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Hayama Akito · May 23, 2016

https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/734843964709175297

"I'll pay real actual money for them."

EDIT: The "Mansion Mansion" thing was in fact written by Ron, lol.

KingWool · May 23, 2016

Disney: Who? What?

Teknopathetic · May 23, 2016

Good luck getting shit back from that vault.

disappeared · May 23, 2016

I do feel a little bad for the guy having his creations completely locked away.

exmachina64 · May 23, 2016

I wish. ;_;

Also, it's Maniac Mansion.

OnionPowder · May 23, 2016

This would be a dream come true, but i don't see Disney letting anything go or Ron having enough to buy whatever price Disney would theoretically come up with.

Linkstrikesback · May 23, 2016

Meanwhile at disney

PBY · May 23, 2016

Dude gonna have to go on kickstarter and make Crazy Spooky Manor and Orangutan Isle.

kenta · May 23, 2016

I'm sure they'd be willing...

..to license them back to him

hosannainexcelsis · May 23, 2016

Has Disney ever sold an IP they've owned?

Xamtheking · May 23, 2016

I mean like
There's a non-zero chance this could happen
So keep faith

Revolutionary · May 23, 2016

Would be awesome but this is Disney we're talking about... not happening.

Weltall Zero · May 23, 2016

You wrote one of the games wrong, it's Monkey Monkey.

DownGrader · May 23, 2016

Linkstrikesback said:
Meanwhile at disney

If only!

Exodust · May 23, 2016

Mansion Mansion is too valuable of an IP.

Laevateinn · May 23, 2016

Just make Primate Atoll instead.

TimmiT · May 23, 2016

Disney isn't out of the game industry, they just no longer develop games themselves. They still license out IP to game publishers.

RazorbackDB · May 23, 2016

Where is Ron Gilbert nowadays anyway? He left double fine in between the whole Broke Age thing right?

exmachina64 · May 23, 2016

Linkstrikesback said:
Meanwhile at disney

Change that to billion.

RazorbackDB said:
Where is Ron Gilbert nowadays anyway? He left double fine in between the whole Broke Age thing right?

He started his own company and is working on Thimbleweed Park.

FelipeMGM · May 23, 2016

Only Sony can convice Disney to use their old Lucasarts IP's

Rymuth · May 23, 2016

Just make a new game called The Secret of Donkey Island. It works on so many levels.

MiniBossBattle · May 23, 2016

Disney don't give back IP.

CalamityPixel · May 23, 2016

"Disney" "Sell" "IP"

Sorry, I don't think the laws of literacy allow those three words in the same sentence.

Edit* I cannot count

TimmiT · May 23, 2016

RazorbackDB said:
Where is Ron Gilbert nowadays anyway? He left double fine in between the whole Broke Age thing right?

He's working on Thimbleweed Park right now, which was funded through Kickstarter.

DownGrader · May 23, 2016

RazorbackDB said:
Where is Ron Gilbert nowadays anyway? He left double fine in between the whole Broke Age thing right?

Making Thimbleweed Park, a Maniac Mansion-style P&C adventure.

Hayama Akito · May 23, 2016

Weltall Zero said:
You wrote one of the games wrong, it's Monkey Monkey.

LOL, actually i just copy&pasted the tweet.

I don't believe Disney will release those IPs, but man, Ron Gilbert is still my hero...

L Thammy · May 23, 2016

Waiting for the Maniac Mansion movie by Pixar.

CalamityPixel said:
"Disney" "Sell" "IP"

Sorry, I don't think the laws of literacy allow those two words in the same sentence.

Laws of literacy?

Het_Nkik · May 23, 2016

Leave OP alone, Ron's the one who called it Mansion Mansion.

bjork · May 23, 2016

I would be amazed if this actually happened. I bet they'd do it, but only for so much money that even a smash hit installment in one of both of these series wouldn't cover the cost.

Militaratus · May 23, 2016

Linkstrikesback said:
Meanwhile at disney

*start coughing*

Well, don't you think we should maybe ask for more than a million dollars. A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Disney alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year.

Alright, we hold the IP's ransom for... *dramatic zoom* one-hundred billion dollars! *Dr. Evil sting*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmXHvGZiSY

PurpleMoustache · May 23, 2016

RazorbackDB said:
Where is Ron Gilbert nowadays anyway? He left double fine in between the whole Broke Age thing right?

He was at Double Fine for The Cave which was kind of bad, and early planning meetings for Broken Age. He made a pirate themed iOS Match-3 game and had a Kickstarter with his Maniac Mansion partner Garry Winnick to make Thimbleweed Park

Mushroomer25 · May 23, 2016

Didn't a remaster of Maniac Mansion just come out?

If nothing else, Disney has some number on the IP's value. Is it in Gilbert's price range? Who's to say?

