TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
So the Napoleon series of movies is going to see the dissolution of the Fifth French Republic and it's replacement by the Third French Empire under Emperor Napoleon IV now????
Well, can't wait for the Romanov Restoration in post-soviet Russia to follow.
I swear if the Anastasia movie makes the Russians want the monarchy back you bet the Soviets will call for civil war it will also reveal that the Soviets dont care about their people
Napoleonic France is back, back again. Can't be worse than the republic at least.
This does bring up the question of what Louis, Prince Napoléon will be called though.
Napoleon IV as direct successor to Napoleon III or Napoleon VI to legitimize Napoleon IV (Louis, Prince Imperial and son of Napoleon III) and Napoleon V (Victor, Prince Napoléon and his dad)
A hole-filled sack bulging with cow dung would be better than the French Republic. Nero would be better than the French Republic. A mole rat would be better than the French Republic.
The HBO miniseries of Rome was pretty good with detailing the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
I love that series. I watched it multiple times. To this day the phrase 'He was a Consul of Rome!' lives rent free in my head. Along with 'True Roman bread, for true Romans'.
Am I the only one who thinks that the whole 'restoration of the Bonepartes' is a bit too much? Like I can see why a movie can start a revolt in Romania because communism sucks and the whole nation was a barrel of gunpowder waiting to explode but this sudden revive of bonapartism is a bit much in a very republican france whose relation with American pop-culture can be sumed up as distrustfull.
Anthony "Tony" Baxter looked at the Imagineer's around the Table, looking at the story notes for the big attractions and plans that would Disneyland's great rebirth.
Big Thunder Mountan Railroad had been one of the Key Atractions to frontload a grand adventurous idea to be on a cursed railroad controlled by a native american spirt down a mountain run by one Barnabus T Bullion.
While the Big Buzz around the park was something special for War of the Worlds, you knew most assuredly that you had something, and that something was an idea.
Now having ideas wasn't a bad thing, it was part of the name Imagineers, but while the quacks that plan this party like to hide things away for later, you wanted to hammer something strong something beautiful and long lasting.
A Story with Heroes, Villains, Exotic Locales and cool ideas given form.
And you can't just do that from a theme park alone, I mean you could, but that would require like all the theme parks working together to tell the story and you doubt everyone would want to deal with the logistics of that.
But you needed something more to tell it.
So you grabbed all your notes and mozied on down to the Writers for hire and looked at them or rather One in particular.
"Uh, Cat O'brian you have a few minutes?" You said looking at the woman as she put down her Sci-Fi book, and then looked at you.
"Yep don't wear out the name, I do weird ideas for fun." she said. "Imagineer?"
"Yeah, I work for the park." You said. "I'm here on a little, personal adventure."
"You are not here to talk math for the best roller coaster are you?" She said half amused.
"No…I'm looking for a writer to make something cool." You said.
You then handed over the notes , dozens of pages of doodles, and story ideas, all compiled into the old file called "Discovery Bay." Now you knew it would never get off the ground, not even with all this cash flow, but if something concrete were to work.
"I'll get you something in a Week, maybe two if I get something really good." Catherine O'Brian said as she went to work immediately. "It's gonna be a draft so don't expect any miracles."
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JOURNEY OF SEA
GENRE: Adventure/Pulp
SUBGENRE: History/Fantasy
FORMAT: Television (Western Animation)
Premise: Formed in the 1500s following the Discovery of the Americans, the Society of Explorers and Adventuers, was founded to document, explore and catalog the various wonders, scientific discoveries and dangers across the Globe from Magical and Powerful Anomalies to the strange and unusual.
The Journey Of SEA follows the Organization from 1815 to 1905, during the third "Great Exploration Period" of the Society, which follows the early exploration of Africa , South America, and the Wild Wild West.
Main Characters: The Major POV's of the various stories.
Jason Chandler: Born in Upstate New York in 1838, Jason Chandler is the Major POV of the SEA Society from the 1840s to 1899, the Son of a Scottish-American Mining Engineer and a Seamstress, The Majority of the Story follows his evolution from a young dreamer who wants to see the wider American countryside to SEA's Secretary to eventually President of the Society, growing more hopeful to bitter to Whistful for one more Adventure in his home of Discovery Bay California. The most Outwordly Heroic of the Main POV's cares about the thrill of discovery and charting a world unseen, but also his own talent in engineering. He Died in 1919, at the age of 81.
