Recent content by Ogrebear

As I recall the Monopoly that Darrow made was very, very different to the successful game. It was Waddingtons version that made all the cash. Simple POD is Darrow either gave up after all the rejections, or Waddingtons never took his game and made the blockbuster version out of it.

You might want to ask on the Titanic thread. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-titanic-thread.523417/

You are such a schemer Clement, I can see why you took a career in the Church. "were his master to emulate the late King Richard’s precedent and urge Parliament to allow him to name his own heir." - it might just work, and of course if the Emperor objects its the English's fault not the Pope's...

Hummm I could see some false flag operations to terrify the public into getting onside for an Iraq operation - though I’d have thought Iran was just as much of a threat. Maybe some bombs on power facilities? A nuke plant scare? And are we looking at an invasion or an assassination?

Chances are the Lee/Kirby Ringman teen character hits, or they drop him and try something else, and since animal themed characters are popular perhaps they revive Gorilla-Man #9or his son inheriting the powers) or simply play about with teen characters - Turtle Boy, Dober-Man, Grizzly, etc etc...

Maybe Alfred Yankovic, lead architecture of his day, would lead a revival of Gothic and innovative use of concrete forms. Meanwhile in music the duo Barnes & Barnes continue to rock up the novelty and parody charts….

Any chance the GT3 gains popularity and more iterations in this time please @Devvy ?

More Cody!

Industrial modernisation could happen here just due to the changed world Britain is in - sure its not a 'Commonwealth wank' by any means at all, but without the 'special relationship' being as special, with earlier EEC membership, with French cooperation, and German competition, plus a closer...

True she did, but went about it in a confrontational way, with Mrs T less able to make her mark here, the next leader gets to deal with the shut down of the mines, unless of course the miners strike happened on queue, but with no Falklands cos her the job? British industry was otl quite sick...

Ah, but changed circumstances ITTL with Britain being slightly less screwed, and different PM, Presidents etc might mean the unions and modernisation are in a different relationship.

So Mrs T didn’t try to bring the Falklands in as part of the UK? Interesting as that what I was expecting- though perhaps with new post-war investment the Islands might consider a petition. Do any of those Pacific Island chains ask to join Australia or New Zealand instead? That would make a...

I was trying to suggest that if the eastern war ends in 1916 with a deal, then the Oct revolution probably does not occur. You might still get a Feb due the economic fallout, but it’s if they have made a separate deal the Germans are not releasing Lenin as they need a stable Russia on their...

There is a movie in Lusitania’s sinking but like the Miracle on the Hudson the sinking would only be the Mid-movie climax since it is such a short event. I think it would need to be a character action-drama rather than documentary style. Two on-off lovers being separated and lost, then reunited...