[prowlster]

I have been a collector for the better part of my life. I am in my early 30's and I have seen and heard this before so I am not worried. Look at legends they are back and it was only a couple of years with sparse exclusives to hold over legends fans. Mattel did it with their MOTU line and revamped it and got everyone to buy essentially all the same figures again.

Transformers fans have suffered through this for years. The classics line was meant to be temporary then it changed to a filler line in between movies. Te new generations stuff will cover the new video game as well as some choice repaints of existing CHUG molds.

Fans of all the different lines should know it is hasbros fault this is happening. They have atrocious distribution mainly because they over saturate the early waves with a ton of the main characters. There is a lack of understanding that only so much Bumble bees canand will be bought. The fact that say for instance the Prime bumble bee is poorly designed adds to the problem. The real problem lies within the hasbro leadership and decision makers. A simple case assortment change would go a long way in improving sales. If you couple that with the box office bomb battle ship you have a recipe for disaster.

Really who would put Rhianna in a movie and act like they were serious about making money. Taylor Kitchkiss was the main star and any big budget movie he touches are horrific failures. John Carter anyone? The terrible decision to kill off duke and then see test audiences panned the decision rattled them. The lie about converting to 3D is laughable at best. The reshoots are the reason they will never admit to. With the smash success that the transformers movies were in terms of dollars and the popularity of star wars and marvel license they should have been on cruise control. Instead we get absurd movies based on board games and Kreo rammed down everyones throats. Economy be damned this is all Hasbros fault and the share holders need to oust current decision makers. The staff is top notch and they do attract talent but they are hard pressed to keep them due to the boneheads in charge.

If MU goes away I will be sad but it willbe back one day. I will finally get a chance to catch up to the ones Im missing