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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I think raising questions to Hasbro about X-Men/F4 figures can either be a good or a bad thing, depending on how it's done. If it's not done in a needling way but purely out of love for the characters I think that's fine.

ANother thing to consider is if Hasbro has the licenses for those characters and is just being encouraged by D/M to not make the figures, or if D/M has actually put a ban on those figures and Hasbro cannot even make them. It seems that D/M has pulled licenses for these characters from most companies but if there were any company that they'd want to "work with" it would be Hasbro. Hasbro's a pretty big company in its own right, and while you don't want to piss off your licensers, you also don't want to piss off a huge toy producer like that.

So if they are just encouraged to not make those figures but do have the licenses, there's still a chance they could go against the grain and release very limited selections. On the other hand if it's an outright ban and they don't have the licenses, there's no chance.

It would just be very interesting to know the behind the scenes on this particular agreement but I know that will not be something we ever learn.

A thought I had this morning, what if X-Men and F4 figures were made as the BAF. If fans of those characters wanted them they would "have" to buy 5-7 figures of other property characters to complete them. That might be a win- for both D/M and Hasbro, and something of both a win and a loss for us.

Total assets of Walt Disney Company: Roughly 84 Billion Dollars.

Total assets of Hasbro: Roughly 4.25 Billion.

Disney could buy Hasbro nearly twenty times over. They have NOTHING to worry about when it comes to making them mad. If Hasbro gets mad, Disney just gives their licenses to Mattel in the next go-round, and Hasbro's stock goes into a tailspin with the loss of the Star Wars and Marvel licenses.

Disney's got pretty much all the power in the relationship.