Pre Toyfair investor event - the future direction of the Brand

[DELTAprime]

Seibertron have clearer non-watermarked images of the stills.

I'm not sure what all the stages of denial are but I think I'm up to acceptance. The slide that says Rescue Bots are Boys 2-4, AOE Boys 4-10 and Generations Boys 18+ has made me accept that there will be nothing but Generations and Takara's MP line for me to buy in the future. I doubt I will even be buying non-collector oriented line figures for my character shelves Prime's, Megatron's, Seeker's, Bee's and Soundwave's.

[griffin]

Seibertron have clearer non-watermarked images of the stills.

Excellent, as I needed some of the toy images... and an odd role reversal of watermarking the official toy images both sites got from the USA Today new article.

They have an extra image in there too for the age/demographic breakdown.
(all are "boys" - which isn't meant to be prejudicial against girls... it is just noting the majority demographic for the *investors* to recognise where their money is going)
2-4 - Recruit (Rescue Bots)
4-10 - Play & Battle (Mainline-Movie)
18+ - Collect (Generations)

It is odd that there are now two mentions of Generations as a separate label from the Movie line, but the leaked Hasbro database noted the label being used for the main (non-gimmick) movie toys.
Hopefully it just means that they were just entered into the Database like that for sorting reasons, but will not be the actual label of the packaging.


No mention of BotShots on either site, so maybe that line was axed as well... which might mean, no Soundwave.

[Sinnertwin]

Three movie years of one-step, bash 'em action!

I saw the Nerf Rebelle's at Big W, Penrith, before Christmas. Haven't seen them elsewhere. Then again, Nerf isn't my bag of chips

[Mythirax]

Three movie years of one-step, bash 'em action!

Providing after the first wave the plastic doesn't feel like dried up paper that was once wet. I can deal with that. So long as they're not these 1-step bits of crud.

As for the nerf stuff, my sister loves it haha.

[Sinnertwin]

As for the nerf stuff, my sister loves it haha.

Sister? Sure...

[Mythirax]

Sister? Sure...

Well to be fair we both love it. At the least she's still a kid, where as I'm not haha

[griffin]

Having another look over the Investor Event, I saw this slide that was SUPPOSED to be promoting the increase of employee numbers in new foreign Markets (which would be a good thing for the company)... but instead, what stands out more in that graph is how many jobs they've slashed in just 5 years (about 1000, or about 15%), both in America and in existing foreign Markets (like ours).
Who ever did up that slide should have just shown the figures of just the new foreign Markets, as they ended up making Hasbro look really bad for killing off their employee numbers, and not one for investing in *Human* resources.

[Lint]

Having another look over the Investor Event, I saw this slide that was SUPPOSED to be promoting the increase of employee numbers in new foreign Markets (which would be a good thing for the company)... but instead, what stands out more in that graph is how many jobs they've slashed in just 5 years (about 1000, or about 15%), both in America and in existing foreign Markets (like ours).
Who ever did up that slide should have just shown the figures of just the new foreign Markets, as they ended up making Hasbro look really bad for killing off their employee numbers, and not one for investing in *Human* resources.

To be fair a GFC did happen, and most of the lost jobs look to be taken straight out of the US.

[griffin]

But Hasbro didn't cut back until 2012, when we lost a lot of the Transformers people and other departments (according to BotCon and fansite reports in the last year).

And even if the GFC, or some other factor made it necessary, my main point was that they should have hidden it from that particular slide, because the smaller blue bar was more noticeable than the bigger orange bar.

[DELTAprime]

And even if the GFC, or some other factor made it necessary, my main point was that they should have hidden it from that particular slide, because the smaller blue bar was more noticeable than the bigger orange bar.

Yeah, doesn't look too good.

As for why they cut the jobs in the first place. I felt like they kept their head in the sand when the market crashed, and only reacted years later with job cuts and cost cutting.