Somebody needs to do a mission impossible heist on the unicron prototype and just ship it to China.... 6 months later it’ll be available on Amazon for $99 as “planet eater”
I'm sure even if nobody does the mission impossible thing, there would be a bootleg with it being available even before Hasbro can produce one. And Hasbro is wondering why people aren't buying their stuff anymore...
Also; “They’ll buy it! They’ll pay for it!” 100% Correct. The Masterpiece Transformers series is proof of that. Despite cringing at the $400 price point, we’re still buying the newest MP Optimus Prime this month.
I agree, don't understand why they would need to ask for backing for brands that already sell. You said in the podcast, make it, limit the number, and they'll buy it. Instead of doing this, why wouldn't they use this to test the waters with defunct brands, like MASK or GI JOE, heck, I wasn't going to buy in on Jabba's boat, or Unicron, but a Cobra Heli-carrier or that Cobra cargo plane from the Sunbow series...maybe..
In fairness, just because certain brands are active, doesn't mean that every potential product can pass the internal math needed to make it past the design phase. There are tons of projects that never make it any further than the costing out phase.
The dramatic pauses while you take your time chewing the cookies is positively hysterical. I do believe the Unicon will meet its goal. But I do agree with you on the entire haslab concept. The Cookie Monster does speak volumes about the brains in the boardroom
50 dollars for Cookie Monster, considering the materials and made in mass seems fair - if even then, a little high. But sadly Hasbro, like Disney and others have decided that the kind of customer they want are well off and willing to pay those prices. And people wonder why toy sales are down - not because of lack of fans, but the dismissal and pricing out of them. (Hey, remember when oil prices went up and so everyone raised prices - but then when they went down lower than it's been in decades, those prices just kept going up?) Anyway, great video as always Michael. Not going to lie, I was actually hoping you would eat so many cookies out of frustration that you would barely be able to form proper words by the end. :D
@@HAGZ0483 Still doesn't excuse the ridiculous price for the figure itself and the price of shipping. Yeah you've got a year to save but its still alot of money for alot of people.
GinraiPrime666 you don’t have a year, you have to pay Hasbro at the time you pledge. But that aside, worldwide availability is tough for what is essentially a one off product. They need to perform safety tests for every country they want to sell in, which makes sense for a toy line that will sell thousands and thousands of figures over the course of a year. Unicron is one figure that will sell 8,000 units and be done. Plus the work that goes into international shipping and declaring every tiny piece is also cost prohibitive. I’m sure the bean counters at Hasbro did out the math and determined the cost incurred would not be made back. Hasbro is in it to make money first and foremost. Giving collectors a cool toy is only the means to that end.
@@christopherbandish6060 I was referring to the cost I've seen for other sites like robotkingdom and bigbadtoystore where you pay a deposit and then the rest when the product actually ships. Safety issues are one thing but this is primarily a toy for adult collectors and you can bet most people are not going to be actually playing with this Unicron, its primarily going to be for display. Plus one off products, especially from Japan, have no trouble being sold worldwide so I don't see why Hasbro should behave any differently.
Look at this utter chad eating all of those cookies without any milk. True power. And the bots thing makes sense from a marketing perspective. Just advertise it as just a bit above what you actually need for it to happen, and use the bots to fill in that little bit you don't get pre-orders for. That way, you get a larger amount of people to pre-order it just so it gets made. Brilliant, but scummy. Also, I like the basic "I told you so" vibe this video gives off without directly saying it.
Unicron is available to Japanese customers through the Takara Online mall, so in regards to that it's at least one other place in the world that's getting it if it happens. They have not said one way or another if the Takara preorders will be added at the end or if they've been added all along. Sorry I would have mentioned that during the live stream but I wasn't able to make it!
In China the store chain Mini-so has a massive range of Sesame Street merchandise. I think it would have sold well in China. They just started selling a new range of Marvel stuff too.
the thing about the unicron is they already have a unicron toy put out in the armada line, with a few reissues in g1 colors ,so there is no demand for a new toy since the armada one is in my opinion a perfect toy
Although I own and love the armada unicron toy I have to disagree. Its an amazing toy but its over 15 years old and the character would have benefitted from an updated sculpt, paint job, articulation and engineering, and a lot of fans wanted a new unicron made using modern transformer toy design. The haslab one is such an improvement and looks so amazing that the only things keeping me from backing it are the price and the size.
