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Originally Posted by perrych

Hasbro is not rivaling anyone right now - or any time soon. The Hub is struggling mightily. Hasbro remains number two in toy sales. GI Joe is on the ropes. TFs is a long time from another movie - and the toys didn't seem to do so well this time around. And with prices rising and the recession continuing, I don't see a huge surge for Hasbro anytime soon. In fact, most folks are being turned off by the price increase rather than buying more.

Disney on the other hand expands. Their theme parks are doing amazing. Every time a Pixar movie comes out it is more money for them. ABC is doing pretty well. With a huge blockbuster this summer, not to mention some residuals from Spider-Man as well, plus "The Brave" coming out as well, I don't see Hasbro giving any competition. More like a 4 year old running along side an Olympic marathoner.

Hasbro's hub venture takes time to take hold, but yes they are growing. The film ventures are giving them deeper pockets, and the channel gives them an outlet for toon ventures. The Hub isn't struggling as much as you'd think though. It's doing well for what it is, just what it is is more in line with nicktoons not in line CN or normal nickelodeon. You have to compare the ratings and financial situations on that aspect. In that aspect it's doing great and far better than discovery kids did. The problem is in the fact discovery was expecting CN like returns when it's not in that kind of channel tier. All that's going to end up happening is Discovery is going to hand more off to Hasbro to the point hasbro owns it all.

For the record, even Disney is hurting in these times. Their extra spending right now in low return years is to help jump start the economy. That's why they're expanding the parks and pushing more shows. Though really, some of the marvel side is getting hit hard. Avengers EMH budget seems to have been cut causing some animation cost cutting measures, and Ultimate spidey is taking the lion's share of the alloted marvel animation budget. ABC is also a prime time network so they get a bigger budget to work with too, so you can't really compare it to the hub either. Even Disney XD and normal Disney are in the channel tiear below the Hub, so they can't be used to compare. Ditto to CN. The channel tiers to compare it to are nicktoons, teen nick, and boomerang.