Latest List of Layoffs Over Last 4 Months:

1. Twitch: 35% of workforce
2. Hasbro: 20% of workforce
3. Spotify: 17% of workforce
4. Levi's: 15% of workforce
5. Zerox: 15% of workforce
6. Qualtrics: 14% of workforce
7. Wayfair: 13% of workforce
8. Tesla: 10% of workforce
9. Duolingo: 10% of workforce
10. Washington Post: 10% of workforce
11. Snapchat: 10% of workforce
12. eBay: 9% of workforce
13. PayPal: 9% of workforce
14. Business Insider: 8% of workforce
15. Charles Schwab: 6% of workforce
16. Macy's: 4% of workforce
17. Blackrock: 3% of workforce
18. Citigroup: 20,000 employees
19. UPS: 12,000 employees
20. Cisco: "Thousands" of employees

In 2024, we have already seen 74,000 tech layoffs alone with well over 200,000 across all industries.

Last month, the US added a whopping 691,000 part-time jobs while LOSING 6,000 full-time jobs.

Is the labor market finally starting to soften?

I hope Hasbro and Takara Tomy and Paramount and Dreamworks made them pay through the nose for using their IP, but my guess is Elon just did it without permission.
I can find no press release or documentation that Tesla bought the rights to Bumblebee or Optimus Prime or any transformers robots. Looks like theft.

Hasbro and Takara Tomy and Paramount should sue the pants off of him for blatantly stealing their IP for advertising purposes.

Fuck you Elon, you’re a thief and a liar.

The dates for the original series openings are off. For example, they're listing the 3rd version of the original series opening as from 1984 but it showcases both Unicron and Galvetron, who both made their first appearances in the Transformers feature animated film in 1989.

Similarly, the 2nd version of the original series opening (also dated 1984) showcases Omega Supreme, who doesn't show up until Season 2 (1985-1986) in the U.S.

Also, suggesting the lame Gobots had anything to do with Transformers is fucking NERD HERESY (yes, I am aware Hasbro tried to retcon the Gobots as existing in the Transformers universe)!

/endrant

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Actual lore: Hasbro wanted to make a shit ton of money selling toys to children, so they made: TRANSFORMERS. Have fun, kids.

I'm looking forward to Hasbro giving the Nerf gun the same treatment.

What in the world are you on about? The private sector gets just as many chances as "the government" to f-up and keep moving forward.

Take a look here for some consumer product recalls:
http://www.esopro.com/erp-blog/industry-musings/the-10-most-disastrous-product-recalls-of-all-time

On that list are corporations like Firestone, Tylenol, Graco, Hasbro, Ford and Toyota. Despite their negligence leading to deaths, they seem to be doing just fine. And those corporations killed way more people than NASA ever has.

Is accountability important? Sure, absolutely. In the case of the Apollo mission, the Program Director was fired. I would the same is true for a lot of those product recalls: the highest up person with direct supervision of the project should be fired.

In summary, I don't really see where "the government" gets off easy while the "private sector" is unfairly punished.

OK, so everyone can comment all they want about camera cuts, who did what in the commercial, whatever the f#ck you want to say tear this apart, deconstruct it or knock it down. But I'm a sixteen year veteran of the toy industry, and I see potential. I see something here that moves past the crap that Mattel and Hasbro, Jakks Pacific, Spinmaster, New Bright, Jada, MGA and others cram down the throats of kids at places like Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us. I'm guilty of being a part of that machine, I admit it. But I'm not necessarily happy about it, and seeing things like this makes me even less happy about it. Especially that I now have a 4 year old daughter. So I truly hope that this thing takes off. I wish them the absolute best of luck, I'm going to be voting regularly for them to get the spot, and I look forward to buying their product.

Missed the whole Transformers phenom-First gen Hasbro toys hit in 84', (senior year in HS)-Back in my day, all plastic toys became blobs of melted plastic after being 'transformed' under mysterious circumstances...

Knowing Hasbro, I'm sure they are preparing to lawsuit against this guy for pretending to be them.
I guess he'll get trolled after all.

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Teacher replaces toys with cardboard, gets targetted by Hasbro Death Squad.

And the Science Channel now shows a lot of Firefly. Love Firefly, but really, Science Channel? At least when they gave up on Discovery Kids, and Hasbro bought in, they changed the name to the Hub instead of "Discovering" old episodes of "Jem and the Holograms".

>> ^Sagemind:

Hey Ant, how is this 80s?
This is a viral ad created by Hasbro.
KRE-O is a line of construction toys (Rip offs of Lego and Megabloks) which was announced to release in stores in Fall 2011, although Hasbro started shipping out the first Transformers sets in early June 2011.
Kre-o is the result of Hasbro's uncompromising standards to brand with other toy companies - Their motto being buy it out or put em out of business. Knowing they wanted to join the band-wagon of sharing their franchised brands with the brick toy building industry, but not wanting to brand with Lego, they came up with Kre-o.
Another interesting note, although it's not in their advertising, it does say on the packaging that it "Is" compatible with the leading brick brand (aka Lego) something no other brick system can claim - which leads me to wonder if they aren't buying the Kre-o bricks from Lego itself to on a contact basis.


80s referring to the original Transformers G1.

Hey Ant, how is this 80s?
This is a *viral ad created by Hasbro.

KRE-O is a line of construction toys (Rip offs of Lego and Megabloks) which was announced to release in stores in Fall 2011, although Hasbro started shipping out the first Transformers sets in early June 2011.

Kre-o is the result of Hasbro's uncompromising standards to brand with other toy companies - Their motto being buy it out or put em out of business. Knowing they wanted to join the band-wagon of sharing their franchised brands with the brick toy building industry, but not wanting to brand with Lego, they came up with Kre-o.

Another interesting note, although it's not in their advertising, it does say on the packaging that it "Is" compatible with the leading brick brand (aka Lego) something no other brick system can claim - which leads me to wonder if they aren't buying the Kre-o bricks from Lego itself to on a contact basis.