Aside from a debate about whether the gloved one should have had the frenzied attention that his memorial/funeral has wrought - this wasn't the second coming after all - with some forethought Michael Jackson could have helped to save the state of California. Here's how:
Had the Jackson clan allowed a public viewing and memorial held at the State Capital with an entrance fee of $40 per person (the price of a a movie with snacks), a substantial dent in the state budget deficit could have been made.
While only 17,500 tickets allowed people at the Staples center, a total of 1.6 million people registered to win those tickets. That would have generated $64 million just from attendance to view the body. Add another $20 for parking and you boosted that figure to $96 million. Souvenir booklets for sale at $10 each would elevate that total to $112 million. Throw in a photo opportunity with Arnold for an added $5 and you are up to $120 million in the pot.
If the state bought Neverland Ranch, it could have done an Elvis-esque Jackson attraction. Graceland pulls in about $27 million a year with about twice that in product sales and reportedly the entire Elvis brand generates $70 million a year. Doesn't the King of Pop pull in more?
Throw in an animatronic figure (remember Lincoln at Disneyland), replay Captain EO and perhaps revenue would match the Disney brand's $1 billion just from online sales alone.
Instead, poor Los Angeles had to foot the bill for the added police security and all the havoc pop kings' deaths creates.
Extending this marketing concept further - the state, could relocate all state inmates to work the grounds of the State Capital in order to cultivate marijuana fields which could then be sold to the public under the brand name "Arnijuana". And if the Jackson plan falls through, shooting porno movies in the Capital building could generate quite a few billion - the porn industry generated $8.6 billion last year. At least some revenue could come from what is being done in the building at taxpayer expense.
By the way, the picture is Michael's wax figure from Madame Toussad's Wax Museum in New York. Who could tell?
MisterWriter
1 comments:
good ideas all but you forget, we had a porn queen running for governor and she said she would put cameras in the capital and charge for views - i voted for her as she had the best fiscal policy of all candidates. had she been elected we wouldn't be in the fix we're now in.
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