the exact picture the company is in; hemmorhaging money, all the IP's are being gutted and in the shitter and Cocks is just cashing bonusses while lying to the shareholders and consumers. They're literally loaning money to use as dividends to throw the shareholders off and pretend things are better than they really are. The shareholder decided to throw the book at him, and the allegations - if true - are equivalent to financial fraud. Note: you can still go to jail for financial fraud if you're rich and powerful if it's other rich and powerful people you're screwing over. So this will be a lot of fun. Given how they're hemmorhaging money, a Chapter 11 in Q1 of 2025 is not unthinkable; really just depends if they can keep loaning money, and their debts are now worse than before selling off EOne.TF bombed so many times in a row to launch a ''multiverse'' or whatever they just gave up. GI Joe is in production hell. Power Rangers is in limbo. Horses just got cancelled because both the little girls and those-we-shalt-not-speak off walked away. Littlest Pet Shop might as well not exist. And Monopoly and other board games? Passive income at best; except for a weirdo or two no one will buy dozens of monopoly games. Same with simple brands like Play-doh. (and Furby/FurReal is too expensive)So the only sources of income now are Monopoly Go (a casino slot machine disguised as an app), D&D and MTG and in the latter two cases... oh boy are they trying to break them down out of stupidity and greed.Don't believe me for it, just go to your local toy store in USA/Europe; the amount of Hasbro merch is barely anything, and nothing is front-and-center. Entire brands are missing. Online retail? Ditto. Reminder; Christmas is the big season.>Continued.
>>11249465(cont) If you look at picrel, it becomes clear; revenues are declining, and they're just loaning money to keep the party going because oh boy does Cocks love his bonusses.So will Elon be a good choice? Well, what are the alternatives?>Hasbro dies, IP's go in limbo>Hasbro sells/licenses IP's off to tards who will make an ever bigger mess>Off chance good people get the IP's and aren't absolute fucktards about it.Elon is an interesting person and has his flaws, but at least he seems to care about the state of D&D; he ain't the only tech billionaire or investor who cares. there are enough rich fucks that love D&D (remember the Altafox debacle?), love Transformers... and Gabe Newell is (or was) a horsefucker. Elon Musk just wants to sell product for profit and not insert it with political garbage or appease the monstrous egos of the low-IQ Hasbro boomer managers that roam the company and ensure its continued decline.Elon *knows* all these IPs are undervalued because Hasbro made a mess off them, and not because they're actually bad brands; they're not, just mismanaged. For decades, only now just ''worse than 10 years ago''. He knows he can make a buttload of profits if he makes good stuff out of them. And actually have competent writers make the stories for the shows, movies, videogames, whatever. When he bought Twatter he removed all the clowns and the site runs perfectly fine, no matter what the clowns in the media or /leftypol/ say. So yeah, Elon Musk might be the best hope /toy/, /tg/ and /horse/ might have. Not the ideal candidate, but the best candidate.
>>11247721if he were to do it he'd fire like 80% of the staff, including the actual important people doing the work, slash budgets to nothing so the few toy designers would have nothing to work with, hope you enjoy rehashing old molds but worse because of mold degeneration, oh but he'd accelerate the price hike, and introduce twitter blue into it somehow.things you could expect>a Tesla transformer built worse than actual teslas>MLP but made by someone with brainworms going "WOKE WOKE WOKE" all day, so real shit horses>DnD but more racist>MTG trippling down on their shitty pratices so hard not even the hardcore of hardcores would want to invest>tons of elon themed figures and cards, he will insert himself into everything, enjoy a musk npc in all dnd adventuresand moreTons of WoTC designers would no doubt instantly leave only to get snapped up by some other studios leaving just Elon and actual idiots to make the worst edition of DnD.in short, bankruptcy pretty fast because none of his fans actually buys any of hasbro's products
>>11249475>Elon is an interesting person and has his flaws, but at least he seems to care about the state of D&Dhow does his dick taste anon?
>>11249465Website source? Pretty please
>>11249501https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/consumer-durables/nasdaq-has/hasbro(just make a spoof account to view everything)>>11249496Well, tell me then anon, what kind of other candidate do you have in mind that won't turn any of these brands into even worse dogshit than they already are *and* have the resources to get it done? And no, Takara won't do Transformers by themselves..
>>11249503>what kind of other candidate do you have in mind that won't turn any of these brands into even worse dogshit than they already aresomeone who doesn't buy twitter for 44 billion and run it so badly it gets devalued to nearly less than 9 billion
Does anyone know the exact date Hasbro's Q4 2024 report comes out?
>>11249509It'll be in late February/March and we likely won't know a date until mid January at the earliest.