Bitch Pudding · May 23, 2016

CalamityPixel said:
"Disney" "Sell" "IP"

Sorry, I don't think the laws of literacy allow those two words in the same sentence.

Those are three words.

KingV · May 23, 2016

hosannainexcelsis said:
Has Disney ever sold an IP they've owned?

Yes, Power Rangers. Probably others.

Edit: they also sold Digimon.

GavinUK86 · May 23, 2016

I would LOVE a new Mansion Mansion game. The old Mansion Mansion was the best.

DownGrader · May 23, 2016

PurpleMoustache said:
He was at Double Fine for The Cave which was kind of bad

Was it? I was planning to grab it on Wii U. Considering that, after Broken Age, I don't really expect Ron alone to make a game worthy of his LucasArts/Humongous titles, how's the game?

Jocchan · May 23, 2016

Loved Mansion Mansion. My favorite part was microwaving a microwave.

OnionPowder · May 23, 2016

DownGrader said:
Was it? I was planning to grab it on Wii U. Considering that, after Broken Age, I don't really expect Ron alone to make a game worthy of his LucasArts/Humongous titles, how's the game?

Give it a shot. I liked it and so do a few others, but it seems a bit divisive among adventure fans.

Stumpokapow · May 23, 2016

I thought the Cave was pretty good. Good little plot and characters, played well in multiplayer, replay value since it takes a few playthroughs to see everything, good sense of humour. I mean, it's not a point and click adventure, it's a role-based puzzle platformer like Lost Vikings. But given that, I liked it.

Weltall Zero · May 23, 2016

Bitch Pudding said:
Those are three words.

Technically, four.

RazorbackDB · May 23, 2016

exmachina64 said:
He started his own company and is working on Thimbleweed Park.

TimmiT said:
He's working on Thimbleweed Park right now, which was funded through Kickstarter.

DownGrader said:
Making Thimbleweed Park, a Maniac Mansion-style P&C adventure.

Thank you, Thimbleweed Park looks kinda cool actually.

Easy_D · May 23, 2016

Ugh. Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island 3 would be fucking great

mattiewheels · May 23, 2016

Don't see them selling or him having the funds to buy, but is there a chance they could license it to him so he can work on sequels under their guidance?

herod · May 23, 2016

But wouldn't that overlap their POTC franchise? Seems incredibly unlikely notwithstanding their usual reticence.

hosannainexcelsis · May 23, 2016

KingV said:
Yes, Power Rangers. Probably others.

Edit: they also sold Digimon.

Huh, I didn't realize Disney had owned those IPs at one point.

mattiewheels said:
Don't see them selling or him having the funds to buy, but is there a chance they could license it to him so he can work on sequels under their guidance?

On a Retronauts podcast, Gilbert said he's not interested in revisiting these series unless he owns and has full control over the IPs.

DownGrader · May 23, 2016

mattiewheels said:
Don't see them selling or him having the funds to buy, but is there a chance they could license it to him so he can work on sequels under their guidance?

Probably? I mean, there are Grim Fandango and DoTT remasters, with Full Throttle one on the way. However, none other than Sony is heavily involved in allowing the devs to make these games, and they aren't sequels.

hosannainexcelsis said:
On a Retronauts podcast, Gilbert said he's not interested in revisiting these series unless he owns and has full control over the IPs.

Oh.

herod said:
But wouldn't that overlap their POTC franchise? Seems incredibly unlikely notwithstanding their usual reticence.

IIRC, the first time Gilbert wanted to buy Monkey Island IP (right after the acquisition), one of his points was Disney having no need in two "stereotypical pirate" franchises, with POTC being far more widespread and successful.

Hsieh · May 23, 2016

hosannainexcelsis said:
Has Disney ever sold an IP they've owned?

They gave Chris Sanders back his unused cat character from the original version of Bolt. That cat appears as Ogo in Sanders' webcomic Kiskaloo.

Salsa · May 23, 2016

Gilbert really went from Grumpy Gamer to just Sad Developer in my eyes

I like him but man is he caught in the past

Wereroku · May 23, 2016

hosannainexcelsis said:
Huh, I didn't realize Disney had owned those IPs at one point.

Yep Saban sold power Rangers for a big chunk of money then bought them back for a bargin basement price.

L.B. Jeffries · May 23, 2016

I dunno, Disney actually has a legit claim to Monkey Island beyond just IP rights. Monkey Island was based on the Pirates of the Carribean ride at Disney World. Granted, it's an elaborate fan fiction of it that has now expanded into its own lore, but this is pretty heavily referenced in the first 2 games. I remember when Gilbert was making fun of the POTC movies for stealing his ideas and being sorta baffled by it.

Mansion Mansion would be a lot of fun though.

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