Indeed, which is exactly why they'it's not getting a normal retail release. A lot of people say they'd be interested in something, but when they actually have to commit money towards it, that number tends to go way down. That's the reason companies don't want to produce these kinds of high end niche items through normal retail channels and risk taking a bath on them or incurring cost sitting on unsold inventory when it takes a long time for the production run to sell through.
@bigevilworldwide1 1. Its much bigger than mp optimus prime who is only 9.5 inches tall. 2. Its not based off a video game. The war for cybertron siege line is not based off the video game war for cybertron which unicron never even appeared in. 3. It is not trying to be accurate to the 86 movie, but instead a modern reimagining and amalgamation of the many g1 versions of unicron.
Hahahahahaha!!! That cookie crumble ending really made me laugh. Also I was laughing wondering how many cookies you were planning to eat during this video! Couldn't agree more with your assessment of this one. Wouldn't surprise me if Hasbro padded their numbers on the barge just to make sure their first attempt at this didn't tank. I also wonder if they don't even mind at this point if they do tank because they're getting a lot of free publicity either way. This Haslab thing drums up both excitement and controversy. Anyhoo, great vid! -Don
It took you over 10 minutes to get to the "that's the way the cookie crumbles" line...I was waiting for it! Great video...all of your points are so true
To this day, I'm still mystified over why Hasbro chose Cookie Monster to do this HasLabs Kickstarter thing. Someone HAD to be a huge C.M. fan in corporate.
There must be some financial or legal influences that we're unaware of, which Hasbro is weighing out when making these decisions. Because as far as common sense goes, their decisions are indeed coming off as weird and questionable.
I'd assume the number is pinned to production cost plus whatever markup they need to achieve to make the project viable in economic terms. A lower price point would probably require more backers.
I think you mentioned Cookie Monster on your live stream and I thought it was you making a joke. Then I saw this video get posted and chuckled, thinking it was a comedic video taking the joke to another level. Then I sat down and watched the video today and, again, thought it was an elaborate joke. Then I Googled 'HasLab Cookie Monster' in the middle of the video out of curiosity. 😂 I can't believe this was a real thing!
True statement about the worldwide appeal of Transformers. I sold my G1 collection on eBay several years back and I shipped robots to at least 30 different countries.
The whole haslab thing has been a bit of a joke so far with the main issue for me being the complete lack of care for their International customers. For Unicron in the UK not only do we have the shipping but the import tax as well which i saw someone quoting £800+ which is nearly $1000 which is far too much for any single figure IMO. Totally agree with the stupid choice of cookie monster as a haslab offering, it should of been a muppet character or for the money they wanted a oscar the grouch with trashcan prob would of got more adult takers for that one as he was the bad boy of the sesame street characters.
These videos right here are one of the best things about this channel. A honest no agenda not carrying about sponsorship (free toys) who is not afraid to call out toy companies faults and failures
Cookie Monster was always my favorite S Street character. Now that being said. I could make a very satisfying Cookie Monster with 40$ of materials. Just sayin'
I’ll tell you now that I didn’t fund the barge until the last second because I wanted to wait to see if it would even make it and because I didn’t want to regret it and then get it on the second hand market for double the price.
The Unicorn Crowdfunding also available through Takara Tomy Mall to ship only to Japan and count as the 8,000. I also doubt it will pass since TF have 3rd party option unlike SW.
I won't lie, Family Guy has made me more of a adult Cookie Monster fan. Ha ha, they captured him so great as a messed up addict. LOL, but I get why he never got backed.
After seeing the Unicron in person at SDCC, the first thing that I thought was “this thing is not going to be mass produced”. The shear size and the way the transformation is going to be, makes it look like an impossible toy to play with...
It's flabbergasting. Hasbro is the largest toy company in the world and has sustained itself for nearly a century - and yet the sum of all of that experience, knowledge, sales and marketing has been ignored, disregarded or even worse, forgotten. And the result is a company that simply grasps for straws in the dark, with no idea what to do or how to do it. This is what happens when you get incompetent leadership at the top. I think in their case they are top-heavy with college educated businessmen with no practical real-world experience, and not individuals who understand collecting or the toy industry itself.
