D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

Following the richest man in the world's attack on Wizards of the Coast for two paragraphs in the 500-page celebration of D&D, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977, Elon Musk--who bought Twitter not that long ago--wants to know how much D&D's owner Hasbro would cost.

After the public sharing on Twitter of Jason Tondro's (who wrote the book’s foreword) private Facebook posts, Musk replied "How much is Hasbro?"

Hasbro's estimated capitalization is currently $8.71 billion, with $3.95 billion of debt.

It was on 21st December 2017 when Musk similarly enquired "How much is it?" before proceeding to make a bid for Twitter. He later tried to back out of the deal, but was forced to buy the platform for $44 billion in June 2022. Current estimates by investment firm Fidelity put the platform at a value 80% less than when he bought it, with a worth of only about $9.4 billion.

 

[Mistwell]

Sure, but he doesn't need to create tunnels on Mars for quite a while / ever either

Don't most Mars plans involve covering a trench and tunnelling from there?

 

[mamba]

Don't most Mars plans involve covering a trench and tunnelling from there?

You are taking this way too seriously, also before we need tunnels on Mars, we will need a decent sized colony, and I do not see that happening any time soon, so at a minimum this is putting the cart before the horse

 

[trappedslider]

Musk needs to buy the pinkertons before buying Hasbro so he can send the pinkertons to your house to take your books so you can't play anything other than what he sells. /s

 

[Remathilis]

Think about every corporate purchase choice Musk's made so far. It's all about his dream to get to Mars: Boring company, to drill tunnels on Mars; Hyperloop, for transport on Mars; SpaceX, to get to Mars and launch satellites for communications with Starlink; Tesla, for electric engines to power things without oil and coal and gas; Solar City, to generate electricity and Powerwall to reinvent batteries to be higher capacity to run all night even when solar cannot collect; Neuralink, to pilot a variety of things from a distance from anywhere; AI, to cover a variety of jobs humans can't do in that environment; and Twitter, to gather political communications power to promote all these things.

Now how does Hasbro, an ailing $8B toy and games company, fit into this? The answer is it simply doesn't. He's just yanking your chain. He does this.

He's going to need to learn to cast Wish in order to get 1/10th of that into reality?

 

[Nord Ronnoc]

Here, this might help.

Someone pointed out how unlikely it is for Elon to buy Hasbro.

 

[Zardnaar]

Thanks to the class action lawsuit Hasbro might soon be worth alot less and cheaper for Elon to buy.

That the overstocked toy one?

 

[osarusan]

Get ready for Xungeons and Xragons Xth Edition

 

[Zardnaar]

Well it's funny right now to me. But if you want to ride that anxiety train, more power to you.

My response.

Volfas Englemann.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/20914/52126/

Warm day, suns shining and a player of mine has laid down 30 beers for me.

Another can in the fridge when this obe is done. Hail Lithuania.

And just got BG1&2 running. Never played them.

 

[Krachek]

Get ready for Xungeons and Xragons Xth Edition

Get ready for the X panic too!

 

[Future_Monkey]

Transformers, GI Joe, are not the hot IP they used to be.

Maybe not, but I suspect the valuation of the company doesn't include those IP's and is more derived from material and financial assets.

On top of that, as one of the world's largest toy companies, Hasbro has a gross earnings of 3 billion during a bad year, and 4 billion or more during a good one. So even with whatever troubles it currently has it's no small-fry that he can walk in and buy out of pocket.

If it wasn't for the government contracts to SpaceX he wouldn't have a single company that wasn't slipping in value right now.