“The people who call themselves fans these days”.
It’s just a shitty, smug and horrible thing to say.
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“The people who call themselves fans these days”.
It’s just a shitty, smug and horrible thing to say.
I can’t be bothered with this. I’m gonna do the only sensible thing there is to do.
It meets a need as a human behavior.
Otherwise people would not engage in it as blindly as suggested.
You’re coming in awfully hot.
Everyone please drop the personal commentary. “Post, not poster.”
What you're failing to understand is that people who act like that (liking things just because of it's name or because it's part of a franchise they idolize) actually hurts the very thing they claim to love so much. It results in lower quality items and films because the studios and licensees see that those "fans" will accept anything no matter how bad it is. After all, why spend the extra time and money to make it better when people have been conditioned to like it no matter how bad?
Star Trek isn't the only thing this has happened to. It's the same thing with Gingerbread's reference to Apple. They are dumbing us down and have reduced way too many of us to nothing more than mindless consumers who will dutifully spend our money on whatever they tell us to buy or see.
It's like that line from the Simpsons:
"EXTENDED WARRANTY - how can I lose!"
The scary part is that people don't seem to WANT to learn how they're being used and duped. There had been a video on youtube called "hacking your mind" - in 1 year it had less than 100 views. Meanwhile, videos of people filming themselves being jerks get 1,000's of views a week. Is THAT what we really want to be like???
Lots of words there.
I don't want to be associated with this post.
My comment was just a snip at Apple fans and I didn't mean anything against fans in general just that I find line ups for a phone amusing.
Thinking about the new Playmates figure line, I thought maybe the line may have faired better if the figures would have just continued the classic 90s line, but with characters and variants from the shows and movies that came since then (with some re-issues of popular classic figures, like the Vintage TMNT line is doing). This would have allowed for them to be integrated into longtime fans' existing action figure collections, instead of standing out thanks to the new size, articulations and proportions. Also, the old Playmates figures had proportionally large heads and hands, and as such were more appealing to children. Not to mention that they already used old molds for the accessories, so those would have fit better if the hands were of the larger proportions of the classic figures.
Now, I don't know if that would have been more successful, it's just something I occasionally think about as a bit of a missed opportunity.
Now, I don't know if that would have been more successful, it's just something I occasionally think about as a bit of a missed opportunity.
Totally agree. I think the figures should have been done in the style of the old figures.
or at the very least, do one figure per “line” or per case that is in that old style. You’d have had the regular line of figures like they are now…Kirk, Spock, Khan, JLP, Riker, Data, Saru and Burnham. But then you randomly insert one of them in the old style.
give us a chance to have an articulated Kirk in the Monster Maroons that lines up with the old line for example.
or at the very least, do one figure per “line” or per case that is in that old style. You’d have had the regular line of figures like they are now…Kirk, Spock, Khan, JLP, Riker, Data, Saru and Burnham. But then you randomly insert one of them in the old style.
give us a chance to have an articulated Kirk in the Monster Maroons that lines up with the old line for example.
And strangely, it's not even the creepiest Star Trek Christmas ornament!
It's a toss up between Kirk being attacked by the salt vampire and Spock dying of radiation poisoning.
Sure, and I get that it's iconic.
I also find it creepy.
But, on Etsy, there's a Spock's brain remote ornament so what do I know?
Oh boy, well I guess people buy them or they'd not be on Etsy
TrekCore is confirming Playmates is ending the figure line, but will be continuing “role-play” props and starship
https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/12/playmates-toys-ends-star-trek-action-figure-sales/
https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/12/playmates-toys-ends-star-trek-action-figure-sales/
It’s disappointing but not totally surprising. The figure rollout was a disaster.
you can nitpick the character selection all you want but the fact that Kirk, Spock, Picard, etc…we’re tough sells for even the die hards should say more about the state of Trek Toy collecting in general.
Plus, the Prodigy line never made it to Brick and Mortar stores here in the states should tell you a line that had they gone with a wave that was Burnham, Saru, Retired Picard, Ranger Seven, SNW Pike and SNW Spock it likely would have done worse than what they did release.
it is a shame that we won’t get a complete Prodigy lineup with no Rok or Hologram Janeway.
you can nitpick the character selection all you want but the fact that Kirk, Spock, Picard, etc…we’re tough sells for even the die hards should say more about the state of Trek Toy collecting in general.
Plus, the Prodigy line never made it to Brick and Mortar stores here in the states should tell you a line that had they gone with a wave that was Burnham, Saru, Retired Picard, Ranger Seven, SNW Pike and SNW Spock it likely would have done worse than what they did release.
it is a shame that we won’t get a complete Prodigy lineup with no Rok or Hologram Janeway.
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