Potential Hasbro and Mattel Merger?

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According to a report today from Bloomberg Business, Hasbro (owners of the Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering brands) and Mattel have been in talks about a possible merger. The talks started in 2015, and were instigated by Hasbro.
The article listed the net worth and stock values of the two companies: "Mattel shares rose 1.7 percent to $32.29 at 4:26 p.m. in New York, valuing the company at about $11 billion and extending a streak that has seen the stock gain 19 percent this year. Hasbro rose 1.3 percent to $75.96 after climbing as high as $78.45, valuing the company at about $9.5 billion." Bloomberg experts say that a merger would allow for a stronger competition against Denmark's LEGO.

This isn't the first time that the two companies have talked about a merger.

The important question for tabletop gamers, should the merger go through, is how would the Wizards of the Coast​ division fare in all of this?

 

[Evenglare]

You guys have a lot of pie in the sky dreams talking about D&D barbie and monopoly etc. Let's talk about how a new company doesn't understand the landscape. Why give the game out for free with the OGL? Can't we make money off of that? and similar things of that nature. Let along being wiped off the coorporate map completely. I'm not saying those those will happen, and I hope they don't but when someone get bought out by a big margin, people don't know the inside workings of the other companies. And that ignorance can lead to irrational decisions that can be very very bad.