[OT] WotC loses Pokemon license

Dragongirl · Mar 16, 2003

blackshirt5 said:
Angcuru: Never bring up Ghostwalker again. You will be sacked.

I thought ghostwalkers were sheeted not sacked . . . da da dum.

boothbey · Mar 16, 2003

Dragongirl said:
I thought ghostwalkers were sheeted not sacked . . . da da dum.

And the bad joke of the night award goes to...

jdavis · Mar 16, 2003

Darkness said:
This, of course.

That will definatly require more than a couple of tables at the gaming store for kids to battle it out. It'd turn all the 8 to 10 year olds into Lil Pattons, they could duke it out in the parking lots, and of course nobody would ever call them wusses again.

JohnBrown · Mar 16, 2003

As I understand it, and that by no means says that I know what I am talking about, WoTC will put one or two more sets of pokeman cards and then they are done. Is the pokeman craze over? Yes. Does WoTC wish D&D made anywhere near what pokeman still makes? Yes. In the relatively short run of pokeman, it probably made more money than the entire 20+ year history of D&D. In the US, there were three bad pokeman movies released to only one D&D movie

Angcuru · Mar 16, 2003

in general reply to the possibility that there'll be less of those damned cards around....

jester47 · Mar 16, 2003

Crothian said:
Hoola Hoops?

YOU KNOW! FOR KIDS!

Aaron.

frankthedm · Mar 17, 2003

KenM said:
From what I understand, Pokemon was one of the main reason Hasbro aquired Wizards, it was a big money maker for them, going to be interesting to see what happens with this.

Wizards has a a few months to start earning the money it was through the pokemon licence. Failure to do so means LOTS of lay-offs from ALL departments. If the Plastic mini game for D&D doesn't become the next big thing this fall wotc may be a sacrifice on the Altar of Profits. And you will be AMAZED at what Hasbro's Lawyers will do to the SRD.

MThibault · Mar 17, 2003

jester47 said:
YOU KNOW! FOR KIDS!

Aaron.

I love that movie.

Cheers

Utrecht · Mar 17, 2003

frankthedm said:
Wizards has a a few months to start earning the money it was through the pokemon licence. Failure to do so means LOTS of lay-offs from ALL departments. If the Plastic mini game for D&D doesn't become the next big thing this fall wotc may be a sacrifice on the Altar of Profits. And you will be AMAZED at what Hasbro's Lawyers will do to the SRD.

Why is it that everytime some sort of bad news comes out people predict/insinuate the demise of WoTC. Afterall, while Pokemon may have had Revenues of 40 million - what was the profit on the line???? That is the number that we should focus on.

Also, based off of the various discussions that the lawyers on the board have had, it would be next to impossible for Hasbro to put the SRD genie back into the bottle - much to the betterment of the entire hobby.

WayneLigon · Mar 17, 2003

JohnBrown said:
In the relatively short run of pokeman, it probably made more money than the entire 20+ year history of D&D. In the US, there were three bad pokeman movies released to only one D&D movie

Pokemon: The First Movie $85,744,662 gross $30 million to produce
Pokemon: The Movie 2000 $43,758,684 gross $30 million to produce
Pokemon 3: The Movie $17,052,128 gross $16 million to produce
Pokemon 4Ever $1,727,447 gross NA to produce
D&D $15,220,685 gross $40 million to produce

Source from Box Office Mojo.

I don't know if these include foreign dollar figures, or sales figures from DVD/VHS.

I wonder what the cumulative gross on Pokemon card sales have been for Wizards?