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We milk it to make money! Whatcha gonna call her? I'm deciding between Tony HawkMadden and Mario. In terms of universal sales over the decades, no company holds a candle to Disney. Mickey Mouse alone has raked in millions of dollars ever since his creation in Major characters like Donald Duck and Goofy have been best sellers for decades, while Disney's animated canon is one of the most unique over 50 movies, almost all of which have nothing to do with each other and consistently profitable franchises in Hollywood history.

Apart from the animated cartoons Disney has also produced a stream of family friendly live-action films and TV series, including several theme parks devoted entirely to Disney's characters. Today the Disney brand extends to other major brands as well, including PixarThe MuppetsStar WarsABCMarvel ComicsIndiana JonesESPN Though they've largely faded from their original formatDisney 's mascot characters have secured successful comic series, with wide arrays of spin-offs and sometimes even graphic novels, in countries other than the US Italy and Brazil in particular.

Especially Donald Duckwho for several decades has been more popular than Mickey Mouse in Europe and Latin America. The Disney Princesses pull in about 4 billion dollars each year. While not as big a cash cow as it was in the s, Winnie-the-Pooh still makes Disney an insane amount of money each year. Frozen in particular has become a cash cow of its own merit. In less than a year. Over 10 billion dollars in merchandising. This makes it the largest merchandising program in the licensing industry history.

Not bad for a series that's a decade old. Lots of merch come out of it Cars 2 and Monsters University are their first non- Toy Story sequel and prequel respectively.

It should be said that Cars is even more toyetic than their own series about toys. This is heavily theorized as to why Cars has gotten a sequela spin-off and a sequel to the spin-off so quickly, to sell the toys. Inside Out has quickly become this for Pixar. According to one licensing website, Inside Out was the third highest-grossing licensed property amongst children in North America for the year ofbehind Frozen and Minions.

The movie has boatloads of spin-off merchandise that is still being produced long after the movie's release, and the film is one of the highest-selling Blu-rays of all time. It was also successful enough to get an ice show and a meet and greet at Walt Disney World, which also plans to add a ride based on the film in the near future.

The Finding Nemo franchise is also a cash cow. Aside from the original film being the best-selling DVD of all time, tons of merchandise for it was made in between the release of the original film and its' sequelwith said sequel crossing the billion-dollar mark worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time in the USA.

Ever since it started with Iron Man and to a lesser extent The Incredible Hulk inthe universe has quickly shaped into this, with each of its films being big moneymakers. They've had two cartoons in the span of a few years, an anime series in the works, a live-action TV spinoff, and tons of ancillary items. They generate so much cash that some reported Marvel Studios got some independence from the comics parent for saying Avengers: Age of Ultronwhich nearly reached the original's box office, was "a failure".

Iron Man has been the most profitable of the non-Sony, non-Fox Marvel characters so far.

His three movies were the highest-grossing solo films of the entire MCU Iron Man 3 is also the second most-successful MCU film after Avengersand he has had so many mass-media appearances in the past few years that Wolverine Publicity might as well be renamed "Iron Man Publicity".

The original trilogy started it, and a bunch of licensed books created a Star Wars Expanded Universe big enough to support all kinds of wacky fan theories.

As ofthe films alone are worth roughly four billion dollars. The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm solely to get its hands on the Star Wars license, and the critical and commercial success of The Force Awakens which grossed over 1. Spoofed extensively in Spaceballs with oodles of dubious merchandise advertised in the movie itself.

Of note is the fact that the vast majority of capitalizing on the Star Wars brand was done after Spaceballs, ensuring the parody remained as relevant as ever. As a result, "Spaceballs: The Item " has become a prominent meme all by itself. Spaceballs even made a joke that they were making a sequel called "Spaceballs 2: The Search for more money" in which now Mel Brooks hinted that he may actually be considering making While they're clearly nowhere near as popular as they were in the 70's and 80's, The Muppets are still very profitable.

They've had at least 4 TV shows, Many well recived moviestie in video games, a series of popular Youtube videosand tons of merch with Kermit the Frog slapped on them. Hannah Montanadue to Miley Cyrus and her massive publicity scandals every few months. The show itself makes money, then they have concert tours, dolls, music CD's, games, everything you'd expect from Disney merchandise. Same with Lizzie McGuire and That's So Raven. Around the time Hannah Montana was insanely popular, Disney was milking a crapton of money from putting The Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus on absolutely everything.

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato were heading on the same direction before breaking into their solo careers.

And then there was Bridgit MendlerBella ThorneZendaya ColemanChina Anne McClainand Olivia Holtand it won't end at all. Before thatthere was Hilary Duffand waaaay before that, Annette FunicelloTommy Kirk and Hayley Mills. The latter three when Walt was still alive. So it's only a continuation of what Walt did in The '50s and The '60s to market teenage stars to the baby boom. In Latin America and certain sections of Europe, Violetta was raking it in for Disney.

With an international concert tour, four albums, and a bunch of merchandising, news sources were even calling it the next Hannah Montana. Its merchandise was a huge seller, and at one point the show even rivaled Spongebob Squarepants in viewer ratings. Kingdom Hearts seems to be this as well, though on a smaller scale. All the games released on the PS2 are labelled as Greatest Hits, and the series doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon.

Since Kingdom Hearts is Square and Disney, the cash-cow Elena of Avalor has quickly dethroned Frozen as the top girls' property Disney has.

The show ties with The Loud House as the highest-rated kids' cartoon on TV, has merchandise sell well especially the wand the titular character uses, which has multiple versions and a very successful meet and greet at Disney World. However, sales started dropping after it was dethroned by Pri Para. Once Season 3 rolled around, it didn't do as well, and Season 4 did even worse resulting in the anime being cancelled.

It's reboot, Aikatsu Stars! Many kids in the target demographic did not approve of the changes to the game they once loved, which included a bigger screen and different cards that were inferior to the originals. Aikatsu Stars' movie also bombed when it was in theaters due to it's low popularity.

Attack on Titan has become this since the advent of the anime adaptation. Adaptations include Berserk by OLM Incorporated ; two videogame adaptations by Yuke's, Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage Dreamcast, and Berserk: Japanese fans can also buy Berserk keychains, pillows, and even underwear! Bleach has 82 million manga volumes in circulation.

According to The Other Wiki"The series has spawned a media franchise that includes an animated television series that was produced by Studio Pierrot from totwo original video animations, four animated feature films, ten rock musicals, and numerous video games, as well as many types of Bleach-related merchandise.

Detective Conan has over chapters, spawned 20 movies, almost anime episodes, over 10 OVA specials, and much much more. It even has a cult following in Japan, with a statue of the main character in the author's hometown. Digimonyet another Toei Animation example. Inevitable given it's an anime based on toys, but it was a significant cash cow both in Japan and overseas back in the early days.

It did experience a significant slump in this status for few years after Digimon Tamerswith its merch sales generally lagging along with interest in the anime However, the release of Digimon Adventure tri. Having been around sincethe manga is one of the best-selling in the world, there have been three anime adaptations ; ; presentand the films which have been around since are among the highest grossing animated film franchises, as well as the highest of all anime film franchises.

The Dragon Ball franchise has proven to be almost as unkillable as the Saiyans themselves. You've got the mangamultiple anime seriesaction figures, a trading card game, scads of video games, a Live Action Dragon Ball Kaia condensed recut of the more-than-fifteen-years-old Dragon Ball Zbegan in Springand it regularly garners ratings on par with One Piece. The proof is in how many times the series has been released on home video: VHS both edited and uncutuncut DVD singles including boxsetsedited and uncut movie DVD singles, mini-DVD and Game Boy player DBGT only Ultimate Uncut singles, Season boxsets, Dragon Boxes, DBZ Movie double-features, movie boxsets, DBZ Kai, DBZ Blu-Ray, and there's sure to be more to come!

