Is Hasbro one of the only Toy-toon Companies Left?

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Oooo, good point about Beyblade!  That also reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh--a cartoon show pushing a card game, heehee.

Yu-Gi-Oh was ALSO from Spinmaster!  LOL 

[Leave a Whisper]

Oooo, good point about Beyblade!  That also reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh--a cartoon show pushing a card game, heehee.

If you read the first chapters of the manga, they are NOTHING like the show. It wasn't even supposed to be about card games, it was supposed to be about a schoolboy possessed by an ancient demon who punished bullies and criminals through karmic challenges they were set up to lose. It was really dark. The mangaka started the card game arc and it became SUPER popular so that became its entire reason for existing.

The subsequent series are all about the cards, though. So now it's a toy-toon.

That sounds so much more interesting then what we ended up with.

[zombienixon]

Oooo, good point about Beyblade!  That also reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh--a cartoon show pushing a card game, heehee.

If you read the first chapters of the manga, they are NOTHING like the show. It wasn't even supposed to be about card games, it was supposed to be about a schoolboy possessed by an ancient demon who punished bullies and criminals through karmic challenges they were set up to lose. It was really dark. The mangaka started the card game arc and it became SUPER popular so that became its entire reason for existing.

The subsequent series are all about the cards, though. So now it's a toy-toon.

That sounds so much more interesting then what we ended up with.

More interesting, but less marketable. Especially considering at least two people burned alive in the original incarnation of Yu-Gi-Oh. I thought how dark it was was awesome, but it would have definitely been too much for kids TV over here.

Doesn't Disney count in this? Or do they not since they license manufacture of their toys to other parties?

[Leave a Whisper]

Oooo, good point about Beyblade!  That also reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh--a cartoon show pushing a card game, heehee.

If you read the first chapters of the manga, they are NOTHING like the show. It wasn't even supposed to be about card games, it was supposed to be about a schoolboy possessed by an ancient demon who punished bullies and criminals through karmic challenges they were set up to lose. It was really dark. The mangaka started the card game arc and it became SUPER popular so that became its entire reason for existing.

The subsequent series are all about the cards, though. So now it's a toy-toon.

That sounds so much more interesting then what we ended up with.

More interesting, but less marketable. Especially considering at least two people burned alive in the original incarnation of Yu-Gi-Oh. I thought how dark it was was awesome, but it would have definitely been too much for kids TV over here.

Doesn't Disney count in this? Or do they not since they license manufacture of their toys to other parties?

Not really no. They're an animation/amusement park company first. Everything else is just super fancy, super expensive toppings.

Kinda like how Pokemon is best known for games, when they started out as cards.

I don't really count Yokai Watch either. Plus American animation stripped it down of anything unique and Asian. They dumbed down the humor so badly, not even kindergartners would find it funny. The toys focus on a handful of Yokai. It doesnt even have figures of the human protags.

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

Kinda like how Pokemon is best known for games, when they started out as cards.

Pokemon started out as a video game.

[Crystal-Sushi]

Oooo, good point about Beyblade!  That also reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh--a cartoon show pushing a card game, heehee.

If you read the first chapters of the manga, they are NOTHING like the show. It wasn't even supposed to be about card games, it was supposed to be about a schoolboy possessed by an ancient demon who punished bullies and criminals through karmic challenges they were set up to lose. It was really dark. The mangaka started the card game arc and it became SUPER popular so that became its entire reason for existing.

The subsequent series are all about the cards, though. So now it's a toy-toon.

That sounds so much more interesting then what we ended up with.

Those darker first few arcs were actually animated! It's referred to as 'Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0' and isn't connected to the later, more well-known anime. I love the animation style, it's so technicolor and surreal (like a lot of 80s-90s anime) but you have to watch it subbed because, naturally, it never got an English-language release (too violent!) 

[Al-1701]

Kinda like how Pokemon is best known for games, when they started out as cards.

Pokemon started out as a video game.

I was about to say, Pokemon started with the RPG's in 1995 in Japan.