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okay, who here is folowing the latest scam attempt by a company trying to sell us AI generated crap for....3500 dollars a pop?!
 
Raiken said:
okay, who here is folowing the latest scam attempt by a company trying to sell us AI generated crap for....3500 dollars a pop?!https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHRclJZwF5A
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Figured someone was gonna mention this sooner or later. Apparently this garbage was actually permitted by Hasbro which is genuinely astonishing. The company responsible for these AI generated eldritch abominations has no history to speak of, only existing for about a month and happens to be located somewhere in the shithole of dubai. Many people suspect this is a money laundering scheme and i agree. What baffles me above anything else is that Hasbro apparently thinks this is a genius idea. I'm actually concerned about how the Skybound show will be handled after seeing this revelation
 
i winder if hasbro only looked at the money they got and dud not look for a second on what they where selling, while the op, megatron and starscream look like themselves, soundwave is just a blaring red warning signal that there is something up with these. the promotion videos look so shit that i'm sure not even the person who made the prompt looked at it.

i thought that the lol video from a month back looked bad, but this is taking the cake.
 
So now we have the equivalent of Transformers branded Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? Like NFTs are even still a fucking thing the general public cares about?

This has to be the single dumbest thing Hasbro has done in a long time and they've been doing a LOT of dumb things for a long time. I blame the CEO who is literally named Cocks.
 
Raiken said:
okay, who here is folowing the latest scam attempt by a company trying to sell us AI generated crap for....3500 dollars a pop?!https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHRclJZwF5A
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And we don't have a quintes... uh, sextesson rating for this. That's absurd. Vile. How long before a robot version of Krusty the clown shills this? Can (((hasbro))) stop doing this:
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Optimus Prime said:
So now we have the equivalent of Transformers branded Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? Like NFTs are even still a fucking thing the general public cares about?

This has to be the single dumbest thing Hasbro has done in a long time and they've been doing a LOT of dumb things for a long time. I blame the CEO who is literally named Cocks.
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uh, transformers already had nft's, there are digital funko pops that functioned as them, and a big portion where transformers.
 
Raiken said:
uh, transformers already had nft's, there are digital funko pops that functioned as them, and a big portion where transformers.
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Oh, yeah, I knew about that shitshow from way back. Absolute dog shit, especially the part where it was functionally gacha mechanics since there was actual physical product but you had to 'draw' a NFT that gave you a code to redeem or something.

I was talking about how these new ones seem to almost be tailored to be insanely overpriced "high-end" collectibles that people with more money than sense would buy on a whim to the tune of thousands of dollars.
 
Raiken said:
i winder if hasbro only looked at the money they got and dud not look for a second on what they where selling,
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Assuming the location of this company is true. Dubai is a nigger-rich country, courtesy of its tourism and oil, so they have no fear about spending ludicrous amounts of money on things they either don't need or are a spectacular disaster. It's likely these sandniggers offered Hasbro a fortune. Hasbro in their typically apathetic attitude, cares only about money more than any sort of quality and respect. Depending on how things unfold this year or the next. I have quite a huge rant about Hasbro and their retarded endeavors, but i'll save that for another day.
 
Electromagnetic Radiation said:
At the end of the day, Hasbro wants profit and if insane politics will be inserted in the comics, i'd assume someone would get a message that this wouldn't be permitted because the last thing they want is a repeat of the previous publisher. After losing Transformers and GI Joe, IDW has been collapsing at a rapid velocity, such as firing 39% of the workers and privatizing themselves. I imagine Skybound wouldn't want a similiar fate, even if they're doing better with their other comics
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earthspark

The retard mandate they dropped out of nowhere that cobra commander can never have a figure with a hood again because it might remind people of the KKK

The shit that happened with the package design guy a few years ago

Constant weird growing insistence in locking shit that'd sell well behind pre order or event exclusivity for the last decade

The fucking PINKERTON SHIT where they raided a guys house because he accidentally received some stock of a new card game card set before street date instead of the one he ordered due to a mix up in inventory.

EVERYTHING SURROUNDING DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS THE LAST FEW YEARS.
There's a lot more cases but my point is hasbro has been doing shit that's kinda shooting themselves in the foot profit wise for various odd reasons the last decade moreso than ever. Yes I know it's because they think it'll secure the more money eventually and they have the government to fall back on if their plans blow up in their face and backfire.


I wrote this above bit out a while back but I never hit send so I'll send it and if it's fucked structurally it's fucked structurally,

Raiken said:
okay, who here is folowing the latest scam attempt by a company trying to sell us AI generated crap for....3500 dollars a pop?!
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Static figurines have become so much more nightmare expensive for no real reasont he last few years. It was happening before corona hit but after corona companies just decided 60-1000 is a good price for a plastic statue. Now granted, some of them are very nice looking and detailed, but so were the ones from the 2000s-early 2010s you could literally get for 5-10 dollars as a small blind box deal. They had expensive ones back then too but they were the ones made of actual heavy ass materials like metal or that not quite stone shit that'll break if you hit it hard enough. Now it's just all PVC for the most part and climbing higher and higher. Shit sucks! The soundwave one's really funny because he has his gun backwards, and it looks like whoever made it noticed and instead of flipping shit around to fix it just added the back of megatron's cannon barrel to the arm to try and make it look cool and artsy.

