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Paramount has announced its scheduled Allspark Pictures films up to 2021.

We haven’t seen the last of ‘Transformers,’ or any of Hasbro’s other properties on the big screen. The toy company has now struck up a new deal with Paramount.

This November, the princesses from Arendelle and their little snowman friend will return to theaters in a new animated short playing in front of Pixar’s Coco. Olaf’s Frozen Adventure will follow the quirky beach-loving snowman as he helps his friends Elsa and Anna celebrate the holiday season in Arendelle since the princesses reunited. Frozen has been such a smash success for Disney that it’s considered its own brand within the Disney Princesses world, and with the release of Olaf’s Frozen Adventure in November, Hasbro intends to make sure your kids have plenty of newly costumed Elsas, Annas, Olafs, and Kristoffs.

While many of us heading to HasCon last weekend were eager to see all the cool new figures and collectibles in the Marvel Legends brand, Hasbro had more in mind than just showing off some beloved comic book characters in action figure form. The company used HasCon to offer a royal welcoming reception for its upcoming Black Panther toy line. Though what was on display was merely a glimpse into what the vaults of Wakanda hold for fans, it's clear Hasbro is taking this opportunity to deliver some memorable Afrofuturism-inspired toys.

This past weekend, Hasbro's biggest brands gathered in Providence, Rhode Island for the first ever HasCon, and gave fans a much more intimate and personal glimpse at what the future of Star Wars toys held. While there weren't many new reveals on display, thanks in large to Hasbro just releasing a bevvy of new Star Wars toys at the start of the month, there was still plenty of love for the Black Series, Forces of Destiny, and everything in between.

Another September has arrived, and with it comes the new annual tradition of Hasbro releasing the first new Star Wars toys meant to tie into Lucasfilm movie of that given year. Though September 1 was dubbed as Force Friday II, this past weekend was actually the third consecutive time Hasbro’s Star Wars team unleashed a bevvy of new figures across both the 3.75” and 6” lines. Given the response to the last two yearly events, we hit up Force Friday II at our local retailer to get our hands on some of those Black Series figures first, and came away impressed with almost all the figures in this first batch.

For all intents and purposes, 2017 is shaping up to be a good year for Thor. Not only are the Marvel Comics still going strong heading into the Legacy event, but he's also starring in one of the year’s most anticipated sequels, Thor: Ragnarok. With every new Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Hasbro's turned to the Marvel Legends line to provide some action figure excitement to tie into the big event. However, this year, Hasbro also made Thor the star of one of its Comic-Con exclusives, and the “Battle for Asgard” set is more than worthy of Odin himself.

This week Marvel's galavanting galactic heroes hit home video, and we're taking a look at the second series of Hasbro's Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 Marvel Legends figures to mark the occasion. What Hasbro did with the first wave left us fairly impressed, but the roster for the second batch had us just as excited. Nebula, Gamora, Rocket (with little Baby Groot), and a Mantis build-a-figure? Yeah, that might be something we're interested in.

The first wave of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny animated episodes dropped earlier this summer, with even more planned to come as the year continues. As part of that release, Hasbro has finally unleashed its wave of Forces of Destiny collectibles on the hungry masses, including new action dolls and role-play accessories for kids. Never one to pass up a good Star Wars toy, we snapped up the new Princess Leia and Rey adventure sets to get an idea of what Forces of Destiny's toy line had to offer.

Circling back an umpteenth time for the Stretch Armstrong movie seems like … well, a stretch, so let’s see Netflix take it in a new direction. Meet the Hasbro-backed Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, featuring the voices of Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun, Felicia Day and more.