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11 unusual facts about Hasbro


3D Maze Man: Amazing Adventures

In 2000, Pac-Man copyright holder Hasbro sued to prevent the production and distribution of the game.

Beast Wars Neo

The Transformers: Universe release of Nemesis Prime was Hasbro's repaint of Big Convoy and was released in Australia as exclusive item, in addition to being a Target exclusive in the United States.

Blake Michael

At 10, he was chosen to be the host of a series of four collaborative commercials for Hasbro Toys and Cartoon Network.

Buzz Bee Toys

Originally called Air Blasters, Air Warriors is a line of foam dart guns, similar to Hasbro's Nerf Blasters line.

Carnival Glory

During that time, the RedFrog Rum Bar, Blue Iguana Tequila Bar, Alchemy Bar, EA Sports Bar, Guy Fieri’s Burger Joint, Blue Iguana Cantina, Punchliners Comedy Club & Brunch presented by George Lopez, Hasbro, The Game Show, Playlist Productions, DJ IRIE were added.

Character Options

and was the UK distributor of toys by the company Galoob, such as Micro Machines, before Galoob was brought out by Hasbro.

Demographic profile

Although this cross-demographic appeal was entirely unexpected by the network's executives, the franchise owner, Hasbro, decided to take advantage of this opportunity with some considerations for this fandom in the series' writing and marketing and the decision produced favorable results with the series attracting the highest ratings in the network's history.

Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee

Its special focus in 2001 was on the working conditions of toy workers for Hasbro, Mattel, McDonald's and Disney in Southern China.

Montcuq

In 2007, Hasbro, the company that manufactures the Monopoly game in France, had the idea to have the online community choose the cities that will appear on the new version of the game.

Rescue at Midnight Castle

Rescue at Midnight Castle, also known as Rescue from Midnight Castle and released later as Firefly's Adventure, was a 1984 animated television special based on the Hasbro toy line, My Little Pony.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

In its latest release by Hasbro Games, Chaos Gate was bundled with Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000, set in Games Workshop's Epic 40,000 game system that pitted the forces of Humanity against marauding Orks.


Battleforce 2000

When Hasbro gave permission to writer Larry Hama to kill off Joes no longer circulated in the toylines, Battleforce 2000 was chosen, along with other Joes.

Brian Goldner

Goldner was working at Hasbro's Tiger Electronics unit in 2000, after the company had lost 5000 jobs.

Constant Pressure System

Although it is unknown exactly what the dispute was over, it is strongly suggested that Hasbro was suing for the Water Warriors Hydro Power water guns, which were becoming too similar to Hasbro's Constant Pressure System.

Daniel Stahl

He was also an online producer at Wizards of the Coast during the Hasbro acquisition where he managed development for the Star Wars: TCG, and MagicTheGathering.com websites.

Downshift

A slightly recolored version of the Energon Downshift toy was available in 2005 exclusively at Kay Bee Toy Stores as part of the Transformers: Universe line, and appeared in the official Hasbro Transformers Fan Club exclusive Transformers: Cybertron comic book.

Cybertron’s Downshift is an original toy by Hasbro and does not appear in Transformers: Galaxy Force toy line or its cartoon series, which was dubbed into English to become Transformers: Cybertron (this version turns into a Buick Gran Sport).

Fighting Is Magic

Fighting Is Magic is the former name of a fighting game that was initially cancelled due to a Cease and Desist letter by Hasbro, but has since been revived as an original Intellectual Property, being developed by the Mane6 development team and Lauren Faust.

GOG.com

As promised after its relaunch, GOG was able to offer several Black Isle Studios games such as Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale which have previously been unreleased through any download service due to legal issues between the ownership of Dungeons & Dragons-related games between Atari, Hasbro, and other companies.

Griffin-Bacal Advertising

One of their first clients was Hasbro, whom employed their services for coming up with advertising campaigns for several of their toy lines such as "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" and Transformers.

