MAT bidding for Hasbro??

[Zenodotus of Ephesus]

According to Yahoo! Finance, the Toys & Games sector is completely dominated by Mattell ($7.6B mkt cap), followed by Hasbro ($3.7B), and trailed a long way off by Leapfrog ($0.7B), Jakks Pacific ($0.5B), and Topps ($0.4B).

Note that there are some privately held companies (like the makers of Lego) that do not show up in these sorts of financial indicators.

Thanks for the link and the information!

 

[Zenodotus of Ephesus]

I think number 3 is Santa Claus.

I should have known. Amazing what he can do with such limited distribution.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I would happily buy it. Now where did I put that 50 million?

It's like my $50 million: in the other wallet.

 

[Joshua Randall]

WotC has been shopping the D&D franchise for 18 months now. The going price is 30 million USD. (etc.)

Care to provide a source for this information? I'm skeptical.

 

[GlassJaw]

Care to provide a source for this information? I'm skeptical.

I doubt you'll find a source for any of these rumors, because that's just what they are.

 

[diaglo]

I doubt you'll find a source for any of these rumors, because that's just what they are.

careful with that kinda thinking...

i heard a rumor back in 1999 about a new edition of the game on a website by some guy named Eric Noah.

 

[vulcan_idic]

Being that Matel and Hasbro are the number one and number two toy makers in the world, respectively, who is number three, how far back are they now of Hasbro, and how far back would they be as number two if Matel bought Hasbro?

Yeah, SEC/Anit-Trust reviews were the first thing to pop into my mind when I read this. I sure some of the commissions would be reviewing such a move pretty carefully.

I don't know anything about it really at all but perhaps the thrid place company could be Parker Brothers?

 

[Kanegrundar]

I thought Parker Brothers was already owned by either Mattel or Hasbro. Not sure about that though.

Kane

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I doubt you'll find a source for any of these rumors, because that's just what they are.

Actually, if anyone has any inside info, I'd trust it to be Steel_Wind.

He's a member of DLA, an extensive mod-group for Neverwinter Nights, that has worked extremely closely with Bioware over the past year or so.

Bioware, as in "The only company to not put out crappy D&D-licensed games, who have dealt with the electronic rights to D&D with two separate companies, during the time period in which the rights were lost by Interplay and sold by Hasbro to Infogrames who became Atari."

Yeah, I'd trust him on this one.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I thought Parker Brothers was already owned by either Mattel or Hasbro. Not sure about that though.

Kane

That would be Hasbro. They bought Parker Brothers in 1991.

Oh, and I agree that I would doubt a Mattel/Hasbro merger could get past SEC anti-trust issues if the third place toymaker is as far back as reported in an earlier post.