Spin-offs have been happening for a long time. Harold Gildersleeve was a character on the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly (the one with the avalanche-prone closet) who got his own radio show, and then a short series of filler B-movies. As was often the case with this sort of skein, one of the…
A few years ago at B-Fest, in the middle of the night we were weirdly confronted with the Mickey Rooney picture Andy Hardy's Private Secretary. GalaxyJane and I exchanged puzzled looks, but both opined it would at least probably only run about an hour. Sadly, we were incorrect. This was the longest chapter of…
I really wonder at the economics of these figures. There seem to be literally thousands of them. How much are the license fees? How many of each figure do they have to sell to reach profit. I'm just amazed at how these things took off.