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Dragon’s Den Regularly Chews Up Game Inventors
25 Apr
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, Modern Board Games
The investors on the TV show Dragon’s Den, whether the Canadian, UK, New Zealand, or any other edition, regularly chew up and spit out each game inventor hopeful who dares to come on their programs. You have to wonder why the inventors keep trying. Maybe it’s because, even though they come away with no money from the investors, the resulting TV exposure often leads to a bump in sales.
Another soon-to-be dragon fodder is on his way with a hockey card-game in hand. (source)
And I’m sure he’s hoping he’ll have better success than the inventors of Gockey, Bandthology, Let’s Dance, Soccer Tactics World, Scoundrels, If You Had To Choose, Wheel of Life, Hole, Take Me to the Cleaners, Synchrohearts, About Time, Destination, and yes, several others I’ve forgotten by now, as well as various sports games and equipment. None of whom got any money out of the dragons (two 11 year-old girls got a $500 charity gift for “Let’s Dance” from one dragon who felt sorry for them).
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We were actually 10 years old, and didn’t choose what was going on. We weren’t on the show only once, we were on the show twice. It was a good experience for us, and we only did it for fun. We never intended on making a huge company out of it, we invented the game at a school event. They didn’t feel bad, they put us on the show because they thought we were cute. We auditioned, and out of the hundreds of people across Canada who auditioned we were apart of the 500 who got to record on set, and part of the 100 who made it onto the show. It was only about the experience.
appeared on DD with a board game and had a horrible experience. they use creative editing and misrepresentation to mack people look like ***holes. Meanwhile they don’t even pay your flight or hotel for the priveledge of making an ass out of people. CBC should be ashamed to air this show. Brett Wilson was the only person on the show with morals and integrity and he quit because the show is crap.