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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8695982" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Even that is unclear. After all, they had put money into, inter alia, Lankhmar (a very old Leiber series), Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Hunt for Red October, Escape from New York, and so on. Even the Marvel license is only something that in retrospect was an awesome idea (and I'm guessing that the sales don't support it at the time).</p><p></p><p>Yeah, we laugh at Buck Rogers now and it's mostly forgotten ... but it was an actual science fiction TV show that aired- and was popular internationally and continued to be aired in syndication in the early 80s. And TSR wasn't the only company that licensed the IP. </p><p></p><p>It's impossible to determine without knowing what was paid; but given the failure of almost every thing they did that wasn't D&D, I don't think that saying that it was a failure should be held against it. I think the bigger failure was that TSR floundered after the initial early-80s boom. While Williams managed to retrench it financially and save it at that time, it continued acting like the TTRPG market was bigger than it actually was. </p><p></p><p>I'm more curious with this new book if it explores the finances from the book (non-game) side in the late 80s and early 90s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8695982, member: 7023840"] Even that is unclear. After all, they had put money into, inter alia, Lankhmar (a very old Leiber series), Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Hunt for Red October, Escape from New York, and so on. Even the Marvel license is only something that in retrospect was an awesome idea (and I'm guessing that the sales don't support it at the time). Yeah, we laugh at Buck Rogers now and it's mostly forgotten ... but it was an actual science fiction TV show that aired- and was popular internationally and continued to be aired in syndication in the early 80s. And TSR wasn't the only company that licensed the IP. It's impossible to determine without knowing what was paid; but given the failure of almost every thing they did that wasn't D&D, I don't think that saying that it was a failure should be held against it. I think the bigger failure was that TSR floundered after the initial early-80s boom. While Williams managed to retrench it financially and save it at that time, it continued acting like the TTRPG market was bigger than it actually was. I'm more curious with this new book if it explores the finances from the book (non-game) side in the late 80s and early 90s. [/QUOTE]
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