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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6260762" data-attributes="member: 2525">Hasbro stock soared yesterday and there was a lot of reporting on that fact.Bottom line was this: Boys line is way down (Marvel, Transformers, etc).&nbsp; Girls line and Gaming line is up, with Gaming now the largest part of the company's revenue for all of 2013 (which was not the case in prior years).WOTC makes up the bulk of the gaming line.They have a lot of promising stuff in the Entertainment sections of the company with multiple movie lines in the works.Hasbro also bought back some stock, and issued cash dividends.So even though Hasbro missed their numbers, there seems to be a lot of faith in the company from stockholders, who increased the stock price by something like 6% in one day (which is huge, it made national news).For me, this tells me the following: WOTC has a lot more relative power in the company than they used to, since they rule Gaming and Gaming is the most revenue for the company now.&nbsp; WOTC directly controls D&amp;D, and not Hasbro (they simply report as part of WOTC and not as their own division).&nbsp; There's been some sharing of resources and even employees between Magic the Gathering and D&amp;D within WOTC.&nbsp; And we know there is an Entertainment focus on D&amp;D.&nbsp; I think we might see a STRONG level of internal support for D&amp;D Next, which means a lot more money behind it than we're all used to seeing.We shall see, but I see good things for the D&amp;D brand in the future.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6260762, member: 2525"] Hasbro stock soared yesterday and there was a lot of reporting on that fact. Bottom line was this: Boys line is way down (Marvel, Transformers, etc). Girls line and Gaming line is up, with Gaming now the largest part of the company's revenue for all of 2013 (which was not the case in prior years). WOTC makes up the bulk of the gaming line. They have a lot of promising stuff in the Entertainment sections of the company with multiple movie lines in the works. Hasbro also bought back some stock, and issued cash dividends. So even though Hasbro missed their numbers, there seems to be a lot of faith in the company from stockholders, who increased the stock price by something like 6% in one day (which is huge, it made national news). For me, this tells me the following: WOTC has a lot more relative power in the company than they used to, since they rule Gaming and Gaming is the most revenue for the company now. WOTC directly controls D&D, and not Hasbro (they simply report as part of WOTC and not as their own division). There's been some sharing of resources and even employees between Magic the Gathering and D&D within WOTC. And we know there is an Entertainment focus on D&D. I think we might see a STRONG level of internal support for D&D Next, which means a lot more money behind it than we're all used to seeing. We shall see, but I see good things for the D&D brand in the future. [/QUOTE]

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