Posted: December/12/2009 at 7:16pm | IP Logged

Reason #1: It's Strictly Business.

One of the most popular ways for a serious business venture to help ensure major financial success is to follow this rule--Own all the pieces of the pie so you don't have to share any of the profits. The Adventures of The Galaxy Rangers "pie" is currently cut into 2 pieces. Mandell & Company owns the character rights to G.R.  Hearst Entertainment owns the T.V. rights to the original series. The television medium is hands-down the most effective way to reach the most people in the most efficient way. Even the Internet cannot compete with a worldwide medium that has most likely on average at least one TV set in every household on the planet. The original TV series is the most inexpensive way to take advantage of the large TV viewing audience when promoting a new G.R. business venture. A  business group could give away G.R. TV broadcast rights or sell the rights at a reduced rate in exchange for free or reduced ad rates for a new G.R. venture during the broadcasting of the original series. This promotional technique is commonly used when movie studios are trying to advertise a movie sequel one week before that sequel is released and it will even work for the dated G.R. TV series material. Hearst Entertainment understands the value of their "pie piece" (and I suspect) would like to buy out Mandell so that Hearst can start their own business venture of G.R.  Mandell & Company don't have the financial resources to make, distribute and promote a new G.R. venture, but getting the rights to the TV series would be a big step towards making their dreams of a G.R. venture a reality. Each ownership group tries to keep the popularity of G.R. at minimal (but revivable) levels in the hopes that the other group will sell their piece of the pie cheaply to the other. This places G.R. fans in between two groups involved in a financial staring contest. Each group making just enough money to keep their ownership rights--waiting for the other group to "blink" and sell out. All that G.R. fans can do is enjoy our classic episodes and keep up the faith!

Posted: April/28/2010 at 5:12pm | IP Logged

Bluegrass wrote: Is there anyway to post our own fan made creations on the forums? Surely that would be a start in creating renewed interest for our own community if nothing else?

I totally agree, Bluegrass.

Artwork. Fanfic. I've got a lot of GR merchandise and I would love to share photos of that here if we had the option.