>>11249507Anon, I still need you to name people/groups that would do a better job. Also, picrel.>>11249493>a Tesla transformer built worse than actual teslasJust use any car brand. Volkswagen doing executions like in Dark of the Moon was based AF.>>MLP but made by someone with brainworms going "WOKE WOKE WOKE" all day, so real shit horsesThat is something that is so weird to me; Hasbro already has a ''high school girls brand''; it's called Littlest Pet Shop. MLP is about horses and mythology, and only works when they do it about horses and mythology. Just making it a fun LOTR/Narnia/Redwall-ish brand for 7-12 y/o's for both genders (and not overgrown manchildren) would be the most obvious. The only reason it's ''girly girl pink pink'' is because Hasbro said so, not because Bonnie Zacherle (the lady who made the brand) wanted that, she wanted the alternative I just described. They're mythological horses from a fantasy land, let them be that way, jeez. >DnD but more racistBased>MTG trippling down on their shitty pratices so hard not even the hardcore of hardcores would want to investI don't think Elon considers it wise to send goons to the door of consoomers anon.
>>11249507Killing Twitter was a good thing
>>11249518>Anon, I still need you to name people/groups that would do a better job. Also, picrel.nope, you can't really dodge the fact he absolutely tanked twitter and it's just dropping harder and harder, he would do the same with Hasbro, so get his dick out of your mouth
>>11249523/leftypol/ is that way. Or Reddit. Take your pick. Or Mastadon. Or Bluesky..And if you actually read what I said... I said ''better than any alternative'' not ''ideal choice''. What other choices would be better suited? The corpos either don't care about making a good authentic product, are woke clowns or don't have the means to get things done.
>>11249528and I said nope, I don't have to provide alternatives to point out that Musk is an idiot that would make Hasbro worse.
>>11249509Probably after their Chapter 11 bankrupcy filings>Be Hasbroke>Brands of yours are missing in toy stores or just hidden in the back, and absolutely not front and center since nothing sells>Even online retail doesn't put your products front and center on the display.>All brands are in disarray, current generation of little kids don't often even know what they are.>A lot of the coming season hinges on shareholders believing Q4 will be a good season and turn the boat around, even though there's nothing to prove that>''muh videogames'' is a larp, they don't sell that well either except for the Monopoly Go casino slot machine app.This is going to be lit.
>fewer woke starwars and mcu pegwarmers>company becomes more incompetent and anti-consumerit's a dilemma.
I would welcome purely for the fact that it might shake up the relationship with disney and hasbro might be forced to do some new ip for once.
>>11247721Does he have the resources to buy Hasbro? Would a bank take on his Space-X stock to finance it like he leveraged his Tesla stock to buy Twitter?
>>11248825>what companies does thisAny sponsored by banks or the government
>>11248825I vividly recall back to the point during throne of eldraine where they refused to deal with oko, thief of crowns as he was breaking EVERY FORMAT he was allowed it, and wizards at the time only cared about demonizing Terese Nielsen and severing ties. and the more recent blackwashing Aragorn. where have you been dude? Wizards have shown they care more about Twitter/X than actually making the game when shit like oko and recently nadu slip through obvious holes in the system.
>>11249584You touch little boys ChungusPedo no matter how you project ESL-san
>>11249586>AAAAAIIIIEEEEEWhat was that? Couldn’t hear that over your pedophelia ChungusPedo
>>11249588You rape kids ChungusPedo and you are brown. You lost.
>>11249590You touch kids ChungusPedo, hang yourself ESL rat
>>11249596ChungusPedo lost. You lost.
>>11249598>>11249596>>11249591>>11249590>>11249589>>11249588>>11249587>>11249586>>11249585>>11249584Can anyone explain what some random eceleb has to with Elon Musk saying he should buy Hasbro?
>>11249602You lost ChungusPedo. You are Buck Broken.
>>11247721>Bans woke groomer trash on X.>Is thinking of saving Hasbro.I thought people hated him?
>>11249605Its the boards local child rapist from singapore needing correction, don’t mind the show
I don't think Elon does it just for D&D.>He posted horses before on his Twatter account. Trigger warning for jannies: this is a tweet including forbidden horses, right from the mouth of Musk. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1670176427407228931
>>11249625>Horse content might be made goodA welcome return after the G6 floater in the water
>>11249628Elon Musk calling his robot ''optimus'' might also be not a coincidence.https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1862146180916060290
>>11249625>>11249640you do realize he just keep saying nerdy shit to try and get nerds to like him right? he unironically wants the reddit crowd to adore him despite being a massive idiot who doesn't know shit
>>11249646>Reddit crowd>Adore MuskLol that's not happening, they all hate him down there.
>>11249610>I thought people hated him?Stop watching CNN, bro.
