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17 August 2011

Strip-mining Nostalgia: The AV Club looks to yesterday for the potential franchises of tomorrow.

post by: box at: 08:09 | 5 comments

Too many of these look like they could actually happen. Has anyone optioned a Wacky Packages movie yet?

posted by Slack-a-gogo 17 August | 09:18

Shirt tales!

posted by gaspode 17 August | 09:26

A couple of good snorters in there:

in these contentious times, “Mad Libs” sounds like a group of particularly peevish left-wingers, which could be a turnoff.

I'd forgotten a whole bunch of those products. As for Strawberry Shortcake, I think the franchise still has legs, but this time as a burlesque act.

posted by Miko 17 August | 09:44

It's been done. Google "penny arcade strawberry shortcake." The strip has been taken down but doubtless there are copies springing up and being yanked all over the googles.

posted by Eideteker 17 August | 10:04

Paramount Studios bailed on an adaptation of Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness," to be directed by Guillermo del Toro, and around the same time they greenlighted a movie based on the game Battleship. None of these strike me as any more ridiculous than that.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 August | 11:31

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