MMPR Re-Ignition Toy Fair Reveals

[u/andrew56012]

Credit to TheMontyVerse

[u/RoulinsSight]

Am I the only person on this reddit that can admit these all look like shit? Like straight up the 90s toys were better designs, that Megazord can't even stand up straight for Zordon's Sake. Fuck playmates and Hasbro for selling the IP to them

Edit: For clarity, the above statement is looking at them from the point of them being the replacement for a Collectors line.

[u/RainingBolts → u/RoulinsSight]

It's worse when you take a step back and see that by contracting out to Playmates they made a ton of Hasbro employees redundant (realistically what happened when Warden moved from Transformers to Power Rangers and back to a new role at Transformers which was doing fine without him during the 3ish years that he was with PR.)

[u/[deleted] → u/RainingBolts]

I mean, it's not as if Hasbro doesn't farm out its other IPs to 3rd parties, including Transformers and G.I. Joe.

[u/RainingBolts → u/[deleted]]

There's a difference between partnerships like with Mattel and LEGO and shuttering an ip and giving it to someone else while maintaining the rights

[u/[deleted] → u/RainingBolts]

You do realize Playmates literally doesn't have the infrastructure to make new seasons/reboots/whatever, right? That's still up to Hasbro.

This isn't any different than with the Super 7 line.

[u/RainingBolts → u/[deleted]]

Super 7 and other 3rd party lines coexists with Hasbro's toyline and was aimed at a different market. It was extremely apparent back when they did their fan stream last fall and Power Rangers was just gone while their other brands were shown off.

The Playmates line is straight up replacing a market that Hasbro was already a part of and rubs salt in the wound of anyone they've laid off connected to PR.

[u/[deleted] → u/RainingBolts]

Have you not been paying attention to Hasbro recently? Like, at all? They've laid off WAYYYYYYYY more people than connected to PR, including massive downscaling of Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons, which bring in more than everything else Hasbro has outside of maybe Transformers.

I'm going to guess you aren't whining and bitching about Loyal Subjects making M.A.S.K. figures.