I was at Walmart yesterday and saw all the last Jedi black series six inch figures on sale for five bucks. My older son is 12 and he’s collected these figures in the past. I called him and asked if he wanted any of them. He laughed and said ‘no’. He hated the movie.
Wow, who would’ve thought toy sales would go down after new Star Wars films come out every year, and especially with fantastic new characters, like Rey and Rose? It’s quite a mystery.
Don't forget Poe, come guys you gotta love these new characters. Rey is better than anyoNe before & Poe flies like he has the force & is more badass than anybody before him. Come on guys like them. Oh ya, Finn is funnier than everybody before guys. Don't u guys like Kevin Hart in SW? You men must all be sexist, racist that's why you don't like them.
Damn, now I need to search comment sections for that. Also, I like her, her jokes are funny, but yes, she is such a fan that she would never admit something like that because she has bundle of that toys.
Oneforce Onebalance Dark Helmet: Find anything good about The Last Jedi? Soldier: Nothing yet, sir. Dark Helmet: How about you?! Soldier: Not a thing sir! Dark Helmet: What about you guys?! Soldier: We ain't found shit!
Unexpected? There are NO male heroes in TLJ and only one set piece of interest (throne room fight). Rian Johnson fancies himself an "artist" like Warhol in that he is so smart in his postmodern deconstruction of heroes. Try selling toys based on postmodern deconstructions....oh yeh....you can't sell toys.
apostate001 you could sell Evangelion figures or berserk figures tho. Because regardless of what they represent, they are badass. You have recognizable characters fighting monsters and demons. I mean one doesn't really need context as a child. As a kid i had borg and alien toys, I didn't knew who they were but they were cool and well designed so i just got em into fights with my toy soldiers and shit. You know.
Muuro finn had potential but he got cucked by *the force is female* Think about it, he could have easily been the hero, a questioning soldier who learns the call of the force and leaves into the unknown, in the path he gets involved in the conflict against the army he served, uses the combat skills he already learned from the military training and fights the guy every grunt in the order is terrified of: Kylo ren. Gets saved by chewie and afterwards he seeks Luke Skywalker to learn the jedi way in order to stop the rampage of kylo and his knights of ren. Fuck, anyone can cook up a better story than jar jar abrams and Kaitlyn Kennedy
FarnsworthIII the problem with finn in the movies is that he starts rushed and then gets thrown as a minor character. There is so much potential in him. And don't get me wrong, I'm a fucking hardcore racist myself. But fucking hell that story had so much potential that race would have been nothing but a minor eyebrow riser for me n my pals. Like he could have been a hardened badass welding a lightsaber on one hand and a blaster carbine on the other, because you know. Soldier training isn't easy to forget. Like imagine finn going full command to assault the eclipse, fucking strapped with grenades and carrying one of them light machine guns in a modified stormtrooper armor painted in the black and orange colors of the resistance elite crashing an x wing into a hangar and flying out like Anakin in episode 3, confronting phasma in the burning garage and shit. UGH SO FUCKING BADASS! FUCK DISNEY. THAT'S SOMETHING MARKATEBLE YOU LAZY FUCKING J WORDS.
The throne room was a red wall and a throne. I mean a SERIOUSLY red wall. And Rian Johnson taught me Jedi don't need lightsabers, so all the Star Wars toys can suck it!
So the saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder, speaks volumes. Disney has made star wars cheap, they changed the story, they killed off the favorites or made them ridiculous. The new cast is brainless perfect and boring with no back stories. Star Wars is done, they could make 20 more movies but Star Wars is done.
Rose clearly stated that all the rich people are bad so wasting money on her toy figure would clearly be hypocritical of me. Instead I am donating 1 dollar to the release the race horses fund.
You were the first person to start mentioning this as far as I know, way back. Now "Star wars toys aren't selling" vids is almost a genera. Thankyou for putting out this message and shining more light on the fate of SW.
I've actually gone out to my local Target and Toys R' Us to test out how right you are about the sales on the toys, and by God, every Star Wars toy in my local Wal-Mart was on clearance. It's really ridiculous. I don't know why more outlets aren't talking about how low this series has sunk. Look at the views on the Solo trailer, only 10 million, a drastic drop from the last 3 movies. Something is definitely wrong.
Same here in AU. We don't have Wal-Mart but our other shops like target and K-Mart. Nothing is selling and all is on sale. Heck our bargin shops are getting all the 6 inch black series and they sit on the shelves there to
LIST OF MARKETING FAILS 1- Better than Empire Strikes Back ( hahaha, oh wait, are you serious? ) 2- Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer starting at 94% ? ( wow, just wow ) 3- Subvert your expecations = a good movie ( humkay... no. Have you heard of branding? ) 4- Attack on the fan base. Negative response = haters. If you dont like the movie = racist and sexist ( are you nuts? ) 5- Denial and double down of the Mary Sue criticism ( no humility, fail to instruct your actors on the interviews) 6- Drop in China and wallstreet 7- Making Mark Hamill participate and apologize in interviews of a movie he did not like ( this could have been avoided ). 8- Market a fairy tale movie for an audience who was a expecting an epic legendary style of story telling. (Pick your audience, you cannot ride two horses at the same time) 9- Not stoping Rian Johson from making "sassy" remarks on twitter. 10- "Let the past die" much more directed at the audience rather than the character of Rey. What past? she doesn´t know her past in order for her to let it go. Leting go of something is very different than letting something die. The past is very important and has it´s place... in the past. No closure for Rey and a slap on the fans´ faces. ATTACKING THE FAN BASE ATTACKING THE FAN BASE - BAD MARKETING - Expectations - Fan theories are stupid ( as if all fans have theories - I had none ) - Addressing only stupid fan comments ( People feel there is something wrong but cannot express it in a professional way.) Rian Johnson is nitpicking the stupidest fan comments and posting on twitter. Not everyone has a cinema background so people feel there is something wrong but cannot express it. Can you imagine Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg level directors getting in a Twitter pissing match with some fan? Yeah, me neither. Yet another reason Rian Johnson is not on the level needed. CONTROVERSY POOR EXCUSES: - It takes chances ( is that what we are calling lazy writing from now on?) - Nothing will mach the originals ( nostalgicism ) - Subvert our expectations (gratuitus Gotcha moments) (lack of continuity) (plot holes) Like this movie is supose to be some kinda of Blade Runner that people will understand and appretiate some time in the future... this is ridiculous. Its a bad movie. Rian had total disregard for the hero’s journey and cinema language. Too many undeveloped plots, poor character development, pacing, out of place humor and continuity to the overall canon rules. Why did Rian double down on Rey’s Mary Sue criticism? Chuck Norris would shit on his pants. Rey is ridiculous over powered with no reason. RED HERRINGS Defenders have no solid points as to why the movie is good. All they use is red herrings like: 1. "Fans always have high expectations 2. "Everyone is just jumping in a bandwagon" 3. "It made heaps of money", 4. "The Originals weren't perfect" 5. "It´s just a kids movie" 6. "Because all the fan theories were wrong" 7. "Empire strickes Back also had bad reviews and ended on a down note" 8. That or they make weak assumptions that are not in the movie. Some are so much in denial that they may even go as far as to: 9. It is a subjective matter (dugh) 10. Attack the critics character (call you a hater) 11. “Stop liking things I dont like” (haha, we are the childish?) 12. “You have nothing better to do” (as if criticizing isa worthless thing to do ) 13. “"Stop enjoying a film which I didn't understand!!!” ( said the person who does not have any good argument as to explain why the movie is good ) 14. “I find it funny that "the internet" thinks they're better at filmmaking than trained professionals.” (As if oly professionals have the right and ability to create an opinion ) 15. “That is why those who liked the film don't exert the effort giving their reasoning. It's a waste of time”. ( escapism )
"Defenders have no solid points as to why the movie Is good" Actually, they do. The fact that a lot of people did like the movie is evidence in and of itself that the movie wasnt the big epic failure that you present it to be.
Hey man many people think Justin Bieber is a great musician and that his music is good. I am not arguing with that. The fact that many people like something is a poor argument. Time is the judge of things. Good things last longer. Fact is... Bieber, like this movie, is just a fase that will shortly die and nobody will remember it; as for the Original Trilogy, well, time has proved it... is a movement baby. Big difference.
ArmaBiologica35 I can see people enjoying TLJ. But really only on 2 conditions: 1) If they're not actual Star Wars fans or 2) if they turn their brains off and just enjoy the pretty lights, emotions, and explosions...rather than expect their movies to make sense.
