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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

Actually they have more than one major movie franchise, and they have several toons that are doing well. My little pony for example is getting more wide exposure than even prime or Disney shows. It takes time though for a media empire to grow. I said that Hasbro is on their way to rivaling disney, didn't say they were rivaling them yet. Transformers made them bank, but so does GI Joe, Battleship will do well, and they also have many other movies in the works, can profit better from DVD sales on series and movies. They Have award winning tv shows. Even their clue series did pretty well on their ratings tier. The list can go on. I understand that all you watch on them is Prime and Renegades, but that doesn't mean that's all they have that's new or doing well. Hub is doing pretty well as it is, and better than Discovery kids ever did.

But comparing a prime time network(ABC) to a channel tier that the hub is on is quite stupid. You say the hub is strugging by hasbro's own word, and it wasn't hasbro that did that or said that it was discovery. You also have to look at history. CN for example didn't start where it is now. It was once on the same tier the hub is at now. Ditto to Disney XD, and Disney channel itself used to be a premium channel back when it first started. So in comparison hasbro is well on their way and getting stronger the longer the channel stays around. It took CN close to 5 years to even reach the penetration it did on the tier it was on. Hub is doing it faster in comparison and also doesn't have the same deep pockets Disney does to just buyout channels like they did to get where they are at. Hasbro is doing it through pure tv shows and marketing. They are making great entertainment that is spreading like wildfire on its own.

Look, we can have fun debating this but you only have today to really consider - everything else is just a huge guess. If you extrapolate out no matter what, it doesn't change things in just a few years when the contract comes up (which is what this thread is about). I doubt Disney will buy Hasbro - they already have one nightmare of owning a license that has a huge presence in Universal Studios. With the TF ride, I don't see them doing that again!

Personally, I don't see Disney buying a toy company at all. More likely to start their own. And I don't see that happening.

An interesting point: Walt Disney started his career about the same time Hasbro was founded. Amazing how different the two corporations are today.