Do you feel a huge company like Hasbro should need to do what is essentially a Kickstarter campaign for toys? I don't.
What's more, I feel they're using it to justify charging ridiculous prices for those toys.
Their latest offering, the Rancor, is in no way shape or form a $350 action figure. Even with two already released Black Series figures thrown in. Jedi Luke and Gamorrean Guard.
I passed on their first figure offering, the Sentinel. I actually did go ahead with Galactus, until the Sentinel arrived and people started posting their $350 figure couldn't even stand up.
Hasbro's failure to address that issue was also a huge contributing factor in me canceling my order.
Now it appears many people who ordered the Rancor are also canceling their orders, and it may be the first HasLab project to not reach its goal.
When you consider that Goldlok toys, a MUCH smaller company than Hasbro, was able to produce a fully licensed film-accurate electronic 12" Robby the Robot that walks, talks, and lights up for TWENTY DOLLARS,
how is Hasbro justifying themselves charging these insane prices?
I asked them that very question. Giving the example above and some others, like Mattel's incredible new Castle Grayskull playset which was a mere $85. Lots of tooling, moving parts, paint apps and of course beautiful box art.
All for a fraction of the cost.
Hasbro's response? Crickets. Because they can't justify it, so they won't even bother to reply.
What's more, I feel they're using it to justify charging ridiculous prices for those toys.
Their latest offering, the Rancor, is in no way shape or form a $350 action figure. Even with two already released Black Series figures thrown in. Jedi Luke and Gamorrean Guard.
I passed on their first figure offering, the Sentinel. I actually did go ahead with Galactus, until the Sentinel arrived and people started posting their $350 figure couldn't even stand up.
Hasbro's failure to address that issue was also a huge contributing factor in me canceling my order.
Now it appears many people who ordered the Rancor are also canceling their orders, and it may be the first HasLab project to not reach its goal.
When you consider that Goldlok toys, a MUCH smaller company than Hasbro, was able to produce a fully licensed film-accurate electronic 12" Robby the Robot that walks, talks, and lights up for TWENTY DOLLARS,
how is Hasbro justifying themselves charging these insane prices?
I asked them that very question. Giving the example above and some others, like Mattel's incredible new Castle Grayskull playset which was a mere $85. Lots of tooling, moving parts, paint apps and of course beautiful box art.
All for a fraction of the cost.
Hasbro's response? Crickets. Because they can't justify it, so they won't even bother to reply.
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