Wait, so Punny Factory is actually a licensed theme? (Surely they didn't just center the game around Don Knotts' likeness without an agreement with his estate.)
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:Using a Don Knotts impersonator to narrate this game is a great way to expand the market to people in their 80s. It's an unexplored and unexploited market segment for pinball!
Other suggested future themes to capitalize:
Lee Greenwood: Not in This Lifetime (seriously, time is running out)
Beaver's Pinball Party
MATLOCK!
Pinball She Wrote
Ensure!
My granddad would have found it hilarious!
My granddad passed away seven years ago.
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Quoted from blueberryjohnson:I'm impressed they licensed the Don Knotts' voice likeness since his soundalike is all over this commercial product.
They did license it, right?
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:No. The future C&D is gonna be great, those who missed Skit-B get to experience the excitement!
I think you're probably correct since the question is always met with silence, but they can't say they weren't warned. Two years ago:
Quoted from EternitytoM83:Wait, so Punny Factory is actually a licensed theme? (Surely they didn't just center the game around Don Knotts' likeness without an agreement with his estate.)
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Quoted from TreyBo69:As an aside, Google reverse image search has made huge strides the past few years if you feel like knowing where Andrew is "acquiring" art
Are you implying that he's not paying artists for their work?
images (resized).jpegQuoted from flynnibus:Maybe andrew should fire Kevin Kulek as his licensing manager,take some of his fivr budget and hire someone to read him the British Columbia law on publicly rights (commonly referred to as ‘right of publicity’ or ‘wrongful misappropriation of personality’)
“ The provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan have all enacted legislation governing personality. The most explicit provincial legislation is the Privacy Act of British Columbia, which states that an unauthorised use of name or portrait, including caricature, of another ‘for the purpose of advertising or promoting the sale of, or other trading in, property or services’ is a tort, actionable without proof of damage”
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1a1b54e0-51b2-42ef-b4cc-2a1107c555df#:~:text=right%20of%20publicity%3F-,In%20Canada%2C%20rights%20of%20publicity%20are%20protected%20by%20the%20common,of%20his%20or%20her%20image.
Plus… many of thd people he has chosen to steal from would have trademarks on their public personas, opening him to trademark claims as well… where there is lots of international protection too.
But hey, we’re just trolls on the internet telling the head of a company how basic intellectual property works …. I mean he’s big and successful!!
Get out of here with your trolling. I, for one, am going to use my newfound understanding of fair use and copyright (courtesy of Pinball Adventures) to cash in.
Announcing my brand new line of t-shirts, now for sale on Redbubble!
t-shirts (resized).pngQuoted from toddtuckey:I thought you would all enjoy one of Andrew's responses to my QR Code idea I wanted to do.....and see for yourself and how his "Staff of 12" thought QR Codes are SO outdated!
To be fair, a lot of people were saying that QR codes were dead back then. But then COVID happened, and all the restaurants put their menus online to keep everyone's grubby hands off of them, and now QR codes are everywhere.
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Quoted from WarriorPin:Shocked that any would think “puns” - yeah that will sell a lot of machines. What next, an algebra themed machine?
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:They have officially surpassed deeproot and delivered a paid for game! It's a low bar to hurdle, but these guys are officially better than Rober Mueller and the Deeproot team. Congrats!
U3N5.gifQuoted from PanzerKraken:https://www.facebook.com/reel/1714164585699090
Haha it sounds great!
I feel a little bad for Oasis Arcade. They were so hyped to receive it, right up until their ears started bleeding.
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Quoted from Insanity199:I just read through a few of the "Punnys" in the sample pages. If you hate yourself, you should do the same.
Security cam footage from the offices of the book publishers that Andrew submitted this to before going the self-publishing route:
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For a minute there I thought the Don Knotts estate had filed legal action to claim their rightful share of those fat stacks of Punny profits.
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:Why does "spec's" have an apostrophe?
That's the final straw. I'm definitely not buying one now.
Pun-ctuation was never Andrew's strong suit.
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