Dr Blue PM Gave us Padme, who was everything Leia was. The damn SJW never celebrated that character maybe bc she worked with everyone, disregarding color or race. She was a strong character that happened to be a woman. We could understand from where Leia came from. Blood is thick. Besides, the story was original and well told, even with a bad execution. TLJ is a no history that was not execute at all.
Mental Robb Most of the people defending TLJ are on the Political Left. What's even crazier is the Same people Crucify other movies that do the same thing, but have refused to done so with the New Trilogy just because they're called Star Wars.
As Pooped By Anakin Skywalker Yeah. Hello Greedo really pissed me off with his response to the criticism of the Last Jedi. Lost a lot of respect for that guy. Mr Sunday Movies seemed to have gone down the same path as well.
Remember when Star Wars had fully articulate action figures with 16 points of movement and beautifully painted pieces? Now we have this garbage Mr Roboto shit with only stiff arms, legs and head movement. You can get the good stuff (black series) but you are going to pay double to triple for it. No wonder nobody is buying this crap
I remember when Star Wars toys had 5 points of articulation and they sold like crazy. Is Hasbro trying to move back in time for a piece of that Kenner pie?
Remember when SW toys had 5 points of articulation? Ha. Try the arms and legs only Kenner figures and 1997 re-release stuff. The prequel generation is spoiled. Lol
As a collector, I felt into the Jedi mind tricks of SW and bought some action figures on Force Friday. This has been done before where people buy toys before the release of the movie, but after watching TLJ, I haven't been interested in buying more. The problems are many, one is the obvious, TLJ sucks and two, none of the characters are interesting and don't have that cool factor. Even if they put them at 1 dollar, they are not going to sell because they suck. There are no aliens in this new toy line and the quality is poor. Is hard for a collector to not buy SW toys once they hit store, but I will never again buy them before seeing the movie first and by the looks of it, Disney is not producing quality films. So, I'll be focusing on other brands with more value. SW is dying or maybe it's already dead.
In my case, I am a lego star wars collector, and I got into star wars because of lego. Many sets come out form TLJ and I only have bought one and it is the Kylo Ren starfighter because I like the black colour and design, not for the character or else. TLJ and everything Disney has made sucks hard, starting of course with Marey Sue protagonist.
I didn't even *hear* about the new 'canon' books until after the TLJ when I was trying to figure out what I just watched. I mean, I have like a dozen 'legends' books so I should have at least HEARD of the new 'canon' books before that. Eventually, I just looked at wookieepedia to get the plot summaries of them. It made the movie worse, not better.
glhf2 I can't imagine the "new canon" books selling very well but thats the opinion of someone who has read and loved the EU books and is more the a little pissed that disney stopped making the EU books because they don't want my money
I actually like the prequels. Certainly much more than the new stuff. And there were actually cool worthwhile characters in the prequels. General Grievous, Darth Maul, heck, even Count Dooku.
yes, it also was more of a political intrigue kind of movie, which was not what star wars fans wanted. Well, they say that people hate more mediocre things than plain bad ones. Because they fall short of being great. Old star wars fans, it seems, wanted a different tone from the prequels. But looking back at them, they were not as awful as the new ones. Now? we only want a good story that respects canon and treats old fan favorites with respect. Really, I was open to anything they threw at me, I was just happy that there was new star wars movies, but...they didn't deliver any of my minimal requirements. Awful story, ret-con everywhere, canon flew out of the window, the old characters are treated with such a lack of respect and they try to shoe-horn their politics and preach at us.
Karen G. The Prequels weren't that bad, People exaggerated. Star Wars died because of all the years the Prequel Haters shat on Lucas so he was basically pushed to sell it to Disney. So, we can thank the Prequel Haters for the destruction of 1 of 3 of my favorite franchises. Star Wars is dead. May 25th 1977 - October 30th 2012.
Sire J. Longstroke TFA did nothing except further prove my assessment that Disney destroyed Star Wars. Think Death Star I and Alderaan except far worse. Because at least Alderaan and the Civilians had a quick death, Disney is still working Star Wars' corpse like a damn Puppet.
Nicholas O'Connor The real reason is the obsession and overhype of overrated SW, I never seen any other nerdy franchise being shoved so hard. I kinda wanna see the prequels, I believe they're better then the boring children book movies which were the original trilogy. I saw the first movie and it was awful, I couldn't understand a thing if it wasn't for previous knowledge. Geroge Lucas isn't a great director, he turned a movie with fricking David Bowie and Jim Hanson in it to mediocre and annoying.
Man I miss having good quality Star Wars games. Thank you Disney for giving full reign of the Star Wars gaming sphere to EA. Another excellent decision for the brand. (Sarcasm)
Sentinel Enforcer seriously I'm dying for a star wars space sim along the lines of x wing alliance or tie fighter. Those games were amazing. Lucasarts was the creme de la creme of PC gaming in the 90s. The graphics were top notch but the games had heart and soul and were so well executed. I replayed the single player and played the crap out of the multi player on msn gaming zone back in the day when online gaming was in its infancy. Now it's dumbed down battle front every two years.
Yeah I have quite a few on my wishlist to buy when they're on sale. At least that way Disney gets less money and I enjoy a real SW story. Had KOTOR 2 for a while but didn't get into it until TLJ left me angry. I'm already on my third play through!
DasEichenlaub Yeah there's no STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST who is supposedly Imperial Special forces who defects to the good guy rebels in 2 missions. Man mainstream gaming has become a joke.
The creativity is dead. They could have done an Old Republic trilogy, or a distant future trilogy, but they do a remake trilogy with the message that Luke, Leia, and Han all suck. Good luck with that. I just don't care for that kind of story. I would rather watch Creed with Adonis learning from Rocky Balboa and making his own mark in boxing than Star Wars under Disney.
They won't do that, because they don't want to pay any royalties to authors. Disney does altered Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales because the author gets no royalties for being so long dead and so that they can be more wish fulfilling than the original fairy tales.
Bill Westfall Not really because you won’t be able to get many wipes in. Plus, be sure and break it up first because it will clog your pipes and have to snake the drains. 💵 🚽
They drove away collectors when they decided to lower the quality and have 5 points of articulation in their main line of figures- the fact that their main line is now 5 POA crap and 6 inch doesn't help. They used to have awesome super detailed and articulated action figures *from* *all* *star* *wars* *films* If I buy any merchandise it's discontinued stuff from the good ol days not the crap they sell nowadays.
Kaeben i bought at least $2000 in Star Wars figures last year including vehicles, of course my stuff is from episode I-VI. Of my 545 figures, only 9 are from TFA/RO/TLJ collection. The disney vehicles are shit. Good to play with your kids but thats it. Of course too expensive. Those I picked up at a deal or because I was interested in that figure. The only figures I buy are pre-disney movies.
I spelled correctly cause I ment one person in particular. Watch the video again and you will figure out who I was referring to. And don't correct other people spelling. It makes you look like a JACKASS Steve.
I recently watched a Netflix documentary called "The Toys That Made Us". (great series I recommend that everybody watch it) In that documentary, they talked about the 1st run of StarWars toys, and about the head of KENNER often using a made up word: "toyetic". Referring to something like if toy seemed like a good toy. Almost NONE of the SW:TLJ characters aesthetic designs seemed to be "toyetic". Anybody want a Laura Dern figure?
Right before TLJ was released, I knew there would be a problem as soon as I saw that the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker figure did not even include a lightsaber. WTF!
(Paraphrasing Emperor Palpatine) I've waited a long time for this notification, my little mouse friend. *cackles* At last, Disney's Star Wars is no more!
I'm aware of AOTC being the weakest when it comes to storytelling (especially with Anakin and Padme), but it still had an ending and the prelude is more coherent. TLJ is all beginnings with no endings, incoherent storytelling, even more incoherent prelude and my biggest issue (I'm surprised no one pointed this out): Since when did General Hux became an Admiral?????
Yes, exactly. These Tumblr idiots love to go on about diversity and "muh feminism", when that isn't the problem. The problem is that it was a shit movie and no one wants their crappy toys.
Hey I like the prequels. So do my friends who are non-SW fans. Revenge of Sith I can still watch. I got into SW's cause of prequels and then Clone Wars animated as a fan.
eurosensazion like don’t get me wrong the acting was really bad but the prequels brought something new to the table. I loved the prequels and I actually watched those first. I understand the hate for them but at least their not that hated like the sequels that are coming out lol
i watched the phantom menace when i was a little youngin, i loved it wheni was small. looking at it now, yeah its dated, pandering and childish, but damnit, at east you felt as though george was being somewhat earnest in his attempts to tell his story.
eurosensazion Prequels are completely fine. Sure there's some cringy dialogue and the first hour of Attack of the Clones is mostly internal pain, but they are definitely not the horror show that fanboys make them out to be.
