So, Hasbro owns half a Cable Channel.

[darjr]

ICv2 - 'Transformers' Drive Hasbro Q2 Sales

Hasbro has a 50% stake in the Discovery Kids channel. Who do I have to talk to about a D&D show? Any WotC folks care to elaborate? Are there any D&D plans?

Which ENWorlders would watch such a thing?
If it's any good, I would.

 

[Drkfathr1]

Hmmmmm. With Transformers really driving some profits at Hasbro right now, I guess the big announcement at Gen Con this week is going to be the release of a Transformers RPG from WoTC.

All resources and energy will now go to the Transformers property and D&D will fall to the wayside.

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[kitsune9]

Hmmmmm. With Transformers really driving some profits at Hasbro right now, I guess the big announcement at Gen Con this week is going to be the release of a Transformers RPG from WoTC.

All resources and energy will now go to the Transformers property and D&D will fall to the wayside.

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Oooo.....I hope not. I like Transformers, but not that much. Though a D&D Discovery Channel show might get me to watch it, or how about D&D reality show like Project: Role-player or America's Top D&D Player or American D&D'er or Hell's D&D R&D.

 

[ggroy]

There was a D&D cartoon from the 1980's. Hopefully they'll do reruns of it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You want scary?

What if they re-hire the team that did the original D&D cartoon and greenlight a much bigger budget for them to "re-imagine" the series a-la George Lucas?

Uni is back...and is pissed off! Meh-eh-eh-eh-ehhhhh!

 

[arscott]

Something cool in the linked press release:

The new channel will be targeted primarily toward kids and tweens, although co-viewership with adults is also expected to be a significant contributor.

It's pretty cool that they're recognizing right off the bat that Adults will be watching those programs. Makes me hopeful that we'll see some relatively decent programs come out of this.

 

[RangerWickett]

2 or 3 years ago I pitched a new D&D cartoon to WotC and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It would have had a tone sort of similar to Firefly. Scott Rouse and I talked briefly at Gen Con, and a friend of mine who's a producer at Adult Swim said they were willing to give a look to any sample episode, but I couldn't raise the funds to get a sample episode animated, so the conversations never got very far.

If someone happens to have a few thousand bucks to hire an animator or two for a 10 minute vignette, I've got a script and scribbled storyboards. I'd love to see D&D on TV. Heck, I'm surprised Blizzard hasn't done something similar, though I guess they've already got enough customers.

 

[darjr]

Bwa?

What about an auction type fundraiser. Would you be willing?

 

[avin]

D&D Cartoon is absolutely loved here in Brazil, even for people who has zero clue what D&D is.

Its reprised from time to time.

With all those Harry Potter, Spiderwick and so on fans around I don't know what's Wotc waiting for.

 

[RangerWickett]

Bwa?

What about an auction type fundraiser. Would you be willing?

Heh. It's not cheap. This post gives some numbers, and it's 3 years old - Google Answers: 3D Animation Price Quote

At $50 per second, even a 5 minute sample would be $15,000. I liked our idea, but wasn't confident enough at the time to try to get together that much money. And since then I've looked back at the pitch and I can see plenty that would have needed polishing.

Then again, there's a new art college in Atlanta, and probably some animation students who might be interested. *shrug* I hadn't given it much thought for a long while.