AcademyofDrX wrote:Rtron wrote:AcademyofDrX wrote:Rtron wrote:I'm afraid that the non-answer from the designers might mean that they are aware of the yellowing problem, but that corporate doesn't want them to fix it because it might cost them money or some such crap.
If I was that cynical, I wouldn't bother to collect toys anymore. I'm not going to pretend that Hasbro doesn't want to keep costs down, but if a problem like this is systemic, allowing it to continue will kill demand over time. I still think it's product-specific and people are generalizing too much, but that's an opinion statement.
Many of the people in those positions of power don't really care about long term profits. I hope I'm wrong, but there's past behaviours even from Hasbro itself that give me pause when it comes to these things. Gold Plastic Syndrome didn't really kill demand, though, and it's worse.
GPS was from an era where toys were considered much more disposable than now, and there was minimal marketing of the product to adult collectors. I do not think Hasbro's product management from thirty years ago is a good comparison. To your broader point, I doubt it's a priority to senior executives either way, but a handful of universally flawed figures over the last decade isn't a deal breaker for me in any event.
I'm comparing it with Hasbro's management now, not the one from 30 years ago. Look at what's going on with Power Rangers and Magic the Gathering, they really don't seem to care if you stay or not. What I said about GPS was meant to point out how fans will probably buy stuff in spite of product breaking defects, not an attempt to compare management was to how it is. Perhaps I should have composed my previous post a bit differently.