{"id":2391,"date":"2015-10-27T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:30:35","slug":"dragons-lair-the-movie-kickstarter-why-you-need-to-be-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2015\/10\/27\/dragons-lair-the-movie-kickstarter-why-you-need-to-be-careful\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon’s Lair: The Movie Kickstarter – Why you need to be careful!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an original-and-still fan of all things Dragon’s Lair<\/i>, this is a hard blog post for me to write, but one that I believe is important. While I casually made my thoughts known about the Dragon’s Lair: The Movie Kickstarter<\/a> on a few social media sites, it’s clear there’s enough confusion out there that something more formal needed to be written.<\/p>\n

Typically, Kickstarter<\/b> has been used to fund a specific project to completion, with most rewards centered around eventually delivering said completed project. It struck me as odd that this particular Kickstarter<\/b> offered no reward tiers with the finished product, even though some, like the $125 pledge tier, offers a copy of Dragon’s Lair Blu-ray<\/a> (plus all prior reward tiers). Unfortunately, if you don’t look carefully, you may not realize that the Dragon’s Lair Blu-ray<\/a> that’s being offered is the same one that was released in 2007 (in case you didn’t know, that version is essentially a remastering of the original Dragon’s Lair<\/em> arcade game playable on any device that plays Blu-ray movie discs).<\/p>\n

Now, that may not be a big deal if you think you’re funding work on a movie. Unfortunately, again, if you don’t look carefully, you may not realize that what you’re actually funding is a pitch video<\/b> so they can try and get funding to then go on to create a movie. So yeah, we’re at least one step removed from the movie making process, which makes sense considering the\u00a0budget goal of $550,000. That’s not much for a movie, but seems like a lot for a pitch video that may or may not get “real” investors interested.<\/p>\n

If, knowing all of this you still want to support them, by all means, do so, but all the Dragon’s Lair<\/i>– and Space Ace<\/i>-related items I’ve bought over 30+ years will have to suffice for now from my end. I’ll nevertheless be keeping a close eye on the progress of the funding, even though I obviously can’t share in what I feel is misplaced excitement over this particular effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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