I wonder if Disney is taking more per toy than when Lucas still owned Lucasfilm. Hasbro would then dial back the features on the figures. Like taking away wrist joints. Then elbows. Then knees. All to preserve their profit margins for their stock holders. So now you have figures with the same number of joints as the old Kenner figures from the early 80s.
Robert Bruce their arms and legs could move back and forth. Compared to figures from around the RotS era, they were primitive and stiff. It's just that current figures have the same number of joints as the ancient Kenner figures. I understand that some of the female figures can't have elbows and knees because the limbs are thinner but when FO stormtroopers also lack those joints you take a step back and ask yourself if it's worth it.
And Hasbro’s old GI Joe action figures started eclipsing Kenner’s Star Wars figures when they debuted, back in 1982. Why? They were fully poseable, had filecards that provided character depth and had equipment and vehicles you wanted to play with! I know it’s been over 35 years but Hasbro needs to take a good look in the mirror.
Guess what else is dropping. Theaters companies on stock markets cause they aren't generating that much revenue even with all these films and 3D expensively priced tickets with costs increase. They are overvalued anyways.
4K 240Hz Dolby Vision HDR TV and 7.1 Surround Sound System off of UHD Blu-Ray copies w/ connected Bass Shakers = Better long term family and friends movie investment than the theaters with added convenience. Plus you don't have to deal with the fucking idiot of an employee threatening to call security that won't let you out of the lobby to take your daughter to the bathroom because he thinks you're going to jump theaters after just leaving the one you already paid for.
We used to love to go to the movies. Nowadays, I just don't feel like putting up with mobile phones, talking, eating and mostly crap movies. So cinemas go out of business. I never asked for 3D. I never asked for digital. The industry chose to put them out of business.
Personally I don't like the Star Wars Toys currently..they have no movement to them. Straight arms, straight legs...lame. If you want a good posable figure , you have to go back to "Legends of the Force" or prequel figures. The new figures, well , frankly they just suck. My kids, grandkids don't want them..they don't have accessories that fire missiles or anything that makes a figure "playworthy". I just buy them Lego sets..they have more fun with those than the new cheapo SW stuff. I personally am done with Star Wars after the ridiculous "The Last Jedi". I won't be fooled again. Star Wars is ruined for me. I'll keep collecting my "Vader" dark horse comics. The only thing I have left that is Star Wars. Until they take the masculinity away from him. I hope it never happens. Star Wars Disney has effectively destroyed all my favorite characters, and has effectively turned me away from this laughable format of garbage. Nope , I'm done. After this last interview with Abrams...There is no hope for any good cohesive story for this Trilogy. They can have thier toys and thier lame ass propaganda movies.
Someone should make a toy commercial about the way kids are supposed to play with Rose and Holdo action figures. Show some little kids dressing down a Poe toy and telling him he's an overzealous flyboy who needs to shut up and wait for orders as they taser a Finn toy.
Already when the trailer came out they were raving about how well the girls costumes were made. Perhaps suitable for intergalactic warfare, but what girl actually wants to wear an ill-fitting bathrobe in bland sand color? Not many. SW could have made the costume a sexy fashion statement and women interested.
Disney really needs to pull their heads out of their asses by next year. Those two Star Wars lands open up and they might have trouble if they completely kill the brand before they open.
I can't go there. It would be wrong for me to show up and start punching people. None of those Disney employees are to blame, but I don't think it would matter. After seeing TLJ, I'd get there and face punches would just happen.
We, the fans watch Star Wars films to see great characters, great plot and good old fashioned Good vs Evil; not to have political views shoved down our throats. For the first time in my life, I’m not excited about any future Star Wars films thanks to Disney and especially Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson.
Marshall Street Do you realize the concepts that the original trilogy was based off of? It might actually offend you if you are a conservative. However, the problem with Star Wars isn't liberalism, it's that it is a soulless remake with hollow characters. Hardly anyone cared about the political undertones of the original Star Wars because you had the standard good vs. evil story that almost everybody would like.
Suemorphplus2009 Although political events and opinions may have influenced the original trillogy. For example the battle of endor was influenced by the American defeat in Vietnam by an enemy with inferior weapons etc. It would be very difficult to interpret Star Wars as an anti Vietnam war statement. As at its core there is very little in the way of political messages in the original movies, rather they are very simplistic good vs evil movies. Drawing on inspiration from things like post modernism, cultural marxism, moral relativism and radical third wave feminism to turn a family movie into political soviet style propoganda is immoral. It would be like turning mikey mouse into an anti communist icon.
Dude, I've watched a lot of your videos, the Star Wars videos are the best, and among them the Toy videos are the best. I'm sad to see my favorite franchise go down like the Titanic all due to the fact that LFL doesn't know what they are doing, pushing agendas instead of thinking creatively and RESPECTING what came before them.
The way they handle the established and beloved Star Wars franchise is very much like they ploughed through your education system and supposed democracy.
Force Friday is dead, because of Disney CODing Star Wars. Oh and cause there isn't any characters that look cool in these new films that people (especially boys) would want to buy. Edit: I'm curious on how much lego star wars toys sell, because lego sets are also overpriced.
I can answer that as a Lego SW guy. The last 4-5 Xmas the SW Lego sets flew off the shelves and empty shelves till Feb/Mar. This year, NOTHING came close to selling out. Maybe 10% of in stock sold. Imo TLJ lego sets suck, bc the new vehicles all suck, and the movie sucked bad.
Star Wars is doing fine. Its he best seller ever. The slight slump is of course due to Timing. Everyone loves Star Wars and the Toys are great and sell well. Massa DIsney said so.
Hilarious that article stated "He dismissed fans are tiring of Star Wars products". How about fans tiring of the poor story telling, acting, and directing of the genre? Its funny how they state "the property should provide a large and stable source of annual revenue". Don't know about you, but I nor my children will have anything to do with "Star Wars products" ever again. And you are correct how these business keep making excuses and not take the blame themselves, trying to explain drop in their stock. Thanks for the post (spot on).
I want to propose an initiative, Do not buy or watch any Star wars movie or merchandise till Disney fix Rian and Kennedy mess. the fans will previal
On eBay and Amazon (classic characters) 6 inch black series and elite series are around 35-55$ the (new characters) 6 inch black series and elite series are only 7-15$ ........
We all know that Han Solo movie and episode 9 is going to bomb and then that's it. The only gimmick they got left is Boba Fett and Darth Vader movies. Just let it fucking die already.
WCBS-thank you for your honesty and bluntness. I loved what Star Wars was to my childhood, but I cannot support what it has become under Disney leadership. These cucks propping these lame-ass movies are the biggest part of the problem...their willingness to gleefully guzzle down and accept whatever trash Disney serves up is why I don’t see the problem improving any time soon. New Star Wars is like a drunk uncle that I can’t continue to visit until he gets treatment...and I will not support any new Star Wars movie or mech until this problem has been resolved.
The idea of entertainment market saturation is total BS. If you make a product people want they will always want more. The existence of all you can eat buffets prove that the product doesn't even have to be very good for people to gorge themselves on it. The thirty years of Westerns dominating theaters, with some franchise releasing as many as three films a year, proves it. The real problem is shitty product no one wants.
EA was a terrible choice to give the Star Wars licence to. Unless it's a mobile game they basically do not publish single player games anymore. Star Wars has always been about heroic adventures along a story line. You do not get that with multiplayer games. Because of that I have not bought a new Star Wars game in ages.
2% sales drop is HUGE! I know it sounds small but it's not. Then add into that the loss from the projected sales of an increase of 4%. 6% sales loss equals millions of lost revenue.
Disney will make them all white rich ego assholes than they'll have Rey and Rose come by defeated them without breaking a sweat while in the distance poe and fin are jerking each other off
The comments from that CEO sounds like such generic corporate-speak, the same meaningless guff spewed by standard politicians. Perhaps Disney is terrified of having to admit that it knows regressive feminism and cultural marxism doesn't sell.
could you guys do me a solid? there have been articles written and people saying that ESB was as divisive as TLJ when it came out, which I know is unequivocally not true. can you guys make a video to address this nonsense? they're spreading lies about Empire to make TLJ look good.
