Come join us as we watch the building slowly burn to the ground. The situation has changed for Hasbro over the past 3 months, and not for the better. (meaning /toy/, /tg/ and /containment/ were right)>Larian Studios said goodbye since they were paying for a license but everyone who consulted them is laid off from the company>D&D/MTG is in rapid decline to the dismay of /tg/>CEO Cocks broke his vow not to use AI for D&D>Cynthia Williams is the fall gal for these failings to pretend ''they're fixing the problems'' while looting the company's coffers.>TF/GI Joe merch sales are slowing down again, losing the little bit of recovery they had.>Board games sales are down.>Horses ''little girl audience'' no longer exists, /containmentfandom/ is at 10% of its original size and is irrelevant to Hasbro's merch. Merch and show are ignored by everyone.>Retailers are en masse replacing Hasbro merchandise with competitors because it isn't selling. FurReal Friends are being removed from stores worldwide by many retailers.https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/hasbro-has-reports-earnings-tomorrow-what-to-expect-3390468>This quarter analysts are expecting Hasbro's revenue to decline 26% year on year to $740.9 million, a further deceleration on the 13.9% year-over-year decrease in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.28 per share.>The analysts covering the company have been growing increasingly bearish about the business heading into the earnings, with revenue estimates seeing three downward revisions over the last thirty days. The company missed Wall St's revenue estimates four times over the last two years.>MUH 2 more weeksThat's not how it worksIn 10 hours, we'll know how it goes. Throw your bets in anons.
>this guy againJesus dude, give it a rest already. Hasbro isn't going to die.
They're going to sell a lot of their brands soon. Screencap this.
>>10962946But I don't care
>>10963014Bet. I want to see the horsefuckers sperging when that happens
>>10962946>Hasbro destroyed by CocksHorses and LPS have lost their little girl audience because no little girl wants anything that has been touched by Cocks.They should let go of Cocks. Maybe Cocks could take a cut.
>>10962946There’s rumours in the business world that they might be attempting to sell some of their bigger properties to TenCent. Transformers in particular is very popular in China as it’s one of the few Western cartoons that was broadcast there when the regime was more overtly communist in its treatment of foreign media.
>>10963025No other posts will top this one. Let's call the thread a rap
>>10963028Doubtful. Transformers is one of the few things that’s actually making them money.
>>10963028>>10963065Or is it? They gleefully said that they ''got more revenue'' from it. Doesn't mean profit, and (((moneypeople))) like their weaselwords .
>>10963028Doubt, because I don't think Takara Tomy will stand for it. But I agree with >>10963023 that they're going to sell the horses. And LPS too
>>10962946they've been losing their ass since the 2015 star wars movie line, tons of shit just stagnant at retail, I hope they lose the marvel license and Playmates gets that too
>>10963014Not sell. License them.They already do with Power Rangers, Playmates toys will make toys in 2025 for Hasbro PR.
https://toybook.com/hasbro-q1-earnings-revenue-slides-as-business-model-evolves/>While the company beat Wall St. estimates on profit and margin, revenue slid 24% versus Q1 last year amid a massive 21% decline in its Consumer Products segment which includes toys and games.>''our turnaround is working''
>>10963028No way they are selling off transformers of all things, it’s one of the only genuinely successful brands they have, their shares would go into freefall.
>>10963237They can't even sell it, it's a condominium between them and Takara Tomy.
>>10963215This. By licensing brand out to other manufacturers (like the Gi Joe/TF Page Punchers from McFarlane and various Star Wars/Nerf and other things to Jazwares too), they still earn a profit through royalties, but don't have the risk of paying to produce and then have the stuff not sell through.
Feels pretty based seeing Americans fail as always.
>>10963028Optimus Prime: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."Chinese government: Hmm this seems legit to broadcast to our slave labor populace!
>>10963028You are brainwashed by your media. Most of the western cartoon shows from 80s to early 2000 were dubbed and broadcasted in China, including every single Cartoon Network show. Same applies to many other asian countries, but with lesser variety.