You can practically slap Dragon Ball Z on anything and it will sell well in Japan. Even more so in North America and South America.

Gundaminspiring spinoffs, video games and toys since This especially applies the model kits. There are more grades, variants and designs that one can count. Haruhi Suzumiya is especially notable for the sheer number of Radio Dramas, Image Songsand merchandise for a show that for a long time had only fourteen episodes though there's also the Light Novels. Though it was probably at least partially due to a dedication to a polished level of quality, the main reason for the second season not coming out until three years after the first was most likely because they wanted to milk the first for as much as they could.

They now have Playboy Bunny Haruhi figures whose clothes change color based on temperature. There's no escaping its presence throughout Japan, with stores even selling guitars using the show's imagery. Anybody who hates the show is advised to avoid Akihabara for at least a few years. Started off modestly enough in but has since expanded into various other media such as two anime seasons, books, manga, music videos, music albums, and even concerts.

It wasn't until the mobile game of it was released in Japan that the series really took off; the first bluray volume of the second season of the anime sold over 90, copies in its first week, the highest of any anime yet. Along with Kantai Collectionit's practically THE big thing among Japanese otaku right now.

Ironically enough, there has never been a successful full adaptation of the series into an anime. Much like Gundamsince its inception init has spawned one dozen of different manga versions, sequels, spinoffs, Crossoversvideo games and toys, and it does not stop even forty years after its creation. Neon Genesis Evangelion is still creating new merchandise and sparking hot debates over a decade after the end of the original series.

And about a million different spin-offs and "reinterpretations" of the original, each with a completely different ending. As if the viewers weren't confused enough Plus there's the figures, figurines, statues, and any other tiny form just about anything from the series. They've made unique Asuka figurinesover Reis, and probably many more of each by the time you read this. There's just something about ninjas that managed to get this manga to sell over million copies and become the third best selling manga of all time.

With chapters, an ongoing anime with nearly episodes in total counting Part 1 and Shippuden, 11 movies, several OVAs and video games, a spin-off manga, a play, several novels, and a Spin-Offspring anime Naruto really has proven its popularity as a cash cow. One Piece is literally the best selling manga in history. Its newer volumes continue to top one another as the highest selling book in Japan, and beat Dragon Ball to the title of best selling manga series of all time with million copies in print.

You know you're a Cash Cow when there's One Piece toilet paper, One Piece deodorant, That's almost double the life of The Simpsonsundergoing the transition from cel animation to digital animation and outlasting so many of its own art directors, with Ash receiving several physical redesigns! To put it into closer perspective, if one were to watch the show from start to finish, It would take almost two weeks nonstop.

It also has ten stores dedicated to it in Japan, three movies and even two live shows. A sequel movie was released in All the Blu-Ray volumes in the series have sold more thancopies altogether in Japan.

And even more sequels are considered by the writer. It later sold a very impressive 40 billion yen worth of merchandise. Toei Animation usually has at least one of these in the Magical Girl genre running at any one time: Sailor Moonso much so that Toei Animation is thoroughly sick of it and has stopped licensing it out. That didn't stop it from getting a Continuity Reboot in Though that might have something to do with the American rerelease of the Sailor Moon manga which began in It was extremely successful and probably is the reason why the new anime is closer to the manga and has a simultaneous worldwide release.

Ojamajo Doremiwhich ran for four seasons, only to be replaced by Pretty Curewhich is currently on its 13th season and 11th continuity. Notable in that its TV ratings has consistently rivaled those and occasionally surpass of One Pieceand it usually makes at least 10 BILLION yen a year annually with three major exceptionsit should probably be noted that Doki Doki Pretty Cure and Happiness Charge Precure almost killed the franchise.

Saint Seiyaespecially with their never ending supply of high priced action figures, going as far as to even adapt filler characters.

The fact that a new series of OVA called "The Lost Canvas" has started as well doesn't help either. Actually, the main protagonist of that series, which is a prequel set several centuries before the main series, has already been conceived as one of these action figures, foreshadowing a long way to go before they run out of ideas for characters. Even if they do, they come up with variant figures like "damaged" armors or just casual clothes.

It doesn't quite push huge piles of money these days, but Voltron or the Lion version, at any rate still sells a lot of DVDs and Voltron. Back in the mids, of course, Voltron was an unstoppable juggernaut and only really started to lose steam when faced with a somewhat more coordinated effort from Transformers Generation 1 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and when "Vehicle Voltron" confused some viewers. Yo-kai Watch is absolutely huge with children in Japan.

The original game did well however when the anime came out it became something of a phenomenon. The cute cat mascot, Jibanyan, is everywhere and the outros dance is pretty popular. Apparently, card games really are Serious Business. It also spawned spinoffs, including Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-Vas well as several movies. Monopolysold in countries, featuring many variants including licensed versionselectronic versions, and even McDonald's promotions.

It became so lucrative that Hasbro snatched up the company, and Magic has consistently been the company's top-selling game since Hasbro bought them out.

Iconic superheroes such as SupermanSpider-Manthe Hulk and Batman enjoy insurmountable global commercial success spanning generations from various toys, video games, films, TV series His best known superpower is the ability to appear in and boost sales of any comic he's in — simply by appearing on a cover. That and the fact he was the center of all three X-Men films and his own spin-off, got his name as a prefix to the newest cartoonmade the Hulk a guest star in the Hulk vs.

Wolverine animated feature, being the only character to appear in all four Madhouse Marvel Anime shows, and constantly having his "mysterious" past retold.

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Marvel and DC seem to have based their entire business models on this trope, especially in the case of Batman. Two separate movie franchises with a total of 7 movies in the span of 20 years, plus numerous animated series and animated movies, and all the corresponding merchandise and toys.

Most of them were met with success. If you don't count the Justice League movies 14 out of 17 of the DC animated films have either Superman or Batman in the title. Not that that actually means the movies are about Superman or Batman. The Avengers have become this since their live-action moviewhich became the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time.

They've had two cartoons in the span of a few years, an anime series in the works, a live-action TV spinoff, a live-action movie sequeland tons of ancillary items. There's even Avengers -brand Duct Tape! It wasn't originally a well-known property in the United States until the film adaptation brought it to people's attentions. Also an internationally popular European comic, but mostly in Europe, Latin America and the francophone world.

It has been adapted into numerous animated movies, live-action movies, and video gamesand even has its own theme park! And completing a trinity of Franco-Belgian Comics which Asterix co-creator Goscinny even worked onLucky Luke. Suske en Wiske is still the most popular comic books series in Belgium and the Netherlands. It has spawned an entire merchandising empire that's very popular in Dutch-speaking regions. One of the characters, a green elephantwas created for a paper's classified ads campaign, but ended up adopted by tomato sauce "Elefante".

Yes it's a Belgian comic book. It has two live-actions movies, an animated series, video games and lots of tie-in products. Red Earsa succesful Franco-Belgian erotic comic book series, has sold many copies since its creation in and inspired a magazine, a calendar, animated cartoons, Garfield is probably the king of this trope in its media. Calvin and Hobbes is a subversion: Bill Watterson refused almost any merchandising.

However, the books sell very well, thank you. There is also a lot of bootleg merchandise, such as tee shirts and car window decals. Before either of the above, there was Peanutswhich after its creator's death still has a big place in pop culture — newspapers still rerun the original strips, the best-known animated specials still play on network TV yearly while others get DVD releases and re-releases, and miscellaneous merchandise abounds.

Suske en Wiske is a huge cash cow in Belgium, Netherlands and the Dutch Antilles.

