Hasbro possibly doing Tron?

Oops sorry guys I have been slacking here (mostly forgetful)

Here is the latest (I have been keeping up daily on the other site where I started tracking years ago):

Tron:


1,133 / 10,000 (+5) 11.33% of funding goal with 15d 18h left.

Basically it has been slowly adding single digit backers daily (mostly). Still just a zombie project that is shuffling to the end.
 
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I wonder what the attitude is internally at Hasbro. Like, are they sitting around fingers crossed, or have they already shuffled all the team off to other projects while waiting for this to officially die?
 
Damien said:
I wonder what the attitude is internally at Hasbro. Like, are they sitting around fingers crossed, or have they already shuffled all the team off to other projects while waiting for this to officially die?
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I would say your second option is more likely.
 
It's a shame, I would like these figures and I'm interested in the idea of new 3.75", but I've practically tapped out on $20 TVC figures. I can't justify the price on Tron, that has a tiny fraction of my interest compared to Star Wars.
I wonder what Hasbro's per figure price expectation is, should they take a stab at another 3.75 property? I might've been able to do Tron at $25 per figure, $35 per light cycle, and have the grid as an "if it funds, it funds" tier.
 
mrboshek said:
I wonder what Hasbro's per figure price expectation is, should they take a stab at another 3.75 property? I might've been able to do Tron at $25 per figure, $35 per light cycle, and have the grid as an "if it funds, it funds" tier.
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For a company like Hasbro, if you're talking about high-articulation/detail figures, what you're seeing with TVC is pretty much the bottom of the pricing. It's where pricing starts for a line they know they can produce in massive numbers and that's basically guaranteed to sell at Walmart, Target, and every e-tailer on earth. For anything they don't expect to get that kind of volume out of - the price will be higher for sure. If they even bother to do 3.75" at all.

The reality of the industry now is that most of the price is in tooling, and labour. The material cost itself is almost nothing, which means the difference in cost to actually produce a 6" figure versus a 4" figure is extremely minimal.
 
Agreed about the expense in making 1:18 vs 1:12 is likely not that great anymore - materials and shipping (smaller weight and volume) are the only real advantage for 1:18 in terms of cost. Some of that is the expectations for the 1:18 scale in terms of paint and detail has increased.

And, for someone who claims they are not Canadian - labour is spelled labor by Americans... 🤣
 
fac said:
And, for someone who claims they are not Canadian - labour is spelled labor by Americans... 🤣
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Lol. Ever since I was a kid, I've studied history. Lots of sources are translated into English by Brits, and lots of historians in general were Brits. So I used to get in trouble at school for putting 'u' into words like armour, labour, favour - etc. Because that's how it's spelled in all the books I was reading.

So definitely not a Canadian thing. That's just a 'this guy is a little weird' thing.
 
Damien said:
Lol. Ever since I was a kid, I've studied history. Lots of sources are translated into English by Brits, and lots of historians in general were Brits. So I used to get in trouble at school for putting 'u' into words like armour, labour, favour - etc. Because that's how it's spelled in all the books I was reading.

So definitely not a Canadian thing. That's just a 'this guy is a little weird' thing.
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Same, actually. So happy I can do it here.
 
1134 was my lunch period bell in 7th and 8th grade

1134 upside down on a digital watch is HELL. We used to go, "It's hell time" like a 90s action one liner when lunch rang.

Whenever I played sports, I was always 34. Sheer coincidence.

One time a woman told me my angel number was 1134.

In short, I, like this project, am going to hell.
 
Boy Wonder said:
lol, I definitely read a different recent post of yours that had an unamerican U in some word and got real confused like "wait, where the heck is Damien from?"
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Damien was Satan's Child, so... Hell. Or is that Heull?

fac said:
Agreed about the expense in making 1:18 vs 1:12 is likely not that great anymore - materials and shipping (smaller weight and volume) are the only real advantage for 1:18 in terms of cost. Some of that is the expectations for the 1:18 scale in terms of paint and detail has increased.

And, for someone who claims they are not Canadian - labour is spelled labor by Americans... 🤣
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Brother, that's been the truth the entire 21st Century. Why do you think 6in ever got prominence in the first place if not because they're easier to make while costing the same?
 
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