Ivan Moscovich

Alongside his work as an artist, Ivan has been active as an inventor of games, puzzles, toys, educational aids and programmes which have been commercial successes under major manufacturers such as Hasbro, Pressman, Mattel, Peter Pan, Spears, Ravensburger, Childcraft, Invicta and many others.

Kristin Adams

She has also worked as a morning radio co-host in Dallas on KRBV (now KJKK), the host of Hasbro's DVD game Shout About Television, a party game similar to Shout About Movies, and as a host on the Starz network.

Leon Lazarus

Lazarus additionally wrote for Ziff-Davis, under editor Jerry Siegel, doing stories for Kid Cowboy, G.I. Joe (unrelated to the later Hasbro action figures) and other comic books for about a year, and also did work for the writer/artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and for American Comics Group (AGC), under editor Richard E. Hughes.

M.A.S.K.

This new version was written by former IDW comics senior editor and current Hasbro in-house writer, Andy Schmidt.

Monopoly City

It was released by Hasbro in 2009, making its first public appearance at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair.

NBCUniversal

On August 15, 2011, Sleuth rebranded as Cloo, in order to be able to trademark and own the name, as NBCUniversal cannot so with the name Clue (as Hasbro owns the rights to it with their board game Clue).

Nerf

In April 2012, Hasbro sued the Australia-based fan blog "Urban Taggers" for leaking information on unreleased Nerf products found on the Chinese marketplace website Taobao.

Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

Publicity in Jewish media led to the Anti-Defamation League writing to Hasbro chairman Alan Hassenfeld, who announced that a third edition would be published with "offensive" words like "JEW", "FARTED", "FATSO", and "BOOBIE" removed.

Paramount Home Media Distribution

PHMD also had agreements with DreamWorks Animation, PBS, and Hasbro for DVD/Blu-ray distribution of various programs that the former aired, and several films and TV series based on franchises owned by the latter.

Puzz-3D

In 2005, Hasbro bought Wrebbit, and in 2006, moved the manufacture of Wrebbit's puzzles to its East Longmeadow, Massachusetts facility.

Reuben Klamer

Reuben Klamer (born in Canton, Ohio) is an inventor of the classic Milton Bradley (currently owned by Hasbro) board game The Game Of Life.

Rick Raymer

However, Hasbro Interactive was shut down soon after hiring Raymer, who was designing several games, including an updated version of the Atari classic Combat! for the PlayStation.

Spy Changers

(The GoBots name had by then been transferred to a pre-school line of Transformers produced by Hasbro subsidiary Playskool.)

Takara

Both Takara and pre-merger Tomy have had strong relationships with Hasbro, which has distributed Takara's hit products such as Transformers, Beyblade, e-Kara and Battle B-Daman and Tomy's Zoids brands internationally.

On the other hand, most of Takara's international hit products (Microman, Transformers, Battle Beasts, Beyblade, B-Daman, et al.) have been sold and branded by other companies, most notably Hasbro.

These lines, created initially in 1975, were collectively re-branded as "Transformers" for the western market by Hasbro in 1984.

The Game of Life

Hasbro Family Game Night 3 for Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 video game platforms, and was also later released as part of the Hasbro Family Game Night Fun Pack, which consisted as a compilation of both Hasbro Family Game Night 2 and Hasbro Family Game Night 3.

Video game remake

After Atari's demise, Hasbro continued the tradition, with 3D remakes of Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids.

Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad

It would be many years before the concepts seen in either Vor-Tech or M.A.S.K would be seen again in the form of A.T.O.M., an animated series developed by Kenner's eventual owners, Hasbro.

Walter T. Foster

The popularity of these children’s books eventually led to licensing agreements with The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics and Warner Bros..

Water Warriors

Although it is unknown exactly what the dispute was over, it is strongly suggested that Hasbro was suing for the Water Warriors Hydro-Power water guns, which were becoming too similar to Super Soaker's Constant Pressure System.