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Hasbro profits down 47 percent
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04-21-2009, 09:57 AM
speedocub
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Without sounding repetitive, I can name off the brands and the single mistakes that they made with them. But in a summary for each, Hasbro should have stayed with what they knew was good, instead they ventured off into poor sales.
My Little Pony: Flagship for girls, they continue to release the same characters with minor repaint and use the same mold for every single one. No supporting media.
Little Pet Shop: Secondary line for girls. Again, continual repaints and no new molds...and they went all Bratz on them and makes them look less cute and cudly and more bling and zing.
New Marvel Line: Although we have yet to see these through, the tooling and sculpts are all over the board, there is no consistency with this line at all.
Star Wars: It's not Hasbros fault that Clone Wars isnt entirely popular...it's Georges fault. He let this horrid cartoony line make it to figures, the majority of figures and made hard core fans such as myself, look to another product line. I cant buy the figures that look like toys for toddlers.
Then there is GI Joe: Yes, endless repaints and silly figures made from recycled ones. Why not tool each one originally?? But the biggest problem with the line is the over production of Wild Bill and Buzzer and underproduction of Bats...Hasbro learned that Clones sell...and troop builders sell...so why do they ignore that in the joe line???
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