Hasbro's Ethical position: Choice magazine

[MV75]

I just cut the wires Paulbot, it makes it easier Hmmm makes you think now why we get all the defects in QC of Animated toys ... 80 hrs/week labor, sheesh and someone gets fined for being too much in the loo appalling work conditions.

That actually comes down to the people in charge of the actual factory. They get a certain amount of $ for a certain amount of figures. They then cut costs further on their side by doing stuff dodgy/cheap.

They could do all toys like the premium range as a standard, but don't because the factories then increase their bottom line.

I do wonder what is in the future though to toy prices and where they are manufactured when these countries catch up to us in their labour practices and conditions and pay due to constant "western interference". I see "cheap chinese labour" becoming "cheap african labour".
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[GoktimusPrime]

It happens. Transformers were initially made in Japan until labour costs made it prohibitive. Then manufacturing was moved to off-shore to places like Macau (at the time still a Portuguese colony), Indonesia and now China. But yeah, once the cost of manufacturing in China becomes prohibitive they'll move it off-shore to somewhere cheaper. Africa's not a country btw.

[MV75]

But it is a term of the people. Yea, I'm playing the context card in response to your locality card.
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[GoktimusPrime]

So then we can say that Transformers have always been made in the same place then. From G1 till now Transformers have always been Made In Asia(TM). Ggrrr!

[MV75]

Ah! You countered with the racism card. Don't make me play the socialist card because that would mean the game would be over because society will go to anarchy.
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