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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 5133127" data-attributes="member: 51325">The thing is, Hasbro is a LOT more than just GI Joe and Transformers. Sure, those are the big tier money makes and then you have the second tier products like the well known board games like Monopoly I've mentioned this before, but I used to be a Hasbro stock holder and actually had the opportunity to attend a shareholder's meeting (when those were pre-Net meetings). Note, this was PRE-WOTC buyout (basically the period from when G1 Transformers had stopped and Beast Wars hadn't revitalized the franchise) but Hasbro is a very hands-off corporate parent. It might have changed in the intervening years but I would be honestly surprised if Hasbro looks at specific brands although..the more successful a line becomes, the more corporate will want to be overseeing it. For example, Hasbro was MUCH more active in the script for Transformers Animated - the last cartoon series from last year than when their involvement in the 1st couple of seasons of Mainframe's Beast Wars - writers basically had carte blanche</blockquote>