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Hasbro is an American toy company, founded in Rhode Island and are the owners of the My Little Pony franchise. Needless to say, their influence over the worlds of toys, cartoons and comics are rather vast.

History
"Hasbro" as a name is shortened from Hassenfield Brothers, three Jewish brothers named Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld. Beginning in the 1930s as a humble textile remnants seller, later manufacturer and seller of children's school supplies such as pencils. Sadly, in 1944, Hillel Hassenfeld died. The following year, the remaining brothers filed a trademark for the name Hasbro.

In 1952, Hasbro released Mr. Potato Head, originally created by George Lerner but purchased by Hasbro. So confident Hasbro was in this product that they purchased advertising time for it on a thing called 'television', a rather new concept at the time.

In 1952, Hasbro first rose to fame with a little toy called Mr. Potato Head, which had originally been created by George Lerner and subsequently purchased by Hasbro. You might have heard of it. The company went so far as to purchase advertising time for the toy on a newfangled invention called television. You might have heard of that, too.