Petition continuation

I will deal with this later, I have to run huskies cos I have a life etc. Topic locked.

*edit* no I'm not, now I have gotten home and actually read it. Since no one defending Steet or Steet himself even has any idea what the actual opinion of those not in favour of his silly petition was, then I see no point in persuing it, it has just been replaced with loosely based insults and assumptions. I oculd go onto pick apart his post explaining what a LiveJournal is for etc, explain about the Balto merchandise and opinions about WoC which *even I* liked, I could continue to talk about the rules of the forum, rules that newbies can't understand like don't double post etc.. well maybe we should introduce an IQ test before joining, that would solve a few problems. I could say a lot of things, but I won't as it would be lost. Just like this topic as it will be deleted a long with the last one soon.

*Edit again and I don't know why but..* People keep saying I want the Balto genre to die but well no, I just don't see a "better future" in the form of tv shows, DTV sequels (loads of them) and a stupid computer game common people surely it is quality not quantity???\n\n

Ah, opening this topic to insert a few of my opinions.  First of all, I just saw your email Street.  I had personally not been checking my TIC e-mail because I've been super busy with school.  So my apologies for "not caring".  It's been said over and over again, but some of us do have lives.  This is why I haven't been around.  When all is said and done, I'm more concerned about doing well in college than worrying about online petitions.

Secondly, while I feel a lot of your requests were a unreasonable (The soundtrack and a widescreen re-release are resonable, the TV show and video game are very much unreasonable) I don't really care if you go ahead with the petition or not.  While I don't mind being honest with people in situations that require a realistic view, I'm not one to shoot down their hopes either.  For example, CW(Tyger) asked me to sign a petition to get Father of the Pride back on the air on NBC.  I said I doubted it would happen, especially after what happened with Futurama on FOX (that had a few million signatures and did nothing to change the network's mind).  However I signed it anyway and wished the fans the best of luck.  As far as I know that show is still cancelled (darn shame too).

As for Universal, I doubt they'd listen to all of those requests.  As I've said some of them are quite unreasonable.  Maybe we'd get a soundtrack, a few plushies and DVD re-releases but that's a best case scenario.  As for the other things you've mentioned, those are multi-million dollar projects, maybe they'd gain some momentum among fans and potiental fans.  But there's no guarantee that such a thing will happen.  I mean Universal would have to pour millions into this show first producing it, then on a huge advertising and PR machine.  If they don't recover the costs of making the show and it turns out to be unprofitable than the plug will be quickly yanked.

Think about current day video games.  Even some of the best of games are hyped to the extreme.  Sometimes they live up to expectations, other times they flop, horribly.  Universal would have to pump millions into advertsing just to generate enough interest in getting people to pick up the game.  (An action game would work much better than an RPG by the way.)  But think about those hard core gamers, the majority of them, not the minority of us.  When they pick up the disc, the first thing they're going to ask themselves is "Balto?  What the #### is this?!?!"  Not, "Balto?  Oh yeah this children's animated game is going to be hot!"  At the best you may have parents buying for their younger kids.  Sales expectations would not reflect the true reality of the market.  Especially when an growing number of gamers (those who dish out the big bucks) are in their later stages of life (20s, 30s and even 40s!.

In all in all, I'm just being realistic with you Street.  I think this whole flame war over the petition thing has gone out of hand.  A few requests on the behalf of a small number of Balto fans is not worth such an ugly war of words.  Just reading through these threads alone and the war of words is enough to turn me off to the idea of posting the petition on my site.  I may do it, I may not.  But for the sake of all things sane, don't go on such an ugly rampage over one animated film.  It may be one of my favorites, but it's not that serious in the end.  If I disagreed with everyone who didn't like Balto or certain aspects of it (including a few real life friends) then I would be a pretty lonely person right now.

And being the demented admin that I am, the thread is closed once more.