Barnabus T Bullion: Born in New York City in 1829 to a Jeweler parent, The Bullion Family followed the money, Gold Bullions that is, The Big Thunder Mountain Company was built to its great hights with his own two hands during the California and Nevada Gold Rushes, and during the failed Arizona Rush when he encounters the Spirit of "Big Thunder Mountain" in 1880, He is the Main POV of the Grand Moments of Movement in America, the Gold Rushes, An Anti- Hero in many respects, he is a man who cares for his employees and families even if he is forced to follow unscrupulous methods to care for them. He died in 1889 after a period of illness in the Klondike Goldrush.
Harrison Hightower the 3rd: The Most Morally Unscrupulous of the Trio, Born in 1825 in New York, built his fortune through grand public displays of his wealth and treasures, a Hotel of Finery, and being cutthroat in both adventuring and in life, is considered responsible for the Hotel Boom in New York and giving William Randolph Hearst his start as a Newspaperman. He disappears on New Year's Eve 1899, after a cursed relic "Kills" him.
Abigail Bullion: Born in New York in 1866, Abigail is the POV that represents the transition from Exploration in the Physical sense to societal and scientific exploration, living to see the taming of the American frontier and the various social changes that come with it, as society looks inward in the post-war Gilded Age and all the societal upheaval, the good and ill. That's not to say she's not filled with the same wanderlust as her Father, she continued the Klondike Expedition and settled within Discovery Bay as a base for her various Anthropological Expeditions, hoping to bring clarity and respect in a world of hatred and racism. Is still alive at the time of the Chronicling of the SEA's third expedition age, in 1955.
SEA Society Members: Examples of Other Members of the Society...
Captain Mary Oceaneer: Captain of various Ocean based expeditions for the Society, looking for lost shipwrecks and studying various aquatic lifeforms from Dolphins to Whales, from the RV Oceaneer's Lab (And its successors) across multiple decades of life, she even is one of the Societies leading Humanitarians, doing aid missions across the world when not on mission. Still alive as of the Chronicling in 1955.
Henry Mystic: Occult Expert, Traveler, and collector of the Strange and Unusual, Henry Mystic is a man who has seen and done it all in various stripes. With a house of curiosities and a lifetime of stories to tell he has one of the more unusual careers as a member of SEA's, from stopping a Curse of a Chinise Emperor to discussing the Nature of Dreams with the Aboriginals of Australia, he's seen and done all while still finding time to categorize everything.
Affiliates: Those who come bearing other Stories or adventures of note during the Era but are not full members.
Sanjar Rainsford: An Indian-British Big Game Hunter from South Africa, who tells the tale of Grand Hunts, and a queer and evil encounter with a man who hunts "The Most Dangerous Game of them All". He briefly becomes Head of SEA's Animal Conservation Department, and later a Founding Member of one of the Societies Offshoots, the "Adventuer's Club"
Theodore "TR" Roosevelt: President, Rough Rider, Trust Buster, icon...And a dozen other things of note. Founded the Adventurer's Club following disagreements with SEA's leadership in 1905. Has some of the More wilder stories Jason's ever heard and only half of them are probably true.
Jakob Puch: A Polish Inventor, Polymath, and Nationalist, born in 1809, he spent much of his time building innovations in Steam Technology and transportation, including a "Steam Car". A backer of the Society who entered their orbit in 1840 funding various expeditions and projects over the course of 20 years of friendship. He is a Dreamer who wishes for Poland's freedom. He is killed in the January Uprising (August 12th 1863) defeating his enemy Baron Markov, and saving his Family, and thousands of his people from an invading Russian Army.
He is also the Inventor of the SEA's Society Research Ship Dawnbreaker.
Antagonists: Though many are One-off Villains. There are Two Major Antagonists that face the Society at various points.
The Royal Exploration Society of Letters: A British Royal Society that starts as something of a friendly rival within the Adventuring Sphere, trying to claim the best achievements for British Pride and Honor, as well as collector's pieces for one of their various backers. Then they have a slow and gradual change to plunderers and cutthroats as the eye of British Imperialism turns a quirky British society of gentlemen(and women) into an arm of the Empire that conquered a Quarter of the Globe.
The Knights of the Golden Circle: What Remains of Confederate Paramilitaries that espouse the "Lost Cause" and Work for the Restoration of their Confederacy by any Means Necessary. These violent and delusional thugs disguised as gentlemen work to find various artifacts and knowledge to either sell on the black market to finance their goals or use for their own nefarious end. They are defeated and scattered three times, once in 1857, another in 1865, and a third and final time in 1880. But while their physical manifestation was destroyed their poisonous ideology continues to be battled to this very day...
