SpongeBob is a 13+ billion dollar franchise. Has any cartoon from the past 13 years even sniffed a billion that isn't Pony's?
SpongeBob is a 13+ billion dollar franchise.
SpongeBob is a 13+ billion dollar franchise. Has any cartoon from the past 13 years even sniffed a billion that isn't Pony's?
Maybe TTG! and Loud House, but only because they got exposure.
>TTG or Loud House
Teen Titans Go? probably not. I could see Loud House being a minor financial success but SpongeBob definitely dwarfs it still.
Is Rick and Morty there yet?
not even close.
The McDonald's milkshake show? No
Puppy paw Patrol maybe.
it has actually. 14+ billion currently.
Winning forever
I'm sure if Disney actually cared about merchandising their cartoons Gravity Falls could've been close to a billion. That's to say nothing of the quality of the series or anything, just observationally speaking that obsessive fandom is always eager to buy anything and everything they can of it, hence the Journal 3 stuff. You can still feel that fandom in Disney series released afterwards where everyone is trying to recapture that but never really do.
If they had released a soundtrack (an actual CD and not a limited edition vinyl) and an artbook they'd have sold obviously very well. For whatever reason Disney will create a limited edition life-like Journal 3 with blacklight and parchmant paper and a monocle but they won't release a normal art book, and they'll make a limited edition vinyl but not a normal CD. They've even let Hirsch make another book (The Book of Bill, listed for older readers) which is fundamentally a larger undertaking with completely new material and no baseline like a prop from the show to go off of, than a book that compiles random sketches and backgrounds, despite it being obvious the rabid fandom would buy normal easy merch.
At the very least they also let a comic book exist, a game, and the blu-ray.
It's crazy that they actually let Hirsch end it, it's the only noteworthy show they've had since Phineas and Ferb and they milk the shit out of that.
Hirsch is such a control freak over Gravity Falls that they probably didn't feel it was worth any backlash
Yea but just making a soundtrack and art book wouldn't be that insane. He wouldn't need to really do much with either of them except encourage Disney to let him sneak hidden messages and stuff for fans in both. Which apparently isn't asking too much because I'm pretty sure the soundtrack vinyl did that and again and art book with some cryptograms is literally nothing.
But they tossed out that one book Hirsch had no say in that accidentally had a screenshot of a video player interface at the bottom.
I really don't get Disney's merchandising strategy. They are a merch giant with their own huge stores kids and women love even if they don't care about the latest movies. But they barely merchandise any of their shows. Even the PAW Patrol rip offs clearly designed to try to sell toys (Pupstruction, Super Kitties) they just don't bother to make merch for... Bizarre
They're more worried about Marvel and Star Wars to care about the kiddie pool of TV animation, which I do think is a mistake on their part. Only DTVA show in the last 15 years, that I can think of, to really be a merch giant was Phineas and Ferb.
Because Disney doesn't make their own toys, they license them out to companies that do, i.e. Mattel, Lego, Hasbro, Funko, etc. Yes, even Spin Master, who's making toys of Firebuds, a preschool show that nobody here has probably ever heard of.
The whole point is these toy companies will handle all of the risk. Sometimes it turns out great (Lorcana), other times it's catastrophic (Star Wars).
So the reason why Pupstruction and Super Kitties don't have any toys? No one wants to pay for the license and make toys out of them, not because Disney wants these IPs to rot.
Surely they do things like their Wish merchandise themselves? They should just merch their shows this way. Unless I guess they crunch some numbers and decide it just wouldn't be profitable
In China. Not even memeing.
That's fine, I assume pretty much all plastic tat and soft toys is made in China, or recently SE Asia because China is getting too expensive
It's kind of crazy no other Disney cartoon has been as popular as Gravity Falls in the 10+ years since it came out.
Peppa pig?
>$1.024b
>Off one movie six years ago
They're dumbasses for not cashgrabbing a sequel, nothing they've planned for 7 years will pay off.
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Lots of the big toddler franchises. Peppa, PAW Patrol, Bluey, even PJ Masks and Pinkfong. Miraculous Ladybug must be there too
The big ones bring in over a billion ANNUALLY
>Miraculous Ladybug must be there too
True, their licensing is doing well and they have earned in excess of a billion.
Maybe Pokemon?
Pokémon is an anime and older than SpongeBob is you silly sausage
Though since it's brought up, I believe it's at 88 billion.
It's the highest grossing franchise ever
>horse show sniffed a billion
that's news. when the frick did that happen?
Since Adventure Time and Ninjago are still getting continuations and merchandise (that AT complete series DVD set is still getting printed, so there still must be SOME kind of demand for it), chances are they've already passed the $1 billion mark
Crossed the billion mark in 2014, currently sitting at nearly $5 billion in retail sales alone (all of which was recorded between most of Horse Show's run)
Minions
>theatrical film franchise vs. TV cartoons
How did Spongebob capture all of our hearts?
Never understood the appeal personally. I think it's mostly LOUD THING FUNNY
What cartoon show that only appeal YOU?
The first three seasons had snappy humor and good timing.
After that, eh...
Kind of crazy how Nick never had a mascot that could rival Mickey till spongebob came around.
Even as a billionaire krabs would be cheap
Uhhhhhh, One Piece?
An anime that's been around much longer than 13 years
then Jojos, don't care about the manga
Also an anime anon, and first animated in 1993. Almost like you're doing this on purpose for some tedious reason
what about Phineas and Ferb?
Also too old to be called "from the last 13 years"