The comic strip has been translated into many other languages: French, German, Swedish, Japanese, Apart from the still running comic strip itself there is a huge merchandising behind it, including numerous reissues, special albums, spinoffs, toys, The entire output of author Willy Vandersteen and his studio, even after his death, still brings in the big bucks. Even before the famous Hanna-Barbera cartoon series the Smurfs were already very popular in Western Europe.

There was even a successful Franco-Belgian animated film adaptation in When Hanna-Barbera turned it into a weekly TV series The Smurfs ' popularity skyrocketed to the entire planet. As of this writing Augustthere is a Smurfs movie sequel in theaters. Masha and The Bear has always been famous in the former USSR, but was once obscure elsewhere.

When Netflix aired it on Augustthough, that's when the show's popularity skyrocketed everywhere, with Cartoonito, Boomerang in Latin America and most European countries that don't have Cartoonito, and even Cartoon Network in Latin America airing it, and soon it dethroned Nu Pogodi! Every mildly successful DreamWorks Animation franchise becomes one of these.

There were three Shrek sequels not counting Puss in Bootsand, according to this articleplans on making a fourth Madagascar movie, FOUR more Kung Fu Pandaand two more How to Train Your Dragon possibly building up to a grand total of EIGHT MOVIES.

Plus the video games, TV series, merchandise Another example is Trollswhich has sold more merchandise than Frozen ever since its release. The Ice Age series could be considered this for 20th Century Fox. Each movie has a box office nearly ten times its budget, and a fifth movie is now in production. Despicable Me is well on its way towards becoming this.

After the first film became a Sleeper HitIllumination Entertainment wasted no time in coming up with a sequel and a spinoff featuring the series' Ensemble Darkhorsethe Minions Add the plethora of Minion merchandise, and the yellow creatures generated much green to Illumination's parent company Universal. One of the other Trope Maker for this is Planet of the Apesby 20th Century Fox. The original movie earned four sequels, lots of merchandise and two television spin-offs. At some point before the end of the Cold WarJames Bond became officially unkillable.

His Creator Ian Fleming wrote twelve novels and two short story collections. Since then there have been 24 "official" movies and 2 unofficial ones27 more books by different authors, numerous comic strips, two comic books, two pinball machines, many video games, one tabletop RPG, hundreds of toys, an ongoing series of " Young Bond " books, an animated series about " James Bond Jr.

The Pink Panther series yielded nine films over 30 years in its original run and the Steve Martin -led reboot yielded one sequel. Adding in the theatrical animated shorts based off the original films' title sequences two different series: As ofthere's 29 of the original Japanese films, two American movies, two different cartoon seriesa Live-Action TV Showseveral comic book adaptations, novels, over 40 video games, countless action figures, and even a line of plushies.

Even though several film directors have exploited this character he still managed to become the fictional character who has the most films made around him. Saw lasted for seven movies. And then there's the video games Most slasher franchises fall into this. In the original series of each, there's 10 Friday the 13th movies, 7 A Nightmare on Elm Street movies There's a good reason why New Line Cinema was nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built"a crossover movie for them, 8 Halloween movies, 4 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, and reboots of all 4 of them, producing further installments.

You want series that are tough to kill? Jason has literally been to Hell and backand they still make money off of him. While in horror, Hellraiserwith 9 novels, action figures, and a comic. And creator Clive Barker is interested in a reboot! It's too soon to call whether The Hunger Games will become this for Lions Gatebut the studio's stock doubled in price the weeks after the first movie's release.

Though with most people comparing the series to Survivor and Twilight combined, and Lionsgate's plan to split Mockingjay into two moviesit's turned into either this trope or a ridiculously large-scale gamble at this point. The Paranormal Activity franchise counts as this trope for several very unique reasons. Its found footage style and ingenious use of Nothing Is Scarier means that it doesn't cost much money to make specifically because of the lack of big-budget special effectsand it doesn't take very long to film.

The film also makes Product Placement seem very natural, as the families depicted are ordinary, often moderately wealthy families. And lets not forget that the original film began as an indie horror film shot for approximately fifteen-grand, and eventually wound up grossing nearly two hundred million dollars.

This is the first film. At one time, Pirates of the Caribbean existed only at Disney Theme Parks. Now it's up to four blockbuster movies, with a fifth in development even before the fourth was released, and billions of dollars in global merchandising revenues.

Alieneven if a lot is Misaimed Marketing given how kid-unfriendly the whole deal is. Dogma presents a fictional example: Mooby the Golden Calf. Created by Nancy Goidruff, a former kindergarten teacher, in to fill gap in the Saturday morning schedule on local network K-REL. Bought by the Complex Corporation inand broadcast nationally as the The Mooby Fun-Time Hourit picked up a large following of children, ages three to eight, and spawns sixteen records, two theatrical films, eight prime-time specials, a library of priced-to-own video cassettes, and bicoastal theme parks dubbed 'MoobyWorld'.

Did I miss anything? You forgot Mooby Magazine. Despite the original V. Andrews having died inromance novels written under her name have continued to be published on roughly a yearly basis since then. Rowling having finished the books and moved on to another series, it's not going anywhere for quite a while.

To put in perspective just how HUGE a franchise this is: The New York Times has a separate bestseller's list for children's books just because the Harry Potter books kept taking up slots for months on ends. Rowling is the first and so far only author to become a billionaire due solely to writing.

Though she persistently insists that her personal wealth is drastically overestimated by the press. In the space of a decade the eight Harry Potter movies became the most successful movie series of all time japanese stock market history graph the Marvel Cinematic Universe surpassed them. When inflation is taken into account, they're still third - with only Star Wars and James Bond ahead of them.

Not only Rowling decided to make a theater-only sequel of sorts, but Warner wouldn't let the films die so fx options structuring Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Thema comedic Defictionalization of an in-universe text book, will become a film and possible franchise of its own.

Although not well known to the English-reading audience, the Perry Rhodan series has been published in Germany since and translated into multiple languages and has passed novellas and novels with associated comics, reference materials, music-inspired-by and other things.

With the exception of one movie init hasn't been on the big screen or television, which might explain its limited exposure in North America. For most of its history, The Lord of the Rings was simply an intensely popular work of fantasy literature and the inspiration behind a great number of other successful franchises of earn money by writing stories in india. It was certainly popular enough to make the posthumous publication of The Silmarillionand to a lesser degree the volume History of Middle-earthand continuing posthumous publications of material, an intensely anticipated event.

Then, when the Peter Jackson films went into production, it was turned into a cash cow of Star Wars proportions. With the three-part The Hobbit being released forex broker 0.001 lot, andalongside the continued success of the LOTR MMORPG, this cash-cow will certainly be around for the next few years.

In a slightly different niche, there's Conan the Barbarian. Howard wrote just shy of two dozen Conan stories in his lifetime. After his death, L. Sprague de Camp and others wrote dozens more, and since then there's been two successful comics series one with Marvel Comicsone with Dark Horse Comicsroyal mail shares first day trading animated series, two Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, the pseudo-prequel Kull the Conquerorthe MMO Age of Conanand a handful of other games featuring everyone's favorite Cimmerian.

On the negative side, Age of Conan didn't do too well and the following movie an attempt at a reboot flopped hard at the box office and was savaged by critics.

Twilight quickly became this inspawning clothes, toys, mangacandy, and even glittered dildos. Fed even more with the hate that it has from the Twilight haters that valuing options on dividend paying stocks or see the merchandise to trash it. The Discworld universe has been described as a "Cottage Industry" but that doesn't mean that there isn't a shit load of weird merchandising.

Like the Ankh-Morpork Stamp Binary options ira. Tom Clancy has no real input into the Tom Clancy's line of novels and video games nowadays, outside of licensing.

Even Author Existence Failure hasn't slowed the franchise down. What Discworld and Harry Potter are to the West, the Alice, Girl fx option delta currency the Future series by Kir Bulychev is to Russia, Eastern Europe, and the former Communist countries.

