The Last Jedi Discussion
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Yeah... I don't think that putting a multi-billion dollar franchise in the hands of SJW's was a good gamble in the long run.
Marvel might be trying that and failing miserable in its comic books today, but it can afford to because it's making bank with the movies that aren't run entirely by SJWs. Although, I don't think that they should take for granted these movies will always be as popular as they are today and just completely burn their entire comic book line until the comic book fans just completely turn their back on the company.
It's an interesting experiment that Disney is pulling here, and only a company as large as Disney could afford to do it.
I wonder if the "nerds" boycotting would do any real damage though. It's certainly got to be hitting Disney in the wallet that nobody is buying the Star Wars toys this time around, but even with the decline in ticket sales since The Force Awakens they're still making decent money in the theaters. Maybe TJD was the straw...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Hey there Mr. Acronymbot, what is TJD?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah... I don't think that putting a multi-billion dollar franchise in the hands of SJW's was a good gamble in the long run.
Marvel might be trying that and failing miserable in its comic books today, but it can afford to because it's making bank with the movies that aren't run entirely by SJWs. Although, I don't think that they should take for granted these movies will always be as popular as they are today and just completely burn their entire comic book line until the comic book fans just completely turn their back on the company.
It's an interesting experiment that Disney is pulling here, and only a company as large as Disney could afford to do it.
I wonder if the "nerds" boycotting would do any real damage though. It's certainly got to be hitting Disney in the wallet that nobody is buying the Star Wars toys this time around, but even with the decline in ticket sales since The Force Awakens they're still making decent money in the theaters. Maybe TJD was the straw...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah... I don't think that putting a multi-billion dollar franchise in the hands of SJW's was a good gamble in the long run.
Marvel might be trying that and failing miserable in its comic books today, but it can afford to because it's making bank with the movies that aren't run entirely by SJWs. Although, I don't think that they should take for granted these movies will always be as popular as they are today and just completely burn their entire comic book line until the comic book fans just completely turn their back on the company.
It's an interesting experiment that Disney is pulling here, and only a company as large as Disney could afford to do it.
I wonder if the "nerds" boycotting would do any real damage though. It's certainly got to be hitting Disney in the wallet that nobody is buying the Star Wars toys this time around, but even with the decline in ticket sales since The Force Awakens they're still making decent money in the theaters. Maybe TJD was the straw...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
There are vids of people paying $1 for action figures
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Hey there Mr. Acronymbot, what is TJD?
My bad. TLJ...
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Originally posted by whozit:
There are vids of people paying $1 for action figures
I know. It's crazy.
Go to a dollar store and look at the abysmal quality of the action figures you can buy there, in comparison.
I don't know if it can be blamed entirely on Star Wars and Disney. The economy really sucks right now and I'm sure a lot of parents just don't have the money to be paying full price for a bunch of licensed toys these days.
I don't have any kids of my own, and my niece is still too young to be into Star Wars or any action figure type stuff yet. But I wonder if the kids really want the Star Wars toys at all anyhow.
I can remember me and my brothers pleading with our Dad to take us to Toys R Us to get some Star Wars figures, and by that time Return of the Jedi was already 3 or 4 years old. We only knew about the movies because we recorded them on VHS when they were running them on HBO several years later and we watched them so often we wore the tapes out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
There are vids of people paying $1 for action figures
I know. It's crazy.
Go to a dollar store and look at the abysmal quality of the action figures you can buy there, in comparison.
I don't know if it can be blamed entirely on Star Wars and Disney. The economy really sucks right now and I'm sure a lot of parents just don't have the money to be paying full price for a bunch of licensed toys these days.
I don't have any kids of my own, and my niece is still too young to be into Star Wars or any action figure type stuff yet. But I wonder if the kids really want the Star Wars toys at all anyhow.
