Ep 111 : New York Comic Con - Hasbro Interview
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Fresh off their Star Wars Rogue One toy panel at New York Comic Con, I sit down with Steve Evans and Joe Ninivaggi of the Hasbro Star Wars team for a quick fun chat about Rogue Friday, the challenges of pleasing so many different types of customers and how the increased film schedule has made it harder to produce secondary characters?
Plus we tackle hot topics such as will the “exciting things” sizzled for the 40th anniversary include playsets? Why do the cardbacks no longer include figure checklists? Along with a reaction to Hasbro's legal team legally challenging fan sites.
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| 0:00.0 | Your stickers on my office door. Oh, really? And the back of mine. That's right. On the front of mine is, have you seen Luke? That's right. Oh, no, yeah. Have you seen him? Yeah, that's right. Well, and I have. Well, that's got a double meaning for people at Hasbro, I think. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Anyone asked you about that? No. No. It's crazy. |
| 0:22.7 | Nobody cares about him. |
| 0:23.5 | Look, hey. people at Hasbro, I think. Yes. Anyone asked you about that? |
| 0:21.4 | No. |
| 0:21.9 | It's crazy. |
| 0:22.6 | Nobody cares about him. |
| 0:23.5 | Okay. |
| 0:24.7 | All right, you guys, we are in... |
| 0:27.0 | This is just, you know, |
| 0:28.9 | it just started out as a humble podcaster in Australia. |
| 0:32.5 | Now I'm in some executive lounge in New York. |
| 0:36.1 | Ceramic ducks flying on the wall. Oh, really? Okay. So this is the problem. You guys are so used to all these toys that you're looking at the ducks on the wall. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, what are those made of? The wings articulated. And those from England would know that that's like Coronation Street, which is not a great thing. So there's a little insider joke for the British people. Right, very good. I am here just dazzled because, you know, there's a lot of great toys in this room, but I am with a six-inch boxed and loose Mendo figure. Now, I'm not someone that has much national pride in, you know, I just like, whatever, we're one planet. |
| 1:13.9 | But when Ben Mendelson, Melbourne-born Ben Mendelsohn came out at celebration, dressed as Krennick, I was just like, I love my country. |
| 1:23.1 | I should have said Melbourne middle meddling management. I'll get that for next time. Well, someone, because, you know, back home, he's called Mendo. That's like, you know, Australians love to, yeah. So when someone actually sent me, one of the listeners sent me, there's a cardboard cutout because it's like an ongoing thing in the podcast where they're excited about Mendo. |
| 1:44.9 | And on Amazon, I clicked it. |
| 1:46.8 | And I was like, oh, that's the wrong name. |
| 1:48.4 | It's got Crenic. |
| 1:49.2 | It's Mendo. |
| 1:49.9 | Like, I forget that's not his character's name. |
| 1:52.8 | So with Joe and Steve from Hasbro, you just had the panel. |
| 1:58.9 | And I loved us because the internet |
| 2:02.3 | came alive and started |
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