Chapter 185: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animation
However, this plan to build a paradise did give Jester a reminder.
He remembered that later Nintendo built Nintendo-themed amusement parks, and although they were not vigorously promoted, they were also very successful.
And Jester remembers that in the late 80s, American television reporters conducted an interview and survey, and the results of the survey surprised the whole United States, because Mickey Mouse, who had always been regarded as a symbol of the United States, was not as influential in the minds of the Americans as the protagonist of a game made by Zuò from a small island nation thousands of miles away.
Thinking of this, Jester also thinks that it is a very good idea to build a playground with game characters and game scenes as the theme of Disney's way, and if you want to do it, there may be many problems that need to be solved, but this time Samsung took the initiative to propose this cooperation, which made him feel that it was a good way to deal with it.
After putting Samsung's letter aside, Jester continued to look at the other writers, although he had agreed to cooperate with MGM on "The Avengers", but this was only a verbal agreement, and the official signing was not announced a week later.
Therefore, there are still other film companies making inquiries in this regard, many of them are members of other Seven or Eight Film Companies, such as Columbia, Paramount, Warner Bros., etc., and even they ask not only about "The Avengers" but also about the copyright of other games, and the most asked is the adaptation rights of Sheriff Balotelli.
Faced with this situation, coupled with Jester's previous idea of cooperating with Samsung Everland to build a park in the United States with its own game theme as a selling point, it is very important to maintain the exposure of his game characters on a regular basis.
Like a game, it can't be like Disney's cartoons, dozens of episodes of the same character can be produced in a year, to ensure quality, it can only take nearly half a year to complete one, if you want to be exposed like Disney's characters and enhance the influence in the minds of players, you must use the same way as them.
Just like making your own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle anime, it is most appropriate to use animation and movies or TV series.
In this way, one thing is in front of Jester, if you just want to make a movie casually, then the identity of Mars Entertainment is completely competent, because it has only been a long time since this happened, but if you want to shoot a lot, then this kind of wild way is not so efficient.
Therefore, it has become an inevitable choice to set up a film and television production company that is responsible for the operation of the copyright of the characters or works of its own game company.
And with the film and television production company, it is inevitable to produce a large number of cartoons or TV series, so that there will be a lot of trouble when broadcasting, because when you only make one, it will not be too difficult to sell, but if you make more than a dozen of them, then no TV station will buy them all.
But the cost of setting up a TV network is too big in Jester's eyes, and it is not an investment that he can afford at all, and his identity is still a Chinese, and he wants to control a TV network in the United States, although the US law does not explicitly prohibit it, but there are still unspoken rules, and it is impossible to do it if he is not white.
And these things can't be solved, so if you want to make a film and television project, and promote the influence of your game in a large way, it can only be like the moon in the well, without the slightest operability - as for why Disney can, it's very simple, because Disney has one of the largest TV networks in the United States.
After thinking about it, Jester came up with a solution, and he could solve it by doing a pay TV station in Guò.
Although HBO was only a pay TV station, his influence was not small, and he relied on the production of high-quality dramas to attract a large number of die-hard viewers, Jester remembers that the game of thrones filmed by this TV station has been the most popular TV series in the United States for a long time, not only relying on advertising fees to recover costs, but also relying on later disc sales, making more profits.
Therefore, in Jester's eyes, this method is feasible, but how to operate it has to be handed over to professional people to do, so Jester sent a phone call to the headhunting company that had cooperated well with him before, explained his requirements, and then waited for a response.
The rest of the text is nothing particularly important, only one that surprised Jester a little, his illusion studio production zuò's cartoon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is also ready to be officially broadcast on ABC, the previous broadcast agreement with ABC was recommended by Jester to Illusion Studio, plus because of the unprecedented popularity of Transformers, ABC is also looking for new animated series, it just so happens that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is really good, and the quality is very high, at least in the eyes of those in ABC, In terms of pure quality of the cartoon, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is much higher than "Transformers".
Thinking of the matter of "Transformers", Jester was also a little unhappy, originally because they had cooperated with Hasbro before, it seemed that they had obtained the game adaptation rights of their game "Real Estate Tycoon", and they originally wanted to take advantage of the popularity of "Transformers" to discuss it to see if they could win the adaptation rights of "Transformers" at a more suitable price.
However, "Transformers" is too popular in the United States, or in the whole world, and Hasbro's conditions for Mars Entertainment are simply blackmail, they not only want to participate in the share of the game adapted from "Transformers", but they also have to occupy most of the tome, and they also require the adaptor to give a very high signing fee at the first time, of course, in the process of development, publicity, and promotion of this game, Hasbro will not pay a penny.
In Jester's eyes, this is obviously just by investing in a copyright, and then waiting to collect money, and to collect the maximum share, and those who contribute can only get a little hard-earned money, that is, the tenants of the landlord's family have not done this before, so Jester directly refused without saying a word after knowing that the other party is this condition.
Unexpectedly, after Jester refused, Hasbro was not in a hurry, anyway, the development of video games was just a dispensable revenue point for them, and they didn't want to give it so much, originally Jester thought that if the other party didn't give in, then he would suffer some grievances, and agreed to the idea that Nintendo couldn't use the name of Transformers to expand its market share.
But unexpectedly, a stingy Nintendo, this time it was rare to be generous, North America Nintendo led by Minoru Arakawa, after learning that Jester and Hasbro had collapsed, immediately followed up, after hearing Hasbro's conditions, Minoru Arakawa's first reaction was also like Jester, eager to jump up and slap these people who fed Hasbro, but he quickly put this idea behind him, and didn't even bargain, so he reached an agreement with Hasbro.
After that, Minoru Arakawa used the agreement he and Hasbro officially reached an agreement on the game adaptation rights of "Transformers" as a gimmick, and carried out a lot of hype, for fear that others would not know, in just one week, in the East of the United States, West of the United States, and more than a dozen cities in the United States, countless press conferences were held, just to announce like everyone that "Transformers" was theirs.
The effect of this is obvious, through the number of reports hired by the company to give them feedback, Jester knows that within a month of the news of Nintendo's signing of "Transformers", Nintendo's market share has increased by five percent, which is a very terrible growth rate, which also allows Jester to see the power of "Transformers" for the first time.
And those who like Transformers are some young children, and Nintendo's game is characterized by being suitable for all ages, especially to receive the love of these children, so in Jester's eyes, Nintendo's step seems to be blackmailed by Hasbro, but Nintendo itself did not suffer, because they did not fancy the Transformers themselves, but the Transformers themselves used a huge fan base.
This group is the same as the target group of their Nintendo game consoles, and in the eyes of these Nintendo designers, they never worry about whether the quality of their games can be liked by these players, they are worried that if their game consoles can't be sold, then their games are useless, no matter how good they are.
Because without a game console, there is no way to play their games, let alone buy them.
If he had known at the time that Nintendo could really increase its market share by five percent just by relying on a Transformers news, then he would have agreed to Hasbro's conditions without hesitation.
Jester is relieved about the quality of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to be broadcast by ABC, because he has watched the first dozen episodes before, and for Jester, who is a kind of cartoon like him who has taken care of the future generations, this cartoon is actually not very good, but compared with the contemporaries, it is basically the best grade.
And history has also proven that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was extremely popular after it was broadcast, and there were countless fans, if according to the authoritative institutions of later generations, this cartoon was the most outstanding and influential animation in North America in the eighties, except for "Transformers". R1152