In the past few years My Little Pony has been making a big come back with their new series, “Friendship is Magic” as people of all ages are getting excited about the new series, toys, dolls and more. IDW Publishing has recently picked up the rights for the new My Little Pony comic book and brought on Katie Cook as the writer for this new series. We caught up with Katie at New York City Comic Con, just after the IDW panel to talk about her My Little Pony fandom and the directions she’s going with this new series.
Now personally, I do like My Little Pony. I own a few things and have watched most of the new series. I even have a lot of my toys from my childhood still. Though I am not a full blown Brony, some of my best friends are. As they have supported me with my fandom all this time, I am happy to do the same for them and will do other reviews and such here on Cowabunga Corner for “Friendship is Magic”.
I hope everyone enjoys this interview, and would like to Thank Katie for taking the time to talk with us!
Credits:
Guest: Katie Cook
Host: Michele Ivey
Camera: Miki Ivey
Editing: Michele Ivey
Intro: Phoenix
Music: “Pink Day” by Voranski
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i think it would be cool if Hasbro had IDW make a cross over comic with a lot of their different toy lines like My Little Pony, Transformers, G. I. Joe, & Inhumanoids. what do you think.
Because each property is owned by different owners, IDW has no say in which toy lines are made. Like TMNT is owned by Viacom, their toy makers are Playmate toys. To do crossover type toy series they would have to go to the owners of each of the properties, which is a lot of work that most companies would not even want to think about.
but all the toy properties belong to Hasbro, so if they wonted to they could do it. i under stand if other companies have problems with having their properties being shown with a different company, but not if they already own the rights to their own toys. just saying it would be neat to see Hasbro doing a cross over with their toys they own, like how Disney is doing with their Marvel characters.
The difference is Disney is the main owners they don’t have to go through someone else. Hasbro is a toy company, with MLP I understand they have ownership with it. But I’m not sure about the other properties. Using TMNT as an example again, since it’s the only IDW property I really understand the backing of. While IDW does the comics, Playmates does the toys… they are own by Viacom. Let’s say IDW and Playmates both think it would be a good idea to a cross over. They would have to get Viacom’s permission, and then the owner of the other property. Playmates would not have final say, so the business always adds in another party. It gets a bit more so if you add in more than one property. Like MLP and Ghostbusters… Ghostbusters is not owned by Hasbro or IDW, so they would have to talk to the owners of Ghostbusters.
Of course for the properties that Hasbro does own as the owners and toy company they MIGHT listen to the comic book company, only if the Comic Book company is bringing in lots of money on their properties. Another example with TMNT comes up here. The Archie TMNT Comics had these awesome characters known as the Might Mutanimals, and they had Ninjara. This was a well selling kids comic, but not selling well enough for the Toy Companies. While Playmates made a lot of toys that had nothing to do with any of the series King LionHeart, Half Court and others… they never picked up any of the Archie Characters no matter how much those characters were pitched at them. So Toy companies are picky on which toys are made…. and man would I still love a set of the Mighty Mutanimals and a Ninjara toy… those would be amazing.
I’m sorry if I’m not replying the way you’re hoping for. Though I do not collect any toy from MLP or Transformers since the 1980′s, while I still have all of my original toys… one fandom to collect is too much. So I don’t know which cross over stuff people would be interested in or anything like that. I would LOVE some IDW TMNT toys… but don’t see that as a cross over thing… just IDW doing well enough that Playmates pays attention to their sales and makes a toy line off of their comic.
FINALLY got to watch this and I LOVED it!! Great interview Mikey!!
Yay! Glad you enjoyed!!!
The Comic is in stores today!!! 