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Hasbro Reacquires Their Cartoons........ Hasbro, who are this nation's #2 toymaker, announced yesterday that they have reacquired the worldwide distribution rights to over 1,000 hours of animated programming! Hasbro stated that under the terms of its' new agreement with Sunbow Productions, that they have regained 'ownership' of one thousand hours of cartoons.
Those cartoons feature G.I. Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony and the Littlest Pet Shop which are still well known, although the properties are a a few decades old.
With extrapolation of what's going on in the movie industry, you can see that Hasbro is figuring that with the tremendous success of the live action Transformers movie, that cartoon characters are 'Hot' and they should have more of a financial reward.
Similar to Marvel Comics' situation, where they basically gave away the rights just to have a successfull film, and then a track record, (X-Men, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four), and now they are producing their own films, (Iron Man and Hulk), to reap the financial rewards instead of just a 'rights' payment.
With a second Transformers Film in the pipeline, and a G.I. Joe live action film that is in production, Hasbro is showing that it clearly wants full control over its cartoon properties in order to reap the financial rewards.
The only thing is, are they coming too late to the market?
With films like 'Hancock' and other 'superhero' fare, will one or some of these companies get hurt when the whole genre is oversaturated?
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