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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Animated was not dropped in favor of TF: Prime. They are two completely unrelated situations. Animated ended in 2009 and Prime didn't start until 2010 (same year the Hub debuted).

Animated ended in 2008, a few months before RotF was released. The entire series didn't even last a full year.

And no, Hasbro didn't say "Let's replace Animated with prime." That's just silly.
But Animated was created before Hasbro ever even imagined having their own channel in the discovery network. As such, like Clone Wars, Animated was produced and co-owned by Cartoon Network. It was partly theirs.
And when Hasbro made the move to launch the hub, they decided thei would rather cut it loose and cancel it, than to let their flagship brand continue on an opposing network, or muck with the legalities of trying to secure total ownership so they can continue it on the hub. Thus, Prime was born.

(Though, they didn't have to replace it with something so bland and lifeless. That's what makes the whole thing such a sore spot)

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I guess it really depends on Disney's relationship with Cartoon Network (and its parent company, Time-Warner). I don't see a reason for them to cancel it now, but I also felt the same way about Avengers EMH and look how that turned out.

Disney just does not like to share profits. It's that simple. Even on something that would cost them absolutely no money to produce (Meaning all the work and production costs done by someone else), and all they do is sit back and collect revenue... if they have to share some of that with others, they'll sit on it forever and make nothing, before sharing.
Two examples of this: Pixar, and TF: Robots in Disguise.
When Pixar and Disney started working together, Pixar did the bulk of the work, and all disney did really, was distribute their movies and slap the Disney name on them. Not sure what the profit shar between the two was, but it was unfairly scewed to Disney. Also, Disney started pressuring them to become a sequel factory, giving every movie of theirs that makes even a little bit of money a stream of sqequels (Something they absolutely did not want to do)
Finally, when their contract came up, Pixar threatened to leave if they didn't get what was only fair. Disney said "Goodbye," and walked away and waited for Pixar to get even slightly desparate. Then swooped in and bought the entire company. The only reason "Pixar" as a name even exists anymore is because of branding, as the company itself is just another facit of Disney.

As for RiD... RiD was partly owned by Saban, who did all the dub work. Disney got control of it when they bought Saban.
Mind you, this was at the height of Transformer's popularity. Back when the first movie launched. Disney could have gotten in on that, when they were busy going through Saban's archieves looking for series they could air on ToonDisney/DisneyXD. All they'd have to do was share profits with Hasbro (A company they already had a good business relationship with).
Or share it with Hasbro and Rhino, to allow them to release it on DVD, when Rhino was trying to release as many TF dvds as they could.
But they just sat on it.
(I'm hoping this will be changed soon, as all the stars are alligned. Saban owns itself again, and they have a deal with Shoutfactory, who already has the TF lisence from Hasbro)

Disney, first and foremost stands for Greed. I really don't see why they would share with Cartoon Network.
While I've seen them air other network's shows on their own channel (Batman, Superman, Pinky and the Brain, and a few others), I've never ever seen them allow another rival network to air Disney shows. (IE, no one airing Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, or Phineas & Ferb)

Like I said, I do hope you're correct and I'm needlessly worrying. But all we have to go on is the past. And only two examples (SHS, Ironman: Armored Adventures) say there's any hope the future for Clone Wars isn't as bleak as it seems.