The figures themselves seem less ai generated and more similarly oddly sculpted to try and imitate the show models and kinda not getting there like some of the cheaper figurines you can buy. I like how the company using ai for the videos really showcases how fucked video generation is due to the IP song and dance to the point it affects officially licensed stuff trying to use ai for a promo vid.


If anything this retardedly overpriced thing is making me tempted to go down to the five below or dollar tree and finally buy some of these things I've seen the last few years, and maybe add in the missing paint detail. They're somehow more expensive at dollar tree due to how they changed the prices.
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Also the odd sculpt on soundwave reminds me of these statues from a little while ago where soundwave was ejecting laserbeak from his back and several other characters had bizarre little oddities about them.

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The Lawgiver said:
earthspark

The retard mandate they dropped out of nowhere that cobra commander can never have a figure with a hood again because it might remind people of the KKK

The shit that happened with the package design guy a few years ago

Constant weird growing insistence in locking shit that'd sell well behind pre order or event exclusivity for the last decade

The fucking PINKERTON SHIT where they raided a guys house because he accidentally received some stock of a new card game card set before street date instead of the one he ordered due to a mix up in inventory.

EVERYTHING SURROUNDING DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS THE LAST FEW YEARS.
There's a lot more cases but my point is hasbro has been doing shit that's kinda shooting themselves in the foot profit wise for various odd reasons the last decade moreso than ever. Yes I know it's because they think it'll secure the more money eventually and they have the government to fall back on if their plans blow up in their face and backfire.
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Now that you mention all of that, there's also the spotlight Optimus Prime pack, clearly reusing the mold from the Devastation figure. While one of them has a nice cel-shading that the original figure should have been in the first place, the other versions of this figure are only there so Hasbro has a excuse to charge 90 dollars for this shit when it should've been a basic retail release. Instead, they're charging out the ass for pack that only has 1 good figure, in addition to being sold exclusively on hasbro pulse
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Call it incompetence, laziness, or anything else. One thing i am absolutely positive about is that chris cox will only be remembered as the most hated ceo of hasbro, for good reasons.

Don't want to turn this post into another Earthspark rant, so i'll keep it short. Ideally, the show should have been cancelled after the first season for obvious reasons. I assume why Hasbro continued the show, amongst other things, is because they've never heard of the sunk cost fallacy and if their investments in terrible projects like reactive and rise of the beasts insinuate anything. Hasbro's foresight is stunningly narrow. Another theory i had about Earthspark's continuation is because it gives Hasbro a easy oppertunity to say "See, we're not actually abandoning the Transformers franchise!", while actually not having any commitment in reality. But that's just my assumption.
 
Raiken said:
the wildest part about that 3 pack is that it's the only way you will get the ion blaster.
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They've been pulling that shit with "exclusives" the last few years in more increasingly frustrating ways. Legacy hot shot is still one of the more offensive examples to me. has odd tabs on his back in robot mode and a gap clearly meant for a minicon to go in. His powerlinx recolor where he's in g1 colors (dudes called hot rod in a bunch of regions already rambled about that whole deal) fucking comes with guess what, the guns he used in the anime instead of the engine block gun thing, and jolt! Only way to get those things that were clearly meant to be a pack in with the actual base figure.

Speaking of hot rod my used hot rod fell off the shelf today and lightly scraped the side of soem plastic container for hobby snippers.... And now he has a massive scratch up and across his chest. Pain.
 
Bold of Hasbro to release a figure, that not only has the best version locked behind a exclusive seller where the retail version basically is unfinished. But also basing it on a game you can't even obtain anymore, because hasbro cares more about collaborators convulsing large amounts of money rather then re-instating games that would've been passive income for both them and Activision. Hasbro in their infinite wisdom, instead of improving their existing franchises, just buys up more of them, like Power Rangers, subsequently outsourcing them because they're completely clueless and don't know what they should do with their acquisition. On a related note, how much do their marvel and star-wars figures sell? I imagine Hasbro had to pay for the licenses of both franchises and if the answer happens to be "low", that just proves the point further
 
Hope Eradicated said:
I'm surprised they've never done a multipack of gray seekers, they could sell so many of those to customizers.
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It's really weird especially considering how the last few years every other company's been doing that kind of thing. No clue how successful it is but I know like mcfarlane was doing a lot of those for their warhammer stuff and some kickstarter action figure guys also did it for their figures. There's a few other examples too but I'm too headache tired to actually try and fully remember the others.
 
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