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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 269656" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>That's a good question. I just know they made the deal just after another company had licensed T2 for a different video game, and it was done kinda on the sly as first it had to be proven it wouldn't be a competing product, and second there should have been a 'favored nation' status to cost of the license, but FarSight got it for significantly less than the other company. Whoops on the part of the license holder. This snafu led to FarSight promising to promote the other game whenever it came out to appease the other company. Looks like that turned into nothing but vapor ware. A huge chunk of the licensing was entirely for the use of Ah-nold and voice/likeness. We all speculated that they didn't just pay him for this table, but also for Last Action Hero. You'll remember that FS struck a deal with Columbia/Sony to buy a bulk license package that resulted in LAH, Dracula, Starship Troopers, and presumably that Ghostbusters abomination of a re-skin. </p><p></p><p>Anybody remember the 'whoops' with ST:TNG? Paramount owns the movie rights, but CBS owns the TV rights. So FarSight makes the deal with CBS, goes forward, only to then have to prove that what they are doing is not based on any of the movies! More than that, had to prove that this was not a new license creation, but based on the license that Williams had secured, which of course no one was familiar with anymore. CBS also owns Twilight Zone, which I believe had similar headaches. FarSight went through a lot of lawyer fees with those first few kickstarters, not realizing how many fingers are often in the pie when it comes to Hollywood properties. Any license gotten that didn't require a kickstarter shows how much better they got at navigating these minefields.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 269656, member: 134"] That's a good question. I just know they made the deal just after another company had licensed T2 for a different video game, and it was done kinda on the sly as first it had to be proven it wouldn't be a competing product, and second there should have been a 'favored nation' status to cost of the license, but FarSight got it for significantly less than the other company. Whoops on the part of the license holder. This snafu led to FarSight promising to promote the other game whenever it came out to appease the other company. Looks like that turned into nothing but vapor ware. A huge chunk of the licensing was entirely for the use of Ah-nold and voice/likeness. We all speculated that they didn't just pay him for this table, but also for Last Action Hero. You'll remember that FS struck a deal with Columbia/Sony to buy a bulk license package that resulted in LAH, Dracula, Starship Troopers, and presumably that Ghostbusters abomination of a re-skin. Anybody remember the 'whoops' with ST:TNG? Paramount owns the movie rights, but CBS owns the TV rights. So FarSight makes the deal with CBS, goes forward, only to then have to prove that what they are doing is not based on any of the movies! More than that, had to prove that this was not a new license creation, but based on the license that Williams had secured, which of course no one was familiar with anymore. CBS also owns Twilight Zone, which I believe had similar headaches. FarSight went through a lot of lawyer fees with those first few kickstarters, not realizing how many fingers are often in the pie when it comes to Hollywood properties. Any license gotten that didn't require a kickstarter shows how much better they got at navigating these minefields. [/QUOTE]
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