Brian Goldner died and his successors don't have a real vision for the company now.
It’s been an issue with all these sorts of companies, I’d say going back to Disney’s push trailblazing every other company to have their own multimedia empires. Mattel having their own concrete plans and successes recently isn’t helping as much, as companies think they’re all just expendable rosters of IP’s that can work everywhere else besides how the brands were originally intended to be used.
No conglomerate has ever succeeded, and no multimedia empire ever will. You have to be in the business of making, not owning, and unless you federate all your divisions this top down model ends up looking like communist oligarchy with endemic corruption, badly designed targets, and Waluigis everywhere.
>Make first dedicated web series >Make toys before you even get final designs from Titmouse, much less have any episodes ready >Show ends up pretty good though, even if a bit cheaply made. Titmouse did well with what they could >Make shitty phone game that can be broken wide open with easy to find codes trivializing the need to buy stuff for it >Start having season 2 made along with a bunch of additional shorts >Move show to TV only, taking it off the internet entirely >Tell NO ONE you're doing that save for a single commercial spot on the channel it's moving to at like 5 in the morning >Have honestly really good theatrical short made to play before horse film >Have nothing before, during, or after the short indicate that it's related to a currently ongoing series you can find on whatever fricking channel it is that they put it on >Cancel production on season 2 after only 6 episodes and 8 shorts are finished >Never speak about Hanazuki ever again >Slowly remove any mention of it from your online stores
I don't think I've ever seen an IP be handled worse in my life. The show was far better than a fricking toy commercial had any right to be and they squandered every single opportunity to make something of it. Hanazuki deserved so much better.
The reality is that the show was probably cancelled midway through season 1's release. They had big plans for that IP, so more was likely in the works on the expectation that it would do well. It moving to Discovery Family almost certainly played no part in its fate, because it was probably dead by then anyway.
THIS
[...] >IP farm / media company
That's primarily concerned with making and selling toys
>That's primarily concerned with making and selling toys
Not anymore. They've licensed out Power Rangers, Littlest Pet Shop, Easy Bake, Tonka, etc. to other toy companies. If the Snake Eyes game flops and the Transformers crossover movie either doesn't get made or also bombs, expect GI Joe to go that way, too.
They're too stubborn to farm out GI Joe. They'll just keep trying until the public loves it again, even if they have to cram it down their throats, dammit.
From /prg/ >Transformers is a custody joint with Takara >GI Joe is pure Hasbro kin and can literally go to jail for murder and still be given love by the parent >MASK, ROM, Micronauts etc are neglected adopted kids >Visionaries is the kid who's biological but died after sleeping on their stomach as an infant >Same for Xevoz >Also for Inhumanoids but they straight up lost the body as well through an accident >Air Raiders died the second the baby took a breath out of the womb >Wizards of the Coast stuff are the kids CPS barge in to investigate >Power Rangers is the neglected adopted kid, jumped from foster family to foster family who was initially given so much promise only to be pimped out to someone else now for cheap cash >The horses are the successful daughter who the parents love, but they always ask why she keeps dating men twice her age.
Pride in what? The people who run Hasbro now have nothing to do with GI Joe's glory years. Their current CEO is a former Microsoft employee.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Pride in the line that practically made them. That and Potato Head.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
With Joe its a matter of pride.
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Hasbro sold over 1 billion LPS toys. If that got licensed out, nothing's safe.
From /prg/ >Transformers is a custody joint with Takara >GI Joe is pure Hasbro kin and can literally go to jail for murder and still be given love by the parent >MASK, ROM, Micronauts etc are neglected adopted kids >Visionaries is the kid who's biological but died after sleeping on their stomach as an infant >Same for Xevoz >Also for Inhumanoids but they straight up lost the body as well through an accident >Air Raiders died the second the baby took a breath out of the womb >Wizards of the Coast stuff are the kids CPS barge in to investigate >Power Rangers is the neglected adopted kid, jumped from foster family to foster family who was initially given so much promise only to be pimped out to someone else now for cheap cash >The horses are the successful daughter who the parents love, but they always ask why she keeps dating men twice her age.
