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Re:Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to i... by cornholio on Monday May 14, 2018 @05:40AM (#17064068)
Indeed, the simple fact that this petition is successful is itself proof that the franchise is valuable and should not be given away.

Maybe a better course of action would be to convince Disney to allow a sequel owned by the original author, while retaining future rights.

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Re:Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to i... by jamesrcole on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:33AM (#17064856)
Copying and pasting what I wrote in another comment, Ron has said "The only way I would or could make another Monkey Island is if I owned the IP."

https://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland

(He has also said this in podcasts).

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Re:Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to i... by WorldMaker on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:38PM (#17066916)
As an easy counterpoint to this scenario, Tim Schafer and Double Fine talked Disney into letting them revisit/enhance Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle. Disney has no problem relicensing IP, it just doesn't care to sell it.

(IIRC, Tim Schafer has even mentioned they have the option to create sequels in some of the licenses, but they don't have strong ideas for them at the moment.)

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