He's right you know
>>152581251Name three. That aren't reboots of those same 80s shows
>>152581251Hasn't it just been various remakes up TMNT, Transformers, and He-Man?
>>152581251Cartoons are marketing, toys are the product. Together they are a business model. Sometimes the art can outlive the business model.Just because merchandise tied to movies and books can be more profitable, that doesn't make the movie less of a movie or the book less of a book.
Ok then where was the steven universe action figure line. Or a amphibia toy dolls for girls where were they.
>>152581251The real change was this fucker selling a boatload of plushes and vhs tapes in 1993 which kicked off the toddler show gold rush which consumed the industry
Ren & Stimpy was the least toyetic show on TV and they were making merchandise of it by the fucking boatload. It is an outright lie to suggest that shows like Wylde Park or The Owl House are released with enough merch right out the gate to make potential fans happen. At best, you get crappy T-shirts with stock images on them eight months after a show has premiered. Anything good comes out of Etsy, assuming the show even has fans enough to make stuff themselves. However, you can't just release a show and then have $10mil worth of merch invested into it on day one. Doing that strategy for something like Hailey's On It! would basically produce so much plastic waste they'd have to make new laws limiting corporate marketing strategies to prevent such an environment disaster ever again. There's a huge problem with streaming being both the replacement for TV and also not replicating it's model 1:1 that you simply cannot follow the model of He-Man or Jem & the Holograms. Yeah, studios like GLITCH try, but even they dwarf compared to the numbers stuff like Transformers and Rainbow Brite used to pull in when TV was king and video games did not add to the competition.
>>152581580How strange me (above post) and this other dude just happen to use the term "Boatload" when describing copious amounts of cartoon merch.
>>152581320>TMNT>He-Man/She-Ra>Horse Show
>>152581320>Ben 10>PPG>Tangled>Frozen>KPDH recently
It's also not nearly the toyetic industry anymore. It's trying to mimic the Japanese merchandise model without knowing how. Japs can slap something like Evangelion, Pokemon, or Godzilla on any commercially available product and we can't even do the same with fucking DC and MARVEL to the same extent.
>>152581580>t. and vhs tapes in 1988
>>152581320>Inside Out>Moana>Encanto
>>152581580The fact that this was on PBS is jarring when you compare it to Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
This show made $15 billion in merch alone. They had to lower the target age bracket because boys grow out of toys and move on to Minecraft nowadays. A castle grayskull playset just wouldn't do as well.
>>152581640?
>>152581706>>152581658Yeah those are totally the same as GI Joe and MASK.
>>152581736This. And it's not like a show based on a game would make sense since games can tell their own story
>>152581751kids know more about Rumi and Mirabel than those two lmao
>>152581736Funniest joke in the entire series was in the movie where Ryder admits he finances the Paw Patrol by selling merchandise of them. "This stuff sells like hotcakes!"
>>152581251You faggots are retarded. Merch is how shows make most of their money. Everything should be toys.
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