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[–] 62 points 16 hours ago (13 children)

Harry Potter is the one that comes to mind. Also Game of Thrones if you’d like. Both really blew up, have spin offs and staying power. Harry Potter has toys, video games, and amusement parks.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 hours ago*

    To extend the "that will never work" part, for "Game of Thrones" author George R R Martin once said,

    From basically the mid-’80s through the mid-’90s, I was involved in television. Whenever I turned in the script in my first draft, I would always get the reaction, “George, we love it, but it’s five times our budget, so… Can you go back and cut things?

    And when I finally left television and film and went into prose in the mid-90s, I said, I don’t care about that anymore, I’m going to write something just as big as my imagination, I’m going to have all the characters I want, and gigantic castles, and dragons, and direwolves, and hundreds of years of history, and a really complex plot, and it’s fine because it’s a book. It’s essentially unfilmable.

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  • [–] 31 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

    Don't know why you're downvoted. This is exactly where my mind went too. Nobody said they had to be good, just new.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    They're newer than Star Wars.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    That's not really the point though. The post isn't about something new since Star Wars. The idea is something new with a similar scope and scale of Star Wars. They're not using that as an example of the last thing that was made.

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  • [–] 3 points 26 minutes ago

    If you think Harry Potter doesn't have the scale of Star Wars then you're crazy. As proof of this, Universal built their Harry Potter lands, and Disney tried to compete with their Star Wars land. They're pretty equal in scale. (Well, unless you mean the scale of their universe, but that's silly.)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago*

    it helps they are pretty much legacy franchises that had an original story. MCU is not that, disney tries too hard to tie them all into a smorgasbord shows. i think the pre-disney marvel shows were much better(the ones that were cancelled by disney because of the merger).

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

    I was about to bring up those as well. The next closest that didn't really hit the "spin-off" level was the hunger games, but definately could.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    There are several new things in the same universe, so I wouldn't say there aren't spin-offs. They're still going. I would say this is one of the many correct answers for this.

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