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...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...million. Two episodes of Wayne's World spun out of an SNL skit: $170 million. Two of The Addams Family features: $160 million. Toss in a few movie series based on TV shows based on comic books -- two Batman ($410 million), four Superman ($400 million) and three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies ($250 million) -- and you have a portfolio that could make any film studio healthy now and for years to come. "The genre has enormous crossover appeal," says producer David Permut. "You're getting people who fondly remember the show, plus a whole younger generation who may know...
...star of Murder, She Wrote, cites loftier goals for her promotion of a series of videotapes of Beatrix Potter stories. "Children today are denied the luxury of innocence in their childhood," she says. "I wanted to sell these tapes. Show your children this, I thought, don't show them Ninja Turtles. Start them off with little allegorical tales, not those violent cartoons and movies...
...dematerialize as they grow more frightened about their chance of escape. The heroes rematerialize only when they start believing in themselves again. Superhero Zack goes on to win a break-dancing contest. Along with lessons in self-esteem, the show serves up good-versus-evil showdowns and kids as Ninja-like conquerors. Get ready for some more heroic real-kid spin-offs...
...winning product for the season so far appears to be Power Rangers action figures, the '90s answer to the Cabbage patch craze of the mid-'80s. The small plastic Ninja figurines are already sold out in most stores...