Between Hasn'tLab and the no plastic packaging nonsense that would effectively eliminate the collector's ability to insure QC and display inpackage ... I'll paraphrase Jack Nicholson's Joker : What kind of a world do we live in where children dressed as a CEO and board members get to make incredibly stupid , shortsighted and greedy businesses decisions and try to steal all my money ? THIS BOARDROOM NEEDS AN ENEMA !!! ....uh , thanks Jack , and to you Michael . 😊🤘👍
What really grinds my gears.... the U.S.S. FLAGG. The G.I. JOE aircraft carrier. THEY MADE THAT THING, THEY PUT IT IN STORES. And NOW, they want THE CUSTOMER to fund their projects. They aren't willing to take the risk anymore. And even so, they don't even put things at a price point the average person can afford. "Here's a cool thing for $500, you might get if 8000 other people give us $500." They don't realize how hard I have to work to obtain $500? What other priorities are reserved for that $500, bills, groceries, gas to get to work to make $500 more. Ridiculous. And now Marvel Legends are almost $30 with little to no accessories. Black Series is over $30. 🙄 Hasbro is insane.
kt it might have been an issue of licensing. Disney owns the Muppet characters. I think CTW still owns the Sesame characters? Unless those rights went to HBO as well.
I think in debates like this, one of the key features of the crowdfunding model gets lost: namely that it exists in part as a binding gauge of consumer interest. I doubt they assume every project they float is going to meet the production goal. Also, there's a third possibility for that kind of pledge drop, that people deliberately signed up for multiples to attempt to push it across the line knowing that once the goal was met they would have time to cancel the extraneous pre-orders. That's notably happened to crowdfunding campaigns in the past.
If you watch the most recent Star Wars Show, where they interview the Russo brothers, one of them casually mentioned how Kevin Feige bought “half” of the Barges to make sure that it got made.
Just checked Hasbro Pulse. The crowdfunding for Unicron has been extended. It's now going till October. I think Hasbro knew this wasn't going to get funded by the end of the August deadline. So, magically it's been extended. C'mon Hasbro, just make it based on preorders. Transformers fans are seeing right thru this nonsense. Just my opinion.
Of course you made that joke at the end.😂 Anyway, I'm glad the Unicron looks like it'll fall through. No way they'll get 5,000 more backers in less than six days. And Michael, let me just say, I've been watching a lot of your videos in the past few days, and I've really come to appreciate the amount of work that you and Melinda put into your content. Your channel is seriously undrrated.
Somebody needs to do a mission impossible heist on the unicron prototype and just ship it to China.... 6 months later it’ll be available on Amazon for $99 as “planet eater”
Lol funny
Paint it blue and call it "Planet Monster"
CRocketSlim that’s the $49.99 alibaba version ;)
I'm sure even if nobody does the mission impossible thing, there would be a bootleg with it being available even before Hasbro can produce one. And Hasbro is wondering why people aren't buying their stuff anymore...
Juan Carlos Marquez definitely... they’ll make some thing almost as good
I know this is old but can we all agree that Michael eating 7 cookies during this video just to set up a one line bit at the end is simply LEGENDARY
That's when I laughed 😅
Well many times but that one was fire
It's the HasLab Unicron that made me really pissed off.
Unless you have like...how much that thingy costs? Hum...700? Whatever.
I still can't believe that people are actually gonna pay $700 for a shellformer.
$700 worth of kibble
UPDATE : Unicron has been extended until 10/06/2019. they said they weren't going to extend it, but then they did!
SHENANIGANS!!! SHENANIGANS!!!
Just gross to scare collectors into buying a too expensive collectible. Disappointed in Hasbro, and certainly not sad to see Unicron struggle.
It got funded lol
I'm upset at the whole 01 studio cell fiasco
Somebody told Hasbro about this thing called 'crowd funding' and said you can make money and didn't take the time or effort to understand it.
Chips Ahoy! or homemade? PERFECT PROP.
