The Sourtart Squad - Making a Tapas series based on fanfictions about a Disney movie??
The scrapped series in question I'm creating is the "Sourtart Squad"
I've been planning this series for 3 months now and still was wondering if it was really okay to create a webtoon comic series like this. So Sourtart Squad is supposed to be based on how I portrayed the Sugar Rush racers (from Wreck-It Ralph) and a bunch of stories I used to make up about them when I was a kid.
They all say, "2026 is the new 2016", so why not go back to a time where things were even more fun.
Sourtart Squad would be based on each of the characters from the movie. But now I want to make the characters my own designs and original names. Not fictional racing kart game characters living in an arcade cabinet, but a cartoon based on a fictional toyline of dolls that "burp" out a special sweet scent for your workspace/office/bedroom when you squeeze its tummy (heavily inspired by Smiling Critters).
Here's the list for the characters:
- Princess Camilla Crawlbrite
- Cindy Zingbubbz
- Eddie Mielkovich
- Purii Rupurin
- Linda Popzee
- Darla Daewangam
- Maxine Machalatte
- Elena Halaya
- Victor Sneaktor
- Davey Dapperfluff
- Anya Burrburi
While it's still going to remind you that it's Sugar Rush, they will be 8 girls and 3 boys living in a silly island made of sweets, it won't entirely copy the thing from "Wreck-It Ralph". I made my Sugar Rush fanfictions back in 2015-2017 the stories weren't even focused on kart racing, there was almost never stories about them racing. I used to give them their own personalities, interests, and instead of karts I gave them... houses? I don't know also this but also the Sugar Rush citizens don't really show up in the stories almost never. I think for me all the citizens in my series would be human as well and all the ecosystem are living candies/sweets/pastries. I even planned out a few locations in this so called planet or island called Tajimamori:
- Neopolitan Alps - strawberry chocolate vanilla ice cream mountains
- Shoyu Mangrove - mangrove ecosystem made of shoyu caramel
- Pastry Park - where the nature-loving Sourtarts hang around film their shenanigans
- University of Tajimamori
- Princess Camilla's castle - Camilla still lives with her parents (the king and queen) and still needs to learn how to take responsibility
But if I'm going to base my creation on a Disney movie, wouldn't it be a little concerning?
So you know how there's a bunch of "rip-offs" of various Disney movies? "The Little Cars", "Ratatoing", "Little Princess School" right? There's a risk my series would be called out as well. But the difference is it's not going to be targeted to kids (I would say it's going to be a 16+ series, how ironic for a sweet looking franchise) and instead of having it be an animated series on YouTube or other video streaming services, it would be a comic series instead.
So what do you think? On the safe zone or is the violation of the IP gonna kick my butt to court?