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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7886118" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Sure, but mostly you just have tight writing and solid character introductions. So you are making both the hard core fans and the casual fans happy.</p><p></p><p>I'm probably one of the Star Wars fans that are most 'meh' regarding the Mandalorian, because ultimately I think it's just a cartoon script treatment for one season that has been given a large live action budget and there are signs that they have no idea where the story is going to go from here. </p><p></p><p>But even I like it, and it's better written than the sequel trilogy.</p><p></p><p>One thing that I think shows how true that is, is that it's producing real merchandise buzz. The real measure of the sequels failure isn't the box office. The real measure of their failure is the relative lack of merchandise appeal. The reason Disney wanted the franchise is that they were a toy making machine. But the original characters are for the most part still the most marketable merchandise even to the younger generation they were targeting - because nothing really matches the coolness of Darth Vader and they know it. Even the prequels did a better job producing merchandise - Padme is frankly cooler as a toy than Rey is, and Rey is about the only bit of the sequels that is successful as a toy. This despite the obvious effort to create characters purely for the merchandise (or maybe because of it).</p><p></p><p>But "Baby Yoda" is gold. In fact, pretty much the whole series is merchandising gold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7886118, member: 4937"] Sure, but mostly you just have tight writing and solid character introductions. So you are making both the hard core fans and the casual fans happy. I'm probably one of the Star Wars fans that are most 'meh' regarding the Mandalorian, because ultimately I think it's just a cartoon script treatment for one season that has been given a large live action budget and there are signs that they have no idea where the story is going to go from here. But even I like it, and it's better written than the sequel trilogy. One thing that I think shows how true that is, is that it's producing real merchandise buzz. The real measure of the sequels failure isn't the box office. The real measure of their failure is the relative lack of merchandise appeal. The reason Disney wanted the franchise is that they were a toy making machine. But the original characters are for the most part still the most marketable merchandise even to the younger generation they were targeting - because nothing really matches the coolness of Darth Vader and they know it. Even the prequels did a better job producing merchandise - Padme is frankly cooler as a toy than Rey is, and Rey is about the only bit of the sequels that is successful as a toy. This despite the obvious effort to create characters purely for the merchandise (or maybe because of it). But "Baby Yoda" is gold. In fact, pretty much the whole series is merchandising gold. [/QUOTE]
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