AN: So I like the Theme Park Storyline characters and think their Neat Disney NOW MAKE an Animated TV Show about it NOW before people forget about them!!
Am I the only one who thinks that the whole 'restoration of the Bonepartes' is a bit too much? Like I can see why a movie can start a revolt in Romania because communism sucks and the whole nation was a barrel of gunpowder waiting to explode but this sudden revive of bonapartism is a bit much in a very republican france whose relation with American pop-culture can be sumed up as distrustfull.
Agreed it's so weird and such an unlikely result, I thought this was a joke post. Like the last guillotine execution in France was literally when Star Wars came out, so it's not like the French revolution was that distance.
We have been too much of a good family man and friend to have enough AP left to pick investment opportunities and/or networking actions ...
And speaking of investment opportunities @Magoose Can we buy Hasbro, Mattel, and/or Bandai so that we have more control over our merchandising (and get more money out of that by eliminating the middleman)?
I am enjoying the quest , and so am a bit hesitant to bring this up. But I think 5 billion for DC is an amount that pushes my suspension of disbelief a bit too much.
For reference: the population of the US in 78 is approx 222 million. And DC just raised its comic book price to 50 cents per book. To reach 5 billion, every man woman and child in the US would have to buy 45 comic books each.
Not only is it questionable whether DC has the printing capacity to print 10 billion comic books (considering in 1977 they sold 8 million comics a month- or 96 million a year. 10 billion is 100 fold increase in Monthly printing assuming they have a year to print everything) but it is also questionable whether or not they had the number of comic books to sell.
Couple this with the restoration of the Bonapartes and…it is a bit much.
Edit: also in reference, 5 billion in revenue is more revenue than many key American companies. Monsanto, General Foods, 3M all made less than 5 billion in revenue in 1978.
I am enjoying the quest , and so am a bit hesitant to bring this up. But I think 5 billion for DC is an amount that pushes my suspension of disbelief a bit too much.
For reference: the population of the US in 78 is approx 222 million. And DC just raised its comic book price to 50 cents per book. To reach 5 billion, every man woman and child in the US would have to buy 45 comic books each.
Not only is it questionable whether DC has the printing capacity to print 10 billion comic books (considering in 1977 they sold 8 million comics a month- or 96 million a year. 10 billion is 100 fold increase in Monthly printing assuming they have a year to print everything) but it is also questionable whether or not they had the number of comic books to sell.
Couple this with the restoration of the Bonapartes and…it is a bit much.
Edit: also in reference, 5 billion in revenue is more revenue than many key American companies. Monsanto, General Foods, 3M all made less than 5 billion in revenue in 1978.
You had the opportunity with Star Wars merchandise to make up to ten billion dollars.
All I'm going to say is this:
I do the same merch rolls out of 10 billion every time.
I have always done that with the merch rolls for every franchise that warrants it.
As for the Bonapartes becoming president…
Out of all the insane shit that happened, from Romania exploding in revolution, to George inventing cameras that are decades ahead of time, to ILM deciding to help with that…
That bit of silliness gets you turned off?.
People were asking me to make the movies release have more weight on the world besides fun and profit so I did.
So your telling me not to after people begged me to do that?
For reference: the population of the US in 78 is approx 222 million. And DC just raised its comic book price to 50 cents per book. To reach 5 billion, every man woman and child in the US would have to buy 45 comic books each.
Yeah, I have to agree with you... Add to that that at this point superhero comics weren't that popular in Europe (we had plenty of Fraco-Belgian Albums and local Comic Magazines, but not that many people superhero comics), and the same with Japan
Columbia getting a anywhere between 100 and 300 millions extra profit thanks to DC comic and merchandising sales would be a bit of stretch, but feasible, but there is not enough comic consumers in the world at this point to get 5 billion dollars
Out of all the insane shit that happened, from Romania exploding in revolution, to George inventing cameras that are decades ahead of time, to ILM deciding to help with that…
That bit of silliness gets you turned off?.
People were asking me to make the movies release have more weight on the world besides fun and profit so I did.
So your telling me not to after people begged me to do that?
Well, to be fair @Magoose I only remember a couple of people ever asking you to do more culture rolls...
The rest of us were happy with making great films (without worrying about the global sociopolitical impact of them), and enjoying wholesome Carrie fluff...
