Thank the marketing wizards for that. Toys, store displays, commercials, clothing, etc. Heck, look at Disney. They start selling merchandise several months before a movie comes out. I can't imagine buying merchandise before seeing the movie but apparently that's what people do. By the time the movie actually premiers, there is a guaranteed audience already invested in its success.
Not reading the whole thread, but can I have a Mod shut the OP down for having such an inflammatory starting topic. REALLY anyone not like it??
I guess I understand the literal "how?" But logically, how can he like something he's only seen Merch for?
He can find the merchandise, graphics, toys, etc. appealing without knowing anything about the movies. I've known people to buy licensed character items because they thought they were cute even though they had no idea what the character was from. Imagine someone who has never seen Frozen (if such a person exists) walking into a store, seeing an Olaf doll, and buying it because it was cute and they love snowmen.
Really now? Hmm. Maybe I can swap some USA cosmetics for some Australian Disney licensed clothing.
Yeah but a 5 year old thinking darth Vader is cute?He can find the merchandise, graphics, toys, etc. appealing without knowing anything about the movies. I've known people to buy licensed character items because they thought they were cute even though they had no idea what the character was from. Imagine someone who has never seen Frozen (if such a person exists) walking into a store, seeing an Olaf doll, and buying it because it was cute and they love snowmen.
Really now? Hmm. Maybe I can swap some USA cosmetics for some Australian Disney licensed clothing.
And I saw one several weeks ago for Star Wars shower heads and tooth brushes. So many rude comments going through my head, but I'll try to remember that I'm a stockholder, and this is all making me money - at least that's what everybody keeps telling me. Never been one to let money make me happy or sell my soul, but maybe I'll have to try?
Sorry but have you not noticed the zillions of consumer products sold with Disney characters on them?
Nah I get it, I see children's Disney toothbrushes and even hair brushes all the time, and I know Star Wars has a larger adult an base because it was originally released in the 70's and 80's, and even the prequels were around long enough ago that their fans would probably be adults by now, I just thought it was such an odd and obscure thing to be Disney-fied
Got to agree with both you AND Steve, Jes, if that makes any sense. Like I said, I'm trying to balance my dislike of the situation with telling myself "of course they have the right to make money any way they can" (I know that's sound thinking fiscally, I GET it) and the thought that it's making me money (as a stockholder - although I did not buy with the intentions of an investment, and still have no intentions of selling - I bought because of a belief in, and love for, a company, and "way of being", and way it made me and others feel, that I love(d)/respect(ed)/admire(d) - it's exactly the same way I feel about all the changes and what, only IMHO, is "milking everything to death" in the parks, in general that's what I've been seeing/feeling the last few years that I've posted about here many times before. So my original reasons for buying stock (love, respect, etc. that I mentioned) have gotten less, and my sentiments have been downgraded over the years, since it no longer makes those same feelings exist in the same way/amount in ME - just ME - over the years.
Yeah and like I said, I get that kids just fall for the marketing and I know of the cartoons, but that doesn't stop me from being baffled that a 5 year old loves one of the, what? Top 2-3 movie franchises in history, but doesn't even know or has seen what started it all in the first place.
I didn't even think about the animated series. Then there's also the video games. So even if he's never seen the original films, that doesn't mean he hasn't been exposed to the franchise in some way.
