#spinoffs

[dailyclassicwho]

IANTO JONES ⍉ 1.04 "CYBERWOMAN"

#spinoffs #torchwood #torchwood s1 #ianto jones #torchwoodedit #iantojonesedit #ianto per episode #00sedit #tvarchive #smallscreensource #tvandfilm #userjack #gifs #mine #ooh it's been too long #he gets the full 10 gifs for having all the emotions this episode

[allergictocolor]

The fact that Netflix is considering making a spinoff show about Fester proves that they have no idea what they're doing, and they just lucked out with the success of Wednesday.

#wednesday #wednesday addams #wednesday netflix #uncle fester #netflix #spinoffs

[bad-fire-emblem-posts]

7 years ago, this legendary tweet was made

#Fire Emblem #bad fire emblem posts #tms #tokyo mirage sessions #spinoffs

[matt0044]

What the Whoniverse could learn from RTD's first era:

The Stolen Earth and Journey's End are one hell of a two parter that has The Sarah Jane Adventures along with Torchwood to crossover into the main series. Characters and elements from each spin-off it utilized as a means of helping the Doctor against the greatest threat the Daleks have ever posed.

However, it also involves aspects that few wouldn't be able to catch on quickly. I hadn't seen The Sarah Jane Adventures since it never made it to the States as far as I know. However, I knew that Sarah Jane was still investigating alien phenomenon as "School Reunion" showed. Of course, she'd have a supercomputer in her attic. I also assumed that Luke was a boy she adopted before learning his origins in "Invasion of the Bane."

Kind of wish we saw Maria and Clyde when Luke called them with their actors on the sets of their homes. Maybe have them gawk at the Daleks from afar and hold on as the Earth is towed back. Maybe a cameo of Rani if they felt bold enough to promote SJA Series 2.

Torchwood, on the other hand, I had seen in full before Series 4 and as such, I was able to appreciate some nods to the spin off such as Gwen calling her husband, Rhys, or telling Ianto that she'd rather go down fighting like Owen and Tosh.

However, I wouldn't have needed to have seen the spin off since I'd have known that Jack had a team in his sect of Torchwood since Series 3. We're just meeting them in the main series proper.

Additionally, we don't need to know about Rhys to understand that Gwen's calling her loved ones during this worldwide crisis. "Owen" and "Tosh" are easy to identify as previous members of Torchwood that had died in their dangerous line of work. Their two seasons of adventures are just self-contained enough to be basically backstory for them.

As such, Series 4's finale feels less like you had to have seen both spin-off to understand and more like they pique your interest in them. What was Jack up to during Series 3 and 4? What's going on with Sarah Jane these days?

That's really what the new Whoniverse should take a cue from. The Main Series crossing over with the spin-off should have us feeling less like we missed out and more like, "Cool, I know what I'm putting on my watch list ASAP."

Thought?

#doctor who #torchwood #the sarah jane adventures #dw #dw series 4 #doctor who series 4 #russel t davies #captain jack harkness #gwen cooper #ianto jones #sarah jane smith #disney #bbc #bbc studios #disney+ #spin-off #franchises #franchise #franchise building #spinoffs

[themousefromfantasyland]

My personal theory is that since almost every piece of media being made today is related to an existing IP or franchise, creators often had to find new ways to tie their original ideas to these already established proprieties if they want them to get made. That's why several recent spinoffs, adaptations, and reboots seem so far removed from their sources.

Cruella was a crazy woman trying to skin dalmatian puppies to make a coat, and somehow became a punk rock stylist disputing the spotlight with an old school stylist in her solo movie.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers was a 90s animated show about the titular characters having a detective agency, and somehow became a meta comedy about animated actors in Hollywood in the live-action adaptation.

The Addams Family was a comedy about the culture clash between a ridiculously gothic family and Rockwell Americana world. In the Netflix series, they give the spotlight to Wednesday Addams and focus the plot on a supernatural boarding school.

Joker came from an iconic Batman villain that spread a toxic gas to make his victims die smiling and laughing, to a pastiche of mentally ill protagonists from classic Martin Scorsese movies in his hit film.

If things don't change, expect more weird ideas for spinoffs and adaptations that are strangely distant from their source material, like an alien invasion in the universe of Lilo and Stitch, a horror movie in the universe of Shrek, or a detective show in the universe of Harry Potter.

#fandom musings #adaptations #hollywood #spinoffs #reboots #remakes

[mysticdragon3md3]

How many spinoffs does that make it now?😆 Because I'm adding them all to my reading list.📚💕

#cells at work #manga #spinoffs #spinoff #announcements #readlist

[trixtermagi]

HauntedQuest...?

SO. I’m hesitant to reach out directly to either of the CK emails I found, considering the state of everything MagiQuest (never mind the fact they’re probably both defunct). The trail of HauntedQuest has always been lukewarm at best and I think I’m going to let it drop— however, I do want to catalogue what I’ve found alongside some general thoughts.