This Science Fiction series about the adventures of the girl from the future spans over forty books. There have been seven films, the most famous being the Guest from the Futurewhich made people more interested in Alisa. There have been three computer games as well. The books keep coming because they make Harper Collins rich. And because the fans always want more. Agatha Christie is gold penguin money maker one of these in general as Poirot and Miss Marple are as popular as each other.

Spanning over eighty books, they've both had several television and film adaptions for each of those furniture manufacturers lancashire with ridiculous amounts of different actors which started in the s and is still being made in the sthere's been a spin-off anime and manga adaption of the two characters working togetherthere's a series of western graphic novels innine video games, various novels have been turned into plays and the other way around and then there's her long running play The Mousetrap.

The Sherlock Holmes stories, when collected in one volume, are quite the Doorstopper. And when you consider all the TV shows and movies based on them, plus the ones inspired by them.

The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes Sherlock Holmes as the most portrayed fictional character in movie history. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is becoming this.

Its Universe, plus the Kane Chronicles, draws large mobs. Rainbow Magica British children's book series about fairies, has been going sincewith multiple book releases every year.

It's sold successfully for a long time, presently has over unique books, and is only recently as of showing signs of slowing down. The Hunger Games trilogy is becoming this as well, with all the merchandise the movies are inspiring.

Animorphs though not as huge as the other series. It spawned games, toys, a few videogames and a TV series, albeit a bomb one. Sadly, the re-release didn't make it popular again. Goosebumps was another hit series from The '90sand it's still pumping out new books and TV shows. Roald Dahl died inbut his stories for children are still wildly popular.

Beyond myriad print and audiobook editions, many of them have enjoyed film adaptations, and in The New '10s two have become hit West End stage musicals: Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Actually, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory counts as a cash cow on its own, given the many times it's been adapted.

Star Trek ; the original series and six movies based off of it, an animated continuationplus four spin - off series that ran continuously from toincluding four movies based off of TNG and the prequel J. Abrams himself said this was NOT a reboot - which it was, kind of of the TOS franchise, its two sequels, a buttload of Expanded Universe games, novels, and comics, and a metric kilobuttload of Fan Fiction and wacky fan theories numerous enough to, well, barely leave in border strategy binary options room on the Internet for that other franchise and well It was the highest rated show of the year for several years.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There was no real need to continue the series after it ended and many feel it should have ended a few seasons before it didbut Joss Whedon and company continue to profit off of it with the line of comics that continue the series.

Criminal Intentas well as a few Short-Runners and foreign remakes. Criminal Intent became the highest-rated show on basic cable after its move to USAand the French and Russian adaptations of the series are some of the most successful shows in their respective markets.

Two other major examples of shows that got spin-offs and look set to continue indefinitely are CSI and NCIS NCIS being its own spin-off from JAG. Power Rangers moves a lot of merchandise, usually becoming the top-selling action figure line in America each year. And it's still a single arm of Super Sentaiwhich has been running continually in Japan since !

It's been said that the people behind both series actually believe that television ratings are secondary to merchandise sales. It's also rumored that the reason for the exploding number of mecha and extra rangers in later years is because Sentai is trying to recoup the losses of an underperforming Rangers under the Dork Age of Disney.

This mainly applies in its home nation of Japan and most of Southeast Asia as it remains relatively obscure in the West. The franchise has been running continually since it was revived inbut within the Riders there's a very specific cash cow franchise — Kamen Rider Den-O. All Heisei era Kamen Rider series from Kamen Rider Agito to Kamen Rider Kiva have at least one movie.

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The breakout success of the Taros has led to EIGHT Den-O movies. Part of the reason for Decade stock market seasonal trends a crossover is that Toei executives noticed by the end of the first decade of the 's alpha beta stock trading fzc Kuuga and Kamen Rider Agito were so faded away in the Japanese public's consciousness that merchandise of those two shows wouldn't even budge.

While Decade didn't reach Den-O levels by itself, its real-life impact of launching long-forgotten Riders back into mainstream pop culture did bring upon the way to squeeze every last penny of stock market cash flow audiobook Kamen Rider shows since even after Decade 's ending.

It's even lampshaded in the show as the true purpose of Decade's journey. Decade ending doesn't mean they won't dredge it up from time to time. Decade's portion of Movie War had some very thinly veiled dialogue that rather blatantly means "we're going to keep crossing over with things as long as the network can wring money off us".

Big Brothercertainly in the UK until or at least. They've stopped counting how many years its run. To those that dislike it it is difficult to remember a time it was not on and so ever present.

It returned in and it got the same amount of attention it got in its original run. The BBC has Doctor Who over in its home country, the UK, as well. And since the revival with the new series, the Expanded Universe expanded even more with material for both the classic and new seriesbringing along two successful spin-off series of their own Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

And the merchandising, of course. Nobody probably thought that the Kurt Russell and James Spader cult-sci-fi flick Stargate was gonna balloon into so far three live-action series, an animated series, two so-far direct-to-DVD movies. This doesn't include spin-off novels based on both the series AND the original movie and a host of games.

While not as big as some other franchises it appeared to have some momentum to join them, but after the cancellation of Atlantis and Universe it came to a sudden end in Glee was barely in its first season when it was earning FOX millions by selling music — it usually charts a handful of songs every week — and releasing the first half of the first season on DVD and preparing a live tour.

It immediately got commissioned for two more season and had a shedload of merchandise: Where do we start? And they had this one group from a few years back Flemish children's series Samson En Gert. To the point that the merchandise actually overshadows the original TV show. Studio The company that Samson En Gert has another very forex average daily range 2013 show in Belgium called Kabouter Plop Plop The Gnome which is very popular in Belgium.

The series has made alot of songs over the years and tons of merchandise which can be found everywhere in Belgium. Especially in the Studio Theme Parks such as Plopsaland De Panne and Plopsa Indoor Hasselt.

Cookies have also been a popular treat by children where it's called "Plop Koeken Biscuts". Top Gear has expanded way beyond a UK TV motoring series. Mythbusters is one to Discovery Communications, and they know it to the point that when someone at The Science Channel proposed a how do companies that purchase structured settlements make money just days after the franchise had been ended, the suits approved of the plan very quickly.

The Got Talent franchise started by America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent holds the record for being the most widespread TV franchise created. It has spawned localizations in over 50 different countries. Italian opera singer who was world famous in the ss.

He was the first musical artist whose records sold savage 10ml-ii laminated stock internationally. Louis Armstrong Bing Crosby Frank Sinatra Elvis Presley: Mass marketed ever since the s with album records, films, TV specials, Las Vegas shows, Even more astonishing is that he never toured outside the U.

Despite never going on international tour Elvis still managed to attract an enormous international audience that still hasn't died down.

He even sold more records after his death than in his entire life. As Michael O'Donoghue purportedly remarked when told of Elvis' death in" Good career move.

Have never been out of publicity ever since the s and are one of the few internationally popular musical acts that are both popular with the general public as the more alternative listeners. And then there's LOVE. Paul McCartney as performing artist and former Beatle is this by association. That he still can sing doesn't hurt. That his own management markets him as aggressively as they dare.

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He became even more legendary after his death. Michael Jackson ross technology corporation stock price mass-marketed from his childhood onwards: TV specials, clothing, an animated cartoon series Jackson5ive in The '70smusic videos, merchandising, the best-selling album of all time, Pepsi commercials, etc. Despite bad publicity and declining record sales from The '90s onward he still remained in the picture as tabloid fodder.

After his death his sales skyrocketed to previously unheard-of levels for catalog releases and his reputation was mostly restored with not one, but two Cirque du Soleil shows built around his work pulling down millions in ticket sales.

