Hasbro possibly doing Tron?

[canprime]

Tron:


1,061 / 10,000 (+2) 10.61% of funding goal with 29d 20h left.


Well this is the closest it has come so far to losing backers. Granted it is a weekend daily update and they are almost always lower numbers than weekdays. However getting a loss of backers might be the catalyst that sends this Haslab nose diving like some previous Haslabs that struggled.

 

[canprime]

Tron:


1,073 / 10,000 (+12) 10.73% of funding goal with 28d 18h left.

 

[TFitz]

Wait... where's the London con bump?

 

[Chooch555]

That was it.

 

[Damien]

Lol

 

[TheGillMan]

I feel like there is someone at Hasbro's corporate office saying "it's gonna happen". He's the same dude who says this to himself when the stripper pays him a compliment.

 

[TFitz]

I feel like there is someone at Hasbro's corporate office saying "it's gonna happen". He's the same dude who says this to himself when the stripper pays him a compliment.

I take my action figures to the strip club. Me and the girls get WILD!

 

[GreatCeasarGhost]

A light cycle that doesn’t light up is a missed opportunity.

Hopefully this is successful enough to get slightly more detailed vehicles and figures

 

[Schizm]

This would have been the place to attempt something like that but Hasbro really hates light-up things. Were the Haslab Sentinel and Galactus the last Marvel toy, non-movie props that got lights? I guess the Holocomm pucks were it for SW. I don't think MMPR ever got anything and I don't think GI Joe has? I don't know about Transformers at all.

I'm putting together a Lego set that has a light brick and I keep pressing it just cuz. I wish it had a way to stay on longer, but it is fun.

 

[altcunningham]

All the Haslab Joe vehicles have light features. I wasn't sure if you were counting those, but you did include the Sentinel.

Zordon also lit up for the MMPR.

 

[JakeEkiss]

This would have been the place to attempt something like that but Hasbro really hates light-up things.

I don't think that's the case. Quite a few Haslabs have them. Sentinel, Galactus, all the Joe ones, Engine of Vengeance, Ecto-1... probably some others I'm forgetting (surely some transformers ones had them, and probably some of the Vintage Collection too).

It's that sophisticated compact electronics bump the price up and nobody wants to pay for that bump.

 

[canprime]

I don't think that's the case. Quite a few Haslabs have them. Sentinel, Galactus, all the Joe ones, Engine of Vengeance, Ecto-1... probably some others I'm forgetting (surely some transformers ones had them, and probably some of the Vintage Collection too).

It's that sophisticated compact electronics bump the price up and nobody wants to pay for that bump.

I don't know that I would call the majority of electronics in Haslabs "sophisticated."

However, yeah I don't think Hasbro wants to spend the money as prices keep going up, and I think the opportunities to include electronics as a value added feature are getting fewer and farther between. Nice to have, but probably not worth the extra cost.

Anyway:

Tron:


1.076 / 10,000 (+3) 10.76% of funding goal with 27d 19h left.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I don't know that I would call the majority of electronics in Haslabs "sophisticated."

In a relative sense, I mean. The amount of specificity needed to put them into a design with tight tolerances and such. I also think the quality they're using is a little higher than what you might expect on cheaper kid's toys.

I think they'll continue to do it for haslabs when appropriate and perhaps even for made to order stuff down the line. But yeah, I don't think it'll cost out for most stuff.

 

[altcunningham]

I used to think lighting was complicated and expensive because the sets that they made to accentuate your Lego could be pricey. I never did them because I never wanted to retrofit.

But now there are third-party sets that are a better value than Lego, on par with quality minus the Minifigures for my money, and they include all these cool lighting solutions like contact points and minimal wire management. And it doesn't affect the price at all.

Blew my mind because I'm so brainwashed by other toys acting like it's a big investment. (Mezco)

 

[adrienveidt]

I'm not sure an interior light would make a lightcycle look better since they never had any point-sources or glow to them. The 'circuit glow' was mostly in the set walls but not seen in the CGI exterior shots of the vehicles; and only in the interior of the Recognizer since it was, again, a full set unlike the lightcycle interior, imho. Something to make the lightTRAIL light up as it emerges, maybe; but not the bike itself; and you could get that effect with just a bit of GitD mixed into the plastic itself.

I still think this is exactly the sort of project HasLab should be for, stuff that wouldn't survive on store shelves based on *lots* of evidence; and that the prices as I've estimated them are reasonable for modern grownup toys. I think this project's failure is an indicator that HasLab as a concept is itself a failure since the only successes it's had are things that can arguably survive at retail as well as any other product of that license has done. HasLab only succeeds in cases where it's not needed.