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3 unusual facts about media franchise


Ocean Software

Ocean was famous for often buying the rights to make video games from different arcade, movie and television franchises.

Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening

The second game of the Pajama Sam franchise, it features the titular character entering the World Wide Weather through his attic to stop the scary thunder and lightning.

Virtual Pool 3

It is the most recent game for the PC in the franchise of "Virtual Pool" games and it is widely respected by fans as the most accurate available computer simulation of cue sports.


Cleopatra Wong

The Singapore-based fictional Interpol agent has been used in an early film franchise hailing from Southeast Asia, and has remained the only film franchise featuring a Singaporean as the central figure.

George Marshall Ruge

George Marshall Ruge is known for his work as second unit director and stunt coordinator on such film projects as the Pirates of the Caribbean four-film franchise, and as stunt coordinator on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Harald Treutiger

Treutiger was the first host of Expedition Robinson, internationally known as Survivor, as the show was first aired in Sweden in 1997 before becoming an international franchise.

How to Train Your Dragon

The film proved to be a resounding critical and box office success, and became a major media franchise for DreamWorks Animation including upcoming a 2014 feature film sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2, with Dean DeBlois directing it.

Mantra Films

, or Mantra Entertainment, is an American softcore pornography production company created by Joe Francis, chiefly for the production and distribution of the United States-based Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild media franchises.

Mia Dillon

On television, Dillon was featured in Mary and Rhoda and has appeared in all three current shows in the Law & Order franchise.


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Active Enterprises

Action 52 also included a game titled The Cheetahmen, which Active Enterprises trademarked in 1992 and hoped to turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired media franchise consisting of action figures, a comic book series and even a television cartoon series.

Gotta catch 'em all

"Gotta catch 'em all", the slogan of the Pokémon media franchise published and owned by Japanese video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996

Halo: Spartan Assault

Part of the Halo media franchise, it was first released on July 18, 2013 for Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms.

Lucihormetica luckae

The back shell of L. luckae has been noted for its resemblance to Jawas, fictional creatures from the Star Wars science fiction media franchise.

Muro: Damn the Humanist Inside

It is a spin-off from the Valley of the Wolves media franchise, based on the Turkish television series of the same name using characters from the sequel series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush.

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

The film is the eighth feature based on the One Piece media franchise, adapting a story arc from the original manga by Eiichiro Oda, wherein the Straw Hat Pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy travel to the Kingdom of Alabasta to save the war- and drought-plagued country from Sir Crocodile and his secret criminal organization Baroque Works.

Star Wars Saga

The Star Wars media franchise created by George Lucas, including films, novels, television series, video games, and comic books.

Valley of the Wolves: Gladio

It is part of the Valley of the Wolves media franchise, based on the Turkish television series of the same name, along with Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006) and Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2010).

Visionaries

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, an American media franchise marketed in the late 1980s

Wordburglar

In August 2013, Wordburglar released his fourth studio album, Welcome to Cobra Island, a concept album based on the G.I. Joe media franchise.