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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9233741" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>I have no idea. Did it nova from ancillary products like makeup in the 80s? I don't recall that happening either. I am completely ignorant about the history of those properties flaming out in the 80s if they even did, but now I am curious if this is common knowledge?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Given GI Joe started in 1963, and Transformers began in 1984, I don't think either of them ruled kids marketing in the "early" 1980s?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Is there some history of this I can read somewhere which supports that claim? </p><p></p><p>GI Joe has been like Barbie - it rises and falls every generation at some point and definitely is not defined as an "80s thing" given I know it was hugely popular in the 60s, and then again in the 70s (which is when the Kung Fu Grip came around). In fact if I am not mistaken GI Joe was at a low point in the 80s, and rose again in the 90s.</p><p></p><p>Transformers, I don't know of anything about it pushing for over monetizing. It's not one of those things which I recall crossed over into that kind of mass marketing and then collapsed in the 80s, but I am pretty ignorant about it in general so maybe I am wrong.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wait you're comparing D&D, a 50 year longstanding brand, to brief fads which lasted around 5 years? Naw, that's not a good comparison. Of course fads faded. Rainbow Bright is not a franchise dominate brand like D&D or Star Wars. It's more akin to LOL Dolls, which could be seen as a fad from the get-go,</p><p></p><p></p><p>You mean how Star Wars flooded the marketplace in the early 1980s only to burn out. Oh wait...it didn't do that. Maybe how KPOP is flooding the marketplace these days and will...no, it's not anything close to burning out either, it just keeps getting more and more dominant. </p><p></p><p>Licensing your IP can be a sign of a franchise burning out, or it can be a sign of a franchise growing into something bigger. It really depends on the franchise, but I don't think it's in itself indicative of doom like you're making it out to be. It might be indicative of when YOU burn out on a franchise maybe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 9233741, member: 2525"] I have no idea. Did it nova from ancillary products like makeup in the 80s? I don't recall that happening either. I am completely ignorant about the history of those properties flaming out in the 80s if they even did, but now I am curious if this is common knowledge? Given GI Joe started in 1963, and Transformers began in 1984, I don't think either of them ruled kids marketing in the "early" 1980s? Is there some history of this I can read somewhere which supports that claim? GI Joe has been like Barbie - it rises and falls every generation at some point and definitely is not defined as an "80s thing" given I know it was hugely popular in the 60s, and then again in the 70s (which is when the Kung Fu Grip came around). In fact if I am not mistaken GI Joe was at a low point in the 80s, and rose again in the 90s. Transformers, I don't know of anything about it pushing for over monetizing. It's not one of those things which I recall crossed over into that kind of mass marketing and then collapsed in the 80s, but I am pretty ignorant about it in general so maybe I am wrong. Wait you're comparing D&D, a 50 year longstanding brand, to brief fads which lasted around 5 years? Naw, that's not a good comparison. Of course fads faded. Rainbow Bright is not a franchise dominate brand like D&D or Star Wars. It's more akin to LOL Dolls, which could be seen as a fad from the get-go, You mean how Star Wars flooded the marketplace in the early 1980s only to burn out. Oh wait...it didn't do that. Maybe how KPOP is flooding the marketplace these days and will...no, it's not anything close to burning out either, it just keeps getting more and more dominant. Licensing your IP can be a sign of a franchise burning out, or it can be a sign of a franchise growing into something bigger. It really depends on the franchise, but I don't think it's in itself indicative of doom like you're making it out to be. It might be indicative of when YOU burn out on a franchise maybe? [/QUOTE]
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