I'm in full agreement with you on this, Michael.
Also; “They’ll buy it! They’ll pay for it!”
100% Correct. The Masterpiece Transformers series is proof of that. Despite cringing at the $400 price point, we’re still buying the newest MP Optimus Prime this month.
300 for for cookie monster?! Man... and here I thought the Puppet Master replicas were pricey...
This is dashing my hopes for a Haslab Snarf.
ROFL... A lifesize Snarf.... not sure what to think about that... laugh or run away screaming....... :p
Now I want cookies, dammit.
Grover (or Super Grover) would be tempting but not at $300!
I love Grover and have several plushies, but they are made for kids and I expect kids prices.
I agree, don't understand why they would need to ask for backing for brands that already sell. You said in the podcast, make it, limit the number, and they'll buy it. Instead of doing this, why wouldn't they use this to test the waters with defunct brands, like MASK or GI JOE, heck, I wasn't going to buy in on Jabba's boat, or Unicron, but a Cobra Heli-carrier or that Cobra cargo plane from the Sunbow series...maybe..
In fairness, just because certain brands are active, doesn't mean that every potential product can pass the internal math needed to make it past the design phase. There are tons of projects that never make it any further than the costing out phase.
At least the cookie looked delicious...
Looks like you were right, Haslab just extended the Unicron pledge drive.
Ok. My first complaint to Retroblasting....how come no cookies for us?!?! They look so good!
The dramatic pauses while you take your time chewing the cookies is positively hysterical. I do believe the Unicon will meet its goal. But I do agree with you on the entire haslab concept. The Cookie Monster does speak volumes about the brains in the boardroom
I an expecting Cookie Monster to come at you a grab that plate of cookies to eat them
50 dollars for Cookie Monster, considering the materials and made in mass seems fair - if even then, a little high. But sadly Hasbro, like Disney and others have decided that the kind of customer they want are well off and willing to pay those prices. And people wonder why toy sales are down - not because of lack of fans, but the dismissal and pricing out of them. (Hey, remember when oil prices went up and so everyone raised prices - but then when they went down lower than it's been in decades, those prices just kept going up?)
Anyway, great video as always Michael. Not going to lie, I was actually hoping you would eat so many cookies out of frustration that you would barely be able to form proper words by the end. :D
Rant-o-blasting at Michael's best. Cookies galore!
That not shipping around the world is so stupid
Takara is taking orders for japan, eb games for australia, robotkingdom for uk and hasbro asia for china.
@@HAGZ0483 Still doesn't excuse the ridiculous price for the figure itself and the price of shipping. Yeah you've got a year to save but its still alot of money for alot of people.
GinraiPrime666 you don’t have a year, you have to pay Hasbro at the time you pledge. But that aside, worldwide availability is tough for what is essentially a one off product. They need to perform safety tests for every country they want to sell in, which makes sense for a toy line that will sell thousands and thousands of figures over the course of a year. Unicron is one figure that will sell 8,000 units and be done. Plus the work that goes into international shipping and declaring every tiny piece is also cost prohibitive. I’m sure the bean counters at Hasbro did out the math and determined the cost incurred would not be made back. Hasbro is in it to make money first and foremost. Giving collectors a cool toy is only the means to that end.
@@christopherbandish6060 I was referring to the cost I've seen for other sites like robotkingdom and bigbadtoystore where you pay a deposit and then the rest when the product actually ships. Safety issues are one thing but this is primarily a toy for adult collectors and you can bet most people are not going to be actually playing with this Unicron, its primarily going to be for display. Plus one off products, especially from Japan, have no trouble being sold worldwide so I don't see why Hasbro should behave any differently.
@@wotaj Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Look at this utter chad eating all of those cookies without any milk. True power.
And the bots thing makes sense from a marketing perspective. Just advertise it as just a bit above what you actually need for it to happen, and use the bots to fill in that little bit you don't get pre-orders for. That way, you get a larger amount of people to pre-order it just so it gets made. Brilliant, but scummy.
Also, I like the basic "I told you so" vibe this video gives off without directly saying it.