His posthumous earnings potential is limited by the fact that his estate focuses on his solo work, which only yielded six albums and an EP The Onion joked, shortly after he died, that there are only so many times people will buy Thriller.

To the point of overkill. The crazy bastard recorded 53 some-odd albums in a year career. There is gonna be a metric shitload of outtakes and demos for the studios to release, plus compilations and best-of albums. A album reissue sequence launched in ! The death of Sublime 's Brad Nowell similarly did not stop his record label from releasing a fantastic array of posthumous uk national biodiversity strategy and action plan, with the numerous compilation and live albums produced after his death than far exceeding the number of studio albums produced prior.

And a reunion tour in A large repertoire of classical music has been performed centuries after the deaths of composers and original performers. While the music is often well worth preserving, tourist concerts at Vienna may be considered milking the cash cow.

And candy named after Mozart. The list of bands who have done comeback shows or records despite important band members dead, retired or just not being what they used to be includes the following: The Doors - two anderson county livestock auction texas without Morrison, a "tribute album" with a bevy of guest vocalists, nowadays touring as Riders On The Storm after John Densmore and the Morrison estate sued to prevent them from performing under the Doors brand.

Eagles — Don Henley said that they would re-unite can i hold us stocks in my tfsa Hell freezes over". Hell froze over in and has had periodic re-freezings since then. Roger Waters declared Pink Floyd "a creatively spent force" after he left inbut the band kept right on sec stock option honeywell the charts and filling arenas.

KISS works in both fronts: Pantera 's Dimebag Darrell was buried in one. There's also the movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park though the band would. This also applies to Jimi Hendrixwho left behind a stunning amount of officially completed and released studio tracks, posthumously completed tracks often meddled with and unauthorizedlive recordings and filmed performancesdemos, home recordings, outtakes, bootlegs, alternate takes, TV, film and radio performances and unreleased recordings from the early 's to his death inalongside perennial rereleases and repackagings of his official back catalogue, enough to keep the archives busy for 40 years.

A new release of rare and unreleased recordings, Valleys of Neptune debuted in the top five in March nearly forty years after his death, shattering Elvis's record. The memory and legend of Woodstock are strong enough that it will always be fairly useful as a cash cow, for the bands who played at that fateful concert and the nostalgic merchandisers; though anything as ambitious as organizing a new Woodstock has never gone as well as the spirit of Woodstock would have wanted it. Given the number of redundant compilations that The Smiths ' record label has put out, it's fair to say that this is what they've become.

This is especially ironic, since they parodied this kind of treatment in the song "Paint a Vulgar Picture. Buy radioshack stock Bowie is a quiet example. He was a Reclusive Artist from to his death inand stopped touring afterbut his music is so popular that in The '90s he made millions with what came to be known as "Bowie Bonds". The multimedia retrospective David Bowie Is — featuring scores of artifacts, costumes, etc.

He died just two days after releasing his last album, and this didn't so much renew public interest in his work as reconfirm that it will be beloved and bought for decades to come.

Taylor Swift has helped pre-teens and teenagers to become country music fans. After all, in the past five years, what other country musicians have had Top 10 hits, pop-radio smashes, multi-platinum albums, and international success?

Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. His name is on every kind of music equipment a guitarist would need. In fact, the only thing he doesn't have signature-versions of are a custom string-set although he's probably trying to get that arrangedguitar-picks and cables.

Boeing and Airbus practically run a Duopoly of Large Airliners, since airlines would often rather take 2nd or 3rd-hand Boeing or Airbus planes rather than a brand new Comac or indigenous design, simply because those planes are still better despite the wear and tear. Just for selling their name.

Microsoft Windows absolutely dwarfs both other systems in market share. As long as powerful, customizable computers are needed at all Microsoft will still rake massive numbers.

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DOS' ubiquity helped the Windows get its foothold. Apple's business model seems to be built around trying new things como calcular ganancias en forex hoping enough things stick to keep them in business. While the company's history is littered with disasters Lisa, Apple III, Pippin, etc. The Apple II lasted an amazing thirteen years, the iPod returned the company to prominence in the early s, the iPhone has kept the company relevant as the personal media player market has waned, and the iPad foreign exchange hedging strategies at general motors ppt the tablets to finally trade like a stock market wizard pdf. Their MacBooks have also risen in popularity since the mids.

Warhammer and Warhammer 40, Aside from becoming the kings of tabletop wargaming and sustaining a major corporation, these franchises have produced multiple video gamesand enough novels to justify the creation of an entire publishing company Black Library. The miniatures games have no advertising - they gain new customers solely through word of mouth. This has however had a knock on effect tactics on the binary options GW paid little to no attention to its other games as a result of this medical billing and coding jobs from home in ohio, to the point where the Specialist Games range, designed at the older GW players, were taken down.

Incidentally on a related but slightly different scenario to the aboveIron Kingdoms for Privateer Press subverts this trope. With twenty-four core editions, booster packs, a board game, and ancillary merchandising, it's been SJG's biggest seller for almost two decades now, 3 ducks trading system by captain currency reaching beyond the usual Friendly Local Game Store to more conventional retailers like Target.

As of there are 18 different Cirque du Soleil troupes performing somewhere in the world, changing acts and performers over time. Several have run for over a decade, and one Mystere for over two. Andrew Lloyd Webber 's The Phantom of the Opera has been running in London since and on Broadway since Foreign sit-down productions run rampant, as does merchandising. The sequel Love Never Dies intended to do the same, but instead serves as an extension of the original franchise.

William Shakespeare 's work has been going strong for four hundred years now. It's all long since become part of the public domain, but because of that it's a cash cow for both theatres and publishers who don't need to pay royalties to perform it. Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap has been running in the West End sincelogging tens of thousands of performances. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

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The Nutcracker is the Cash Cow Franchise of ballet companies everywhere every Christmas. For theaters specializing in straight plays or musicals, adaptations of A Christmas Carol serve a similar purpose. Captain Sabertooth is probably Norway's biggest cash cow franchise; it started out in as a theatrical play for the outdoors stage in Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park, but was such a wild success that it spawned a huge amount of spin-off products, sequels, CDs, books, TV series and movies.

Ever sincethere has been at least one Captain Sabertooth production running or being made at any given time. They've got Snuggies for pets, for Pete's sake!

They only raked in more money with the economic disaster. They even make ones that can shine glow-in-the-dark stars on your ceiling. You can even find them in GROCERY STORES. And it's hard to run into someone especially a kid who does NOT know their commercials' annoying theme song Jewelpet is tailored for this, what with having over 40 little creatures that are the basis for plushies and other collectible toys, plus all the anime and other derivative works.

That said, this one's success is locked to Japan, as America won't buy it due to its similarities to Webkinz and while Europe got it, it failed to catch on. The bunny characters Snuggle and Snuggelina created by German cellphone and music company Jamster not only gotten alot of songs released over the years.

But the characters are so popular that they even gained a few audiobooks released in Germany and even appeared in various Live shows in Germany. Unlike the character "Crazy Frog" which the majority of the public didn't like, Snuggle and Snuggelina have gotten alot of positive reception with the public. While the duo are hardly known in other countries, you can find a lot of merchandise featuring the two if you visit any store or shop in Germany.

Shopkins were the fourth biggest-selling licensed property ofand there's Shopkins versions of everything imaginable for young girls to buy. The whole medium itself is a multi-billion dollar industry, but if you want a list of details on video game franchise sales, look no further than The Other Wiki 's list of best-selling video game franchises that have sold or shipped at least five million copies.

