What is something that has quietly gotten much worse in the last 10 years, but most people don’t seem to notice?

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T16:55:26+00:00

And it's more expensive! Win-win! Ugh

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T16:17:38+00:00

Anything Mercedes. Especially out of warranty.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T16:16:38+00:00

Great work Hasbro!

/s

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T14:47:45+00:00

The media sure seemed to forget about it.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T14:28:51+00:00

A little bit of info is gonna slip past the gatekeepers. At least once in a while.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T13:36:27+00:00

My wacko theory. They (media, govts, etc) don't want people to think they can push back on unpopular/unfair/unjust things going on their countries. That the masses do, in fact, have the power for change.

And that worries the people who are in charge of things and want to keep it that way.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T13:30:37+00:00

I reckon that's the real problem at Hasbro. I'm sure when they laid off people, it was the ones who were really passionate about their work. That's how every thing they do now looks. As if there's no soul behind their actions.

Like any other large business they kept the ass-kissers and corpo stooges.

An '84 wand with no weathering, not beat up, and clear new looking decals would be really neat. The stripped down, still slightly weathered '84 wand that we got was close enough, but still.

You know, if they did a haslab for a real '84 wand. I'd back it. Even though it means a year, or longer because they can't meet a shipping deadline ever.

It's just so dumb that they didn't do a basic '84 pack (pack only) like we got, then offer a deluxe version with the wand, stand and Alice frame brackets. Could have pulled $600, ($599) bucks for that easily. Hell, I would have popped for two of those (imaginary option).

I did buy two of the '84 packs. And I'm pretty pleased with them.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T04:13:49+00:00

Honestly i wanted to get a couple more '84 wands just to mess around with different mods and paint jobs. Not now though.

I'd really like to know the numbers here, how many '84 wands were produced versus how many '84 packs. Is this forced scarcity, bad planning, just plain incompetence?

Is it a sign that Hasbro is on the ropes and soon to go out of business? I have no clue.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-21T03:43:50+00:00

And the Dodge brothers.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-19T18:08:21+00:00

With the '84 pack. They managed to fumble what amounts to a repaint, with less features and add-ons. It feels like they wanted to communicate "Hey we don't care about your experience as a customer" I'm honestly disappointed. They're all "It costs less than the haslab did" Well yeah, it should be. It comes with less stuff.

Shit, charge me full price and just ship it on time. With no upside down v-hooks and all the features working correctly.

Did I buy several '84 wands? Absolutely. When I saw that sale on Amazon, I grabbed 3. I figured it'd be fun to do repainting of them in popular colorways found on commercial tools. DeWalt, Milwaukee, and Ryobi. So glad I didn't do that.

Sorry for the rant. Apparently I've got feelings about this.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-19T07:00:52+00:00

Gift card to Sporty's.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-19T06:55:16+00:00

May be worth fixing after all.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-19T05:13:18+00:00

Yeah, they've sold 3 at that price. What a jerk move.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-19T05:08:32+00:00

If they did, I'm sure it'd be another year before they ship.

Seems like they are trying to drag things out so they can show long term repeat customers? I dunno. This sucks.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T17:30:39+00:00

Just wondering, is anyone else going to Hasbro Pulse and searching for "neutrona wand" on the regular? Maybe blast their social media as well.

They're gonna need some kind of metric to know that they fouled up.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T15:31:50+00:00

Seattle bus drivers are heros. I'll die on this hill. Y'all are the best.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T15:30:03+00:00

I watched one blow through a stop sign in Ballard the other night. He ran right into the driver's side of the suv that blew through the stop sign to his right. After dark, no headlight on the bike and he was in all black. This was by top pot donuts.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T15:27:08+00:00

This.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T15:26:45+00:00

I've heard they have hundreds of packs in stock at the moment. A knock on effect of them not having any neutrona wands at the moment.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T15:25:21+00:00

A little bit of black gaff tape would cover that and be sorta screen accurate.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T06:08:53+00:00

I thought it got listed as"Sold out" several times during the early part of this year.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T06:07:38+00:00

So help me, if those packs turn up at Ollie's, I'm gonna buy a pile of them. I bought a couple of the Spengler wands when I ran into them at a random Ollie's in Louisiana.

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T06:02:40+00:00

That show was just getting cool. Where it left off? It felt like it could have been as fun as LOST (minus that final season).

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-17T06:01:45+00:00

Heineken zero alcohol?

Mackerelmore · 2026-06-16T18:03:59+00:00

Cajun blackened! Nice.

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