RUMOR: Disney Buying Hasbro?

[MattC]

Its called "Pleasure Island"....Duh!!

Beat me to it!

 

[trr1]

Would they seriously be able to get away with this, it screams monopoly

I get it

 

[WED99]

And here I was joking about Disney buying the Chipmunks and the Smurfs.

They should actually buy the smurfs. They feel really disney!

 

[WED99]

Just pointing out, Hasbro own the rights to Angry Birds: Star Wars merchandise.

A new Star Wars gate could include an Angry Birds Land

Edit-- Hasbro actually own Star Wars merchandise rights, could this be the reason for the buy? It would definitely pay for itself!

 

[BrightImagine]

My kid has written plans for a Friendship Is Magic theme park. I bet she'd be sending them in if I told her about this.

 

[danlb_2000]

I get it

I wasn't sure if he was being serious or trying to make the Monopoly joke.

 

[Taylor]

I wasn't sure if he was being serious or trying to make the Monopoly joke.

I was making a joke I know I should've put a or a but I forgot

 

[Magenta Panther]

They should actually buy the smurfs. They feel really disney!

They're a weak ripoff of the Seven Dwarfs.

 

[MaryJaneP]

Scary = Duffy as a Furby.

 

[wdwfan4ver]

At least Disney doesn't act like Electronic Arts after they acquire a company. EA used to be known for trying to buy a lot of every computer or video game developers or publishers. What EA did is after they acquire a company, they actually shutdown that company within 2 years after they buy it.

That means EA really bought companies just to shut them down from a competitor standpoint.

I grow up with Hasbro. I grew up owning G1 Transformers.

They even own board games now that I i had as a kid. I played Candy land, Mouse Trap, operation, and pictionary.

 

[Prototype82]

 

[WED99]

They're a weak ripoff of the Seven Dwarfs.

smurfs were first weren't they? but you are right, they might not be needed in disney with seven dwarfs around.

 

[WED99]

They're a weak ripoff of the Seven Dwarfs.

Your right, smurfs were 1958 and snow white was 1937!

 

[unkadug]

smurfs were first weren't they? but you are right, they might not be needed in disney with seven dwarfs around.

Uhhhh....NO

Smurfs 1958

Seven Dwarfs 1937


Nevermind...I see you did your research.

 

[donaldtoo]

They're a weak ripoff of the Seven Dwarfs.

Does that mean Blue Man Group is a cheap ripoff of the smurfs?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

There are already rainbow colored horse creatures in the newest Kingdom Hearts game on 3DS actually lol!
http://www.otakustudy.com/wp-content/gallery/kh-3d-26jan/kh3d-14.jpg

 

[donaldtoo]

There are already rainbow colored horse creatures in the newest Kingdom Hearts game on 3DS actually lol!
http://www.otakustudy.com/wp-content/gallery/kh-3d-26jan/kh3d-14.jpg

Oh my...it all makes perfect sense now!

 

[HMF]

Pixar and Lucasfilm I understand and approve of but I have to admit I am still completely baffled by the Marvel acquisition 3 years after the fact. When you look at it logically it does not make much sense. Sure, Disney gets marketable well-known characters and more cred with the male demographic but you end up with legal headaches such as Sony's ownership of the Spider Man films and the other various studios' marvel films, an entire land themed to the Marvel characters at a theme park with whom you are supposed to be competing limiting your ability to use the IP in your own park and if the Hasbro deal goes through you might find yourself marketing other studios' work. The minuses outweigh the plusses no matter how Iger tries to spin it.

 

[unkadug]

There are already rainbow colored horse creatures in the newest Kingdom Hearts game on 3DS actually lol!
http://www.otakustudy.com/wp-content/gallery/kh-3d-26jan/kh3d-14.jpg

I never understood the My Little Pony fad and their tattoos on their behind.

And all the little girls that want to be just like their favorite My Little Pony will be getting Disney Tramp Stamps right on Main Street

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Oh my...it all makes perfect sense now!

Though to be fair, the creatures in that game keep their mouths shut as they can't talk (just make their animal noises). Thank god too... (very fun game btw)

I never understood the My Little Pony fad and their tattoos on their behind.

And all the little girls that want to be just like their favorite My Little Pony will be getting Disney Tramp Stamps right on Main Street

I realize i'm not at all the target demo for the series (23 year old guy and all), but I've always found MLP to be particularly annoying even as an onlooker. At least the current incarnation of it. There was a TV series that used to come on Disney Channel I believe in the early 90's (might have been made in the 80's I forget) that at least didn't drive me nuts and annoy the heck out of me. I could at least see why it might appeal to girls and it didn't bug me. But the current series, ugh, really don't know how it got popular... Doesn't help that brony-ism (or whatever they call it) is rampant around the net. Sorry fans, I just find the series very annoying.