Video game giant Nintendo has four such franchises: If a game has either Mario, Link, or Pikachu in it, it's almost a guaranteed million-seller Smashof course, has included all three characters in every game and often front-and-center in advertising alongside Kirbywho while not a true cash cow is still a steady source of income for Nintendo. Along with its many hand-held systems selling by the truckload each year, this has led to a Catch Phrase among the Nintendo fan community: Then they based a TV show off the game as well as a few manga.

Then a new version of the game based off the TV show came out Yellow version. Then new game generations and TV series came out hand in hand. Mario is composed of over games and many of them have managed to become Killer Apps for the systems they were released for.

Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Can you really earn money on bigspot in particular have sold 11 and 12 million copies respectively, while the acclaimed platformer trilogy released for the Nintendo Entertainment System owns the Top 3 spots of best-selling games for that system.

There's also the case of Mario Karta spin-off to the Mario series: While at first, it did pretty well without reaching the success of the main series games, it eventually exploded in popularity with Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii ; the former clocked at The Game Boy and Nintendo DS lines of hardware fall under this trope too, with regular small upgrades Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Advance SP in addition to major upgrades whose games are incompatible with older versions Game Boy ColorGame Boy Advance.

The small upgrades encourage consumers to purchase new hardware without outright requiring it to play newer games. See example picture at top of page for result. The DS in particular is the best selling handhold console of all time.

In Japan alone it has sold more than 32 million units. Japan's population is a little under million people. Approximately 1 in 4 Japanese people have at one point in life owned a DS or enough people have bought multiples to make up for it. While the Nintendo 3DS hasn't been anywhere near as succesful, it still became a major success after a price drop and the arrival of more popular games. They managed to get 26 million units out of a bunch of minigames by offering a free controller with it.

In contrast, the Wii U is a fine example of cash cows needing more than their brand name alone to thrive, though its sales improved slowly but constantly over time after the release of some high-profile first-party toronto forex traders. No one expected Animal Crossing to be a cash cow franchise for Nintendo, but yet it is.

In its home country of Japan, merchandise are released by the truckloads the same can't be said for Europe and North America but its still quite prominent there. New Leaf is a Killer App for Nintendo as well, outperforming Mario and Zelda by selling two million copies in just six weeks after release in Japan alone. After twenty years, the franchise is still going strong; even the less-than-stellar games have made a surprising profit.

Since his first game his series has had one game released per year with no stop. After all he is SEGA's mascot and prime series. The release of the Classic Games count as well with every console generation they get released again. The Archie Comic series is also going strong, it being the longest-lasting comic series based on a video game character.

Ultimawhich saw its first commercial product released in and is still going strong today, over 30 years later, thanks to Ultima Online. The franchise has only really dropped in current relevance due to the widely reviled 8th and 9th games killing the original series and even that happened well over a decade agoand EA's paranoid cancellation of every product that might compete with UO in favor of yet more expansions.

Final Fantasywhich in terms of money generation is definitely Fantastic, but not at all Final. Reportedly, the name was chosen because the developer expected to go out of business because of lack of money. Since the end of The '80sthey were wrong: Kingdom Heartsas detailed in the Disney section. It was, perhaps inevitable, given both Disney and Square's tendency towards cash cows. Since the earliest days of Final FantasyDragon Quest has walked right alongside it.

Its status as something akin to a national holiday when a new game is released in Japan ensures it will not die quietly, if at all. The Final Fantasy series didn't get its first million-copy seller until the release of Final Fantasy III inwhile the very first Dragon Quest game, which was released insold over 1. Even until today, every single major release in the Dragon Quest franchise beats Final Fantasy in Japan.

Hothead Games Big Win Sports has a TON of popular sports sims. Phantasy StarSega 's answer to Final Fantasy and Dragon Questhas never been as popular as its counterparts, but Online and its various permutations, spinoffs, and spiritual successors have maintained its cult status from the 8-bit era up to today. Reaching peak at 12 million subscribers, which has since then dropped down to 10,3 million as of November The series that spawned it has only had three installments and a number of expansions since it started inbut has nonetheless remained perennially popular.

Also from Blizzardthe Starcraft franchise has only two games and one expansion each sincebut due to its never-ending popularity, it has remained a moneymaker the whole time despite nearly a decade between installments in the series. Being the national sport of Korea helps. The King of Fighters series first came out in as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover of several of SNK 's other series.

All of the "root" series have long since ended, but The King of Fighters is still going fifteen years later. Somewhere close behind Mario and Sonic in the sales department is Mega Man. Just see his page on this wiki to find out how many games the Blue Bomber has appeared in and that's not counting the Capcom vs. It has at least made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for having more sequels than any other video game.

As for the numbers You could take all the Mega Man games ever sold and multiply their number by a factor of ten and not beat Mario. The Mega Man series is far behind them in terms of sales. That, and the fact, Mega Man games have never been bundled with any console. Still, around 30, units for the series certainly isn't peanuts. Even the onset of Capcom Sequel Stagnation hasn't prevented the series from raking in the dough from its rabid fans and the competitive fighting game community, but that's an entirely different animal.

Resident Evil has become the 1 best selling Capcom franchise surpassing both Mega Man and Street Fighter so it definitely deserves to be here. The series also has a successful ongoing live-action movie franchise, which shows that the series has reached COMPLETE. Monster Hunter is Capcom's third best-selling franchise, trailing Resident Evil and Street Fighter but outdoing Mega Man.

If this seems surprising to you, most of those sales come from Japan; a good fraction of Monster Hunter games have been released in North America and PAL territories but unfortunately don't sell as many copies, with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate being an exception. The Sims might not be what it once was, but it was a huge deal for a number of years, and the original even surpassed Myst as the best-selling computer game of all time!

Three major releases, each with about 8 expansion packs each, PLUS with Sims 3 they now have an easy built-in online store where things can be bought with real money. Guitar Hero is a fine example of how excessive cash cow milking can come back to bite its owner in the ass: Rock Band was skirting close to the line 'till the Guitar Hero oversaturation delivered a plunge to its sales too. And after letting the cow rest until a new console generation, Harmonix announced Rock Bank 4 in Konami 's Bemani series.

Many, many mixes of each series were published. Several games with even the worst ones selling pretty wellcomic books, Lucazade promotions, movies and tons of merchandise.

The publisher, Eidos, has relied on Tomb Raider to keep them afloat in various instances note: Heck, a mere Gaiden Game squelshed the competition in its genre.

And that's not counting the merchandise and various anime adaptations. Three To Heart 2 OVA series, all based off a single game? Each iteration usually falls among the top ten best-selling games each year, if not reaching number one.

A Fanboys comic has a farmer showing a literal cash cow. He's deciding on a name for it, "Madden", "Mario" or " Tony Hawk ". Halo spawns not only games, but books, comics, graphic novels, movies, an anime, action figures, controllers, consoles, live-action serials, a Mountain Dew flavor, and much more. It is Microsoft's most profitable franchise, and some columnists have went as far as calling it "the new Star Wars ". The Grand Theft Auto franchise reached this with Grand Theft Auto III and hasn't looked back.

The potential revenues from Grand Theft Auto IV were the Crown Jewel of the massive Electronic Arts -Take Two takeover fight. It went on to become the first-ever non-Nintendo franchise to have surpassed million copies sold, the fourth franchise known to have reached that milestone, and is currently the third-most successful video game franchise of all-time.

Nippon Ichi has discovered the joys of Updated Re-release with the Disgaea series. Take an old game, add some stuff, put it on a new console, and BAM! It took one series to give Humongous Entertainment a profit, and it is the only one they still make.

That series is Backyard Sports. The Call of Duty series has always sold well since its debut inbut as of Novemberthe franchise is officially a juggernaut. Modern Warfare 2 the sixth major release in the series sold approximately 4. It's safe to say that this is one franchise that will stick around for quite some time. The ex-Infinity Ward employees decided to retaliate. Black Ops did EVEN BETTER.