>>10963827Was GI Joe turned into some kind of retrofitted version of the Chinese military or did they leave it American?
>>10962946Hasbro, you shall burn, for what you did to g4 mlp and classic lps, and many other toys. I will rejoice at this, and at the fandoms buying the rights and turning their ashes into gold.
>>10964339Take it down a notch Chris Chan
Well what happened? Did tencent fly over OPs house?
Okay so let me get it straight:Hasbro lost a ton of money in Q1, and on top of that decided to give another 70 cents to shareholders, which is, what, 90 million dollars? Everything is still deteriorating, but because it isn't as bad as expected, somehow everyone is happy at the ''restructuring'' and the fucking stock jumps up 12%?Are (((Wall Street))) clowns that stupid, or are they just jacking up the stock to short it?Someone is going to make a killing from this.
>>10964618>NOOOOO>WHY WON'T HASBRO DIIIIIEEEEEEWatching you seethe is more entertaining than the actual toys I collect.
>>10964339You fucked your mom.
>>10964644Nah I just see jewry in action
>>109646182020 made everything a mystery box and most were expecting bad returns for a good amount of time. In short if things went this bad with no global lockdowns you would have had a serious fallout from all this but sense everyone was primed for a downturn it has less impact.
>>10964618(((Wall Street))) clowns are sharks. They don't care about any particular company or market or product. Once they've eaten everything here, they'll just move over there, and repeat the cycle. It's sort of like politics where (((they'll))) ruin one country and then move to another to ruin it too and then another and another up to 109 so far.
So is hasbro dead yet? No? Why’d you get my hopes up like this anon.
>>10962998But D&D 4E did and literally killed people in the process. Hasbro is fucking up so badly that shitty remakes of TMNT figures are outselling their main lines. It hurts even more that monoculture is basically dead in the younger generations so no massly produced toys are going to excite kids anymore anyway
>>10965227Good old GameStop showed the world by accident
In fact, Playmates will soon be making Power Rangers figures. Fucking top kek. https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/04/23/amidst-continued-business-struggles-hasbro-signs-licensing-agreement-allowing-playmates-to-make-new-power-rangers-toys/
>>10966607Their leadership simply has no idea what they're doing. Typical MBA can only cut jobs and raise prices, neither of which has ever done anything but slow the decline.
>>10967058some fat chick sucking Cocks all day... it's a mystery the vulture-investors haven't moved on yet but i guess the best meat is right when it dies, right?
>>10967100Let's put this in perspective: let's say you're a (((guy))) at a retirement fund handling their shares portfolio. Hasbro is only less than a 10th of a percent of that portfolio. Why should I care what happens there? Not worth my time.Cocks knows this too.
>>10962946when did this happen? I don't follow the toy industry much but if i remember not too long ago it was Mattel that was doing really badly and people saying it wouldn't stay afloat while Hasbro was now investing in their media branch to start making shows and movies.
>>10967447Only because that retard Goldner couldn't get a job at a media company so he decided to twist a toy company into one. They didn't really invest either, as much as buy what they thought was a turnkey business after farming out stuff like Combiner Wars to the lowest bid ding Flash animator. Surprise, it failed and fell apart completely when he died.
>>10967447Mattel only "survived" because they lumped it full of money. They still lost money in Q1 2024
>>10967629And Cocks seems to be taking the route of outlicensing everything>horsefuckers malding in 3, 2, 1...
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/hasbros-1-billion-bet-on-internal-game-development>let's spend 1 fucking billion dollars on game developmentyou don't need a fucking billion dollars to make a fucking game. BG3 had a budget of a 100 million. GTA5 a budget of 250 million (now ~300-350 million) and so on. Even Star fucking scam Citizen has a budget of half that.You don't need a billion to make a GI Joe and DnD game, or even half a dozen of them. This is a money laundering scheme
>>10974142Making a studio from scratch costs more than just making the video game.Also, they're going to make multiple video games from those billion dollars and they're likely taking into account the amount of time that it will take to produce those games over a 3-8 year period.
