>>96577174
>Trading Card Game
>Was it good?
no

>>96577174
I had a couple of the starter decks. I think I accidentally left a card at my friend Logan's house and never got it back.

>>96577174
I grew up in a wealthy suburb and there was a summer camp (daycamp, not a sleep-away) that must've bought multiple palates of these cards for cheap after it bombed, then had the bright idea to sell them to the kids at a mark-up. They made it a pretty big part of the camp's culture, had tournaments for it and everything. In hindsight it was fucking brilliant because the kids would beg their parents for extra cash to buy some cards so they could get in on it.

So I've got some weird nostalgia for it but I don't think it was particularly good.

>>96577283
Interesting. When did this happen? 2004-2005?

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>>96577174
No, now I never really play it but from what I heard it was someone trying to make a pokemon/yugioh kind of game that only last as long as it did was cause it was a harry potter game. Though I never was a fan of harry potter to begin with.

>>96577174
I remember having some of these cards, just because I was young and liked Harry Potter at the time. Literally no one I knew played the game though, much like how no one I knew played the DBZ card game, so I had no support for learning or playing the game.

I'm not really interested anymore.

>>96577174
Not really. Sucks having to see half your deck get discarded.

>>96579832
>no one I knew played the game
relatable

>>96579832
>Literally no one I knew played the game though, much like how no one I knew played the DBZ card game, so I had no support for learning or playing the game.
For me it was the LotR TCG when the movies came out. I used to see HP TCG in a magazine and liking the look of the cards. Although they came out after the first movie they seem to draw upon the art and concept designs of the pre-movie period.

Imagine Magic but green is the only color with creatures.

>>96577174
Damn, I remember these. I think I got some as part of a promo a long time ago. Never actually bought a deck or anything.

As immortalized in Penny Arcade:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/08/10/damn-you-harry-potter

I had these when I was in my first few years of elementary school. Didn't play much, presumably. Probably had a limited understanding of the rules.

>>96582812
>Penny Arcade
now that's a name I hadn't heard in a LONG time

>>96577174
>2025
>HP anything
... why?
Rowling is rich as fuck, so she doesn't need it.
All the actors from it are rich as fuck, so they don't need it.
Why then keep artoturfing this shit for literal decades at this point? The last book came out in 18 years go. People born back then are legally adult now.
The last movie came out 15 years ago.
And the whole thing peaked around 2005
We should be experiencing a generation skip at this point... and yet this shit is still going on.
Why?
How?
What the fuck am I missing that I can't wrap my head around HP still having a lingering popularity.

>>96577174
Damn, core memory unlocked. Never played it, had a deck but completely forgot ever playing it. This was back when the first movie came back I think, right around when the 4th book came out. I think HP was a perfect kids book for my time, but then it became young adult and I used to troll everyone at school by saying who dies at the end. I mean, the books were in the school library, how could I not?

>>96583721
>... why?
I think it's because small friend crews meeting to play any TCG at a local board game cafe is becoming the equivalent of...idk...whatever it is for boomers? smoking cigs and doing home poker nights?

>>96577174
It was bad unless both players leaned heavily into Care of Magical Creatures, then it became just okay. Also nobody played it.

>>96583795
>Point
>(You)
I'm asking why keep astroturfing a dead franchise from long, long ago that not even its creator nor main benefactors give a flying fuck about, not why people are playing games. I was around when HP showed up, peaked and then floundered... and then somehow, for no reason at fucking all, it refuses to die, like every other franchise thing that blatantly existed to pay the bills.
Why?
Even the target audience for it all now at the very least late 30-somethings and it has ZERO imprint on zoomers, so how this shit is going on? And it's not some sort of timeless classic, it's very clearly a YA novel that only gonna resonate with you if you are 10 to 15, so not exactly a lot of leverage on this ground, either.

>>96583823
People like fantasy, HP is just an accessable (tv dinner) type fantasy anyone can enjoy if they're into it.

>>96583959
>Still missing the point
HP happened A GENERATION AGO.
If you still don't get it - try to imagine getting excited as a kid about re-runs of The Honeymooners, and when asked why, saying it is accessible.

>>96583982
The Lord of the Rings was written in the 1st half of the 20th Century. What exactly is your point?

>>96584066
You just put comparison between LotR and HP and ask me what's wrong with me?

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>>96584228
Yes, as the highest selling and second highest selling fantasy series of all time they are comparable dipshit.
Not to mention your point was that HP was written decades ago, well the same goes for LotR BUT MORE SO.

>>96577174
Is there a tranny card?

>>96584264
Avatar it the highest grossing movie of all times.
It has a pop-culture lifetime of about half a year
Hunger Games were the top selling books AND movies, that inspired an entire genre. Had a pop-culture halflife of about three months once the final one wrapped
Do I need to continue, or you plan to just as continuously miss the fucking point?
And in that case: there is no logic or reason for HP to REMAIN popular. It' target audience outgrew it decades ago. The whole thing ended decades ago. Any marketing for it is predominately WB trying to milk the copyright while it lasts. There is nothing special, unique or whatever about that particular franchise, especially not 20 years and a whole generation after its peak popularity.
Something you seem to be either unable or unwilling to grasp as the base concept and insist at this point it's some sort of timeless classic.
And all it was was a trend-setter for the early 00s fantasy books aimed at kids age 10 to 15. Trends that, by the way, managed to change in the meanwhile three fucking times, so it doesn't even have sway at that.

