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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EldarOfSuburbia" data-source="post: 252607" data-attributes="member: 4106">Well Disney owns Marvel, for starters.And who's to say that Zen weren't approached by Disney, instead of the other way round?  That's usually the way these things work: the company that owns the IP and wants to create new content will get in touch with companies who can create that content for them.  So Disney would've said "how about creating digital fantasy pinball from our Star Wars and Marvel IPs?" and it would've rolled from there, with Zen eventually coming out as the winners (and maybe the only option considered, who knows?).Farsight find themselves in a somewhat unique position, of basically attempting to do the whole thing in reverse.  And some companies have moved on from making a few hundred thousand bucks (if that) off of a pinball table that's 15+ years old; if it would cost WB (in the case of LotR) more in legal fees and wages to negotiate with Farsight than it would end up making them in royalties and licensing fees, they're not going to do it.  Plus as we saw with TAF, there are actors likenesses, voices, and so on, all of which must be negotiated individually.</blockquote>

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