21stcenturyhiphop this is fact. I have been blasting that bull crap story on twitter. ESB was NOT divisive . I remember us kids arguing on the playground about whether or not Darth Vader was Luke’s father. But there was no divisiveness. That seems like A made up story to try and justify how bad the last Jedi is. Empire is the measuring stick. I don’t know how people can say this is right below that? Because you have to hate Star Wars in order to like the last Jedi
What I've read is that originally people didn't think it was better than the original like many fans claim now. I wouldn't know though, can you weigh in on that? What do you remember?
one of your star wars toys videos is what made me subscribe to this channel. I was rolling with how you were clowning that shit as you walked through the store. fuck the movies and fuck the toys. I love star wars vehicles have a ton from revell models to micro machines. they don't even make new vehicles just slight tweaks of old vehicles.
The Force Awakens line is still plaguing Toys R Us and most other retailers couldn't sell off stock of previous waves, without heavy clearance. They did themselves a huge disservice by hyping up Finn as their new Luke type character to hide Rey's abilities and as a result, his toys clogged shelves, and Rey the number one draw. With a ton of FA stuff considered toxic, retailers were cautious in their ordering. Not to mention all this product from the side films, the upcoming Solo film, Rogue One, and the OT stuff thrown in for diversity, also doesn't help retailers looking to clear shelf space. Once a film ends its run unlike in years past, where Hasbro could just milk the previous film line till the next film, they don't have that luxury anymore. They have to sell off these toys quickly, and in a world where video games and phone apps are taking away the plytime of kids everywhere, Star Wars Toys just cannot perform like it was 1978, or 1998, or 2008. The industry is dying. Only boomers and gen xers are keeping this line afloat, kids are not interested anymore. Once those boomers and Xers age out and die, the decreasing millennial interest will not be enough to keep toys on shelves.
While I do appreciate Disney's stupid choices blowing up in their faces, it is also sad because Star Wars is no longer the timeless event and story that it was, it has been watered down for the sake of money rather than story telling passion. I hope some day this terrible phase may pass and we will have great stories told once again a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...
DJKCP unfortunately we waited 35 years to see the only story we cared about seeing (ep7-9) and they've mucked it up. Who cares if they fix it eventually, bc the good story line has been ruined. It'll be a day late, and a dollar bin short.
just came from Hollywood studios at disney. the park was crowded, but the star wars merch store I visited was very bare. I asked one of the clerks behind the counter if sales has gone down since the release of the last Jedi movie. She hesitated, looked off to her left a bit, then said "no, sales have improved since that movie" like she was told what to say and/or being watched.
The market is, was, and always will be a reflection of consumer interests. If the stores drop the order percentage, it is indicative of the overstock of the last product in that line. Given the fact that most stores still have first and second wave the force awakens stuff collecting dust on the shelves,this is not surprising. If this trend continues any collector could fill his needs for under a hundred dollars at your local bargin bin, or just go dumpster diving. Thats apparently where all the remaining starwars crap at my local kroger ended up, the trash.
I was at Walmart yesterday and saw all the last Jedi black series six inch figures on sale for five bucks. My older son is 12 and he’s collected these figures in the past. I called him and asked if he wanted any of them. He laughed and said ‘no’. He hated the movie.
Ha! I saw them too for five dollars. Bought snow trooper and at at drivers from empire strikes back. Can’t stand the new characters!
Just noticed this post. Picked up a few yesterday for the hell of it.
If the movies were good there wouldn't be any problem. It's not star wars fatigue, it's propaganda fatigue.
Wow, who would’ve thought toy sales would go down after new Star Wars films come out every year, and especially with fantastic new characters, like Rey and Rose? It’s quite a mystery.
Don't forget Poe, come guys you gotta love these new characters. Rey is better than anyoNe before & Poe flies like he has the force & is more badass than anybody before him. Come on guys like them. Oh ya, Finn is funnier than everybody before guys. Don't u guys like Kevin Hart in SW? You men must all be sexist, racist that's why you don't like them.
Rose as urly a clasic Character, one for the Ages.
What!?!? Rose is the best!!!! She last longer that any other action figure in the microwave.
Dont forget emo bor Kylo Ren.
Or Vice Admiral Purple Hair.
Anyone remember Jenny Nicholson in the comments arguing that there was no evidence of slow sales? Hahahaha in yo face
Somebody go message her ass!
She needs to get out of her porg infested bubble.
yes please.
She was Shillin like a Villain...
Damn, now I need to search comment sections for that. Also, I like her, her jokes are funny, but yes, she is such a fan that she would never admit something like that because she has bundle of that toys.
Spaceballs is better than Disney's Star Wars Sequels. Lol
Oneforce Onebalance
Dark Helmet: Find anything good about The Last Jedi?
Soldier: Nothing yet, sir.
Dark Helmet: How about you?!
Soldier: Not a thing sir!
Dark Helmet: What about you guys?!
Soldier: We ain't found shit!
Master Vidxad 58 😂😂😂
did ya see anything? No sir!
i didnt see you watching the last jedi again!
Yeah, cuz Spaceballs the flamethrower! Mouchendizin'
It's seriously the perfect time for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. It hasn't been this appropriate even at the time of the prequels.
Unexpected? There are NO male heroes in TLJ and only one set piece of interest (throne room fight). Rian Johnson fancies himself an "artist" like Warhol in that he is so smart in his postmodern deconstruction of heroes. Try selling toys based on postmodern deconstructions....oh yeh....you can't sell toys.
Correction: there are no heroes in the Sequel trilogy, period.
apostate001 you could sell Evangelion figures or berserk figures tho.
Because regardless of what they represent, they are badass.
You have recognizable characters fighting monsters and demons.
I mean one doesn't really need context as a child.
As a kid i had borg and alien toys, I didn't knew who they were but they were cool and well designed so i just got em into fights with my toy soldiers and shit.
You know.
Muuro finn had potential but he got cucked by *the force is female*
Think about it, he could have easily been the hero, a questioning soldier who learns the call of the force and leaves into the unknown, in the path he gets involved in the conflict against the army he served, uses the combat skills he already learned from the military training and fights the guy every grunt in the order is terrified of: Kylo ren. Gets saved by chewie and afterwards he seeks Luke Skywalker to learn the jedi way in order to stop the rampage of kylo and his knights of ren.
Fuck, anyone can cook up a better story than jar jar abrams and Kaitlyn Kennedy
FarnsworthIII the problem with finn in the movies is that he starts rushed and then gets thrown as a minor character.
There is so much potential in him.
And don't get me wrong, I'm a fucking hardcore racist myself.
But fucking hell that story had so much potential that race would have been nothing but a minor eyebrow riser for me n my pals.
Like he could have been a hardened badass welding a lightsaber on one hand and a blaster carbine on the other, because you know. Soldier training isn't easy to forget.
Like imagine finn going full command to assault the eclipse, fucking strapped with grenades and carrying one of them light machine guns in a modified stormtrooper armor painted in the black and orange colors of the resistance elite crashing an x wing into a hangar and flying out like Anakin in episode 3, confronting phasma in the burning garage and shit.
UGH SO FUCKING BADASS!
FUCK DISNEY.
THAT'S SOMETHING MARKATEBLE YOU LAZY FUCKING J WORDS.
The throne room was a red wall and a throne. I mean a SERIOUSLY red wall.
And Rian Johnson taught me Jedi don't need lightsabers, so all the Star Wars toys can suck it!
It's not Star Wars fatigue it's people reacting to a bad movie
It absolutely delights me that Hasbro is making more money from My Little Pony than with Disney's Star Wars.
ProMonarchyGenius let's raise our mugs of apple cider to those pastel colored equines: Keeping Hasbro alive!
Lol
Huzzah!
ProMonarchyGenius as a brony im happy to help our hasbro overlord...but sad because i couldn t buy star wars toys. I haven t since clone wars
Diego Kaqui I thank you for your service.
You all have the gay!
Spit on de gey horse-p*ssy believas! *spitting* You do not kno de wae!
They used to be called ”ACTION figures”, but that was just because the characters actually used to do shit.
Or «Dolls for boys». Now it’s «Dolls for nobody».
So the saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder, speaks volumes. Disney has made star wars cheap, they changed the story, they killed off the favorites or made them ridiculous. The new cast is brainless perfect and boring with no back stories. Star Wars is done, they could make 20 more movies but Star Wars is done.
Doing a distant future story would avoid a lot of the problems, but oh well. All they care is the 1 billion plus dollars at the box office.
The Last Jedi was so AWFUL that nobody wants to buy merchandise from that big pile of shit!!...
Rose clearly stated that all the rich people are bad so wasting money on her toy figure would clearly be hypocritical of me. Instead I am donating 1 dollar to the release the race horses fund.
