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<div><a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/84207">4 Upcoming Toy-to-Movie Adaptations (That Probably Shouldn’t Be)</a>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>You can thank the success of <em>Transformers 1</em> &amp; <em>2</em> for the plague upon your movie houses that’s to come. Hollywood knows a  good formula when it sees one. Well, it knows a formula anyway, and  since transforming toy robots hit it big at the box office, Hollywood  producers have been slap fighting each other to be the next to cash in  on your childhood nostalgia with a toy-based franchise. And there is no  toy idea too absurd to throw a few hundred million dollars at&#8230;</p>
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