After the brand and formula are carefully designed and properly executed, franchisors are able to sell franchises and expand rapidly across countries and continents using the capital and resources of their franchisees while reducing their own risk.

The first businesses using the name " milk bar " were franchises opened by Burt Brothers in 1934.

Instead of using SNK's franchises for video games, Aruze manufactured Pachinko machines featuring popular series such as King of Fighters.

Blockbuster's Australian operations encompassed 29 company-owned stores and 341 franchises, which Video Ezy would continue to operate using the Blockbuster brand.

Since that inaugural season the town has hosted a number of Texas League franchises, most of them using the " Missions " moniker.

In a separate transaction, the other franchises agreed to stop using the Good Humor name.

In Nintendo's Mario and Super Smash Bros. franchises, the player-characters in those games can grow or shrink by using various power-ups, mainly by several variants of Super Mushrooms, Poison Mushrooms and the Lightning Bolt.

Ramada International is the company that owns, operates, and franchises hotels using the Ramada name outside of the United States and Canada.

Megatrain offers low cost intercity train travel via the megabus. com website, using yield management pricing, on East Midlands Trains and South West Trains which are rail franchises in the United Kingdom operated by Scottish-based Stagecoach Group.

Hundreds of Donut Connection franchises are in the eastern U. S. Some businesses retained the Mister Donut name ; fewer than 10 stores continue using Mister Donut ; most folded while others are now Dunkin ' Donuts.

Their first game to use the Square-Enix label was ' Big Hit Baseball ', an iOS only baseball game using arcade controls and fictional team franchises.

( DK ) is a fictional gorilla appearing in the Donkey Kong and Mario video game franchises.

Computer and Video Games found the levity of Wario's games " liberating " compared to big Nintendo franchises such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda, and that regarding the character, " perhaps secretly we empathise more with the hopelessly materialistic Wario than goody brown-shoes Mario.

The game is essentially a crossover between several different Nintendo franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Kirby.

Mark Bozon of IGN criticized the show for not aging well, and being " so bad, it's good ", comparing it to "... The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and The Legend of Zelda, franchises that seemed cool when you watched them decades ago, but in all reality ... Looking back, those shows are so bad they're awesome.

Many top-selling Nintendo games are critical franchises that are well recognized in the video game industry at large, like The Legend of Zelda, Mario and Metroid.

Itadaki Street DS includes characters from Square Enix's Dragon Quest series and Nintendo's Super Mario franchises.

Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties, including Sachen and the British developer B. I. T. S .. Up against Nintendo's list of popular franchises ( Zelda, Mario, Metroid ) and those of its third parties ( Castlevania, Mega Man )-all of which eventually surfaced on the Game Boy-the Supervision's games were of little interest to most.

The first four Nintendo Player's Guides in book format were the NES Game Atlas ( featuring maps of popular NES franchises ), Game Boy ( featuring select Game Boy games ), Mario Mania ( featuring information about Nintendo's mascot, Mario, but was mostly a full strategy guide of the then-new Super Mario World ), and Super NES ( featuring select Super NES games ).

Its title is a parody of other games released for the Nintendo 64 at the time, many of which were popular franchises with " 64 " suffixed ( such as Super Mario 64 ).

Allgame gave Claw a highly positive review, comparing its enjoyment value to the Super Mario and Crash Bandicoot franchises.

EAD is best known for its work on games in the Mario, The Legend of Zelda, F-Zero, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, and Pikmin franchises.

While in production, Shigeru Miyamoto, Senior Marketing Director of Nintendo ( and creator of the Mario and Zelda franchises, among others ), suggested while viewing an early version of the game that the character of Dash be more animated.

Media fandom shot off from science fiction fandom in the early 1970s with a focus on relationships between characters within TV and movie media franchises.

Names of characters also often carry puns, such as Ash Ketchum and Goku (" kakarot "), the protagonists of the anime series Pokémon and Dragonball, respectively, both franchises which are known for including second meanings in the names of many of their characters.

Video game enthusiasts took an interest in gaming crossovers which feature characters from multiple franchises in a particular game.

Featuring characters from Nintendo's various franchises, the game was a runaway commercial success in addition to being lavished with critical praise.

Some kaiju hung out with the heroes and provided comedy relief, in contrast to the darker approach to these characters from more mature franchises, like Kamen Rider.

Its plot and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films.

From its earliest days, slash fiction has been particularly inspired by popular speculative fiction franchises, possibly because well-developed female characters may be lacking in speculative fiction, or because the speculative elements allow greater freedom to reinterpret canon characters.

Like Melee, the game makes references to games and franchises, including those that debuted after the release of Melee ; for example, Link's design is taken from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and a Nintendogs puppy is present as an Assist Trophy ( a new item that summons computer characters from different games to briefly participate in the fight ).

Long-running franchises in the genre tended to focus more and more on the returning villain than on surviving victims, effectively transforming characters once viewed as sick psychopaths into sympathetic antiheroes for some.

The character of Sara Pezzini was also featured in crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, Vampirella, the Justice League, the titular creatures from the Alien and Predator film series, the Magdalena and the cast of Battle of the Planets.

Writers Shane Black and Steven E. de Souza have spoken of the film's influence on their characters of Martin Riggs and John McClane from the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard franchises.

In the late 2000s, Beanie Babies modeled after characters from popular children's franchises by Nickelodeon, DreamWorks and Paramount began appearing.

Hit Movies will not be launching preschooler movies, but movies for the whole family to enjoy, such as film franchises based on Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder, as well as new characters and stories.

IGN has called Captain Falcon an experienced fighter, and " one of the most important and recognizable characters " from the F-Zero and Super Smash Bros. franchises.

is a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom featuring characters from Marvel Comics and Capcom's own video game franchises.

As a result of these crossover appearances between the two franchises, SNK produced The King of Fighters series, pitting characters from both series against each other.

The toyline was made up of characters from the films and cartoon franchises.

The use of characters from major SF franchises in " gay readings " has caused legal action: LucasFilm has sent cease and desist orders to prevent gay reinterpretations of Star Wars characters, and Anne Rice is notorious for attempts to stop production of slash fiction based on her Vampire Chronicles characters, although many of the characters are bisexual in canon.