Andrew Keyz I'm donating to the 'free the slaves' fund
Andrew Keyz 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Prequels Era games were fun...
And now EA has monopoly over Star Wars game.
Yea SW is kinda fcked now.
Nardanurartha at least we got Battlefront II (2005) well if you can find it anyway
Who wants a figure of a depressed luke skywalker or that deformed Hugh Hefner guy who got sliced in half by a floppy haired brat?
You were the first person to start mentioning this as far as I know, way back. Now "Star wars toys aren't selling" vids is almost a genera. Thankyou for putting out this message and shining more light on the fate of SW.
I've actually gone out to my local Target and Toys R' Us to test out how right you are about the sales on the toys, and by God, every Star Wars toy in my local Wal-Mart was on clearance. It's really ridiculous. I don't know why more outlets aren't talking about how low this series has sunk. Look at the views on the Solo trailer, only 10 million, a drastic drop from the last 3 movies. Something is definitely wrong.
Disney and Hasbro will get those sales up! We've got to give them more time!
Howz Yerfather RotJ reference. Nicely done!
Same here in AU. We don't have Wal-Mart but our other shops like target and K-Mart. Nothing is selling and all is on sale. Heck our bargin shops are getting all the 6 inch black series and they sit on the shelves there to
Howz Yerfather Cheers my friend!
Most star wars fans are guys.
Why would they buy a Rey barbie doll?
Lex Mats other than to shoot at it with BBs...or actual bullets
I dont buy Rey dolls for that!
She doesnt deserve the honor of being strapped to a firecraker and go boom!
I use Rose dolls for that ^.^
Lex Mats i buy pony mini barbie dolls....they are at least good characters.and look good.
I'd buy a Rey doll and set it on fire as it sat in a bag of bantha poodoo
Rose would be used to light said fire
LIST OF MARKETING FAILS
1- Better than Empire Strikes Back ( hahaha, oh wait, are you serious? )
2- Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer starting at 94% ? ( wow, just wow )
3- Subvert your expecations = a good movie ( humkay... no. Have you heard of branding? )
4- Attack on the fan base. Negative response = haters. If you dont like the movie = racist and sexist ( are you nuts? )
5- Denial and double down of the Mary Sue criticism ( no humility, fail to instruct your actors on the interviews)
6- Drop in China and wallstreet
7- Making Mark Hamill participate and apologize in interviews of a movie he did not like ( this could have been avoided ).
8- Market a fairy tale movie for an audience who was a expecting an epic legendary style of story telling. (Pick your audience, you cannot ride two horses at the same time)
9- Not stoping Rian Johson from making "sassy" remarks on twitter.
10- "Let the past die" much more directed at the audience rather than the character of Rey. What past? she doesn´t know her past in order for her to let it go. Leting go of something is very different than letting something die. The past is very important and has it´s place... in the past. No closure for Rey and a slap on the fans´ faces.
ATTACKING THE FAN BASE
ATTACKING THE FAN BASE - BAD MARKETING
- Expectations - Fan theories are stupid ( as if all fans have theories - I had none )
- Addressing only stupid fan comments ( People feel there is something wrong but cannot express it in a professional way.)
Rian Johnson is nitpicking the stupidest fan comments and posting on twitter. Not everyone has a cinema background so people feel there is something wrong but cannot express it.
Can you imagine Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg level directors getting in a Twitter pissing match with some fan? Yeah, me neither.
Yet another reason Rian Johnson is not on the level needed.
CONTROVERSY POOR EXCUSES:
- It takes chances ( is that what we are calling lazy writing from now on?)
- Nothing will mach the originals ( nostalgicism )
- Subvert our expectations (gratuitus Gotcha moments) (lack of continuity) (plot holes)
Like this movie is supose to be some kinda of Blade Runner that people will understand and appretiate some time in the future... this is ridiculous. Its a bad movie.
Rian had total disregard for the hero’s journey and cinema language. Too many undeveloped plots, poor character development, pacing, out of place humor and continuity to the overall canon rules.
Why did Rian double down on Rey’s Mary Sue criticism? Chuck Norris would shit on his pants. Rey is ridiculous over powered with no reason.
RED HERRINGS
Defenders have no solid points as to why the movie is good. All they use is red herrings like:
1. "Fans always have high expectations
2. "Everyone is just jumping in a bandwagon"
3. "It made heaps of money",
4. "The Originals weren't perfect"
5. "It´s just a kids movie"
6. "Because all the fan theories were wrong"
7. "Empire strickes Back also had bad reviews and ended on a down note"
8. That or they make weak assumptions that are not in the movie.
Some are so much in denial that they may even go as far as to:
9. It is a subjective matter (dugh)
10. Attack the critics character (call you a hater)
11. “Stop liking things I dont like” (haha, we are the childish?)
12. “You have nothing better to do” (as if criticizing isa worthless thing to do )
13. “"Stop enjoying a film which I didn't understand!!!” ( said the person who does not have any good argument as to explain why the movie is good )
14. “I find it funny that "the internet" thinks they're better at filmmaking than trained professionals.” (As if oly professionals have the right and ability to create an opinion )
15. “That is why those who liked the film don't exert the effort giving their reasoning. It's a waste of time”. ( escapism )
"Defenders have no solid points as to why the movie Is good"
Actually, they do.
The fact that a lot of people did like the movie is evidence in and of itself that the movie wasnt the big epic failure that you present it to be.
Hey man many people think Justin Bieber is a great musician and that his music is good. I am not arguing with that. The fact that many people like something is a poor argument. Time is the judge of things. Good things last longer. Fact is... Bieber, like this movie, is just a fase that will shortly die and nobody will remember it; as for the Original Trilogy, well, time has proved it... is a movement baby. Big difference.
ArmaBiologica35 I can see people enjoying TLJ. But really only on 2 conditions:
1) If they're not actual Star Wars fans
or
2) if they turn their brains off and just enjoy the pretty lights, emotions, and explosions...rather than expect their movies to make sense.
Tom King Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that.
ArmaBiologica35 There's plenty wrong with it. It ruins what are supposed to be Star Wars movies for rational Star Wars fans. It ruins the franchise.
The Last Jedi makes Phantom Menace look like Empire Stikes Back. Come at me bro.
Dr Blue you're not going to get an argument here. Everyone on this channel agrees
Dr Blue PM Gave us Padme, who was everything Leia was. The damn SJW never celebrated that character maybe bc she worked with everyone, disregarding color or race. She was a strong character that happened to be a woman. We could understand from where Leia came from. Blood is thick. Besides, the story was original and well told, even with a bad execution. TLJ is a no history that was not execute at all.
Obi Wan and Qui gon jinn were awesome regardless of the weak story. Darth Maul was a great villain.
It couldnt be because Luke Skywalker is dead right?
Take that Disney!
Even liberals are saying star wars is dying. And Jeff where's MundaneMatt or arnim is a shill video?
Rolue Vas Reisa yeah he ain't gonna bite the hand that feeds but Star Wars Explained is even worse.
"Even liberals"?!? What does that mean?
Mental Robb Most of the people defending TLJ are on the Political Left.
What's even crazier is the Same people Crucify other movies that do the same thing, but have refused to done so with the New Trilogy just because they're called Star Wars.
My contingent of liberal friends hated it. A few are even diet SJWs.
The film pandered too much.
As Pooped By Anakin Skywalker
Yeah. Hello Greedo really pissed me off with his response to the criticism of the Last Jedi. Lost a lot of respect for that guy. Mr Sunday Movies seemed to have gone down the same path as well.
Was at Walmart today and the only figures I saw there were Rey, Rose, Jyn, Leia and Fin. So sad. All were on clearance
Remember when Star Wars had fully articulate action figures with 16 points of movement and beautifully painted pieces? Now we have this garbage Mr Roboto shit with only stiff arms, legs and head movement. You can get the good stuff (black series) but you are going to pay double to triple for it. No wonder nobody is buying this crap
Frank the NOOB my clone wars toys are far better than them
I remember when Star Wars toys had 5 points of articulation and they sold like crazy. Is Hasbro trying to move back in time for a piece of that Kenner pie?
Dazrael that's like going from the iPhone to the Motorola Brick.
Give me Walrus Man over Ponda Baba any day 😉
Remember when SW toys had 5 points of articulation? Ha. Try the arms and legs only Kenner figures and 1997 re-release stuff. The prequel generation is spoiled. Lol
As a collector, I felt into the Jedi mind tricks of SW and bought some action figures on Force Friday. This has been done before where people buy toys before the release of the movie, but after watching TLJ, I haven't been interested in buying more. The problems are many, one is the obvious, TLJ sucks and two, none of the characters are interesting and don't have that cool factor. Even if they put them at 1 dollar, they are not going to sell because they suck. There are no aliens in this new toy line and the quality is poor. Is hard for a collector to not buy SW toys once they hit store, but I will never again buy them before seeing the movie first and by the looks of it, Disney is not producing quality films. So, I'll be focusing on other brands with more value. SW is dying or maybe it's already dead.