GI Joe is their golden child born strictly in-house
Even at its most unpopular Hasbro will still refuse to disrespect it like that
The reality is that the show was probably cancelled midway through season 1's release. They had big plans for that IP, so more was likely in the works on the expectation that it would do well. It moving to Discovery Family almost certainly played no part in its fate, because it was probably dead by then anyway.
[...] >That's primarily concerned with making and selling toys
Not anymore. They've licensed out Power Rangers, Littlest Pet Shop, Easy Bake, Tonka, etc. to other toy companies. If the Snake Eyes game flops and the Transformers crossover movie either doesn't get made or also bombs, expect GI Joe to go that way, too.
I honestly wish someone would take over making gi joe figures. Maybe wed get more O-ring figures that way
I wish we got another good joe cartoon...
2 weeks ago
Boco
Why would you want o-rings again? They'll rot one day.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Theyre fun to play with. Also >he doesnt know how to change out O-rings
NGMI
But yeah i just want more 3.75 gi joes. Im still salty the modern 3.75 line is dead now and replaced by classified shit instead
2 weeks ago
Boco
If it helps, we're getting o-ring Ghostbusters. So...maybe one day?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Wake me up when they make a jar-able Janine figure >BUSTIN MAKES ME FEEL GOOD
Their primary owned brands are Magic, mini-horses, NERF and Transformers. Their licensed franchise mainstays are Beyblade and the properties Disney are speedrunning into the ground.
Pride in the line that practically made them. That and Potato Head.
Hasbro isn't a family run business. GI Joe hasn't had mainstream relevance in over 30 years. I don't see why a publicly traded company would harbor sentimentality like that. Licensing out toy rights doesn't mean they're selling the brand.
>Their licensed franchise mainstays are Beyblade and the properties Disney are speedrunning into the ground.
I know this is done to death but why isnt KK been fired yet? Theyre at least trying to fix marvel but nothings been done about trying to unrape star wars
The CEO who wanted to the company to be an entertainment business died. His successors want the company to be an IP farm that collects licensing royalties and gacha/subscription game revenue.
They're an IP farm / media company that's made numerous Cinemaphile material, moron.
It’s been an issue with all these sorts of companies, I’d say going back to Disney’s push trailblazing every other company to have their own multimedia empires. Mattel having their own concrete plans and successes recently isn’t helping as much, as companies think they’re all just expendable rosters of IP’s that can work everywhere else besides how the brands were originally intended to be used.
No conglomerate has ever succeeded, and no multimedia empire ever will. You have to be in the business of making, not owning, and unless you federate all your divisions this top down model ends up looking like communist oligarchy with endemic corruption, badly designed targets, and Waluigis everywhere.
>REDACTED
It's been 14 fricking years, the ban is so god damn stupid.
THIS
>IP farm / media company
That's primarily concerned with making and selling toys
Acquiring eOne and then selling them off for a multi-billion dollar loss.
Dropping Hanazuki those fricking idiots.
>Make first dedicated web series
>Make toys before you even get final designs from Titmouse, much less have any episodes ready
>Show ends up pretty good though, even if a bit cheaply made. Titmouse did well with what they could
>Make shitty phone game that can be broken wide open with easy to find codes trivializing the need to buy stuff for it
>Start having season 2 made along with a bunch of additional shorts
>Move show to TV only, taking it off the internet entirely
>Tell NO ONE you're doing that save for a single commercial spot on the channel it's moving to at like 5 in the morning
>Have honestly really good theatrical short made to play before horse film
>Have nothing before, during, or after the short indicate that it's related to a currently ongoing series you can find on whatever fricking channel it is that they put it on
>Cancel production on season 2 after only 6 episodes and 8 shorts are finished
>Never speak about Hanazuki ever again
>Slowly remove any mention of it from your online stores
I don't think I've ever seen an IP be handled worse in my life. The show was far better than a fricking toy commercial had any right to be and they squandered every single opportunity to make something of it. Hanazuki deserved so much better.
