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<blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2803433" data-attributes="member: 9045">All of which is just sad.&nbsp; The reality is - and I think we all know it - that from a business executive at Hasbo's POV it goes something like this:&nbsp; &quot;D&amp;D?&nbsp; Oh yeah, we own that.&nbsp; Hmm...&nbsp; how's the new 'Wax my ass Barbie' coming along?&nbsp; We need to get another straight to DVD cartoon to the shelves for that one.&quot;The tragedy is it'd be easy, relatively.&nbsp; Look at what Gygax accomplished in his time.&nbsp; With a heck of a lot less to work with than Hasbro has to throw around, too.&nbsp; A good cartoon (it'd have to be on Cartoon Network though, from what I've seen much to my regret Saturday Morning Cartoons appears to be no more than a memory) and a line of halfway decent toys (both of which we had in the late 70's/early 80's), combined with some regular commercials would make me happy as a hog.&nbsp; And would probably work.&nbsp; We don't need to pull in the teens people.&nbsp; There are other ways to pull in the teens that are easier and work better.&nbsp; We're talking about pulling in the grade schoolers.&nbsp; HOw many of us got interested in D&amp;D on the strength of a few 1-page ads in the middle of a comic book and a really hokey cartoon?&nbsp; I know I did.&nbsp; It was more than enough.And I agree with Mousferatu.&nbsp; Hasbro will Never do it.There are other problems, in my opinion, but in the middle of dinner that's as far as I'm going. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolv0rine, post: 2803433, member: 9045"] All of which is just sad. The reality is - and I think we all know it - that from a business executive at Hasbo's POV it goes something like this: "D&D? Oh yeah, we own that. Hmm... how's the new 'Wax my ass Barbie' coming along? We need to get another straight to DVD cartoon to the shelves for that one." The tragedy is it'd be easy, relatively. Look at what Gygax accomplished in his time. With a heck of a lot less to work with than Hasbro has to throw around, too. A good cartoon (it'd have to be on Cartoon Network though, from what I've seen much to my regret Saturday Morning Cartoons appears to be no more than a memory) and a line of halfway decent toys (both of which we had in the late 70's/early 80's), combined with some regular commercials would make me happy as a hog. And would probably work. We don't need to pull in the teens people. There are other ways to pull in the teens that are easier and work better. We're talking about pulling in the grade schoolers. HOw many of us got interested in D&D on the strength of a few 1-page ads in the middle of a comic book and a [b]really[/b] hokey cartoon? I know I did. It was more than enough. And I agree with Mousferatu. Hasbro will [i]Never[/i] do it. There are other problems, in my opinion, but in the middle of dinner that's as far as I'm going. :) [/QUOTE]

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