Hasbro Q & A: 2009 round 5 - Answers

[Rockshield]

Sorry for the delay in posting these folks... hope everyone understands that with the accident, there's no way I could have posted them sooner...


1. In a report to stock holders hasbro reported an 8% increase in profits, what was the percentage increase or decrease in units sold?

Habro: Sorry, but Hasbro does not release this type of information.

2. What are the chances that we will see any form of Steel Brigade figure? It seems that all of the parts you would need have been tooled and produced.

Habsro: We cannot confirm this, but it is safe to say it is on the short list of
items for a Fall 2010 release.

3. Why was Bench Press given Rock n Roll's file card name? Wouldn't it have made more sense to make him an entirely new character altogether, since he bears no likeness to our original Machine Gunner? Or is this part of some secret unground plot to destroy all of the old classic characters (i.e. Ripcord, Dialtone, Cobra Commander) by replacing them instead of creating new characters altogether?

Hasbro: In this particular case our plans had to change last minute as the name
Rock n Roll was no longer available for us to use, therefore we called him
Bench Press.

[Dragongravy]

steel brigade figure for fall of 2010! that is awesome!!!!


welcome back rock!

[Samantha]

Thanks for asking these questions. I am looking forward to seeing the Super Trooper.

[SNAKE EYES]

Sweet you asked my Steel Brigade question and they actually gave a decent answer

Here's hoping they make a decent version of the Steel Brigade figure.

[Dragongravy]

Sweet you asked my Steel Brigade question and they actually gave a decent answer

Here's hoping they make a decent version of the Steel Brigade figure.

well they got all the parts redone, so they ought to


i have a question for the next round........what is the suction cup with handlebars for that comes with city strike duke and storm shadow, what was the designers intent?

[SNAKE EYES]

Sweet you asked my Steel Brigade question and they actually gave a decent answer

Here's hoping they make a decent version of the Steel Brigade figure.

well they got all the parts redone, so they ought to

Yeah I know I had a parts list as part of my SB question

Now here's hoping for a 5 pack with a gold helmet Steel Brigade leader.

1. Will you make a Steel Brigade figure now that you have all the parts available?

Parts list:
RoC PIT Commando Steel Brigade helmet
RoC Flash head or any head the helmet will fit
Duke torso
Duke upper arms
Flash lower arms
Breaker(25th)upper legs
Cobra trooper lower legs
Duke web-gear
Tiger Force Duke backpack
Crimson Guard gun

[Dragongravy]

according to here

we could simplify the list :

air borne body and legs
flash arms (may not look right with duke uppers never tried it)
steel brigade helmet
generic head

this is actually the version i have some where....actually until i first seen yojoe this is the only one i knew about, lol

honestly if they gave us a five pack they could do one of each, lol

[zrock1272]

How could "Rock n' Roll" not be available? Isn't it a public domain name.

I didn't even make the connection that it was Rock n' Roll's real name on the file card. It's too bad they didn't include, I don't know, A HEAVY MACHINE GUN with the heavy machine gunner!

[SNAKE EYES]

according to here

we could simplify the list :

air borne body and legs
flash arms (may not look right with duke uppers never tried it)
steel brigade helmet
generic head

this is actually the version i have some where....actually until i first seen yojoe this is the only one i knew about, lol

honestly if they gave us a five pack they could do one of each, lol

No we can't simplify the list Here is the perfect Steel Brigade figure assembled with the parts list I posted: Steel Brigade Custom based on this version of the Steel Brigade trooper: Steel Brigade V1b

Here is his gold helmet Steel Brigade leader custom: Steel Brigade gold helmet

I just think if Hasbro uses Airborne's web-gear it won't look as good as the Duke version that the custom uses

[Rockshield]

How could "Rock n' Roll" not be available? Isn't it a public domain name.

I didn't even make the connection that it was Rock n' Roll's real name on the file card. It's too bad they didn't include, I don't know, A HEAVY MACHINE GUN with the heavy machine gunner!

well, they included two rock n roll figures in the 25th anniversay line already.. calling him Sgt Rock n Roll I believe...

so that answer has got to be a load of crap.....

[Dragongravy]

dont we have a round of questions coming up that we need to get a thread going on?

[Rockshield]

dont we have a round of questions coming up that we need to get a thread going on?

hmmmmm.... i dont think the 2010 dates were announced yet.... if they were I might have missed the email...

[Dragongravy]

according to joebattlelines there is one scheduled q and a left and the due date jan 3. they are also reporting that this will be the last one ever. it sounds to me that it is more likely that the pr firm hasnt issue a new schedule yet for the year.and here is a link to their thread here.

[Rockshield]

according to joebattlelines there is one scheduled q and a left and the due date jan 3. they are also reporting that this will be the last one ever.

I don't know who started this rumor, but according to the pr guys this is absurd. The next round of questions are due Jan 4th, and thats the end of the 2009 schedule. The upcoming schedule for 2010 will begin in March.

[Dragongravy]

i kinda figured it was a bunch of bunk. madmac and general Scarlett were the ones that seemed to purport the rumor.

[Rockshield]

i kinda figured it was a bunch of bunk. madmac and general Scarlett were the ones that seemed to purport the rumor.

Okay I wrote and erased replies to this comment three times and now I'm just going to stop trying.

[Dragongravy]

i kinda figured it was a bunch of bunk. madmac and general Scarlett were the ones that seemed to purport the rumor.

Okay I wrote and erased replies to this comment three times and now I'm just going to stop trying.

whats funny is that it whipped people up into a frenzy touting "deth of da line!"

[Rockshield]

i kinda figured it was a bunch of bunk. madmac and general Scarlett were the ones that seemed to purport the rumor.

Okay I wrote and erased replies to this comment three times and now I'm just going to stop trying.

whats funny is that it whipped people up into a frenzy touting "deth of da line!"

Again... I contain my comments until future real-time conversations.