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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 6428658" data-attributes="member: 40359"><p>It definitely is comparable, but (and I'm generally an optimistic person), hopefully the powers that be at Disney and Hasbro realize how useful it is to keep generating more IP to mine, and when you are throwing around hundreds of millions on CGI and tens of millions on cast members, paying the comics and RPG staff crap is an orders of magnitude below their notice (and I use the term "orders of magnitude" literally here - compare paying Jonathan Hickman writing the Avengers comic and paying Robert Downey Jr. to appear in the movies).</p><p></p><p>Even with decades of material to draw from, there is value in getting new material produced. Although their big upcoming storyline referencing something 25 years old, the upcoming Captain America storyline is from 2006-7, the massive hit with Guardians of the Galaxy is based on the team that's been around less than that, and the announced Captain Marvel movie I'm sure would never have happened if it hadn't been for Kelly Sue Deconnick and the Carol Corp fans on tumblr.</p><p></p><p>So, sure there are decades of material for both Disney and Hasbro to draw from. But it would be a really stupid business decision not to keep spending a relatively low amount of money compared to movie and TV budgets producing more material to draw from and expanding the dedicated fan base. (Dedicated fans along can't make a movie succeed, but they can be a reliable minimal revenue.) Sure businesses can be that stupid, but Disney/Marvel doesn't seem to be so far, and I hope Hasbro/WotC isn't either. It would be bad business to gut the comics or RPG once the tie-ins start doing well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 6428658, member: 40359"] It definitely is comparable, but (and I'm generally an optimistic person), hopefully the powers that be at Disney and Hasbro realize how useful it is to keep generating more IP to mine, and when you are throwing around hundreds of millions on CGI and tens of millions on cast members, paying the comics and RPG staff crap is an orders of magnitude below their notice (and I use the term "orders of magnitude" literally here - compare paying Jonathan Hickman writing the Avengers comic and paying Robert Downey Jr. to appear in the movies). Even with decades of material to draw from, there is value in getting new material produced. Although their big upcoming storyline referencing something 25 years old, the upcoming Captain America storyline is from 2006-7, the massive hit with Guardians of the Galaxy is based on the team that's been around less than that, and the announced Captain Marvel movie I'm sure would never have happened if it hadn't been for Kelly Sue Deconnick and the Carol Corp fans on tumblr. So, sure there are decades of material for both Disney and Hasbro to draw from. But it would be a really stupid business decision not to keep spending a relatively low amount of money compared to movie and TV budgets producing more material to draw from and expanding the dedicated fan base. (Dedicated fans along can't make a movie succeed, but they can be a reliable minimal revenue.) Sure businesses can be that stupid, but Disney/Marvel doesn't seem to be so far, and I hope Hasbro/WotC isn't either. It would be bad business to gut the comics or RPG once the tie-ins start doing well. [/QUOTE]
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