Then Modern Warfare 3 sells 6. As of Julythe series has sold Mind you that the series is only eleven years old and it's already in the top five best-selling video game franchises of all time. This is also before Advanced Warfare has been released, mind you, so it's getting close to surpassing the million copies sold barrier.

Beginning with Tales of Phantasia init's now as of Dec up to twelve main titles "motherships"seventeen side stories "escorts"two animes, two OVAsand one movie. How popular is it? Xbox s sold out in Japan before Tales of Vesperia was released. And now, the newest game Tales of Xillia become the fastest selling title in the series and the second fastest selling PS3 game in Japan after Final Fantasy XIII and is credited for increasing PS3 sales.

Too bad that more then half of the series is unavailable to anyone unfortunate to live outside of Japan. Pac-Man and The Idolmaster count as cash cows as well.

Atlus has enjoyed a major boost in the Western market thanks to the Persona series with Persona 3 being the first to make a real splash thereso much so that the release of Persona 5 was guaranteed even before they officially announced they were working on it, because the series is just that big. It even has its own irregularly-published magazine! Persona 3 is popular enough in Japan that it currently has two remakes, a few cell phone games, a spin-off animesome novels, a ton of figures, a manga, a movie seriesand that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The resurgent popularity of the series has lead to PSP remakes of the earlier Persona games; for Western audiences, this meant both a competently-translated and complete version of the first Personaand the first official overseas release of Persona 2: On the other hand, the remake of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment didn't do nearly as well back in Japan, and Western gamers were stuck with an unaltered rerelease of the original North American PS1 localization as a consolation prize. Persona 4 eventually picked up a lot of flak for this.

It has an Updated Re-release on the PlayStation Vitaan animated adaption titled Persona 4: The Animationa second anime titled Persona 4 Golden: The Animationa Rhythm Game sequel in Persona 4: Dancing All NightSpin-Off media starring Naoto and Yosuke Persona 4: The Magician and Persona x Detective NAOTO respectivelyand to top it all off, a live-action play.

Quite impressive when you consider that Atlus originally said that Persona 4 would get not any Updated Rereleases. Atlus would even come to realize that they could combine Persona 3 and 4 into an even bigger cash cow; Persona 4: Arena and Persona 4: Arena Ultimax serve as Fighting Game sequels to both games, and Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is an outright Crossover featuring both 3 's and 4 's casts.

To drive the point home, Atlus USA had a booth at Anime Expo The games they showcased were Persona 3 and 4as well as their spinoff games, and nothing else. Mass Effect has turned into this, with a full trilogy, four novels, two phone games, an anime movie, and eight comic miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. The DLC is continuing to flow steadily too. Especially when you realize that Bioware literally created a verse that has depth that rivals Star Wars and Star Trek.

And BioWare 's other current RPG series, Dragon Agehas spanned three games, more from Dark Horse Comicsa few novels, another anime movie, and several spin-off games. Inquisition was announced to be BioWare's most successful launch ever. Tom ClancyAssassin's Creed and Just Dance are Ubisoft 's big moneymakers. Critics blasted the first game for being little more than a barely-interactive dance video with shoddy motion control and practically no content.

As it turns out, it seems the game's target audience doesn't care about such things, and as such the game was a runaway hit. Then the sequel came out, and just for the hell of it Ubisoft decided to fix almost everything the reviews complained about. As expected, the sequel sold even better.

Now the series also has two spinoffs and a Spiritual Successor in the form of Michael Jackson: The Experienceplus plenty of knockoffs from other developers, and it doesn't look like it's gonna stop there. Don't be fooled by the numbered sequel. Although the main series did not reach number 3 until the end ofthe number of Battlefield spin-offs is simply astounding.

Vietnam, Modern Combat,Bad Company, Heroes,Bad Company 2, Online and Play 4 Freeall developed or co-developed by DICE while they are also experimenting another franchise of their own and help co-developing EA's other cash cow franchises and put out a huge DLC for their released game.

Kudos to DICE for not having Attention Deficit Creator Disorder syndrome despite all this. Dead Space is yet another cash cow for EA. With three console gamesa rail-shooting game for the Wiian Interquel game for iOS devicesa puzzle gametwo Direct To DVD animated moviestwo comics, and one novelspace horror has become an easy moneymaker for the company. Over 70 games, plus two anime series Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden and Bomberman Jettersthe first of which were tied to an entire line of marble-shooting toys that later became its own franchise.

Gran Turismo is also a good example. With six primary releases, seven secondary releases and a grand total of over seventy million units sold, it's become a best-seller overnight.

Oh, and it happens to have an E rating, too. Need for Speed has the pole position in Racing Game sales though, with over million copies sold overall. It helps that it's one of EA's few non-sports franchises that has an annual release cycle. The NHL Hockey series is one of the more popular games in EA's roster, behind Madden NFL.

It's particularly popular with Canadians, with hockey being their national sport and all. Beating both NHL and Madden into a cocked hat, however, is FIFA Soccer. Outside of America, this is EA Sports biggest franchise. To put things in perspective, Madden '12 sold five million units. FIFA '12 sold over ten million. Not for nothing has one EA executive been reported as describing FIFA as "a license to print money". Compile built the Puyo Puyo series into a cash cow in the s, led by the runaway success of the first arcade game and especially its Even Better Sequel Puyo Puyo Tsu.

In addition to the mainline games, there were various spinoffs and tons of merchandise. Unfortunately, Puyo Puyo's success emboldened Compile to rapidly expand, a move that would almost immediately blow up in their face and ultimately seal their doom. Sega picked up where Compile left off, using a Retool to keep the series fresh, and would eventually come across their own major hit with Puyo Puyo!!

Even ignoring the games themselves, Angry Birds has become quite the force of merchandising, with plushies and all sorts of other tie-in products. Ganbare Goemon had about two dozen games in Japan, plus multiple anime and manga adaptations. Minecraft is only a few years old, but its consistently insane popularity allowed its creator to build his own game company in record time. Not bad for an Indie Game about punching trees. Taomee's games like Mole's World and Seer started as browser games, and were popular enough that it spawned other works like films, trading card games, and magazines.

Professor Layton is one of the best-selling video game series of all time in Western Europe and is probably the franchise that keeps Level-5 afloat.

Five Nights at Freddy's turned out to be a massive success for its creator, Scott Cawthon. The first game was released inwith three more sequels following it in less than two years, each one quickly topping the Steam charts in digital sales, and Warner Brothers is reportedly developing a movie based on the franchise.

It took Cawthon from barely scraping by to being able to donate a quarter of a million dollars to a children's hospital in Midway Games intensively milked the Mortal Kombat franchise in the s, spreading it beyond video games to comic books, live-action moviescartoon and live-action TV series and a part-CG OVA.

Even after the series' popularity faded, it's telling that practically the only part of Midway to live on after the company went bankrupt in was the Chicago studio responsible for developing Mortal Kombat 9.

Yo-kai Watch is this way in Japan. It's to be shown how well it fares internationally but it's nothing to shrug at in its home turf. It has spawned an incredibly popular anime which has movies alreadyseveral manga, multiple spin-off games, and a huge amount of merchandise in under three years.

The Fate series has become this for Type-Moon and to an extent everything in the Nasuverse. A rare webcomic example: Sales figures are unknown due to not being published, but music albums and merch sell very quickly, and members of the Music Team and Art Team have had successful solo stints launched from the name recognition pulled in.

The amount of money is unknown, but it does pull in enough to support a half dozen or more people who're needed to run What Pumpkin the store and Andrew Hussie himself. The Homestuck music albums are probably the best selling albums on Bandcamp, period, though it's hard to determine this because Bandcamp does not release statistics to conclusively prove this.

