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Mr. Bambu
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Anyways I'm only gonna bother adding to the list stuff that's over the current Top 10, since I feel we have established a good amount of stuff as milestone shit in terms of age.
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Also, I don't think I'm gonna add this, solely based on the fact that I don't think this is an actual franchise?
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Would Sherlock Holmes count? The first book came out in 1887 that's 134 years ago.
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It has a book and multiple movies, does that not count?
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Narnia came out 71 years ago as well.
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Sure, but isn't it just a retelling of the same story? Franchise implies commercial intent, which as far as I'm aware Flatland isn't terribly commercialized
Cthulhu Mythos is on the border of this, since while it was a long-running "series" originally, it's only become a franchise recently, with pieces of media based on the original
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Having adaptations isn't the same as being a franchise tho.
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I dont really know as ive never watched them, theres two movies just called Flatland and another one thats called Flatland 2 so…
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This one I'm also adverse to, since while it is sort of a franchise, the new Sherlock Holmes stuff is legally distinct from the original stuff. I'd consider the original books entirely separate from the new shit due to the family of ACD blocking people from true adaptations.
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This is from the Flatland Wikipedia page under adaptations and parodies:
“Numerous imitations or sequels to Flatland have been created. Examples include:
Films and TV
Books and short stories inspired by Flatlandinclude:[citation needed]
“Numerous imitations or sequels to Flatland have been created. Examples include:
Films and TV
- Flatland (1965), an animated short film based on the novella, was directed by Eric Martin and based on an idea by John Hubley.[10][11][12]
- Flatlandia (1982), an Italian animated short film, directed by Michele Emmer.[13]
- Flatland (2007), a 98-minute animated independent feature film version directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr, updates the satire from Victorian England to the modern-day United States.[14]
- Flatland: The Movie (2007), by Dano Johnson and Jeffrey Travis,[15] is a 34-minute animated educational film.[16] Its sequel was Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012), inspired by the novel Sphereland by Dionys Burger.[17][18][19]
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Loss", the USS Enterprise becomes trapped within a field of two-dimensional lifeforms. [20]
Books and short stories inspired by Flatlandinclude:[citation needed]
- An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton (1907)
- The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster (1963)
- Sphereland by Dionys Burger (1965)
- The Incredible Umbrella by Marvin Kaye (1980)
- "Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker (1983)
- The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney (1984)
- Flatterland by Ian Stewart (2001)
- Spaceland by Rudy Rucker (2002)
- VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula, which uses the two-dimensional world to critique contemporary society”
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I think Nintendo is 131 years old.
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Nintendo isn't really a franchise
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So is Disney
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Would Felix the Cat be valid for this list. No Verse page but we have a composite profile.
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Akira is 33 and Dragon Ball is 35 (Pokemon is surprisingly young at 25). Fist of the North Star is just as old as Dragon Ball. YYH is 29
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peasant anime is below good verses, as is right and just
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Saint Seiya is just as old as DB, Ranma is 32 and Hajime No Ippo be up there at 32 as well. Mega Man and SF are 34.
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Dragon Ball came out in 1984, The Legend of Zelda is one year after Mario so it should be on there too. I believe Dragon Quest has some pages here as well, so it would be the same as Zelda, and Final Fantasy is one year after that. So those should all be added. Also, if I remember correctly, Gundam is pretty old as well.
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'84? I thought it was '86.
Edit: I'm an idiot.
Edit: I'm an idiot.
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My favorite verse hasn't been mentioned here, anime peasant. It's only 38 years old.
Anyways as I said, I'm not gonna bother listing stuff outside of the Top 10 anymore, so it's only worth bringing up shit 67 years and above.
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Just inserting Transformers here for being since 1984 and Tintin has been around since 1930. 37 years and 91 years
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First fiction of Nasuverse is Mahoyo from 1996 so should be 25 years old not 23
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Not the most fleshed out pages on the wiki, but I have a couple possible ones:
Popeye (1929)
Dunsanyverse (1905)
Popeye (1929)
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Pac-Man and Game & Watch are both 41 years old.
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Guys the bottom of the top ten is like minimum 70 years old.
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Genshin Impact
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The Wizard of Oz is 121 years old.
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Yes we have a page for the wicked witch.
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We also have pages for the main cast of the books.
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the best of the best.
I am almost sure that there are some verses here that could be added here, but I'm not remembering...
For a second I thought Sherlock Holmes (At least the oldest iteration) would be counted here.
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The Real World
Real Life/The Real World/Reality. It is where we all live. Real Life is the conjectured state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether it is observable or...
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13.77 billion years and counting.
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There was actually a small amount of franchising back when ACD was alive, with a play that was primarily written by William Gillette.
Several modern Sherlock Holmes works have also been licensed by the Conan Doyle estate, and as such could be considered the same franchise.
