Balto Franchise Rights

Conay · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:21 am

I Agree with whitewolf(uk) because if the fans owned it they mite aswel make a 4-100 films at 1s there will be that meany perple giving ideas AND!!! i think they should just cheeply sell it off to Dreamworks if there not going to continue making it

Cobaltié · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:42 pm

Whitewolf(uk) wrote:

We buy the rights to Balto?

Before I repeat what everyone else has said, why would we ever want to do that anyway? Balto would be even less likely to have anything done with it IF fans owned the rights.
There are so many different versions of a B4 that if we wanted to do that it'd never go anywhere.
How many animators are on this site? I'd like to bet hardly any and even less willing to work on something as huge as a full movie.
How would we ever release a special edition DVD? We have no way of advertising or promoting nevermind producing.
Not to mention the huge price tag it'd have, movie companies are used to dealing in very large amounts of money and they would make no exception for a group of fans, I doubt they'd ever even agree to selling it to fans anyway.

Consider this: Universal will do absolutely NOTHING unless it brings them in the money. I never said we had to buy the rights for a movie, it was just a discussion ;|

You raise a good point, but will Universal release your special edition DVD for you, may I ask?

Baltorocks123 wrote:

I Agree with whitewolf(uk) because if the fans owned it they mite aswel make a 4-100 films at 1s there will be that meany perple giving ideas AND!!! i think they should just cheeply sell it off to Dreamworks if there not going to continue making it

Of course there'll be a sudden rush of ideas threads. Nothing we can do about that.

Dreamworks isn't expected to make anymore 2D movies, so there's a dead end.

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:16 am

Cobalt wrote:

Whitewolf(uk) wrote:

We buy the rights to Balto?

Before I repeat what everyone else has said, why would we ever want to do that anyway? Balto would be even less likely to have anything done with it IF fans owned the rights.
There are so many different versions of a B4 that if we wanted to do that it'd never go anywhere.
How many animators are on this site? I'd like to bet hardly any and even less willing to work on something as huge as a full movie.
How would we ever release a special edition DVD? We have no way of advertising or promoting nevermind producing.
Not to mention the huge price tag it'd have, movie companies are used to dealing in very large amounts of money and they would make no exception for a group of fans, I doubt they'd ever even agree to selling it to fans anyway.

Consider this: Universal will do absolutely NOTHING unless it brings them in the money. I never said we had to buy the rights for a movie, it was just a discussion ;|

You raise a good point, but will Universal release your special edition DVD for you, may I ask?

Baltorocks123 wrote:

I Agree with whitewolf(uk) because if the fans owned it they mite aswel make a 4-100 films at 1s there will be that meany perple giving ideas AND!!! i think they should just cheeply sell it off to Dreamworks if there not going to continue making it

Of course there'll be a sudden rush of ideas threads. Nothing we can do about that.

Dreamworks isn't expected to make anymore 2D movies, so there's a dead end.

This dosent look good for Balto

Godzillawolf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:12 am

Well we still have my connection to Nick, Cobalt, do you want me to go for it?

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:52 am

What are you on about?

Godzillawolf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:52 am

Kendell wrote:

As fate would have it, I happen to have a company to connection, long story short, I know a guy who's friends with the presadent of Nickalodian.

Baltorocks123 that is what I'm talking about, I have a connection with a large company, we could possilbly use that to save Balto.

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:05 pm

Realy?

Godzillawolf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:46 pm

Yes really but like i said its a long story and I'm not sure my friend would want me to put the whole thing on an internet forum?

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:51 pm

Ok Great you ncan if you want lol

Cobaltié · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:34 pm

Sure, go ahead if you want to. It'd be interesting to see if anything could happen.

Godzillawolf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:14 pm

Ok, I'll give it a shot, hope he's not busy or this could take awhile but i'll tell you if anything comes of it, who knows?

Cobaltié · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:43 pm

Just make sure not to make any deals. We're only seeing if this is a possibility, and it's a slim one as it is.

Godzillawolf · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:14 am

Alright, I wasn't going to anyway, I just want to know if they'd be willing to help us or maybe they'll even want to buy the right themselves, the latter is what I'm kind of hoping for. I promise, no deals.

Squival · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:43 am

Whitewolf(uk) wrote:

We buy the rights to Balto?

Before I repeat what everyone else has said, why would we ever want to do that anyway? Balto would be even less likely to have anything done with it IF fans owned the rights.
There are so many different versions of a B4 that if we wanted to do that it'd never go anywhere.
How many animators are on this site? I'd like to bet hardly any and even less willing to work on something as huge as a full movie.
How would we ever release a special edition DVD? We have no way of advertising or promoting nevermind producing.
Not to mention the huge price tag it'd have, movie companies are used to dealing in very large amounts of money and they would make no exception for a group of fans, I doubt they'd ever even agree to selling it to fans anyway.

Haha a very sound point that I felt rather stupid now for not considering. I just read through what was said and thought "Great, lets have a dig" but never stopped to think 'then what?' if we did get the rights (which I know is beyond slim to nill). Well all I know from what Kendell is saying is what he is posting but I back you up, if you think there is a even a small chance your mate can get Nick's attention then go for it but I have a feeling even thought I don't wanna say it that this post might just crumble out with lack of enthusiasm and generally getting nowhere besides speaking about a dream :/

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