>>11247721So Hasbro stuff will be as good as Neca now? :^)
>>11249518Now post a graph with market cap on one axis and vehicle production on the other. People are using #TESLA like Bitcoin
>>11249518
>>11249610>Everything that my despicable brainwash samethink cult holy hook says is bad is woke
>>11249728Trump's cabinet picks are going to rape a few dozen children, tops. If you point to any random child there's less than a one-in-a-million chance they'll be raped by a member of Trump's cabinet
>>11249733>>11249728>>11249730Dead cats bro
>>11249475>Elon is an interesting person and has his flaws, but at least he seems to care about the state of D&D; he ain't the only tech billionaire or investor who cares. How do you get to be this fucking retarded? Were you dropped on the head as a child? Did your mom forget to stop drinking while she was pregnant?
>>11249747Your dead cats are calling to you pedosoth, and so is that rouge plushie
>>11247721So I'm going to see Kup reimagined as a Cybertruck
>>11249705Also, Tesla is losing share rapidly. The real reason Elon went with Trump is his fear of Chinese EVs. How much Tesla stock is tied to his twitter purchase?
>>11249806>Transformers but it's Cybertrucks vs SpaceX rockets.Kino.
>>11249518NTA but if the goal is to do nothing but increase valuation over any other metric (because apparently high stock price means desirable CEO for consumers) then just pull fucking Gabe Newell or, failing that, EA, Activision, or Apple's leads. They're worth more, so obviously better leader, right?
>>11248856
>>11249507he won Trump's presidency with it so it was worth it
>>11250057You need someone who respects the customer; customer wants quality product in exchange for money. If you want me to believe in this fantasy world you're portraying - D&D, MTG, TF, GI Joe, MLP, etc. - and consooom product, you need to at least respect the customer and provide a good experience. Greedy corpo suits don't understand that; >''just try colored blob with happy face and see if it sells, if it doesn't it must be the market or bad luck IDC'' (they really do be like that, this isn't even a joke). Lefty she-twinks only think about themselves and whatever mental illness they make everything they do around. >All fans I don't like are bad people! I will call people who spend money with us bad names because they're bad people!This of course disqualifies EA, Activision or Apple. Would Elon be the best? No, but are things to consider:1) He doesn't badmouth paying customers.2) He seems to be a fan of D&D and Transformers (''cybertruck'', ''optimus'' the robot) and perhaps even a closet horsefucker. So for my stance; he's the least shitty option we can reasonably expect to make the IP's good again.
Elon Musk is autistic but not about action figures, he cares about DnD stuff.I can imagine all the figure lines would stay the same under him.I don’t really care about Hasbro after they killed Fortnite one which was very neat.
>>11247755That’s Blackrock silly.
>>11249528There's a few issues with your argumentation.First is that I simply don't trust you to not claim any alternative candidate is "woke". That's the least of the problems, but it is present. The politics of the candidates doesn't matter, results do. I simply don't trust that I could present Gabe or an equivilant without you going "Um trans flag on steam sale! Woke much?"Further than that, as unfortunate as it is, DnD lends itself well towards leftist ideas. Always has. It wasn't exactly the hippies who were up in arms about the very existence of it, and the left isn't getting pissy about people playing the wrong gender in a fucking RPG. Granted, the move to remove racial traits is a stupid push, but you're out of your mind if you see TTRPGs and go "Yes, red pulled and anti-woke."The major issue, however, is that you're not really presenting how he'd genuinely be better. How would Elon improve DnD? What benefit would come to me, the consumer, if Elon took control of it? What of the toys? The books? Elon has time and again shown himself to be both reactive and easily distracted by new endeavors. Let's discount Twitter for your benefit and ask what has he done to improve companies he's in ownership of. The cybertruck has been a massive pile of shit, highlighting quite possibly everything wrong with the car industry at the moment, from shitty tablet controls to software that just shits itself and just garbage build quality, made for the faggot who wants to larp as blue collar. Tesla's mainline cars are only for the well-to-do and offer little to the everyman. SpaceX is...fine, actually, sure, but that's an incredibly specific specialty business.What are you even defining as an improvement? Stock price? Shareholder value? Or are we viewing it from the consumer side, anon? You're presenting shareholder stats, but that doesn't help me, the end user. You might as well pull the best CEO in the country and say "Share price high make company good!"
>>11247721He can't afford it.
