Sunday, July 15, 2018

Back In The Spotlight!

At the end of May 2018 online retailer TruffleShuffle.com announced the launch of a new product line.







There are currently 13 items listed, featuring vintage artwork by T.C.F.C's Mark Spangler, who helped to design The Get Along Gang back in the early 1980s along with Tony Byrd, Ralph Shaffer, Muriel Fahrion, Tom Jacobs and Linda Edwards.

It's not yet clear if this marks the beginning of an official relaunch or not. So far, there's been nothing in the licensing press or from American Greetings Entertainment, which is slightly odd. This could just be Am' Greetings "testing the water" rather than spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars working on a comeback for the Gang, only to find there isn't a substantial market for the property.

Other "legacy" I.P.s  A.G.E. have plans for  include Tinpo, a live action version of  Holly Hobbie and (yet another) animated reboot of the Care Bears.https://twitter.com/Zedoimi/status/1009453347101954049 
We at B.S.J. are naturally thrilled that this unjustly neglected franchise is back in the public eye and hope it does well,  unlike the last attempt to bring it back in 2005.💔😠

2 comments:

Keverh said...

Just found this and would love to see more GAG out. The website died that they teased back when. Sad. Also how many GAG comics do you own?

Paul M. said...

All 93 Marvel UK issues, all 6 Star Comics and sundry annuals & anthologies.

"Those Characters from Cleveland" have two "live" trademark applications for the property but there are also lots of "dead" ones too, so don't break out the champagne just yet.

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4803%3Atdn1vu.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=live&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Get+Along+Gang&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24ALL&p_op_ALL=ADJ&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query