A 2006 archive of the MagiQuest website (with a 2005 copyright) lists multiple MagiQuest Themes, including SawyerQuest and HauntedQuest, as well as a “B” medieval theme (presumably a closer variation of the standard MQ skin, which I’m considering “A”)

SawyerQuest (presumably Tom Sawyer themed, considering the other CK attraction called The Great Barn from Stone Mountain in Atlanta) and HauntedQuest both appear on the “Our Creations” page of a 2009 archive of the Creative Kingdoms website. In 2012, the website is redesigned and now has a “Portfolio” page, which lists only MagiQuest, CompassQuest, GWL Story Explorers, and DinoQuest. There is no further mention of either HauntedQuest or SawyerQuest.

It’s worth noting that on that same 2009-2011 archive, MagiQuest and MedievalQuest are now two different things. It seems that “Medieval B” would’ve been more historically accurate (VS the more fantasy-based standard MQ/”Medieval A”). This is entirely speculation.

There was a 2001/2002 patent filed by CK (which is now abandoned) that discusses the possibility of an interactive dark ride. 2-16 riders/players would face each other in a ride vehicle (each vehicle would have a different personality/associated character and would itself be able to interact with riders) as they use wands (or other IR activators; potentially something similar to the SplashQuest gloves) to interact directly with the scenery and complete challengers. Think MagiQuest but timed and on a set track. There’s some cool potential here, and CK continues to dabble in similar attractions like their Slideboarding concept (2015 article discussing the gamified water slides; these also appear to be defunct).

The most interesting thing about this abandoned dark ride patent is that, while it does briefly mention haunted houses among a list of standard dark ride themes, it includes some... curiously haunted-sounding things in its list of ride vehicle effects: “whispered breath in ear,” “spook cold chill effect,” “cold finger brushing neck,” “crawling bugs,” “chilled air on neck effect,” “vehicle possessed effect,” “traveling ghost,” and “nails on a chalkboard.”

(the list also includes things like “heaving romantic kiss effect” and “running snot effect” so clearly they were covering all their bases for a potential audience)

Based off the date of the patent and the date range of the archives, I think it’s safe to assume that HauntedQuest started life as a potential interactive dark ride concept before pivoting to a MagiQuest retheme after MQ took off significantly (the first archive of the MQ website is from 5/27/2005 while the first archive of the CK website is an under construction page from 6/19/2001 and the patent linked above was filed on 6/14/2001).

So, we’ve got one piece of concept art, some vague mentions of ghostly effects in an abandoned patent, and jack squat else. Where exactly does that leave us? Well...

Running our tiny concept art through waifu2x doesn’t do much to make it CLEARER, but hey, at least now it’s big enough for me to add notes!

There appears to be a main entrance to a haunted forest/graveyard area with an old tree surrounded by graves serving as a stand-in for the Quest Tree/Quest Stones. Some of the tiny little people appear to be holding wands still, which is interesting. There’s the potential to do something like the PKE meter from Ghostbusters, since having graves function as the Quest Stones would imply to me we’re helping and/or hunting for ghosts in this creepy graveyard/mansion.

Behind the Quest Graves (lol) is another old fence which seems to lead into a mansion area. There’s a fireplace with a creepy portrait hanging over it, fake stairs and fake alcoves, potentially a dining room? It’s extremely hard to tell, but it definitely transitions from some sort of outdoor space to a more standard “haunted mansion” environment. You’ve got the same “screen behind a themed barrier” setup as standard MQ, and quite honestly I’m sad that this theme in particular never came to fruition.

I love Halloween, I love all things creepy and dark and scary— competitive ghost-blaster dark rides are already a thing, and a popular one at that. Theme park haunted houses are also already a thing. It would be very, very fun to mesh the two together. Run around with your friends competing to see who can defeat the most ghosts, get spooked by scare-actors. Market it to older teens/adults, maybe tie it to a barcade or something (though that’s risky; drunk people and scare-actors shouldn’t really mix. watch any of the Halloween Horror Nights behind the scenes footage and hear them talk about how one of the primary things they check for is whether or not props can be stolen and things still go missing. I’m just saying) — I think there’s a real recipe for greatness here. I would certainly pay to spend an evening running around a slightly tamer, competitive haunted house!

It’s unfortunate to me that this seems to be all that’s out there online, but it is what it is. Creative Kingdoms had a lot of good ideas, but some were clearly more marketable than others and with the way 2.0/MagiQuest+ is going it seems like those ideas will stay mostly-forgotten relics of the early 2000s.

EDIT: if you would like to see all of the Creative Kingdoms patents I found, here’s the link!

#spinoffs #magiquest #legacy magiquest #portal adventures

[lochee]

you know what, thank god for fanart. literally what would i be without fanart.

