[Louise Belcher]

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Originally Posted by ScratchandSniff

If this happens, I doubt it'll be any different than when Hasbro bought Kenner in the early 90's. They went from two major competitors to two seperate companies that operated under the same roof.

Kenner retained their licenses, their products kept their own styles and they remained their own company and their label graced their products until 1999. The only notable non-legalize change I remember was most of their products switched to shipping in boxes labeled Hasbro Toy Group instead of Kenner Products. No other sizable changes at all.

If you didn't know Hasbro had bought them at any point at that time, you'd never have noticed anything different between Kenner's pre-Hasbro years and after their purchase until Hasbro did away with the Kenner branding on their lines. I've no doubt this is exactly what would happen if Hasbro acquires Mattel (the exception of course being that Hasbro likely wouldn't do away with Mattel from a branding perspective). Business as usual from both parties, just a big change in ownership.

And then they fired all the Kenner staff (and to think they're people who believe that Hasbro will restore Kenner properties with care, lol) and we saw for example how the Jurassic World and Park toys were inferior to the Kenner ones...I hope Hasbro will fall, Gi Joe is dead anyway and Takara can preserve transfomers. TBH, I hate both Mattel and Hasbro and hope they will shut down (unless they start making good toys again, which is unlikely) and Kickstarter will give use new smaller companies.