In my case, I am a lego star wars collector, and I got into star wars because of lego. Many sets come out form TLJ and I only have bought one and it is the Kylo Ren starfighter because I like the black colour and design, not for the character or else. TLJ and everything Disney has made sucks hard, starting of course with Marey Sue protagonist.
I would like to see a book sells comparison EU/"legends" vs new "canon" books
I didn't even *hear* about the new 'canon' books until after the TLJ when I was trying to figure out what I just watched. I mean, I have like a dozen 'legends' books so I should have at least HEARD of the new 'canon' books before that. Eventually, I just looked at wookieepedia to get the plot summaries of them. It made the movie worse, not better.
glhf2 I can't imagine the "new canon" books selling very well but thats the opinion of someone who has read and loved the EU books and is more the a little pissed that disney stopped making the EU books because they don't want my money
The only good new canon books are Tarkin and Thrawn for obvious reasons
there not good I find the so called Canon books in discount stores all the time hell most Book stores that even stock them anymore.
I actually like the prequels. Certainly much more than the new stuff. And there were actually cool worthwhile characters in the prequels. General Grievous, Darth Maul, heck, even Count Dooku.
And all the Clone Troopers with their armor variants ^___^
yes, it also was more of a political intrigue kind of movie, which was not what star wars fans wanted. Well, they say that people hate more mediocre things than plain bad ones. Because they fall short of being great. Old star wars fans, it seems, wanted a different tone from the prequels. But looking back at them, they were not as awful as the new ones. Now? we only want a good story that respects canon and treats old fan favorites with respect. Really, I was open to anything they threw at me, I was just happy that there was new star wars movies, but...they didn't deliver any of my minimal requirements. Awful story, ret-con everywhere, canon flew out of the window, the old characters are treated with such a lack of respect and they try to shoe-horn their politics and preach at us.
Karen G. The Prequels weren't that bad, People exaggerated. Star Wars died because of all the years the Prequel Haters shat on Lucas so he was basically pushed to sell it to Disney. So, we can thank the Prequel Haters for the destruction of 1 of 3 of my favorite franchises. Star Wars is dead. May 25th 1977 - October 30th 2012.
Sire J. Longstroke TFA did nothing except further prove my assessment that Disney destroyed Star Wars. Think Death Star I and Alderaan except far worse. Because at least Alderaan and the Civilians had a quick death, Disney is still working Star Wars' corpse like a damn Puppet.
Nicholas O'Connor The real reason is the obsession and overhype of overrated SW, I never seen any other nerdy franchise being shoved so hard. I kinda wanna see the prequels, I believe they're better then the boring children book movies which were the original trilogy. I saw the first movie and it was awful, I couldn't understand a thing if it wasn't for previous knowledge. Geroge Lucas isn't a great director, he turned a movie with fricking David Bowie and Jim Hanson in it to mediocre and annoying.
Man I miss having good quality Star Wars games.
Thank you Disney for giving full reign of the Star Wars gaming sphere to EA. Another excellent decision for the brand. (Sarcasm)
Sentinel Enforcer seriously I'm dying for a star wars space sim along the lines of x wing alliance or tie fighter. Those games were amazing. Lucasarts was the creme de la creme of PC gaming in the 90s. The graphics were top notch but the games had heart and soul and were so well executed. I replayed the single player and played the crap out of the multi player on msn gaming zone back in the day when online gaming was in its infancy. Now it's dumbed down battle front every two years.
Atlas we can still buy good SW games on Steam (As of now. Wouldn't. be shocked if Disney pulls some BS to get them removed).
flyingkoopa45 I bought a couple of the bundles. When they go on sale for 75% off they're a fantastic deal. I highly recommend keeping an eye on that.
Yeah I have quite a few on my wishlist to buy when they're on sale. At least that way Disney gets less money and I enjoy a real SW story. Had KOTOR 2 for a while but didn't get into it until TLJ left me angry. I'm already on my third play through!
DasEichenlaub Yeah there's no STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST who is supposedly Imperial Special forces who defects to the good guy rebels in 2 missions. Man mainstream gaming has become a joke.
they will never admit to it until the brand is dead
It might as well already be dead
The creativity is dead. They could have done an Old Republic trilogy, or a distant future trilogy, but they do a remake trilogy with the message that Luke, Leia, and Han all suck. Good luck with that. I just don't care for that kind of story. I would rather watch Creed with Adonis learning from Rocky Balboa and making his own mark in boxing than Star Wars under Disney.
suemorphplus2009
Or they could of take EU books and turn them into movies like episode 7 - 9 the Thrawn trilogy
They won't do that, because they don't want to pay any royalties to authors. Disney does altered Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales because the author gets no royalties for being so long dead and so that they can be more wish fulfilling than the original fairy tales.
Also, that Lex Luthor Kevin Spacey meme was well-placed. Made my friggin day,. 😂😂😂
It was just a bit loud x_X
Sebonotik Insertnonamehere
Yeah. It made me jump a bit. 😂
Kamen Rider 1 Hongo Takeshi likes Ethan Van Sciver? What a revelation.
I'm getting that Rose doll for $1 because it beats the price of toilet paper
Bill Westfall
Not really because you won’t be able to get many wipes in.
Plus, be sure and break it up first because it will clog your pipes and have to snake the drains. 💵 🚽
Bill Westfall
At least toilet paper has a use.
Explosives and a super slow mo vid.
They drove away collectors when they decided to lower the quality and have 5 points of articulation in their main line of figures- the fact that their main line is now 5 POA crap and 6 inch doesn't help. They used to have awesome super detailed and articulated action figures *from* *all* *star* *wars* *films* If I buy any merchandise it's discontinued stuff from the good ol days not the crap they sell nowadays.
I bought a Groot last year, but no Star Wars crap. Star Wars is dead.
Kaeben Thats the reason Hasbro licenced didn't sunk even more, Marvel is doing Ok, but Star Wars is other story
Kaeben i bought at least $2000 in Star Wars figures last year including vehicles, of course my stuff is from episode I-VI. Of my 545 figures, only 9 are from TFA/RO/TLJ collection. The disney vehicles are shit. Good to play with your kids but thats it. Of course too expensive.
Those I picked up at a deal or because I was interested in that figure. The only figures I buy are pre-disney movies.
Feminist and Disney have Critical Wounded Star Wars.
Feminists*
I spelled correctly cause I ment one person in particular. Watch the video again and you will figure out who I was referring to.
And don't correct other people spelling. It makes you look like a JACKASS Steve.
Then you could have written "the feminist"
Penske Material, Feminist is the correct word. Stop Bitching about it.
+Batman3217 whoa, you're definitely as sensitive as a feminist lmao
Time and time again, we learn, SOCIAL JUSTICE DOESNT SELL.
I recently watched a Netflix documentary called "The Toys That Made Us".
(great series I recommend that everybody watch it)
In that documentary, they talked about the 1st run of StarWars toys,
and about the head of KENNER often using a made up word: "toyetic".
Referring to something like if toy seemed like a good toy.
Almost NONE of the SW:TLJ characters aesthetic designs seemed to be "toyetic".
Anybody want a Laura Dern figure?
Dude, after all of the invoking of Lucas, Ford, and Warwick Davis? Surely you jest... I love it!! Why? These assholes running Lucas Film deserve it.
warwick? Isnt he a Disney shill or bashes the prequels? I saw that on a twitter post sadly.
SSJ BLAIRE WHITE Sama no
Jacob Culliver your point? Insert eye roll
I've been saying this for months on my channel and people said I was full of shit well look who's laughing now.
Right before TLJ was released, I knew there would be a problem as soon as I saw that the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker figure did not even include a lightsaber. WTF!
"Ahhh, the smell of victory" I like how you said it.
FQ Vermis "Ah! Victory!" -Nute Gunray
(Paraphrasing Emperor Palpatine)
I've waited a long time for this notification, my little mouse friend.
*cackles*
At last, Disney's Star Wars is no more!
"And now only at the end...do you realize!"
[Roasts mouse, Johnson and Kennedy with force lightning]
Biggest Shill??
