CAYOM - New Franchise Rights Thread

[Alpha]

18 hours ago, Xillix said:

Okay so... fishing for opinions here.

 

I want to do a GoBots movie. But I looked it up and, apparently, Hasbro bought the rights in 1991 and, in a Q&A feature on their website, retroactively declared that the GoBots cartoon was a canon "alternate universe" in TF lore. Essentially they had a GoBot take over the Q&A section and answer questions about his cartoon in-character, referencing it as canon. Apparently there was also a web-exclusive crossover comic between GB and TF.

 

So my question is this: Is this web gag a solid enough tie to declare GoBots is officially part of Transformers and thus the rights aren't available? Or is it okay if I take it since it's not addressed in any of the Transformers movies or other mainstream media?

 

EDIT: Apparently Tonka still owns the rights to the old cartoon, technically speaking, and Bandai owns the original character designs... it's very confusing.

 

I would believe it's a separate franchise despite it's links to Transformers. Plus, I'd say if Hasbro can own the rights to Transformers and Tonka/Bandai can still own the rights to GoBots I'd say it's reasonable you could do the same in CAYOM.

[Xillix]

Well cool then. I'll grab that as well!

[Bastien]

I claim Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator... YUP.

Year 2 - Valentine's day is gonna be FUN

[Xillix]

2 hours ago, Bastien said:

I claim Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator... YUP.

Year 2 - Valentine's day is gonna be FUN

Oh God. Hide the children.

[Alpha]

15 hours ago, Bastien said:

I claim Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator... YUP.

Year 2 - Valentine's day is gonna be FUN

 

Lol yes

[cookie]

16 hours ago, Bastien said:

I claim Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator... YUP.

Year 2 - Valentine's day is gonna be FUN

Can't be worse than Fifty Shades.

[Xillix]

Also taking Ultraman cuz I'm greedy and a toku nerd.

[Xillix]

...and American Dragon: Jake Long and Biker Mice from Mars.

 

Hoarder!? I resent that!

[Ezen Baklattan]

Has no one taken Uncharted yet?

[cookie]

Is Voltron still available? Kinda want to do a semi-adaptation of the Dreamworks/Netflix version.

Edited August 24, 2017 by cookie

[Xillix]

On 8/21/2017 at 9:42 PM, Spaghetti of 1000 Planets said:

Has no one taken Uncharted yet?

 

Not this go-round. I think it's technically reserved for CJohn til Y2 though since he had the rights in 2.0.

 

@cookie Apparently no one has ever claimed Voltron, so yeah, you're good.

[cookie]

2 minutes ago, Xillix said:

 

Not this go-round. I think it's technically reserved for CJohn til Y2 though since he had the rights in 2.0.

 

@cookie Apparently no one has ever claimed Voltron, so yeah, you're good.

Good, since I think I can put one together over the weekend. Gonna need some help with the casting though.

[Alpha]

I'll claim Night in the Woods.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Actually, leave Uncharted. I'll take the following franchises:

• The Phantom of the Opera
• Wallace & Gromit
• The Road to El Dorado (I want to reboot the franchise as a live action adventure a la Indiana Jones)

[ChD]

Basically forgot to re-claim my franchises. So I'll take Life is Strange, SOMA and The Nightingale.

 

[cookie]

On 2017-08-28 at 2:24 AM, Spaghetti of 1000 Planets said:

 

• The Road to El Dorado (I want to reboot the franchise as a live action adventure a la Indiana Jones)

Goddammit I re-watched El Dorado yesterday and I just thought of that.

 

Guess I'll have to make do with a Sinbad live-action remake then.

Edited September 1, 2017 by cookie

[Alpha]

I'll claim Lord of the Flies.

 

Also, realized I hadn't updated the OP in a while. I'll revise that.

[Xillix]

Oooooh! Oooooh! ThunderCats! How did I forget them!?

[ChD]

Re-claiming To The Moon for safe keeping

[cookie]

Disney's Dinosaur

Expedition Everest

Mission: Space