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Originally Posted by cloud
THis is disappointing. Hasbro should just stick to what was right.
Yes, sales are probably worse now but it's not because of the packaging but the quality controls, price gouge and slow production. We've seen so many pre-orders lately with a release daye 6 months or more later.
While McFarlane Toys timed their pre-order and releases pretty well.
I don't want collectors to have a bad name that we don't care about the envionment. I was happy with plastic free packaging. That means everything can call fold up and toss into recycling instead of tearing and seperating.
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The only "right" thing for Hasbro is whatever keeps their stock price high and makes them profitable.
The idea that they were trying to help the environment is a joke. Which is made all the more clear by their backtracking now. This clearly was a plan that backfired. Whether that was due to customer backlash, or retailer backlash doesn't really matter in the end.
Also someone pointed out the latest hypocrisy with the new PET "non-virgin" plastic. The previous boxes already had recyclable wording/notation on them. Making the claim that there was some percentage of recycled material in the packaging. Maybe there was, but it probably wasn't much, and this new direction probably won't increase that percentage by much.
In the end it really doesn't matter much. Just look up the reports of how much material, especially plastic, is actually recycled and you'll see it is a farce that we recycle as much as we do at the consumer level when the retailer, industrial, and governmental levels all play games with the definition of recycling. I mean is it really recycling if we just ship containers off to third world countries who are "supposed" to recycle the material (but really don't)?
Anway, sorry for the long winded rant, but I just think the whole proposition by Hasbro was about optics, and when it didn't work they jumped right back on the bandwagon.