Unicron is available to Japanese customers through the Takara Online mall, so in regards to that it's at least one other place in the world that's getting it if it happens. They have not said one way or another if the Takara preorders will be added at the end or if they've been added all along.
Sorry I would have mentioned that during the live stream but I wasn't able to make it!
I wonder how many more failures it will take to tank the HasLab idea.
Hasn't happened
@@vilebasterd5729 yet. Hence my wondering how many it would take.
In China the store chain Mini-so has a massive range of Sesame Street merchandise. I think it would have sold well in China.
They just started selling a new range of Marvel stuff too.
the thing about the unicron is they already have a unicron toy put out in the armada line, with a few reissues in g1 colors ,so there is no demand for a new toy since the armada one is in my opinion a perfect toy
Although I own and love the armada unicron toy I have to disagree. Its an amazing toy but its over 15 years old and the character would have benefitted from an updated sculpt, paint job, articulation and engineering, and a lot of fans wanted a new unicron made using modern transformer toy design. The haslab one is such an improvement and looks so amazing that the only things keeping me from backing it are the price and the size.
Excellent video...back to form Michael...where Retroblasting excels!!!
I saw the Unicrom at San Diego Comic- Com. I thought it was cool but I could never justify $600 for it.
Indeed, which is exactly why they'it's not getting a normal retail release.
A lot of people say they'd be interested in something, but when they actually have to commit money towards it, that number tends to go way down. That's the reason companies don't want to produce these kinds of high end niche items through normal retail channels and risk taking a bath on them or incurring cost sitting on unsold inventory when it takes a long time for the production run to sell through.
Yeah, I guarantee that if Haslab had worldwide shipping that Unicron would have been funded in, like, two weeks. Great job, Hasbro
@bigevilworldwide1
1. Its much bigger than mp optimus prime who is only 9.5 inches tall.
2. Its not based off a video game. The war for cybertron siege line is not based off the video game war for cybertron which unicron never even appeared in.
3. It is not trying to be accurate to the 86 movie, but instead a modern reimagining and amalgamation of the many g1 versions of unicron.
I stopped marathoning TMNT intro themes for this. Just letting you know how important your videos are to me! :)
Thanks man!!!!
Good seeing you on here Lio. Hope your channel is still doing well.
There are 3 third party vendors offering it to international buyers, and their orders are not being placed till the last day.
The number jumps could be collections of pre-orders from toy dealers pulling out or coming in at the last minute.
Hahahahahaha!!! That cookie crumble ending really made me laugh. Also I was laughing wondering how many cookies you were planning to eat during this video! Couldn't agree more with your assessment of this one. Wouldn't surprise me if Hasbro padded their numbers on the barge just to make sure their first attempt at this didn't tank. I also wonder if they don't even mind at this point if they do tank because they're getting a lot of free publicity either way. This Haslab thing drums up both excitement and controversy. Anyhoo, great vid! -Don
holy crap this was real??
I thought this was a clever way to point out how stupid this HasLab stuff has become
Hey Michael, thanks for the insight and great videos!
Love the raw commentary, how you did it eating cookies, and the cookie 🍪 crumbles line at the end was epic. 😂
It took you over 10 minutes to get to the "that's the way the cookie crumbles" line...I was waiting for it! Great video...all of your points are so true
Hasbro's mistake is a 3rd party maker's gain.
Choke on that hasbro!!!!
I know this isn’t a Hasbro license, but I’d pay for those Angel and Spike puppets from the tv series.
I wonder how long Hasbro will hold on to Star Wars? It can’t be making them much money.
Damn! Now I want cookies, thanks Michael!
Only Micheal can make every bite of a cookie scream "F.U. Haslab"
To this day, I'm still mystified over why Hasbro chose Cookie Monster to do this HasLabs Kickstarter thing. Someone HAD to be a huge C.M. fan in corporate.
There must be some financial or legal influences that we're unaware of, which Hasbro is weighing out when making these decisions. Because as far as common sense goes, their decisions are indeed coming off as weird and questionable.
Charlie Bicho that’s exactly what I was thinking
Their last project was 2% funded at $300 so they put out the next project at double that price?
I'd assume the number is pinned to production cost plus whatever markup they need to achieve to make the project viable in economic terms. A lower price point would probably require more backers.
