The 25 Highest-Grossing Media Franchises of All Time

I’d say I was only effected by peanuts, Batman tv and the hobbit part of lord of the rings and was finished with it by adulthood. 

the other chart i saw had pokemon at like 270 billion. honestly was shocked that winnie the pooh was so high.

Yeah, Winnie the Pooh, really?

I'm also surprised at Anpanman's showing but I guess the fact that I even know of it is proof enough of its popularity.

I still have my moms Pooh hard bound books from the thirties and all the original peanuts books from 50’s and 60’s  and read them daily in the newspaper and then the tv specials on original release. Have a rolled up mural landscape LOR poster from 70’s but lost track of my paperbacks. 

Pooh must mostly be the Disney stuff; they've been milking it since 1966 and it's evergreen. Loved my dad reading the books when I was little. Saw the first movie when it came out and was horrified at what Disney had done to it.

• the little i read said disney really pumped up the marketing in the 1990s. eventually there was a theme area at disney world. they completely bought out a a milne rightsholders in 1999 for 300 million or so even though the trademark was due to expire in 2020s. now they are expanding what bits of the trademark they can. 

  
  - dave 3-30-2026 10:39 am [add a comment]