[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by Neoblackdragon

Funny how you say that about Sony when the playstation was a collaborative project between Sony and Nintendo at first.

Keep in mind companies may help others out to make sure the market is healthy. Competition is healthy

Now as to Takara working on stuff.

We are talking about Power Rangers. BOJ can't do anything about business in the US when it comes to Power Rangers. If Hasbro is designing the toys then BOJ can't jump in.

I don't think Hasbro is going to be BOJ distributor. They aren't going to take BOJ molds to make the megazords and other figures.

So Takara would not be profiting off BOJ's work.

I never said PlayStation, did I? I said ‘handheld’ as in a generic thing. Don’t put words in my mouth.

Furthermore, there is every chance that Hasbro will, indeed, use the BoJ molds.
And even if they don’t, Hasbro has to pay BoJ for the right to make Power Rangers toys in the West.
And if Takara were to design those toys, Hasbro would have to pay Takara too.

Therefore, yes, Takara would be profiting from Bandai’s intellectual property. Or rather, it’s joint intellectual property with Toei.

Bottom line, BoJ would have had to have been part of whatever negations resulted in Hasbro getting the licence, and considering how bitter rivals BoJ and Takara are, it is highly likely that a ‘keep Takara out of it’ clause would have been in the agreement.

It’s simple business studies.