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Sharp take. Dapper labs is having he same issue with nba, their license ended and now they’re scrambling to find the next nft thing. Could you speak about angry birds tho, they own their IP but havnt really had success after the mobile craze wore off. Is it even possible to have a prolonged media franchise, regardless of who owns it?

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I mean they still own it right? There was a time you could buy any piece of tat in the world with that red birds face on it so because they own it the potential is always there to reboot it somehow.

Think the only real misstep is they didn't worldbuild good enough, they're birds and they're angry, the pigs steal their eggs and thats kinda where it ends, good comparison might be Minions I mean the base minion characters are as shallow as Angry Birds but there is more elements/characters/stories of their world around that there will still be movies set in the minions world in 10 years from now.

Although Angry Birds the glorified flash game made a lot of money, there just wasn't enough story and worldbuilding there to sustain a movie and a themepark. Think they should have been more ambitious with that side or even built out the rest of the world where Angry Birds is just one small part of it, like how Donkey Kong has his own games but he is also a subset of the Mario universe.

Where Rovio is they could always do another reboot of the games or a live action edgy Angry Birds movie but Niantic is stuck, Pokemon Company holds all the cards and without Niantic Pokemon is still huge but without Pokemon Niantic is nothing.