The eating of the cookies so casually during the video is epic.
I like Cookie Monster but maybe a high-end Henson styled puppet would have sold more?
Dang it, now I want cookies
Who else was waiting in a heightened sense of suspense for a blue Cookie Monster to pop out of nowhere and steal Michael’s cookies? 🍪
I think you mentioned Cookie Monster on your live stream and I thought it was you making a joke. Then I saw this video get posted and chuckled, thinking it was a comedic video taking the joke to another level. Then I sat down and watched the video today and, again, thought it was an elaborate joke. Then I Googled 'HasLab Cookie Monster' in the middle of the video out of curiosity. 😂 I can't believe this was a real thing!
Cookie Monster may have been a sacrificial lamb to scare us into backing Unicron
True statement about the worldwide appeal of Transformers. I sold my G1 collection on eBay several years back and I shipped robots to at least 30 different countries.
The whole haslab thing has been a bit of a joke so far with the main issue for me being the complete lack of care for their International customers. For Unicron in the UK not only do we have the shipping but the import tax as well which i saw someone quoting £800+ which is nearly $1000 which is far too much for any single figure IMO. Totally agree with the stupid choice of cookie monster as a haslab offering, it should of been a muppet character or for the money they wanted a oscar the grouch with trashcan prob would of got more adult takers for that one as he was the bad boy of the sesame street characters.
"Sometimes you have to do what's best for you and your life, not what's best for everyone else."
Good video... Now I’m craving cookies... 😩
Another thought. How will Habro look at the Haslab idea, if they fail to meet their goal...
Rad hair!! Keep it growing..
These videos right here are one of the best things about this channel. A honest no agenda not carrying about sponsorship (free toys) who is not afraid to call out toy companies faults and failures
Cookie Monster was always my favorite S Street character. Now that being said. I could make a very satisfying Cookie Monster with 40$ of materials. Just sayin'
I absolutely love this video,,,your doing the Lords work my friend, keep it up
I’ll tell you now that I didn’t fund the barge until the last second because I wanted to wait to see if it would even make it and because I didn’t want to regret it and then get it on the second hand market for double the price.
I love how this whole video micheal was just stuffing himself with cookies
The Unicorn Crowdfunding also available through Takara Tomy Mall to ship only to Japan and count as the 8,000. I also doubt it will pass since TF have 3rd party option unlike SW.
Robotkingdom will ship it for ya
So does Big Bad Toys, but they bumped up the price dramatically......
I didn't even know there was a HasLab Cookie Monster.
I thought this video was gonna be about Unicron and you titled it Cookie Monster as a joke. XD
Also, for some unknown reason I suddenly feel an urge to have a cookie.
You know its sad when the toy is more expensive than making the screen used puppet.
Are you gonna share those cookies, Michael?
Love the talking with cookies in yer mouth gag!
Spot on as usual my friend, especially with the unicron not being available to consumers in japan!
I won't lie, Family Guy has made me more of a adult Cookie Monster fan. Ha ha, they captured him so great as a messed up addict. LOL, but I get why he never got backed.
Blood ran cold when you said CM was missing....in the 70s kids were being haunted by thier cookie monster dolls.
After seeing the Unicron in person at SDCC, the first thing that I thought was “this thing is not going to be mass produced”. The shear size and the way the transformation is going to be, makes it look like an impossible toy to play with...
It's flabbergasting. Hasbro is the largest toy company in the world and has sustained itself for nearly a century - and yet the sum of all of that experience, knowledge, sales and marketing has been ignored, disregarded or even worse, forgotten. And the result is a company that simply grasps for straws in the dark, with no idea what to do or how to do it. This is what happens when you get incompetent leadership at the top. I think in their case they are top-heavy with college educated businessmen with no practical real-world experience, and not individuals who understand collecting or the toy industry itself.
I was waiting for it and knew it was coming...that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Between Hasn'tLab and the no plastic packaging nonsense that would effectively eliminate the collector's ability to insure QC and display inpackage ...
I'll paraphrase Jack Nicholson's Joker : What kind of a world do we live in where children dressed as a CEO and board members get to make incredibly stupid , shortsighted and greedy businesses decisions and try to steal all my money ?
