[Snowflakian]

It's expected from Disney to be trying. Hasbro has been expecting this day. So have I. That's why we heard news a few years ago of hasbro shoring up stocks to avoid the possibility of a buyout.

When you think of boys licenses. Hasbro has everything Disney needs. Military besides super spy shield that would also rock as a sub-shield faction or even just a military one. Giant robots with staying power and that are iconic. A strong partnership abroad with takara tomy that's been making TF Disney to decent success, and with a merger like this a stronger chance for some form of disney live toku of some kind. Plus it also opens up the gaming end more to allow for some interesting content for Kingdom Hearts. Warner pretty much has all the others and Mattel doesn't have much worthwhile in independantly owned IPs besides barbie. Hasbro also has a rival channel on air that could do well brought into disney's fold possibly for a teen disney that includes slightly edgier hero toons(uncensored) whereas something like disney XD would get the younger censored versions. This also gives disney a perfect outlet for all future merchandise, which means more marvel lines from hasbro and easier rights usage. This also would mean possibly faster IP usage from hasbro too though. Stuff like Rom back in Marvel, Jem, Inhumanoids(merge it with cloverfield!), and more back on tv or even made into live series.
So it's pretty much expected from disney not to mention all the other contracts with a company that's pretty much growing into an eventual rival.

Now would hasbro bite? Not sure. I don't see why they would for now unless the deal was pretty lucrative. If they can rebalance themselves and get back on the upswing again, they can continue to build themselves into an entity like disney unto itself in the future(long term), but with disney resources they could do a lot more quicker with potentially minimal interference like marvel has seen. The question would be though, how much of marvel would then control hasbro is my concern. Since recent articles have suggested because of the marvel buyout the ceo of marvel is a majority shareholder of disney now.

But yeah, I've been expecting this for a long while now. Both Marvel and Hasbro seemed like givens.

I'm torn between thoughts on this though. I kind of want hasbro to stay independant while making marvel toys, but I also kind of dig the idea of a company made by a man who learned his trade in st louis owning all of em. xD
There are pros and cons on both sides. Comes out about equal either way on those lists.

Yes I said Disney is pretty hands off with marvel. Ultimate Spider-man is because of the animation staff shake up that put jeph loeb in charge. Love it oir hate it, it's pure marvel.