![]() Takara-Tomy" in Japan.īoth Takara and Tomy held licenses to localise and distribute Hasbro products in Japan. While Japanese commercial law allows wide latitude in translating Japanese corporate names into official English names, the merged company took the unusual step of adopting "TOMY Company, Ltd." as its official English, while using "K.K. In deciding upon the merged company's new name, "Takara" was used for its international brand recognition and "Tomy" was used because it was a trusted brand of infant and preschool products in Japan. Ltd." while in Japan the legal company name is "K. In English, the official name of the merged company is "TOMY Co. On, Takara and Tomy announced their merger. For example, the new mascot was not always coloured black. Takara replaced the mascot with "21st Century Colorful Dakko-Chan", which had enough features to connote the original mascot but divested the traits which brought criticism. The mascot was named "Dakko-Chan" ( ダッコちゃん). In the 1980s, the company was criticized for using a mascot that was a golliwog-like character. it was named Time magazine's best invention in a robot category. In 2005, Takara produced Walkie bits, a colorful, multi-function miniature robotic turtle. The BowLingual was named as one of the best inventions of 2002 by Time magazine. An example is BowLingual which aimed to translate the sounds of dogs to human language. Takara has manufactured several unusual gadgets marketed as "life entertainment products". ![]() The merged company also produced the Zoids and the Naruto series. Takara-branded product licenses such as Licca-chan, Jinsei Game, The Game of Life and Choro-Q were returned to Takara Tomy's consumer software division. In 2006, after the merger with Tomy, the controlling stake in Atlus was sold to Index Holdings, Takara Tomy's major shareholder. Some Takara properties were licensed to and published by Atlus. Also that year, Takara purchased a controlling stake in the publicly traded software publisher Atlus. Small games developers such as Tamsoft, BHE, E-game and KID corp, were sometimes omitted from the credits on a game's Takara packaging or title screens. Takara published the 3D computer graphics fighting game series Battle Arena Toshinden, developed by Tamsoft. In 2003, Takara contributed to the production of the game, Seek-and-Destroy. They were sold for use with the Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Game Boy, or the Famicom. These included the Fatal Fury and the Samurai Shodown series. The company ported (adapted) some of the SNK Neo Geo based arcade games for 8 and 16-bit consoles. In the 1990s, Takara published the Chibi Maruko-chan video games. Takara developed and published video games. Internationally, they have been sold as "Penny Racers". In 1978, Takara developed the Choro-Q, mini pullback cars. These toys were sold or distributed internationally by Hasbro. Takara also invented Battle Beasts, the E-kara karaoke microphone, B-Daman and Beyblade. Both Webdiver and Daigunder toys could interact with TV screens, which proved only but a fad in the early 2000s. Other transforming toys made by Takara include Brave, Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver, and Daigunder. Micronauts were sold internationally by the Mego Corporation. ![]() Takara continued to sell Microman and used it as the basis for the Micronauts toy line. In 1984, the toy line was rebranded by Hasbro as " Transformers", which made Takara waste no time joining in. In 1975, Takara produced the Diaclone and Microman Micro Change toys. In 1967, Takara produced the first generation of the Licca-chan doll, which was 21 centimeters tall and had the last name of Kayama, inspired by the musician Yuzo Kayama and actress Yoshiko Kayama. The Takara motto was 「遊びは文化」("playing is culture"). ![]() In March 2006, the company merged with Tomy Co., Ltd. ( 株式会社タカラ, Kabushiki gaisha Takara) was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955. BowLingual, Choro-Q, Microman, Transformers ![]()
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