Thats why you don't work for Hasbro.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release)
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Thats why you don't work for Hasbro.
JD
Master Member
Last time I checked, no one's forcing you to buy or look at the product. I know sometimes it gets pushed in front of you, but most of the time spoilers are avoidable.
That's why I'm glad there are spoiler tags in this forum... I'll even say that chronic abuse (ie, adding spoilers without tags or in the wrong thread) should have some sort of punishment attached to it - fortunately, this hasn't been too much of an issue (although it started to be early in this thread).
Now, as far as social media -- if you have a friend posting spoilers and it shows up in your feed (in an unavoidable way), well it's time to rethink your friends list
The folks making movies need to have product out there. There is a demand for it.
That's why I'm glad there are spoiler tags in this forum... I'll even say that chronic abuse (ie, adding spoilers without tags or in the wrong thread) should have some sort of punishment attached to it - fortunately, this hasn't been too much of an issue (although it started to be early in this thread).
Now, as far as social media -- if you have a friend posting spoilers and it shows up in your feed (in an unavoidable way), well it's time to rethink your friends list
The folks making movies need to have product out there. There is a demand for it.
Not really. The film will stand on it's own merits regardless of the promotional merchandise tie in's. I can very much recall ESB product hitting the shelves months before it's release and they sold like crazy and it would be difficult to make the case it hurt the theatrical release.
Phantom Menace is a totally different kettle of marketing fish. They didn't have the benefit of featuring OT characters. I do agree that Avatar's box office record is in peril.
binkleywalker
Sr Member
I remember having the ROTJ storybook before the movie came out and reading from it to my sister. Ruining for her that Yoda died, Vader died and I didn't care that I knew before hand. How things have changed.
I wouldn't go that far. The Phantom Menace alone featured Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker with Yoda, Palpatine, R2-D2 and C-3P0 played by their respective OT actors. Attack of the Clones even gave fans a galactic army of Boba Fetts. I think the PT didn't have the benefit of giving the audiences an experience where they didn't know where it was going. The Force Awakens is the first Star Wars thing since the Expanded Universe where we follow the events that transpires after Return of the Jedi. You know? The unknown. As much as people are excited about simply having a new Star Wars movie, I'm excited that we're finally moving forward.
The only way to ensure that is if Star Wars turned it's entire galactic conflict around the fate of a plant. Seriously, even for someone who likes Avatar I question the strategy used to having everything boil down to a tree that features dead people singing. If any of the characters wins the hearts of an alien species by flying in on a gigantic Mynock I'm going to be very upset.
astroboy
Master Member
If you knew nothing about the films, there's no way you could tell anything from that trailer. The cuts are way too fast.
astroboy
Master Member
It's a good thing it was the sequel to the biggest movie ever
I've seen Empire 1000 times and still couldn't tell anything from that. It was like trying to watch a 90s music video.
IMO spoilers don't ruin anything. I read all the Prequel novels before and it was still different seeing the movies. I'm hoping they will give us a look at a few more characters and ships at the London SW Celebration in July. They kind of have to or it would be a jerk move not to show them anything new when the Anaheim people got new things revealed.
No, TPM lacked the shear nostalgia value this new film embodies. In some respects LucasFilm marketing engineers the TPM hype. And they did a decent job they just produced way too much product. Disney has far more merchandising experience then LF.
Um... The next Celebration: Europe is in 2016. Next year. Not this summer. They'll undoubtedly show stuff for Rogue One, maybe Episode VIII, new stuff for Rebels... We'll probably see stuff from TFA after the fact, but nothing in the lead-up we're in now.
--Jonah
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