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SDCC 08: Transformers Fans Still Rabid for ‘Robots in Disguise’
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During a Hasbro panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, the Transformers brand team presented their plans for the the remainder of this year and into 2009. Thanks to the blockbuster success of the live-action feature film, the Transformers brand had a banner year in 2007. Hasbro learned that they had not only…
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SDCC 08: Hasbro Tips the Scales with Marvel Universe Line
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When Hasbro received the Marvel license back in late 2006, fans like myself lost their minds. It wasn’t that we didn’t love Toy Biz… oh how we loved Toy Biz. No, it was that we knew something from Hasbro was coming, something we’d wanted since the Star Wars resurgence in the late 1990s… a…
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SDCC 08: ‘TV Writers of Marvel’ Panel Report
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With the enormous success of comic-based properties in other media formats, comic book writers are finally getting their due among the mainstream markets of film and television. A number of writers who got their start in comics have been given opportunities elsewhere, while those who got their breaks in traditional media formats have been…
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SDCC 08: Sideshow Delivers as Distribution Dynamo
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While Sideshow Collectible’s own products could easily fill up any collector’s home, the company also gives fans the opportunity to get the goods from independent studios, whose relationship to Sideshow benefits everyone. Through Sideshow’s in-place distribution model, smaller manufacturers can get their product to the masses. By serving as distributor for these smaller companies,…