The reality is that the show was probably cancelled midway through season 1's release. They had big plans for that IP, so more was likely in the works on the expectation that it would do well. It moving to Discovery Family almost certainly played no part in its fate, because it was probably dead by then anyway.
>That's primarily concerned with making and selling toys
Not anymore. They've licensed out Power Rangers, Littlest Pet Shop, Easy Bake, Tonka, etc. to other toy companies. If the Snake Eyes game flops and the Transformers crossover movie either doesn't get made or also bombs, expect GI Joe to go that way, too.
They're too stubborn to farm out GI Joe. They'll just keep trying until the public loves it again, even if they have to cram it down their throats, dammit.
From /prg/
>Transformers is a custody joint with Takara
>GI Joe is pure Hasbro kin and can literally go to jail for murder and still be given love by the parent
>MASK, ROM, Micronauts etc are neglected adopted kids
>Visionaries is the kid who's biological but died after sleeping on their stomach as an infant
>Same for Xevoz
>Also for Inhumanoids but they straight up lost the body as well through an accident
>Air Raiders died the second the baby took a breath out of the womb
>Wizards of the Coast stuff are the kids CPS barge in to investigate
>Power Rangers is the neglected adopted kid, jumped from foster family to foster family who was initially given so much promise only to be pimped out to someone else now for cheap cash
>The horses are the successful daughter who the parents love, but they always ask why she keeps dating men twice her age.
>The horses are the successful daughter who the parents love, but they always ask why she keeps dating men twice her age.
Hasbro sold over 1 billion LPS toys. If that got licensed out, nothing's safe.
With Joe its a matter of pride.
Pride in what? The people who run Hasbro now have nothing to do with GI Joe's glory years. Their current CEO is a former Microsoft employee.
Pride in the line that practically made them. That and Potato Head.
I honestly wish someone would take over making gi joe figures. Maybe wed get more O-ring figures that way
I wish we got another good joe cartoon...
Why would you want o-rings again? They'll rot one day.
Theyre fun to play with. Also
>he doesnt know how to change out O-rings
NGMI
But yeah i just want more 3.75 gi joes. Im still salty the modern 3.75 line is dead now and replaced by classified shit instead
If it helps, we're getting o-ring Ghostbusters. So...maybe one day?
Wake me up when they make a jar-able Janine figure
>BUSTIN MAKES ME FEEL GOOD
GI Joe is their golden child born strictly in-house
Even at its most unpopular Hasbro will still refuse to disrespect it like that
>all those licensed names
Holy shit, what do they have left at this point? Marvel Legends?
Their primary owned brands are Magic, mini-horses, NERF and Transformers. Their licensed franchise mainstays are Beyblade and the properties Disney are speedrunning into the ground.
Hasbro isn't a family run business. GI Joe hasn't had mainstream relevance in over 30 years. I don't see why a publicly traded company would harbor sentimentality like that. Licensing out toy rights doesn't mean they're selling the brand.
Oh, I forgot about the preschool brands (eOne shit, Playdoh). Looks like they've licensed out Playskool, too.
>Their licensed franchise mainstays are Beyblade and the properties Disney are speedrunning into the ground.
I know this is done to death but why isnt KK been fired yet? Theyre at least trying to fix marvel but nothings been done about trying to unrape star wars
Brian Goldner died and his successors don't have a real vision for the company now.
The CEO who wanted to the company to be an entertainment business died. His successors want the company to be an IP farm that collects licensing royalties and gacha/subscription game revenue.
Hey, the toys are still good, so whatever.
Well, the Transformers toys, anyway.
The transformers toys maybe good but the latest show is crap and all transformers shows have sucked since prime ended
I At least i enjoyed ROTB tho
Okay, I am mad they never made Mutant Power Rangers toys. Maybe Playmates will. Kaiju Rangers too.
Abandoned based 1/18 scale for inferior shitty 1/12 shit
Back to your shitty /toy/ scale thread you sperg.