I bet it's Chris Stuckman (rated Last Jedi an A-, but Attack of the Clones was rated C-)
I'm aware of AOTC being the weakest when it comes to storytelling (especially with Anakin and Padme), but it still had an ending and the prelude is more coherent.
TLJ is all beginnings with no endings, incoherent storytelling, even more incoherent prelude and my biggest issue (I'm surprised no one pointed this out): Since when did General Hux became an Admiral?????
arami187 Your a TROLL if you actually think that Attack of the Clones is a better movie than The Last Jedi!
It is, actually, but AOTC is not far behind TLJ.
TLJ is dead last on my ranking scale as far as story goes.
Stuckman isn t a bad guy......is in denial....the biggest shill is that guy in bob we trust...i dont know
Nothing in TlJ can compare to Coruscant, Geonosis, Kamino.
I work for a close out store chain and we’ve had the same Last Jedi shit on our shelves since late November. It’s sad when Frozen is outselling SW.
Lmfao cheers to diversity collecting dust on the shelves
Geralt of Rivia I'll drink to that!
Yes, exactly. These Tumblr idiots love to go on about diversity and "muh feminism", when that isn't the problem. The problem is that it was a shit movie and no one wants their crappy toys.
uruguayan bob Yeah, I agree.
Hey I like the prequels. So do my friends who are non-SW fans. Revenge of Sith I can still watch. I got into SW's cause of prequels and then Clone Wars animated as a fan.
eurosensazion like don’t get me wrong the acting was really bad but the prequels brought something new to the table. I loved the prequels and I actually watched those first. I understand the hate for them but at least their not that hated like the sequels that are coming out lol
i watched the phantom menace when i was a little youngin, i loved it wheni was small. looking at it now, yeah its dated, pandering and childish, but damnit, at east you felt as though george was being somewhat earnest in his attempts to tell his story.
Then you never truly got into star wars.
eurosensazion Prequels are completely fine. Sure there's some cringy dialogue and the first hour of Attack of the Clones is mostly internal pain, but they are definitely not the horror show that fanboys make them out to be.
I like them too.
This is like an anthology video to the Star Wars is a dead brand videos
Jesus Hasbro toys look cheap as hell.
Maelstrom Of Horror they made a bad deal, and have to get as much as they can, Ep IX will have less toys and the ones on package will look shittier
I wonder if Disney is taking more per toy than when Lucas still owned Lucasfilm. Hasbro would then dial back the features on the figures. Like taking away wrist joints. Then elbows. Then knees. All to preserve their profit margins for their stock holders. So now you have figures with the same number of joints as the old Kenner figures from the early 80s.
The Kenner figures didn't have joints, but they were robust compared to the Hasbro crap.
Robert Bruce their arms and legs could move back and forth. Compared to figures from around the RotS era, they were primitive and stiff. It's just that current figures have the same number of joints as the ancient Kenner figures. I understand that some of the female figures can't have elbows and knees because the limbs are thinner but when FO stormtroopers also lack those joints you take a step back and ask yourself if it's worth it.
And Hasbro’s old GI Joe action figures started eclipsing Kenner’s Star Wars figures when they debuted, back in 1982. Why? They were fully poseable, had filecards that provided character depth and had equipment and vehicles you wanted to play with! I know it’s been over 35 years but Hasbro needs to take a good look in the mirror.
Guess what else is dropping. Theaters companies on stock markets cause they aren't generating that much revenue even with all these films and 3D expensively priced tickets with costs increase. They are overvalued anyways.
eurosensazion fuck em
4K 240Hz Dolby Vision HDR TV and 7.1 Surround Sound System off of UHD Blu-Ray copies w/ connected Bass Shakers = Better long term family and friends movie investment than the theaters with added convenience.
Plus you don't have to deal with the fucking idiot of an employee threatening to call security that won't let you out of the lobby to take your daughter to the bathroom because he thinks you're going to jump theaters after just leaving the one you already paid for.
eurosensazion They don't generate revenues due to draconian contracts such as the ones Disney has been enforcing.
We used to love to go to the movies. Nowadays, I just don't feel like putting up with mobile phones, talking, eating and mostly crap movies. So cinemas go out of business. I never asked for 3D. I never asked for digital. The industry chose to put them out of business.
Personally I don't like the Star Wars Toys currently..they have no movement to them. Straight arms, straight legs...lame. If you want a good posable figure , you have to go back to "Legends of the Force" or prequel figures. The new figures, well , frankly they just suck. My kids, grandkids don't want them..they don't have accessories that fire missiles or anything that makes a figure "playworthy". I just buy them Lego sets..they have more fun with those than the new cheapo SW stuff. I personally am done with Star Wars after the ridiculous "The Last Jedi". I won't be fooled again. Star Wars is ruined for me. I'll keep collecting my "Vader" dark horse comics. The only thing I have left that is Star Wars. Until they take the masculinity away from him. I hope it never happens. Star Wars Disney has effectively destroyed all my favorite characters, and has effectively turned me away from this laughable format of garbage. Nope , I'm done. After this last interview with Abrams...There is no hope for any good cohesive story for this Trilogy. They can have thier toys and thier lame ass propaganda movies.
Someone should make a toy commercial about the way kids are supposed to play with Rose and Holdo action figures. Show some little kids dressing down a Poe toy and telling him he's an overzealous flyboy who needs to shut up and wait for orders as they taser a Finn toy.
Already when the trailer came out they were raving about how well the girls costumes were made. Perhaps suitable for intergalactic warfare, but what girl actually wants to wear an ill-fitting bathrobe in bland sand color? Not many. SW could have made the costume a sexy fashion statement and women interested.
Disney really needs to pull their heads out of their asses by next year. Those two Star Wars lands open up and they might have trouble if they completely kill the brand before they open.
I can't go there. It would be wrong for me to show up and start punching people. None of those Disney employees are to blame, but I don't think it would matter. After seeing TLJ, I'd get there and face punches would just happen.
jawas stole my droid I just don't feel like Star Wars unless it is the original six movies. Plus the theme parks cost quite a bit of money.
Disney starwars sucks so much
Remember when Gleeman Vox in Ratchet and Clank Deadlocked screams how the merchandise isn't selling? Is Hasbro internally doing the same?
"Deadlocks story was amazing and yes they have made some idiotic mistakes Hal Motley! So they should report to B level for disintegration!"
4:05 lol never expected him to be a pedo. Also good call on the star wars toys not selling and calling it out before the big media companies!!!
We, the fans watch Star Wars films to see great characters, great plot and good old fashioned Good vs Evil; not to have political views shoved down our throats. For the first time in my life, I’m not excited about any future Star Wars films thanks to Disney and especially Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson.
Marshall Street Do you realize the concepts that the original trilogy was based off of? It might actually offend you if you are a conservative. However, the problem with Star Wars isn't liberalism, it's that it is a soulless remake with hollow characters. Hardly anyone cared about the political undertones of the original Star Wars because you had the standard good vs. evil story that almost everybody would like.
Lando had more story to him in just the OT movies than almost all "original characters" in the sequel trilogy
Suemorphplus2009 Although political events and opinions may have influenced the original trillogy. For example the battle of endor was influenced by the American defeat in Vietnam by an enemy with inferior weapons etc. It would be very difficult to interpret Star Wars as an anti Vietnam war statement. As at its core there is very little in the way of political messages in the original movies, rather they are very simplistic good vs evil movies.
Drawing on inspiration from things like post modernism, cultural marxism, moral relativism and radical third wave feminism to turn a family movie into political soviet style propoganda is immoral. It would be like turning mikey mouse into an anti communist icon.
3 weeks ago I found a whole shipment of TLJ toys and merch at a thrift store. I went back today and 1/2 of it was still there !!!
My husband cheered when you showed the Critic!!
Stephanie Janiczek “It STINKS!”
Joshua Calkins we have the dvds and every once in a while watch. Oh its actually more timely now than ever.
You got to do a shill video on Star Wars HQ. The two guys Robby and Ryan who run the channel are just as bad as HelloGreedo and Kevin Smith
Dude, I've watched a lot of your videos, the Star Wars videos are the best, and among them the Toy videos are the best. I'm sad to see my favorite franchise go down like the Titanic all due to the fact that LFL doesn't know what they are doing, pushing agendas instead of thinking creatively and RESPECTING what came before them.
The way they handle the established and beloved Star Wars franchise is very much like they ploughed through your education system and supposed democracy.
That is exactly how i feel
Disney: nobody's buying our shit, are we really that out of touch?!
Also Disney: no the public are wrong,
Good good, let the hate flow through you! 😂 😅
It makes you strong and focus
sith lord :D
Force Friday is dead, because of Disney CODing Star Wars. Oh and cause there isn't any characters that look cool in these new films that people (especially boys) would want to buy.
