Hasbro Quarterly Report

[Pramas]

Punk rock trivia about Clue. The role of the murder victim, Mr. Boddy, was played by Lee Ving, lead singer of the band Fear. You may know them from such classic songs as "Let's Have a War" and "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones."

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.

 

[Scribble]

GI Joe was so bad, I think they stole stuff from a dozen movies, from Star Wars to James Bond. My head still hurts from watching that "movie". Sequels?? The end is nigh...

GI Joe was awesome.

Movie of the year? Hell no- but as a live action movie version of a cartoon designed to sell action figures to little kids in the 80s??? PERFECT.

They even talked about kungfu action grip, and uttered the line: "Knowing is half the battle!"

 

[jmucchiello]

Clue was filmed with multiple surprise endings, and they would switch it up every showing in the theater. Most DVD re-issues contain all the various endings.

For clarification (since there are so many folks not in the know), they filmed 3 answers to the central whodunnit premise of the film. The movie theatre had 3 different last reels that were the 3 different endings. So people who saw the movie and talked about it with other became confused when they met someone who saw a different showing and they assume so-and-so was the murderer rather than whoever was the murderer for their showing.

On cable (and I assume the DVD), the three endings are shown one after the other. Between endings there is a voice over/insert that says "Or perhaps it happened this way...."

 

[SSquirrel]

GI Joe was awesome.

Movie of the year? Hell no- but as a live action movie version of a cartoon designed to sell action figures to little kids in the 80s??? PERFECT.

They even talked about kungfu action grip, and uttered the line: "Knowing is half the battle!"

Yeah that alone is enough to make me want to see it. Sadly couldn't go when it was in theaters, but I'm sure to snag it off netflix

 

[pawsplay]

I'm stunned that monopoly is actually being made into a movie. Clue at least has a back story (and makes for not only a good movie but also a series of who-dunnit children's books my kids enjoy).

Well, you could do it like an action-comedy, with Matthew Broderick as an aspiring real estate tycoon in New Jersey. Then you could have Timy Curry and Renee Zelwiger as the existing big wigs. Throw in some MGM-cartoon-inspired gags involving hanging from a wrecking ball. It could totally work.

But since it's Michael Bay, expect mecha-Scotty Dogs and exploding cars.

 

[haakon1]

Does Monopoly still have the battleship token?

More like a dreadnought (bow further out at the waterline than above it), as I recall.

 

[malraux]

I wonder how the revenue from Monopoly licensing by McDonalds every year compares to the WotC revenue.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Its probably like the difference between owning a single Railroad (WotC) and having Boardwalk and Park Place, each with a hotel on top (licensing revenue)...

 

[dmccoy1693]

I wonder how the revenue from Monopoly licensing by McDonalds every year compares to the WotC revenue.

I'm sure its in the range of "More" to "Boatloads More".

 

[jaerdaph]

Punk rock trivia about Clue. The role of the murder victim, Mr. Boddy, was played by Lee Ving, lead singer of the band Fear. You may know them from such classic songs as "Let's Have a War" and "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones."

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.

The singing telegram girl was played by Jane Wiedlin of the GoGos.

Wadsworth: You see? Like the Mounties, we always get our man.
Mr. Green: Mrs. Peacock was a man?