There is a powerhouse line-up of major franchises and popular characters set to debut in 2012.
One target group will be popular characters from Facebook games and mobile apps.
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Enlist the aid of popular characters from Chrysler mythology who already support Romney, including Clint Eastwood and even Lee Iacocca.
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The discovery means that major plotlines have been salvaged, and fans can revisit the childhood and teenage years of some of today's most popular characters.
His most popular characters, the doggedly determined Mickey Mouse and the libidinous Donald Duck, represented the ordinary man's ability to triumph over any adversity, even a Great Depression.
Fox Kids cartoons X-Men and Spider-Man proved a perfect gateway drug into the Marvel universe and they were followed up not by reiterations on the same popular characters but with attempts (most of them admittedly less than successful) to further the popularity of B-level characters like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and The Fantastic Four.
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Critics -- including consumer groups, librarians and other entertainment companies -- question whether one company should get preferential treatment for sweeping legislation it wants to ensure that the company can continue charging premium prices for videos and other products featuring Mickey Mouse and a menagerie of other popular cartoon characters.
Popular names sometimes reflect characters in pop culture, style icons or plain old demographic changes.
The top cop adds that even if his department is taking heat from the left, police stops of suspicious characters are popular where likely crime victims live.
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In 2006, a Portuguese television show popular with teen girls depicted characters experience symptoms of a strange life-threatening illness.
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Viacom's chief executive, Philippe Dauman, said last month that the company was exploring ways of getting people to subscribe to its popular online games based on characters such as Dora the Explorer.
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) The actors who play Pam, Jim, Dwight and other beloved characters from the popular NBC show "The Office" bade farewell on Saturday to the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Scranton that served as the TV setting for their fictional paper company.
With an uplifting, "people power" theme combining references to British history and pop culture, the rambunctious ceremony covered subjects as diverse as the Industrial Revolution, the National Health Service, popular children's book characters including Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, and pop stars past and present.
As a teenager the 27-year-old began writing novels about angst-ridden characters that proved tremendously popular with China's angsty youth.
Our most popular stories today are teeming with characters having face-to-face relationships in a very real world, however fantastic its vampires or wizards might be.
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The Mr Men books are a popular series for younger children, which has characters such as Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine.
They have proved so popular that the firm recently boasted that the characters had overtaken Star Wars to become the best-selling action figures in the US and Europe.
The game allows kids and families to build their own LEGO worlds, or take part in epic adventures featuring LEGO characters and themes inspired by the popular toy lines.
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His enduring, popular dramas are graced by appealing and believable characters whose feelings are portrayed so deeply and so vividly that, as we look on, their emotions soon become ours as well, and their heartbreaks seem as wrenching as our own.
Blue is a wildly popular "machinima" video series created by manipulating characters inside Microsoft's videogame Halo 2.
Popular games in China typically feature elves, dwarves or characters that predate the past century of political turmoil.
The painting's brutalized characters, drawn from history, the Bible, popular culture and even Ensor's family, align the Symbolist artist with a satiric tradition that includes such earlier Northern painters as Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.
With that hugely popular TV show behind it and the fact that each of the characters in the game battle using their own unique moves, Simpsons Wrestling really does have an edge that will keep you playing for months to come.
The case provides a good opportunity to review the laws relating to the protection of fictional characters which implicate unauthorized sequels and adaptations of existing works, the popular and widespread subculture of fan fiction, and many other applications.
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In 2000 it added "Nickelodeon Central" areas (based on cartoons from the popular kids' cable network) with smaller rides and parades starring life-size characters from the Rugrats series.
The combination of a great film from a great director, with great characters and performances in a great story that reminds viewers of some other widely popular films, is no doubt proving to be a winning combination.
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