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Post by Llama God on Sept 1, 2020 7:24:53 GMT
TFWiki posted this look at Hasbro's financials, which might suggest why they don't care about the rest of the world:
Which is fair enough, if you just look at which numbers are the biggest. Except if you actually look at the figures with any sort of attention, you'll see that in 2019 sales to North America made up 51% of Hasbro's revenue - which is a large amount, it's true, but there's also still 49% missing, which is still a lot of money. It turns out that international sales accounted for 38% of their revenue, and Europe alone made up 22% of revenue - which is still a large amount, especially considering the presumably smaller number of customers for the geography. So attempting to frame this in a "well Hasbro makes more money in the US" way doesn't really hold when you stop and look and think for more than a second. If anything, it makes it a lot worse. Unless Hasbro actually actively only want to be making half their current revenue per year...
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Post by Rich on Sept 1, 2020 7:59:06 GMT
Are the numbers just for TF? I don’t have Twitter so it’s hard to see any detail. I’ve no business degree and don’t work in industry but it doesn’t seem to me that the overall profits of even one segment of a business tell us that much about the viability and relative profitability of any one given product and related marketing.
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Post by Rich on Sept 1, 2020 8:14:35 GMT
Actually, I see you can click through without a twitter account. I found the figures and they seem to be general (rather low???).
Just below they specifically note the importance of the major retailers in the US. As the numbers are old, they namecheck Toys r us. Now Amazon owns the world you can see why they need to do everything they can to cosy up with them.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2020 10:48:28 GMT
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 1, 2020 12:47:09 GMT
I'll still be at work when revealed.
Hope for Blackout, expect Spinout.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 1, 2020 14:34:18 GMT
BLACK. OUT. BLACK. OUT.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2020 14:35:11 GMT
SPIN. OUT. SPIN. OUT.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 1, 2020 14:36:46 GMT
Outrageous.
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Post by Slack on Sept 1, 2020 14:40:13 GMT
A free one for all our hard collecting efforts  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2020 17:58:52 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2020 18:05:36 GMT
Mark seems much more focussed on reality this time.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 1, 2020 18:06:13 GMT
But his facial hair has been tamed  |
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Post by Slack on Sept 1, 2020 19:30:54 GMT
It's the Samson effect
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2020 6:04:18 GMT
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 8, 2020 6:40:39 GMT
Come on, Blackout!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2020 11:29:52 GMT
It will be green Ratchet.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 10, 2020 16:57:12 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Sept 10, 2020 17:11:26 GMT
But not for those of us outside North America!
Luckily plenty of people will re-post so we'll find out anyway. Since everyone else understands how this "World Wide Web" works...
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2020 17:41:09 GMT
I stopped following Hasbro Pulse. I got pissed off with their "only for US and Canada fans" announcements.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 10, 2020 17:47:23 GMT
But not for those of us outside North America! My suspicion is that that is there because the products are only available through Pulse in North America and the material will be viewable worldwide. We shall see.... |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2020 17:54:09 GMT
The reason why it pisses me off is that Pulse is Hasbro's feed for informing fans about their product. Effectively telling most of the planet to consistently go fuck themselves is very bad PR in the internet of 2020. Geolocking shite is more like the internet of 2000.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Sept 10, 2020 18:48:33 GMT
Indeed. Whilst I understand that they might be wanting to lock it due to otherwise having to deal with irate fans not being able to buy from Pulse, as Phil says, I also think it’s crappy and lazy when they could just say “available from Pulse in US/CAN, and other affiliated retailers online” and that would solve it. The way they’re presenting it at the moment, however, is that they just can’t be fucked with the rest of us. Which, y’know...
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Post by Toph on Sept 10, 2020 19:14:52 GMT
Well with Fun Publications no longer a thing, someone has to give a big ol' FU to the international fans.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 10, 2020 19:31:21 GMT
Indeed. Whilst I understand that they might be wanting to lock it due to otherwise having to deal with irate fans not being able to buy from Pulse, as Phil says, I also think it’s crappy and lazy when they could just say “available from Pulse in US/CAN, and other affiliated retailers online” and that would solve it. The way they’re presenting it at the moment, however, is that they just can’t be fucked with the rest of us. Which, y’know... That's a very good way of putting it, but at the same time possibly undermines the Pulse exclusivity angle in the US. “available from Pulse in US/CAN, and other affiliated online retailers overseas” ? |
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Post by Toph on Sept 10, 2020 20:29:51 GMT
"Exclusively on The Pulse for North America,International Outlet TBA"
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 10, 2020 20:34:27 GMT
"Exclusively on Pulse in North America, possibly on specialist websites at no notice in the middle of the night for about thirty seconds if you're lucky everywhere else."
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2020 20:36:59 GMT
Where fans come first!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 10, 2020 20:50:48 GMT
"Exclusively on Pulse in North America, possibly on specialist websites at no notice in the middle of the night for about thirty seconds if you're lucky everywhere else." You got a bigger chance at bluestreak than we did. |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 10, 2020 21:35:20 GMT
I thought that hadn't been done officially yet? I was guessing it would be another figure over the pulse weekend. The list they gave said it was some of the toys, not necessarily all?
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Post by Toph on Sept 10, 2020 21:41:02 GMT
It hasn't been done here at all. It hasn't even been announced.
It's making me genuinely anxious.
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