However, as of this writing, two Homestuck albums remain in the top 20 top sellers of late The ridiculous cash-generating potential of this series was revealed when they ran a Kickstarter campaign for a Homestuck video game. They raised two and a half million dollarsover three times the goal, in one month. Penny Arcade supports Gabe and Tycho's families and themselves, in addition to a handful of other people.

It has also spawned a few card games, book collections of the strips, an episodic RPGT-shirts, and lots more merchandise that can be found on the official store. MegaTokyo still generates enough money to support the creator and his family despite rampant Schedule Slip and a dramatic shrinking of its fanbase. One can only imagine how much cash it was printing at the height of its popularity.

Facebook has turned social networking into big business. Before Facebook, it was all about MySpace. Googlefull stop. And he knows it. And his honest preview where he self-deprecated most things about himself made fun of Channel Awesome for flogging him harder as a cash cow than Disney do with Frozen. HE REMEMBERS IT SO YOU DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO! EVEN THOUGH, EVERY FUCKING DAY HE EXISTS, HE WISHES HE DIDN'T HAVE TO!

HE WISHES HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS BULLSHIT, TO MAKE YOU WATCH AND GET YOU RATINGSAND WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?! WHY DO YOU KEEP COMING BACK, BECAUSE YOU'RE FUCKING SICK, AND I'M FUCKING STUPID! THAT'S THE WAY IT IS! IT'S THE WAY IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE!

THERE IS NO CHANGE, THERE IS NO FUTURE! THERE IS NO PAST! MY LIFE IS HELL! THIS IS THE WORST THING A HUMAN BEING COULD EVER GO THROUGH! Woody Woodpecker was once a hugely popular franchise, allowing his theatrical cartoons to last all the way up to the early 70's when theatrical cartoons had all but completely died out and make oodles of cash off of loads of toys and assorted merchandise, and having a hit TV show which aired for decades also helped.

But eventually, with the failure of The New Woody Woodpecker Showas well as Universal's disinterest in promoting the character outside of mascot costumes and the DVD collections, his status has degenerated into a state of near-obscurity except in countries where he's still popular. Popeye was also a juggernaut of a franchise once upon a time, but his popularity has declined since then. We'll just have to wait and see. They warned you in song: Family Guy as Fox 's second cash cow cartoon.

Incidentally, both are fond of jokes at the expense of Fox and their supportersthe only reason they're allowed to get away with it being precisely this trope. South Park is this for Comedy Central. Nickelodeon and its parent company Viacom have SpongeBob SquarePants — An article showed that Atlantis Squarepantis scored the show's highest ratings ever in both the original 6 year run and the current 9 year run, further cementing the fact that the Sponge will not die.

Sponges can live up to years old; SpongeBob may be the same. SpongeBob is Viacom's most profitable show, and has been since it was Un-Cancelled. As in, it takes in 8 million dollars of Viacom's value.

That's about two-thirds of Viacom's current value. Now THAT'S the power of the yellow sponge for ya. It's got two amusement ride and there's even a live show in the United Kingdom and even plans to an upcoming Broadway show! The titular character and her friends can be found on anything from dinnerware to pajamas.

The show's Spiritual SuccessorDora And Friends: Into The City, also has endless amounts of merchandise. Before Dora, it was Blue's Clues. It's dropped off in popularity since the '90s, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still a profitable franchise, and proof of that is a cartoon reboota toy line, a Lego line, and a live-action movie!

And then the cartoon has made the turtles immensely popular with a whole new generation of fans, and is also well recieved among people who grew up with previous iterations of the franchise. Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang have definitely been a cash cow franchise from the early s to the present day, largely due to TV exposure. Taz and Tweety are still being slapped on a lot of merchandise, Taz being an amazingly profitable Ensemble Dark Horse who only appeared in five shorts.

Looney Tunes are well on their way to joining the ranks of Betty Boop see below in still selling merchandise while most consumers now have never watched the cartoon they're from. Tom and Jerry is a close second in this. Thomas the Tank Engine is this for HiT Entertainment. There is so much worldwide merchandise, it'd take all day to list it here.

Scooby-Doo continues to reappear every generation. For a long time, it held the world record for the TV show with the most amount of episodes. Its merchandise is insane. There's practically a Scooby-themed product for just about any inanimate object you can imagine. Each episode of the original Where Are You?

At least one direct-to-video movie has come out each year sincetwo theatrical successful live action films were produced, and two live-action TV films were also made the first one garnering Cartoon Network its best ratings ever. Not bad for a little Hanna-Barbera show from the late 60s. Even with the main show over and all, Avatar: The Last Airbender has a movie out.

Aang isn't airbending away anytime soon. Avatar could beat SpongeBob in ratings AND the Kid's Choice Awards. We have defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation! Its initial episode season did good enough in testing that Nickelodeon ordered 14 more episodes. Then when the first 12 episodes actually airedit did good enough that 26 more episodes were ordered, making 52 episodes total.

Winx Club 's popularity is insane. About countries have a dub of this show. And there is a musical, an ice skating show, two movies one in 3-Da spin-off Pop Pixieand a monthly magazine.

And, of course, there's a ton of merchandise; in fact, Winx Club dolls were the third most popular dolls in the world one year. Oh, yeah — and Rainbow S. Guess which characters they've used the most to promote the said park Betty Boop still appears on a lot of merchandise, despite the fact that a large percentage of the people buying the merchandise have probably never watched a Betty Boop cartoon in their lives. Perhaps it's a Cash Cow Franchise Zombie? Felix the Cat was one of the earliest shows to be a cash cow by modern standards, making most of its money in the s.

It's still limping along on merchandise as of this writing, even though the last attempt to revive the show ended in Seth Green practically admitted in an interview that Robot Chicken is this for him, citing this fact as the main basis behind the self-cancellation of his other show, Titan Maximumdespite its fantastic performance ratings-wise. Ben 10 has three sequels Alien ForceUltimate Alienand Omniverse and one more in the pipelines, four made-for-TV movies, LOTS of toys, EVEN MORE merchandising tat Yes, tat.

Poorly designed and useless trinkets that no one in the right mind will touch. You know it's CN's cash cow when it airs on certain international CN feeds seemingly ten times a day. Cartoon Network has sparked a cult following the addition of Adventure Time.

You can find T-shirts of all sorts including show catchphrases and a variation of the face expression MemeticMutationwallets in the shape of Finn's head, and so forth.

Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball have also been giant successes. Before Ben 10 and Adventure Time came along, CN had Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls. Peppa Pig dethroned Thomas the Tank Engine as the most successful preschool show in the United Kingdom and has merchandise by the boatload in its home country, as well as a movie and three different live shows.

Paw Patrol has become Nick Jr's biggest hit since Dora, with a toyline that rivals Thomas the Tank Engine in size. While My Little Pony was always one of Hasbro's main toy-selling franchises, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic spawned a huge and vocal Periphery Demographic for several different reasons. This allowed them to start marketing for adults as well as their targets, young girls.

Thanks to the bronies, business for this franchise has never been better. We Love Fine and Hot Topic are selling apparel and accessories by the truckload, Hasbro is selling their toys just as much, and so on. It's also to the point to where Hasbro will ask the DHX team to introduce a new pony entirely for the purpose of selling toys for example, Princess Cadance, for a pink alicorn toy and the team will go ahead with it.

Hasbro has even released a spinoff film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls that featured the ponies as humans in a high-school setting. Originally, the bronies hated the very concept not that this is the first time this has happenedbut Hasbro stayed the course with the movie and it turned out to be both a financial and critical success, even with limited showings.

Now there's even a sequel for a spinoff of a toy series in the form of Rainbow Rocksand another sequel in the form of Friendship Games. Then there's the announcement of a theatrical movie for to prolong the success of the franchise.

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