>>96584305
Books≠Movies
Do you understand how few people actually read? And yet JK Rowling was able to get children to buy her books and continue to buy her books for 7 straight years. It was a cultural Phenomena at the time, the only thing I can even think that came close during that time period was Pokemon.
And just like Disney Adults, HP fans are in a state of arrested development and never moved past what they liked as children. Next question.

>>96584305
Also when did I claim it was a timeless classic. I just called you out for your faulty argument of "It's old therefore people shouldn't like it/it's not relevant."

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>>96583721
Anything with any sort of brand recognition, especially if it made a lot of money, is going to be recycled endlessly in every form of media possible.

>>96584340
>Books≠Movies
Except in this case movies = books popularity.
HP was virtually non-existing before WB picked the deal outside of Anglosphere. Then they had to rapidly translate those books and publish them post-haste to get on the hype train.
>Do you understand how few people actually read?
Where? Because it's not an issue in my country. In fact, reading rates were worse around the time HP was still a thing, than they are now.
>HP fans are in a state of arrested development and never moved past what they liked as children
Which of course explains why the people in their late teens and early 20s obsess about it the most, aka people who completely missed the hype train. Whole the original fandom very literally outgrew it.
>Next question.
You answered shit
>Also when did I claim it was a timeless classic.
You put it to LotR, you dumb twat.
>"It's old therefore people shouldn't like it/it's not relevant."
The argument, you absolute fucking moron, is "This thing was a marketing buzz from 20 years ago, there is no way, reason or chance for people who are of a wrong target demo to be into it, so why the fuck they are".
Repetitively asked. Repetitively ignored by you, dancing around the fucking issue.
How fucking hard it is to grasp the core fucking idea what zoomers shouldn't be into this thing, but they are.

>>96584370
>Winnie the Pooh is a merch giant
Jesus fucking Christ

>>96584408
>Except in this case movies = books popularity. HP was virtually non-existing before WB picked the deal outside of Anglosphere.
Why are you acting like the anglosphere wasn't the primary world market in the fucking 90s?
We get it, you personally don't like HP. Most don't. Get over it.

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>>96584436
>Why are you acting like the anglosphere wasn't the primary world market in the fucking 90s?
Because back in the 90s, there was no such thing as "primary world market". There were national markets. Export, if at all, was within the same-language countries, or at best to direct neighbours. You would know, if you were more than a child back then (and that's generously assuming you were alive already).
>If you are asking questions about weird marketing patters, it means you don't like things
How's that fucking even related to the fucking question?

So:
Why this thing is popular with zoomers, when there is no reason for them to not just be into it, but to even know it exists. They struggle with every single media entity from the same time period that was super-duper popular... except HP.

>>96584466
And to make myself clear, before you deflect once more - I meant the lack of a homogenized global BOOK market. That didn't happen until early-to-mid 00s, when HP was already a thing, and one of the forerunners for modern international bestseller

>>96584492
>HP was virtually non-existing before WB picked the deal outside of Anglosphere
>I meant the lack of a homogenized global BOOK market.
Claims the books weren't that popular because they didn't sell outside the anglosphere
Claims there was no global book market
In that case it not being popular outside the anglosphere is a complete moot point you melt.

>>96584466
>there was no such thing as "primary world market
>Export, if at all, was within the same-language countries,
So the international market for English language books was limited primarily to the anglosphere.
Well would you look at that.

>>96583721
it's not like it's getting reprinted. People play online or with old cards.

>>96584305
you don't feel like you are really trying to understand why it still has some life to it.
>>96584340
>the only thing I can even think that came close during that time period was Pokemon.
this is a factor. we had a whole town library day themed around harry potter LARPing at the time.
That's a lot of positive memory to market to.

>>96584264
Well to be fair One Piece has sold more than Harry Potter and LOTR. So if we going in highest selling series it would be bigger than the two.

>>96583721
>crying about people playing an old TCG they liked
lol, you're a fucking weirdo

>>96583721
To be honest I think the only reason HP go as big as it did, was it was baby's first fantasy series and the movies help it stay big as the books were coming out the same time the movies were. As well as the left made HP their whole fucking identity along side being gay and a commie till trans became a new gimmick for the woke. To be fair, it's really a generation thing and I think the new show might kill HP like how WOKE DEI killed Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, etc.

>>96577174
no
it's literally just reskinned MtG with lessons instead of lands

>>96582261
>Imagine Magic but green is the only color
so it's just Magic

>>96583721
1. nostalgia is extremely lucrative (see star wars)
2. investors prefer brands that are already popular and verified as successful
3. they're hoping to grab attention of zoomers and alphas

>>96583721
Welcome to the world of brand recognition.

>>96584408
>Winnie the Pooh is a merch giant
So here's the thing about winnie the pooh
A lot of winnie the pooh's merch, is infants related items. Blankets, stuffed animals, etc etc
You can walk through a store and not see winnie the pooh anywhere then walk through the infants department and he's everywhere.
He basically owns the "below 3 years old" market and like it or not every person on the planet goes through this market.

>>96583721
The TCG was introduced in 2001, anon. It's not like some corpo suits suddenly decided 2025 was the perfect time to introduce a Harry Potter card game.

>>96582261
Does any other color equivalent get anything so distinct to them?

>>96583721
>All the actors from it are rich as fuck, so they don't need it.
the Hermione actor will if she keeps racking up speeding fines

I notice this game recognizes classes as an important part of the franchise, why couldn't hogwarts legacy

>>96583721
I hate trannies

>>96593499
elaborate