Anyway I was browsing at seibs and saw this. I wanna share July 2017 article here.
Is Takara Tomy In Hasbro's Gunsights?
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4086626-takara-tomy-hasbros-gunsights

 

Obvious speculation at this point.

Still...

..this thread in 3, 2, 1...

 

I can't imagine this to be true. News story is from July of this year, 4 months ago, and since then, I haven't seen or heard anything which adds fuel to this unsubstantiated rumor. Anyhow, I can't see Hasbro profiting from buying Takara Tomy, who still really only mainly cater to the Japanese market (despite buying RC2). And it's not just Takara Tomy feeling the downturn: it's practically all Japanese toy producers, as the article also states. No gain for Hasbro means no deal, I'm sure.

 

Companies purchsing other ones isn't a quick proccess, and i'm sure of it, however, they cam have it in consideration, and not a solid decision

 

Yeah; I don't see why Hasbro would purchase TakaraTomy unless they HAD to.

They aren't really competing with Hasbro and the HasTak partnership works out pretty well given both companies shoulder costs.

 

Odd that this story didn't turn up here at the time it was posted.

 

Um. NO.
Like hell that would happen!
Thanks for the good chuckle, thou.          

 

From my sources, TT was in the red and desperate AF, but after jedi-mind tricking the fandom into embracing toys at a quarter grand a pop, all is well ...  

 

Now fans will be satisfied that they won't be forced into buying expensive toys because they will never be made.

...selfish pricks.

 

I'm still waiting for Takara Tomy to buy Fanstoys, sending anti-3rd party and anti-TT zealots alike into uncontrollable fits of rage and self-doubt!

 

This doesn't bode well for the future of Takara releases as we know them.

When one toy company buys another, it's usually only the intellectual property that they essentially buy. See Hasbro's purchase of Kenner for a model of what might happen.

I can't see Hasbro operating Takara Tomy w/TT's current business model especially w/nose diving sales and mounting losses the last several years in the Japanese market.

The days of receiving both Takara and Hasbro releases of figures may be over if these rumors are true. Which is sad. As collectors, we've had it good being able to pick and choose between Hasbro and Takara Tomy releases.

 

Which I could see happening. If Hasbro is licensing the Transformers brand from Takara Tomy and TT is in danger of either folding or selling to one of Hasbro's competitors like Mattel, Hasbro likely would have no choice but to buy Takara Tomy or possibly lose one of their best brands.

 

3rd parties would be like

Lol

 

I would assume the stuff marketed toward adults is fine, but that dwindling birth population had to come into play somewhere and Takara Tomy makes alot of stuff for kids.

 

Takara licenses Transformers from Hasbro, not the other way around, but otherwise this was my thought. Hasbro may not want to buy Takara, but they absolutely don't want a competitor to buy them either. Without Takara engineers to design the toys I shudder to think where Transformers could end up.

 

Nope: Hasbro still licenses Transformers from TakaraTomy, just as TyrantGalvatron already mentioned. See the TakaraTomy TFwiki here.

 

I didn't see anything there that suggests Takara owns Transformers (which makes sense, as they don't). Hasbro owns Transformers, they license it TO Takara for Takara to sell in Japan.

 

According to this japanese article from October 27

タカラトミー、18年3月通期の営業益を80億円→115億円に大幅上方修正…国内玩具や「トランスフォーマー」「ベイブレードバースト」が好調 | Social Game Info

"TakaraTomy upgraded consolidated earnings forecast for the second quarter (April - September) cumulative on October 27 and the full year forecast for March 2018. Regarding full-year forecasts, we forecast net sales of ¥ 177.0 billion (previous forecast of ¥ 170 billion), operating income of ¥ 11.5 billion (¥ 8 billion), ordinary income of ¥ 11.5 billion (¥ 8 billion), and final profit of ¥ 7 billion 5.5 billion yen).

Looking at the correction rate from the previous forecast, the sales revenue increased by 4.1%, the operating profit was increased by 43.8%, the ordinary profit was increased by 43.8%, and the final profit was increased by 27.3%. "

 

I stand corrected:

Transformers (toy line) - Wikipedia