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However, if there's one thing mockbusters can do well, it's [[Copycat Cover|Mimicfeline Boxart]]. Their designs and logos, like the colors of a viceroy butterfly, are designed to resemble the "real" movies they're copying as closely as possible. Remember, [[Covers Always Lie|Covers Deceive All The Time]]. They also pick titles similar to the original, often containing similar words, or made-up words that sound the same.

The people mockbusters tend to appeal to seem to fall into four brackets: kids too young to know the difference between the real deal and the fake; people too old to care, who might get the two confused when looking for something for their kids and grandkids; parental [[Moral Guardians|Propriety Police]] who want to get their children [[The Moral Substitute|The Upstanding Alternative]] to a mainstream film that is more in line with their values; and [[Nerd|Dorks]], who aren't fooled at all, but who watch them for their [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|awesome badness]]. [[Bile Fascination|Bad Stuff Is Interesting!]] As such, they tend to be sold in supermarket magazine racks, pharmacy gift racks, and grab bags in outlet shops.

The people mockbusters tend to appeal to seem to fall into four brackets: kids too young to know the difference between the real deal and the fake; people too old to care, who might get the two confused when looking for something for their kids and grandkids; parental [[Moral Guardians|Propriety Police]] who want to get their children [[The Moral Substitute|The Upstanding Alternative]] to a mainstream film that is more in line with their values; and [[Nerd|Dorks]], who aren't fooled at all, but who watch them for their [[So Bad It's Good|awesome badness]]. [[Bile Fascination|Bad Stuff Is Interesting!]] As such, they tend to be sold in supermarket magazine racks, pharmacy gift racks, and grab bags in outlet shops.

The rare cases of mockbusters that might actually try to do something "artistic" are those adapting [[Public Domain Character|Out Of Copyright]] works, though again, generally only if a more "popular" story adapting the same work came out recently. This phenomenon sometimes applies to live theater as well with regards to public domain works ([[Fairy Tale|Pixie Stories]], ''[[The Phantom of the Opera|The Theater Spirit]]'') that have had a more popular version created that smaller theater companies could never produce on their own.

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* ''[[Titanic the Legend Goes On]]'' and ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'', both based off [[Titanic|some sinking boat movie]].

** One of those had [[In Name Only|some Mexican mice and a rapping dog]]. And the other had a giant talking octopus that saved everybody and magical moon-tears that allow people to talk to dolphins.

* ''[[Bee Movie|Plan Bee]]'', ''[[Charlottes Web|Spiders Web: A Pigs Tale]]'' (only a billion times [[Mind Screw]] - ier), and ''[[A Cars Life Sparkys Big Adventure (Animation)|A Cars Life Sparkys Big Adventure]]'', a ripoff of ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'' (with the title being an obvious swipe from ''[[A ~~Bugs~~ Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]''), all three from [[Spark Plug Entertainment]]. There is now ''[[Cars Life 2]]'', which came out just in time to rip off ''[[Cars 2]]''.

* ''[[Bee Movie|Plan Bee]]'', ''[[Charlottes Web|Spiders Web: A Pigs Tale]]'' (only a billion times [[Mind Screw]] - ier), and ''[[A Cars Life Sparkys Big Adventure (Animation)|A Cars Life Sparkys Big Adventure]]'', a ripoff of ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'' (with the title being an obvious swipe from ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]''), all three from [[Spark Plug Entertainment]]. There is now ''[[Cars Life 2]]'', which came out just in time to rip off ''[[Cars 2]]''.

* ''[[The Lion King|Simba - The King Lion]]'' brought to you by the same person who directed and wrote ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]''.

** To be fair, ''Simba the King Lion'' has more to do with ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney)|The Jungle Book]]''.

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