THIS BOARDROOM NEEDS AN ENEMA !!!
....uh , thanks Jack ,
and to you Michael . 😊🤘👍
I'm down with the no plastic packaging to be fair
@@dwinter666 I understand .
Not going to try to talk you out of your valid opinion , bro .
Rock on ! 🤙🤘
I’m surprised Haslab didn’t team up with Public Television and offer the Cookie Monster then donate part of the money raised to public television
What really grinds my gears.... the U.S.S. FLAGG. The G.I. JOE aircraft carrier. THEY MADE THAT THING, THEY PUT IT IN STORES. And NOW, they want THE CUSTOMER to fund their projects. They aren't willing to take the risk anymore. And even so, they don't even put things at a price point the average person can afford. "Here's a cool thing for $500, you might get if 8000 other people give us $500." They don't realize how hard I have to work to obtain $500? What other priorities are reserved for that $500, bills, groceries, gas to get to work to make $500 more. Ridiculous. And now Marvel Legends are almost $30 with little to no accessories. Black Series is over $30. 🙄 Hasbro is insane.
I think its really shitty that they canned it and gave Unicron an extra month
Cookie Monster was my favourite Sesame Street character... that being said I have no desire to even have a small cookie monster toy in my house.
I knew nothing about this. But now I want some of my sister's cookies.
I didn't understand the choice of character Hasbro chose. Animal would have been a much better choice.
kt it might have been an issue of licensing. Disney owns the Muppet characters. I think CTW still owns the Sesame characters? Unless those rights went to HBO as well.
Hasbro has only the Sesame Street license.
But still. Why Cookie Monster and not Elmo, who's hands down the most popular Sesame Street character?
I think in debates like this, one of the key features of the crowdfunding model gets lost: namely that it exists in part as a binding gauge of consumer interest. I doubt they assume every project they float is going to meet the production goal.
Also, there's a third possibility for that kind of pledge drop, that people deliberately signed up for multiples to attempt to push it across the line knowing that once the goal was met they would have time to cancel the extraneous pre-orders. That's notably happened to crowdfunding campaigns in the past.
I don't know man, seems to me Cookie Monster has a lot of mainstream pop culture love, I think the price is just much too high to bite at.
Unicron is at 5000 backers right now
A Dark Crystal puppet for sure would have been funded.
Hasbro shenanigans: let's just push out the cutoff date for the Unicron pre-order by over a month.
You’re making me hungry for cookies now...
You sooooooooooooooo hit the nail on the head with this one. :-)++++++++
Hasbro should realized not everything will get backed.
If you watch the most recent Star Wars Show, where they interview the Russo brothers, one of them casually mentioned how Kevin Feige bought “half” of the Barges to make sure that it got made.
Oh well, that's how the cookie crumbles.
Agree 100% and I was one of those 62 backers , cookies demand was a pipedream
Just checked Hasbro Pulse. The crowdfunding for Unicron has been extended. It's now going till October. I think Hasbro knew this wasn't going to get funded by the end of the August deadline. So, magically it's been extended. C'mon Hasbro, just make it based on preorders. Transformers fans are seeing right thru this nonsense. Just my opinion.
Best watched with some cookies.
And I think HasLab is going be HasBeen. Too much protomatter in the matrix.
WOW, that last sentence, WOW, f'n awesome
Oh, look, Unicron got *1800* backers OVERNIGHT! Suspect indeed.
I spent the 1st 2-3 minutes thinking he was using Cookie Monster as a euphemism for Unicron. LOL!
Michael went through all that rant just for one thing. His last line.
I figured out what happened to your Cookie Monster, Michael: Hasbro stole it in order to force you to back theirs!
Of course you made that joke at the end.😂
Anyway, I'm glad the Unicron looks like it'll fall through. No way they'll get 5,000 more backers in less than six days.
And Michael, let me just say, I've been watching a lot of your videos in the past few days, and I've really come to appreciate the amount of work that you and Melinda put into your content. Your channel is seriously undrrated.
Thank you so very much for the kind words!
Unicron has been extended to 10/6/19. Yes!!
"I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles." - _*rimshot_