Talk:Characters/@comment-50.11.158.205-20120605031945/@comment-4531340-20120617230958

Yeah; that's why Sony's making a reboot of the Spiderman movie franchise (although I feel that only 10 years after the premiere of the first movie, for such a successful movie, is far too soon): if they don't, they'd lose the rights back to Marvel and Disney.

That's how it seems to me, anyway; and as for the Hasbro thing, they probably never thought they'd get a person like Faust in charge of the new series, who was such a fan of G1, and so let all the rights for the names (besides for Applejack) lapse.