>>11250460>>11249518>>11249475>>11249465Reasonable takes. I can see this happening.>>11249493>The worst edition ever to be created by Elon!!!Nothing can beat woke garbage anon. I agree with the ''Elon is least awful'' sentiment, not a ''glorious saver''
>>11250527DESU the only hope we can have is that he's smart enough to not follow in the footsteps of retarded boomer room-temperature-IQ managers of Hasbro and meddle in things he shouldn't. If he has a good creative director (per brand) that have a good plan, pitches it, gets approval and gets it done, *then* it can be a huge success. But of course that means Musks needs to listen to the experts and trust their judgement. Which - if he speaks the truth here - he does. Because of course nobody wants "the new norm but <insert Hasbro brand here>". Just because it's bad when leftists blue haired troons make 'Trans'-formers doesn't mean it's dubbleplusgood when the MAGA hats do the same thing. "It's okay when we do it amiright"?https://x.com/elon_docs/status/1846408369550053420>What are you even defining as an improvement? Stock price? Shareholder value? Or are we viewing it from the consumer side, anon? You're presenting shareholder stats, but that doesn't help me, the end user. You might as well pull the best CEO in the country and say "Share price high make company good!"Sold merchandise. Hasbroke isn't selling merchandise, tons of it is rotting at second chance stores. Retailers are fed up with Hasbroke since their stock ain't moving and shelf space is precious. Just walk into any toy store you know, America or Europe. Barely any Hasbroke there, especially compared to 10 years ago. They're running at a loss, are deep in debts that are 3+ times their total assets, they're throwing out dividends based on money they do not have and the list goes on. Turning that around would be an improvement.
>>11247727How so? Hasbro has tons of excellent IPs being mismanaged into the ground by out of touch suits and Elon knows what sells and how to sell it.
>>11249610>Bans woke groomer trashHe literally didn't, though. His entire bit was that he was unbanning people. The fuck do you get your info from?Also>calls a literal hero a pedophile after getting called out for being useless and shitty>wins the defamation suit on the basis of "Nah bro it was just a joke, my home country of south africa saar, it was just a joke saarIs the only time I heard him have anything to do with anything of the sort (and it was a situation where he was completely in the wrong, irrespective of political standing)
>>11249465I'm convinced that Hasbro has at least one Disney plant in the higher ups who's intentionally making shit worse so they can buy Hasbro and their IPs.
to what extent is hasbro to blame for the woke stuff people hate? aren't they obligated to produce what disney demands for their two main licenses?
>>11250527>DESU the only hope we can have is that he's smart He's not, he's just rich enough to fail upwards.>>11251451Like that Roadster he sold people in 2016? How's that project going? Maybe he'll finally release it next year.
>>11247721I just hope he doesn't mess with or kill off Beyblade, Hasbro is finally importing Beyblade X properly after the disaster that was Hasbro Beyblade Burst
>>11247721Sounds based, he really turned X around. Hasbro is probably one of the worst run companies rn so they might as well let Musk try to fix it.
>>11249507Wow, you sound like a whining liberal. Maybe grow the fuck up? The man can do whatever the fuck he wants with his property.
>>11251938>after the disaster that was Hasbro Beyblade BurstQRD? i kinda checked out during burst
>>11252144here's just a sample
>>11251903>guy starts with 30k and turns that into a multibillion dollar empire>b-but muh car that didn't sellShow us on this doll where Elon hurt you.
>>11251961>he really turned X aroundExplain to me how exactly
>>11251400This summarizes the bread: it can only work IF AND ONLY IF he doesn't make it a MAGA-fest (which is just as bad as if it was made by blue haired landsharks), and IF AND ONLY IF he gets a well thought out plan (for each brand) rolling and doesn't meddle in it except to check of milestones are met.
>>11252467why would he make it a MAGA fest in anycase? it's not like he did that with X/Twitter. at the end of the day the entire discussion doesnt focus on whether or not Musk could do a good job, instead it fixates on either desperate fans of damaged brands hoping for improvement or disgruntled paranoid leftists spitting out the worst case scenario options like they always do. If Musk buys hasbro all he needs to do is rehire the old designers and fire all the people responsible for the decline. the issue would resolve itself from there.>muh didney, muh marvelwhy would you want hasbro to retain either franchise when star wars is a creatively bankrupt husk of its former glory and marvel isnt that far behind it?
>>11252467>he gets a well thought out planThis is not a thing Musk does. He loves to tout how he acts on a whim without any plan whatsoever all the time and just sort of makes decisions fast. Then he says his same old>Move fast and break thingsWhich displays how he fucks up until he can eventually pull some kind of win, but after he has really fucked over that company for a while.
>>11247757Except for Simon Furman, these are all great ideas.....that would not happen. I wish they would, but it wouldn't
>>11252303He transformed it from a social media platform into a Right Wing promotional network and porn distribution aggregator.
>>11252303He more or less wiped out the K-pop bot menace overnight.
>>11249530you can't*why are you even on this site in the first place
>>11252737But it's banning porn
>>11247748Disney has better lawyers than the DOJ, and many of the decent corporate type lawyers they do have are going to be leaving sooner rather than later.>>11247921/Toy is just as bad, not as immersively and encompass but it's around, especially with the janitors
>>11248040>> writing so cookiecutter the wiki pokes fun of his furmanismsThat just means Walky hates him, which means that he's based.
