Hasbro's Financial Stuffs.

[Roughneck]

SO thier Financial report showed net Earnings of a bunch...blah blah blah, down about 6 percent from this time last year.

Some properties have dipped. Littlest Pet Shop, Tranformers and Marvel brands have all seen declines.

This was, however, somewhat offset by growth in Nerf, Playskool and Star Wars.

GIJoe bout the same, but expected to pick up.......they think that Transformers and Marvel will also both pick up with Wolverine and Treanformers 2.



Just sayin all for y'all here that Marvel is experiencing a dip for Q1........Damn tiny Marvel figs.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

Thats why cos the MU's SUUUUUCK. im a serious MU hater haha

 

[Spider-Jay420]

I don't like the MU figures either, but I'm not sure if them selling poorly is a good thing. I would hate to think some executive in marketing would think, "If these small ones aren't selling as well as we thought they would, maybe the bigger (6") ones won't sell either?"

I would be real pissed if these MU figures mess up the future of the ML.

 

[lars573]

I've heard about that. I really don't think it's the MU. There talking about the whole Marvel brand. And a cartoon doesn't move toys like it used too. So Spectacular Spider-man probably isn't doing well. Ironman movie stuff is probably dropping off in sales cause the movie is gone.

I would be real pissed if these MU figures mess up the future of the ML.

I think ML not selling would have messed up their future on their own.

 

[Spider-Jay420]

I thought the Target and Walmart exclusives sold well, no?

The Spectacular Spider-Man and Iron Man movie figs CAN"T be doing well, Everywhere I go the pegs are overrun with them.

*sigh* I really hope they show us some great ML stuff at SDCC this year.

 

[uchiha_itachi]

when is tht btw

 

[lars573]

I thought the Target and Walmart exclusives sold well, no?

Exclusives have smaller production runs than mass retail. Plus the retailer that it's exclusive too has agreed to buy the entire production run. And in a lot of cases if Hasbro canned a line but still has product that was ready to go (molds were made all they needed was the go ahead for production) they sell them to a retailer as exclusives. I've seen this with the TF sidelines of Alternators and Titanium. Alternators was canned with two new toys ready to go, Jaguar Ravage and Rumble. They ended up as Wal-Mart exclusives. Titanium same thing, line canned. Last two new molds (WWI Grimlock and Prowl) ended up as TRU exclusives. For a more relavent example, the two-packs. Those did so horribly they are now exclusive to diamond (and TRU IIRC). Hasbro is not in the habit of canning a line that's doing well. Unless it's getting in the way of a line that can do much much better. Like Transformers animated. Or look at Indiana Jones. That line got killed before all the product they showed was even fully released. I only ever saw the TOD figures once at TRU.

The Spectacular Spider-Man and Iron Man movie figs CAN"T be doing well, Everywhere I go the pegs are overrun with them.

*sigh* I really hope they show us some great ML stuff at SDCC this year.

Like I said cartoons don't move product like they use too. And Spectacular Spider-Man is a kids line anyway. Ironman movie stuff was bound to slip in sales once the movie hype was done.

when is tht btw

My sisters birthday. July 24th

 

[Roughneck]

I dated a girl in High School with that Birthday.



Anyway, I hope that the ML news is that they are moving to a collector line only, a la Matty Collectors stuff.

That way, sure we'll get less, but it will be easy enough to score off of the website (Unless you're Canadian) but we might see an increase in quality and we'll definetally see an increase in character selection. There will be an increase in price with that as well. But honestly....If it's done right, I wouldn't mind.

Bump up the price, bring back some older articulation and give us characters like ......I dunno, Stingray, Shaman, Polaris, Crystal, Rage, Yondu, Gladiator and Modern Cage.

Eliminate the BAFs but do single carded big characters like Nimrod.

Give us the characters we want, but at the same time letting us pick and choose who we buy, and give us a wicked easy means to buy them.

I aint know nuthing bout marketing but to me this soulnds like a damn solid idea. Keep making the MU stuff for the children and thier mothers, but for us, switch to a collectors market......do the DCDirect.

 

[lars573]

I can see ML working in much smaller way. A couple exclusive waves and maybe a mass retail wave.