Hasbro Pulls Out of NY Toy Fair 2022

[eventyraren 180]

It looks like Hasbro and a few others is not going to the NY Toy Fair this year.

[Northern Star 1,024]

If they are like equipment manufacturers, they're not exactly heartbroken over it.

Most equipment/company shows the exhibitors have been looking for a way out of going for years. They may just continue online for good, so in a way, this isn't surprising. 

[Stancet 689]

I do believe in-person events will never really go away. People will always need person-to-person interaction, whether manufacturers want it or not.

[eventyraren 180]

  On 2022-01-11 at 11:25 AM, Stancet said:

I do believe in-person events will never really go away. People will always need person-to-person interaction, whether manufacturers want it or not.

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I realy hope you are right. 

[Megas 27,781]

Not really surprised with the Unicron variant dominating, people and places are starting to be careful once again

[ExplosionMare 18,086]

I hope they decide to come back the next year

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  On 2022-01-11 at 4:34 PM, Megas said:

Not really surprised with the Unicron variant dominating, people and places are starting to be careful once again

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...You aren't the first to get it confused with Transformers, I'll just say that.

But yeah, just corporations being corporations here as usual, nothing special. 

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  On 2022-01-11 at 11:29 AM, eventyraren said:

I realy hope you are right. 

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Well, again, if they are like equipment manufacturers, they'll be back, to some capacity anyways. 

For equipment it works alot better when you can study the machine yourself, toys...I don't know what that toy show is like, but I assume there are prototypes that salesmen, press, and the like, study.