I can remember me and my brothers pleading with our Dad to take us to Toys R Us to get some Star Wars figures, and by that time Return of the Jedi was already 3 or 4 years old. We only knew about the movies because we recorded them on VHS when they were running them on HBO several years later and we watched them so often we wore the tapes out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
UPDATE: (if anyone cares) I went to my local Walmart and found no STAR WARS action figures, NONE! But there were plenty of AVENGERS action figures going for around $12. I was a little surprised how little STAR WARS stuff they had in the toy department.
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Originally posted by whozit:
UPDATE: (if anyone cares) I went to my local Walmart and found no STAR WARS action figures, NONE! But there were plenty of AVENGERS action figures going for around $12. I was a little surprised how little STAR WARS stuff they had in the toy department.
Interesting.
Were the signs on the empty spots marked down? I did just see a video recently where a guy was at WalMart buying toys that were released only 4 days prior and were already clearanced 75% down to 5 bucks a piece. He even bought a bunch of them at that price.
I wonder how much of this is because of the movies not being that great, and how much of it is that "collectors" just aren't interested anymore because they know that these things won't be worth any money in the long run.
Check this out:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/90s-STAR-WARS-Figure-lot-of-4-SEALED-Hasbro-K
enner-Power-of-the-Force/292516590289?hash=item441b58f2d1:g:KXgAAOSwPHZaysDN
Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and whatever that 4th one is. 90's Kenner line. Sealed in boxes that look like they're in great shape.
$15.00 buy it now. Free shipping.
Almost 20 years after they originally came out, in what looks to be near mint condition, and somebody is willing to package and ship them to your door for free and end up getting about $2.50 a piece after they pay for shipping. I never bought any of them at the time, but I'd imagine that has to be a loss of at least $5.00 a piece from the original price if they paid full price for them back in the day.
I think maybe people are just not stupid anymore, at least about "collectables". It's all mass produced junk that's never going to be worth anything.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
UPDATE: (if anyone cares) I went to my local Walmart and found no STAR WARS action figures, NONE! But there were plenty of AVENGERS action figures going for around $12. I was a little surprised how little STAR WARS stuff they had in the toy department.
Interesting.
Were the signs on the empty spots marked down? I did just see a video recently where a guy was at WalMart buying toys that were released only 4 days prior and were already clearanced 75% down to 5 bucks a piece. He even bought a bunch of them at that price.
I wonder how much of this is because of the movies not being that great, and how much of it is that "collectors" just aren't interested anymore because they know that these things won't be worth any money in the long run.
Check this out:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/90s-STAR-WARS-Figure-lot-of-4-SEALED-Hasbro-K
enner-Power-of-the-Force/292516590289?hash=item441b58f2d1:g:KXgAAOSwPHZaysDN
Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and whatever that 4th one is. 90's Kenner line. Sealed in boxes that look like they're in great shape.
$15.00 buy it now. Free shipping.
Almost 20 years after they originally came out, in what looks to be near mint condition, and somebody is willing to package and ship them to your door for free and end up getting about $2.50 a piece after they pay for shipping. I never bought any of them at the time, but I'd imagine that has to be a loss of at least $5.00 a piece from the original price if they paid full price for them back in the day.
I think maybe people are just not stupid anymore, at least about "collectables". It's all mass produced junk that's never going to be worth anything.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
There was a STAR WARS sign in the action figures isle, but that section was now filled with dinosaur figures. I don't know if they sold out our got rid of them because they weren't selling. Also, the new SOLO toys were released April 13, they didn't have any.
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Originally posted by whozit:
There was a STAR WARS sign in the action figures isle, but that section was now filled with dinosaur figures. I don't know if they sold out our got rid of them because they weren't selling. Also, the new SOLO toys were released April 13, they didn't have any.
Yeah. Those Solo toys were what I was talking about. The guy was recording inside a WalMart and showing brand new $20 toys clearanced down to $5 for the Han Solo movie. I think I saw the video on the 18th.
I'd like to hear more about this. Maybe Disney did a huge fire sale on everything to get all the Star Wars stuff off the shelves to stop the bad press. Especially in light of Toys R Us closing down and all the videos out there of Star Wars toys being the last things in the store to sell.
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