Hasbro is winding down collector lines and will slowly be getting out of toys altogether.
>>11937160Based, more room for blokees
>>11937165Blokees are shit
>>11937160Why do you waste your time lying?
>>11937165plamos suck. They should all follow the Pokemon way instead
>>11937166>>11937180Trump lost, China won. New world order soon, only toys that require assembly will be sold to discourage slave labor and exploitation of minorities :)
>>11937160nothing of value lost
>>11937160Ive noticed this shit too. Why do they wanna make less toys? Does hasbro wanna lose money and go bankrupt? I just dont fucking get it
>>11937352Part of it's due to the usual corporate method of maximizing profits for less effort. Another factor is gradually winding down so it'll be easier to cut their losses when the government plunges us into stone ages due to their shortsighted mismanagement. Make of that what you will.
>>11937160On one hand this sucks on so many levels.But on the other hand less toys to spend money on.
>>11937372I feel like this is all because that faggot chris cox wants to force hasbro into making vidya slop more instead of toys like he previously said. Just another reason why gaming is a cultural tumor
>>11937165not based, hate hasbro all you want but they're the only company that'll make obscure ass characters to fill out your collection/teamsi love mafex but they're never going to make an angel until maybe 2050.
Serious collectors don’t fw hasbro anyway
>>11937160You guys have been saying this for like two years now.
>>11937402You don't even buy toys
>>11937160They don't price-compete internally, so if it costs a fuckload to keep the Star Wars and Marvel licenses and those get passed on with higher toy prices, then everything else must be higher-priced too so Hasbro's not under-cutting itself. And when shit like Star Wars ends up being a loss, higher prices on their own brands will absorb the losses, so Transformers, Pony, and GI Joe fans are paying for Disney fucking up Star Wars. That right there is a HUGE part of their decade-long raising of prices. And they should have known that customers can only pay so much before prices are so high that people are either cherry-picking fewer items or stop buying entirely.
>>11937395They backed off of gaming tho.https://news.tfw2005.com/2026/07/22/hasbro-cuts-down-gaming-ambitions-after-56-million-impairment-charge-569147
>>11937437Their point of entry into gaming was in the late 90s when game-making was cheap and quick. They blew it hard. Now it'll cost up to $250 million nd take up to a decade to make one single game.
>>11937461you know you can make a game for far less with a skeleton crew. Problem is Cocks is a retarded fucking bastard who is squandeering everything.
>>11937160I definitely see Star Wars going away since most releases are just Ross fodder now, but I doubt Marvel Legends does. It’s too popular.
>>11937437so wtf is their plan then??>backed off from movies>backed off from cartoons>backed off from games>now backing off from toysjust rape WOTC until it all self destructs?
>>11937477Licensing out their internal brands to other companies and collecting cash on that as well.
>>11937395Weird thing is that they had a good Transformers game series in War for Cybertron but fucked that up and every Transformer game since then aside from Devastation has been mobile slop.
>>11937419That begs the question as to why they even bother keeping the star wars license anymore if it is tanking their company. Isnt it true that when disney bought star wars the licensing fee for the franchise went up astronomically?>>11937437Good, fuck video games trying to sideline yet another one of my hobbies into irrelevancy.
>>11937352Their profits come from MTG, selling cardboard for hundreds.
>>11937501>the domino effect of influencers like logan paul hyping up TCG slop is now reducing action figure outputI wish the nips lynched that fucker after he made a spectacle in the suicide forest so none of this shit wouldve happened
>>11937495>That begs the question as to why they even bother keeping the star wars license anymore if it is tanking their company.The same goes for Marvel. Most Marvel shit might as well go straight to Ollie's for clearance.
>>11937506This isn't true at all. Marvel Legends hasn't had an Ollie's wave since Disney Plus wave 2
>>11937508Now what about the movie/tv show shit?
>>11937512They barely release movie/tv show figures now. Look at the latest Spiderman film or Thunderbolts where the pickings were very slim. X-Men 97 got big waves but didn't go to Ollies.
>>11937160And the bad thing would be? Marvel legends' yearly launches are full of stupid pegwarmers
>>11937558Those pegwarmers are still good figures
>>11937160Shoutout to the dude that leaked this on here last month
>>11937587I memberAnyone got an archive link?
>>11937558Pretty much this. If they're just scaling back the number of releases for a while, I always thought that was the number 1 thing many toy companies needed to do right now anyway. We aren't in the 90s or 2000s anymore where there is room for excessive bloat in toylines. I've always thought they need to cut the fat and axe shitty trinkets that don't sell, or just cut some waves and/or stop making Z-list characters for a while. The shelves just get so clogged with pointless shit that no one wants and it hangs around in the clearance bin for months.
>>11937587what he say?
>>11937601That hasbro was getting out of figures largely by the end of 2027. Most of the replies called him a liar and a larper.
>>11937352The CEO, Chris Cox, used to run WOTC. Magic cards and D&D shit has been what's made Hasbro all of their money the last 15 years, so that's where his focus is because it's extremely cheap to produce and is basically pure profit. His goal since taking over has been making Hasbro an entertainment production company that licenses out their big IPs (meaning basically Transformers and GI Joe) and to get out of toys altogether while only making cardboard crap like TCGs and board games. They continue to fire hundreds to thousands of employees a year so I don't think he's going to stop until there's maybe 40 people that work there to just keep Magic going. He has no concept of loyalty or legacy which is why he also moved their headquarters from their historic Pawtucket location to Boston because he couldn't find enough five star restaurants to eat at daily.
>>11937608>That hasbro was getting out of figures largely by the end of 2027Based, Americans can't make toys anyway so it makes sense they all go out of business anyway given Blokees is way better and gives people what they want.
>>11937599Fuck you thats the last thing we need, they already arent making enough toys now the last thing we need is where they only make variants of the MCs ad infinitum>>11937615God i hope chris cox dies of cancer the same way brian goldner did
Dude Mattel might actually end up with all the big ips lmao. This is a great opportunity. Imagine $10 Star Wars figures like the Motu core line or $12.99 6.5 inch marvel figures like their dc core line.
>>11937627>, they already arent making enough toys now the last thing we need is where they only make variants of the MCs ad infinitumthen 3D print your own its 2026 and theres materials out there where you can make your own but choose not to, lazy as usual with you types
>>11937628>This is a great opportunity. Imagine $10 Star Wars figures like the Motu core line Id rather they be 3.75 inch but it would still be better then what we currently have
>>119376293D printing is flimsy fragile slop and suck my dick i shouldnt be forced to assemble toys. Not everyone is into model kit shit you gunpla loving subhuman
>>11937608>That hasbro was getting out of figures largely by the end of 2027.And do what instead?
>>11937641I guess license their in house IPs and sell Magik
[spoiler]>>11937629[/spoiler]>>11937628>>11937630>>11937641>>11937643I'd rather blokees get the marvel license and make actual quality toys that don't look like shit with woke retards in charge.
>>11937645They already have a license retard
>>11937160Does that include board games? I really want them to sell off all their board game rights to people who won't fuck them up so badly
>>11937160Oh yes, because their video game plan is just going so well
