It would be nice if Stern did more to take licensed properties into new places: think of what B/W did with CFTBL or MB, adding new elements to the basic license to make it more than it was before. Then again, think of what B/W did with Popeye.

This so much! TNA and JJP are bringing back things that were more or less eliminated at Stern through a combination of cost controls and echo chamber design rules - widebodies, lower pops, outlane save posts, individually controlled drop banks.