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Originally Posted by Designincase

They look weak and reactionary is they do nothing. They look weak and reactionary if they do anything.

Haslabs are always reactionary. Numerous times they've reacted. It's nothing new.

When you people people harassing and threatening Hasbro employees, like a child you have to just be clear. Don't ask the question if you don't like the answer scenario.

This is separate from Hasbro do an early bird and charging $350. The lack of maturity from one group results in less than cheery responses.

"No more reveals until it funds" is stating a policy they have done numerous times. It's straight to to point and doesn't imply anything then what it explicitly states.

That's some people getting mad that they don't award points for simply hitting the net. The ball has to go in.



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Now my opinion.
It's an olive branch but yeah that should have been the base offering from the start. It still doesn't solve the main problem that at $350, no one can honestly go "This is a great deal". Nor that it's even a good deal. Not like with HISS.

If this was $250, this would have been backed easily. $300......flexible but no one would be comparing it to Sentinel or Galactus.

It's a good point that as a whole HasLabs ARE "reactionary". However, there are reactions that seem to actually have a plan attached to them. But the messaging when the Campaign failed to hit the extremely ambitious Early Bird goal came across as petulant. Sure "No reveals until it funds" has been a policy. But read a freakin room, Hasbro. Don't be terse when excitement is clearly down. That's a basic advertising principle.

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Originally Posted by UpDog

Like I said before, it's their platform, there are no rules, they easily could've come back today and said "Listen we heard the fans, we understand the concerns, as a show of goodwill, Robbie is being included automatically, we should've done that from the beginning, our bad." It costs them nothing, it's already factored in to the price.

Sure, there will be the naysayers who go "oh look they're being weak" or whatever but I think most people would've been appreciative. I guess this addresses the question of "what good is the powered down version without civilian Robbie?" but the main concern has always been value and this has got to be the worst way to assure people "see this is worth it". Seems like they just cut the baby in half.

Exactly. It's not weak to admit an error. As you mentioned simply admitting they understood "...fans were having misgivings so they wanted to do a little something extra..." actually shows a bit of leadership. If they're cool and give fans more the crazy price is easier to reconcile.

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Originally Posted by UpDog

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they didn't include a comic Blade in this set. I know we'll probably get a new Blade around movie time, but just do an exclusive look from the recent Avengers run. He's heavily involved with the Hellcharger in a specific storyline in the comics, unofficial connection he drove one in the movie. Gives it cross appeal and more value.

That is a very very good idea. He's been a bit of a mentor to Reyes. So maybe that's in the tier cards. If not it should be.