Tomy to Buy Two More Toy Companies in Japan?

Sounds like the start of Electronic Arts all over again...now if they decided to take on Bandai...well...that'd just be -very- interesting.
DN

Dinobot Nuva wrote:...now if they decided to take on Bandai...well...that'd just be -very- interesting.

Yeah, they'd release Gundams with half-naked sexually exploited underage girls.

O LOLI?

hopefully well see some shockwave and jetfire reissues soon

People, be reasonable. Tomy can't buy out Bandai anytime soon. The companies that the article hints at Tomy purchasing are definitely lower on the totem pole than that, or catering to niche markets. Companies like Kaiyodo, Konami's toy branch, maybe something like Medicom. Not Bandai. Bandai rules the toy market. They're the number one company that Tomy has to worry about competing with the most. If anything, Bandai would be more inclined to gobble up Tomy, but Tomy's #2, so that's probably not going to happen for a while either.

And there are simply too many things wrong with being hopeful about a Jetfire reissue to warrant bringing up.

1337W422102 wrote:Well of course Tomy can't get Bandai, I was only referring to what someone else had posted, and I made a funny. That's all.

I was never referring to you!

I don't generally single out "offending" posters whenever I make that sort of reply. You assumed, and you know what happens when you assume...

Tomy won't be buying Badai.
Bandai is too stable and big.

Tomy has always been around, but lately they've just been exploding!

The story, which we originally reported on, stems from poor profit margins on Tomy's part, which they put down to the popularity in Computer / Video games, rather than them growing. It's interesting that Tomy target both Mattel and Hasbro as rival companies, when Hasbro / TakaraTomy work together on Transformers.

This may be a stupid ?, but what toys does Tomy make?
I think they made the Starriors line and maybe ZOIDS.
But what do they make that makes them so successful?

DISCHARGE wrote:This may be a stupid ?, but what toys does Tomy make?
I think they made the Starriors line and maybe ZOIDS.
But what do they make that makes them so successful?

I think they are trying to buy out all the other toy companies, then cease production of those toylines so we'll be forced to buy Thomas the Tank Engine and other delights from Tomy.

DISCHARGE wrote:This may be a stupid ?, but what toys does Tomy make?
I think they made the Starriors line and maybe ZOIDS.
But what do they make that makes them so successful?

Check out this link. Click on the buttons for "Boys", "Girls", "Game", and "Cards" to view the various products. http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/index.html