What Would It Take?

[captaintrips]

Takara/Tomy owns the Zoids franchise, of course. But Hasbro owns the distribution rights for Zoids in the US.

What would it take for Hasbro to produce a Zoids anime of their own, to air on their HUB network, and produce a line of new model kits to promote it? What permissions would they need to acquire from Tomy/Takara regarding the use of Zoids characters (the Zoids themselves, not the human characters from previous anime--as I am sure those would definitely be off-limits for use in a new show) and the molds to produce new model kits?

Marvel produced their own Zoids comic in the 1980s and a different toy company, Kenner I believe, of course produced several different Zoids lines before the most recent US release ten years ago. I do not know what permissions they required to do this, but if it happened in the past, would it not be theoreticly possible for it to happen again?

I do not really think this is likely, of course. I am asking out of honest curiosity, as I know nothing about the business of copyrights and licensing (as you probably all can guess ).

[ligerzilla2014]

What would it take? More interest than the fandom has the means to show.

[zodd]

Your profile pic is awesome Captain Trips

[Xehn]

Hasbro actually does not have the license at all anymore. They haven't had it for a while. The XBox 360 Zoids Assualt/Alternative game was released here without so much as a mention of Hasbro on the box or in the game itself.