#like give me ALL OF IT #character sheet #minicomics #OVERDRESS THEM!!! #spinoffs #give me it ALL #aslfua #fanart #haikyuu!! #bts #webtoon #orv #eleceed #literally just tagging recs #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki #fictional skin #FUCKING HELL I LOVE FICTIONAL SKIN #COMING ON MAY1ST!!! #humor me #makeup remover #theres more but i will save you from the avalanche

[classickirbyland]

Another non Kirby enemy.

#puyos #garbage puyos #puyo puyo #kirby's avalanche #dr. robotnik's mean bean machine #spinoffs #refuge beans

[dailyclassicwho]

IANTO JONES PER EPISODE S01E01 “EVERYTHING CHANGES”

#spinoffs #torchwood #ianto jones #torchwood s1 #torchwoodedit #torchwoodgifs #iantojonesedit #smallscreensource #tvcentric #tvarchive #tvedit #ianto per episode #gifs #mine #i love him sm bye #shows up for 5 secs in the first episode lmao #yes i have caved and am willing to gif torchwood now

[deathbyoctopi]

Today in random thoughts

Back in the time when Lan Qiren was still Lan Er-Gongzi...

young Cangse Sanren, fresh off from her mountain, shameless and half feral, probably called him a-Ren just to fuck with him

see, I can’t prove it but you can’t prove me wrong either

#the untamed #cql #mo dao zu shi #lan qiren #cangse sanren #I want a spinoff of the older generation of cultivators #wwx mom's in particular #and her mountain #also lwj's mom! #whatever madam yu and wen zhuliu had going on #and also #yi city arc #xuexiao #meng yao's youth #XUE YANG'S YOUTH #mxtx keep writing and never stop #omg #spinoffs #spinoffs everywhere

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I think there is something very broken in expecting everything to be binged immediately in entirety the moment it comes out. Both as fans and as streaming platforms.

Like 9 years ago when streaming platforms having their own shows was fairly new, I worked tech support for Netflix. The day after Orange is the New Black premiered I had an angry customer yelling at me that we didn't have season two yet. Season two didn't exist yet.

While I didn't know it at the time that was such a shift in the way we all consume media. I love instant gratification, but there is something very broken in a system designed to pump as much out as quickly as possible with no breathing room.

I can't keep up with series I love because there's just new shit coming out all the time and it's treated like a limited time event to watch it if you want to be able to have a discussion with anyone about it.

Star Wars, Marvel, Star Trek are all things I've been a fan of since I was a kid and they were so much easier to keep up with then. Star Wars was a film every few years. Marvel the same. Star Trek has always had a crapload of series, but you didn't have to play a game of interdimensional spinoff jenga to understand what was going on because a key plot point wasn't hidden in an episode of some other tv show you don't watch because you don't give a fuck about The Flash or whatever.

It's exhausting. I'm tired. I just want to go to the theater once a year to watch a Star Wars film that's just long enough I desperately have to pee by the time the epic final space battle starts.

I want to watch a Marvel movie without having to google every relevant plot point from The Avengers franchise to understand what's happening with Spiderman.

I just want to go see a Star Wars.

#movies #tv shows #marvel #mcu #dc #star wars #star trek #spinoffs #streaming platforms #im so so tired #and so fucking busy

[walks-the-ages]

We're watching the K9 (2009) spinoff and so far it's delightful.

Idk why anyone said it was a "cursed" show. K9s redesign is super cute and expressive (plus more mobile! No more blowing up in the ocean!) And all the characters are unique enough I can tell them apart AND I actually have a chance of remembering the main characters name since they actually say it a lot in the first two episodes (out of 26)

Usually it takes me like half a season and subtitles to remember a characters name.

With no subtitles available and only two episodes I can almost confidently say the main character's name is Starkley.

Uh. Just don't ask me what the girl or blonde had boys name is . Or the professor whose totally not the doctor we swear

#k9 (2009) #k9 show #k9 #doctor who #classic who #spinoffs #doctor who spinoffs #off brand doctor who

[weeblmaodotcom]

We need more spin-offs about the other clans , Meme by Weeblmao.com

#Clans #Naruto #NarutoMeme #NarutoMemes #Spinoffs

[tngbabe]

Jonathan Frakes outlines the idea for a Star Trek: Picard spinoff

#jonathan frakes #article #star trek picard #will riker #spinoffs #raffi #seven of nine #star trek the next generation #it was worth it tngbabe

[fyodorfiles]

Spinoffs are bullshit

@ontd-dawnchorusgala It's one thing for a hiatus but we're getting a spin-off episode focusing on... pets of the gala? Who thinks of this bullshit

#done #dawn chorus gala #spinoffs #i hate spinoffs #still gonna watch it tho #still gonna read it