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um, no, it is 2.1 Billion, the Saudi Fund does not deal in single digit millions, and even if they did, that would be reported as 2.1 (or 2,1) million, not 2,100… Google also verifies that it were 2 Billion...

there is always a 'need' for spin as far as corporations are concerned

I mean, if you know it is spin, why would you trust it...

I assume the statement was about the core books, not adventures, etc.

probably not much, Hasbro has been notoriously bad at a clear communication, they obfuscate as much as they can get away with

would you prefer a mixed group of elves to enslave another mixed group of elves? even if the white elves are the bad guys for enslaving the brown elves? Do I now need mixed ethnicity Nazis because them all being white is too much?

so if Spock and Kirk were different actors of different colors and genders in each episode, that would be perfectly fine because they are fictional and have no identity? As I wrote earlier, we disagree on fictional characters not having an identity, to me it is established with their first...

If you were writing a new novel or movie script with new characters, you would be correct. You aren’t however, the books were written decades ago and the characters were established decades ago in them (and the art)

yeah, inconsistent lore, once called woodland brown, 15 or so times called fair skinned or pale, and always depicted as pale. Call that inconsistent if you want, but there still is very much a trend here, this is not an even distribution where we would have to guess what the intent was is it...

obviously not, which leaves the other part of what you wrote, namely ‘They could cast only Japanese actors and it would as much represent the characters "identity"’

I am stating my preference, as far as I can tell so is everyone else. I am not expecting anyone to get all riled up over this either way

it follows the established characters, and I already said it is not that important, it is my preference however. That has nothing to do with them being white, if they were black my preference would be that they stay that. There is an established lore, I’d merely stick with it over trying to make...

yeah, in one spot she is described as woodland brown, in all other places she is described as white (fair skin or even pale, depending on the reference). I'd go with the vast majority of cases over the one exception "There is likewise a dispute over Laurana's skin tone. Dragons of Autumn...

at no point did I say anything about the population of Krynn being white, not sure where this is coming from at all. The books already tell us that not everyone is white, we do not need to extrapolate from a few known persons no, it is not important to the story, I said as much already ask the...

nothing, but 2014 was selling faster in 2016 and basically right through until 2024 than it was in 2014. So 2024 selling faster than 5e did in 2014 is not telling us anything about whether it sold faster than 5e did in, say 2019 to 2022.

I am not sure why it matters even if he had been biased, or even whether it was his bias vs Weis / Hickman’s. The books describe them a certain way, the art depicts them a certain way, the two match. When turning a book into a movie having established art to establish a visual identity is...

guess we disagree on that

no, that they make it a good show. Of course they will deviate from the source in places, changes can be good, neutral, or bad however. The question is what the end result is, not whether there are changes

that does not change what they all look like in the paintings though. It’s not like I am randomly insisting on them all being white (or even on them all being white in the first place…)

there is no reason to assume otherwise either, it’s not like we find a lot of blue and purple folks