Edit: I'm curious on how much lego star wars toys sell, because lego sets are also overpriced.
I would guess Lego sets have to be seen in isolation - the pieces inside can be used to build other things.
I can answer that as a Lego SW guy. The last 4-5 Xmas the SW Lego sets flew off the shelves and empty shelves till Feb/Mar. This year, NOTHING came close to selling out. Maybe 10% of in stock sold. Imo TLJ lego sets suck, bc the new vehicles all suck, and the movie sucked bad.
This is only the begging wait until the DVD & Blu Rey come out
haha, but Rey is a-sexual will never have any interest in a man cuz she's a strong indépendant woman.
Sarina Glover They'll say that DVDs are dead.
Sarina Glover ill buy 1 only 1
SymbioteNx379 I use them everyday VHS too
So basically Rey in the future is going to be a 45 year old woman who only has her cats as friends.
Star Wars is doing fine. Its he best seller ever. The slight slump is of course due to Timing. Everyone loves Star Wars and the Toys are great and sell well. Massa DIsney said so.
Since the new characters suck no one wants the toys.
I can't articulate why yet...but the Solo movie poster is a giant turnoff. It looks like box art for a 90's space shooter video game.
Hilarious that article stated "He dismissed fans are tiring of Star Wars products". How about fans tiring of the poor story telling, acting, and directing of the genre? Its funny how they state "the property should provide a large and stable source of annual revenue". Don't know about you, but I nor my children will have anything to do with "Star Wars products" ever again. And you are correct how these business keep making excuses and not take the blame themselves, trying to explain drop in their stock. Thanks for the post (spot on).
Again. This didn't happened back in the prequels era
Blank Stare maybe depends on the country. Over here (Mexico), the phantom menace figures sold out like bread
My mistake, I thought you said 2%. 21%! Holy crap! From a sales POV that's not "soft" sales. That's a disaster. 2% is soft. 21% is a cliff!
I want to propose an initiative, Do not buy or watch any Star wars movie or merchandise till Disney fix Rian and Kennedy mess. the fans will previal
On eBay and Amazon (classic characters) 6 inch black series and elite series are around 35-55$ the (new characters) 6 inch black series and elite series are only 7-15$ ........
What they were missing was a Luke survivor doll complete with a milk-colored beard. Kids would have been clamoring for that.
Rose will go down as the 1960's GI Joe Nurse.
We all know that Han Solo movie and episode 9 is going to bomb and then that's it. The only gimmick they got left is Boba Fett and Darth Vader movies. Just let it fucking die already.
WCBS-thank you for your honesty and bluntness. I loved what Star Wars was to my childhood, but I cannot support what it has become under Disney leadership. These cucks propping these lame-ass movies are the biggest part of the problem...their willingness to gleefully guzzle down and accept whatever trash Disney serves up is why I don’t see the problem improving any time soon. New Star Wars is like a drunk uncle that I can’t continue to visit until he gets treatment...and I will not support any new Star Wars movie or mech until this problem has been resolved.
The idea of entertainment market saturation is total BS. If you make a product people want they will always want more. The existence of all you can eat buffets prove that the product doesn't even have to be very good for people to gorge themselves on it. The thirty years of Westerns dominating theaters, with some franchise releasing as many as three films a year, proves it. The real problem is shitty product no one wants.
Seriously, why did anyone ever think that putting a woman, let alone a "Womyn", in charge of Star Wars could ever be a good idea?
I love your toy sales videos were proven right. Keep up the great work.
Lexx Spacey scared me, dude. It's all good. :P
Yep the stores by me are just full of wave 1 3.75 last jedi stuff, shops didn't even order the next wave and wouldn't blame them
EA was a terrible choice to give the Star Wars licence to. Unless it's a mobile game they basically do not publish single player games anymore. Star Wars has always been about heroic adventures along a story line. You do not get that with multiplayer games. Because of that I have not bought a new Star Wars game in ages.
Fake news! Little boys LOVE the Rose Tico and Admiral Holdo figures!
Howz Yerfather don't forget the plot driving Porgs.
2% sales drop is HUGE! I know it sounds small but it's not. Then add into that the loss from the projected sales of an increase of 4%. 6% sales loss equals millions of lost revenue.
MANdalorians are the cure to the star wars slump
Disney will make them all white rich ego assholes than they'll have Rey and Rose come by defeated them without breaking a sweat while in the distance poe and fin are jerking each other off
17 cents a day on Patreon?! But I could buy several Rose Tico's for that money!
The magical Kenner days are but a distant memory eh?
The comments from that CEO sounds like such generic corporate-speak, the same meaningless guff spewed by standard politicians. Perhaps Disney is terrified of having to admit that it knows regressive feminism and cultural marxism doesn't sell.
could you guys do me a solid? there have been articles written and people saying that ESB was as divisive as TLJ when it came out, which I know is unequivocally not true. can you guys make a video to address this nonsense? they're spreading lies about Empire to make TLJ look good.
21stcenturyhiphop this is fact. I have been blasting that bull crap story on twitter. ESB was NOT divisive . I remember us kids arguing on the playground about whether or not Darth Vader was Luke’s father. But there was no divisiveness. That seems like A made up story to try and justify how bad the last Jedi is. Empire is the measuring stick. I don’t know how people can say this is right below that? Because you have to hate Star Wars in order to like the last Jedi
What I've read is that originally people didn't think it was better than the original like many fans claim now. I wouldn't know though, can you weigh in on that? What do you remember?
In yo face Disnay! 😂
Feels like disney bought a magic item from a crazy old wizard without knowing how it works.
25k in less than 24 hours. Nice. Glad to see your channel grow
Man I remember having to wait months just for 10% off Star Wars toys.
Lucas knew this, between the backlash from the prequels and merch slumping over the years, he cashed in. Dude is a brilliant business man
one of your star wars toys videos is what made me subscribe to this channel. I was rolling with how you were clowning that shit as you walked through the store. fuck the movies and fuck the toys. I love star wars vehicles have a ton from revell models to micro machines. they don't even make new vehicles just slight tweaks of old vehicles.
The Force Awakens line is still plaguing Toys R Us and most other retailers couldn't sell off stock of previous waves, without heavy clearance. They did themselves a huge disservice by hyping up Finn as their new Luke type character to hide Rey's abilities and as a result, his toys clogged shelves, and Rey the number one draw. With a ton of FA stuff considered toxic, retailers were cautious in their ordering. Not to mention all this product from the side films, the upcoming Solo film, Rogue One, and the OT stuff thrown in for diversity, also doesn't help retailers looking to clear shelf space. Once a film ends its run unlike in years past, where Hasbro could just milk the previous film line till the next film, they don't have that luxury anymore. They have to sell off these toys quickly, and in a world where video games and phone apps are taking away the plytime of kids everywhere, Star Wars Toys just cannot perform like it was 1978, or 1998, or 2008. The industry is dying. Only boomers and gen xers are keeping this line afloat, kids are not interested anymore. Once those boomers and Xers age out and die, the decreasing millennial interest will not be enough to keep toys on shelves.
While I do appreciate Disney's stupid choices blowing up in their faces, it is also sad because Star Wars is no longer the timeless event and story that it was, it has been watered down for the sake of money rather than story telling passion. I hope some day this terrible phase may pass and we will have great stories told once again a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...
DJKCP unfortunately we waited 35 years to see the only story we cared about seeing (ep7-9) and they've mucked it up. Who cares if they fix it eventually, bc the good story line has been ruined. It'll be a day late, and a dollar bin short.
Who would of thought that people grow tired of something they love being pumped out like shit after a bad Mexican dinner.
I've been looking for a channel like this for so long and now I am so glad I found you guys.
just came from Hollywood studios at disney. the park was crowded, but the star wars merch store I visited was very bare. I asked one of the clerks behind the counter if sales has gone down since the release of the last Jedi movie. She hesitated, looked off to her left a bit, then said "no, sales have improved since that movie" like she was told what to say and/or being watched.
The market is, was, and always will be a reflection of consumer interests. If the stores drop the order percentage, it is indicative of the overstock of the last product in that line. Given the fact that most stores still have first and second wave the force awakens stuff collecting dust on the shelves,this is not surprising. If this trend continues any collector could fill his needs for under a hundred dollars at your local bargin bin, or just go dumpster diving. Thats apparently where all the remaining starwars crap at my local kroger ended up, the trash.
also glad to see you used the article I sent to you guys its hard to show this here in Australia as stock is so irregular