>Go woke, make a ton of money and introduce a new generation of fans to your IP
That's how the buzzphrase goes, right?
>Only out in 30% of international territories
>Go woke, make a ton of money and introduce a new generation of fans to your IP
>Go woke, make a ton of money and introduce a new generation of fans to your IP
That's how the buzzphrase goes, right?
>Only out in 30% of international territories
If it wasn't for the fat black April I'd watch it.
Ah well, it was bound to make a profit ehat with it's cheap budget anyway
I'm sure they'll have a sexy april at some point. Or at least one that isn't a complete travesty. When they reboot it 3 times in the next decade of course.
Once a character goes back they can never go back. Just at the outrage when Robert Downey Jr. played Dr. Dolittle after Eddie Murphy.
But that wasn't the same character. He just shared the name.
We're getting white Jimmy Olsen in live action
>Once a character goes back they can never go back
What if they turn 360 degrees and then go back after going back?
???
Catwoman was black in the Adam West series, but she went back to white in subsequent adaptations.
Oh, the second actress who played a character for a single season in a series that aired 60 years ago was black, I see.
The difference is the time that happened was long before the current sentiment of intentionally changing the race of characters for social justice points, and since then the character was consistently portrayed as white until her most recent adaptation. Most of the braindead morons who throw a fit about characters being portrayed as their original race after someone decides to change it have no idea that the Eartha Kitt version ever existed. Talk to me if we see a movie version of her that's not black now that The Batman exists.
>and since then the character was consistently portrayed as white until her most recent adaptation
Still wrong, zoomer.
That character literally isn't Selina Kyle moron
Whoa, so they can change literally any aspect of a character and still change it back at any time?
>ou)
>[CHARACTER] has been portrayed as white consistently
>Uh, ackshually [DIFFERENT CHARACTER] was black
They literally made a movie completely unrelated to Catwoman starring a character who is explicitly not the character who is Catwoman in the comics, and slapped the Catwoman title on it. Nobody who isn't moronic thinks of the Halle Berry Catwoman as related to the character in any way.
None of what you just said makes sense to people without autism.
I didn't know autism was a prerequisite for knowing how to read
Or on social media where artists get harassed for NOT drawing the black version of the character. (Or as they call it, the ONLY right version of the character). I don't care if they're obvious trolls or not. They now have an excuse to harass others.
Stuff like this is what lead to the backlash and harassment of the artist who made black movie April as a kneejerk response.
Really tho?
>If it wasn't for the fat black April I'd watch it.
Those are some pretty low standards.
If you're going to make thread after thread, you should actually take the minimum effort to learn the REASONING behind go woke go broke.
In any case, if they make money, good for them. I still think the movie fricking sucks. Anons of course can check the camrip, now available at semi mainstream locations.
>REASONING behind go woke go broke
There is no reason, it's a braindead meme for white boys unconsciously mirroring their XBoomer fathers' discomfort with a changing world.
tell that to disney and bud light troony
>t.
the virgin troon vs the chad cup
Dinsey went woke and is bleeding money. They just can't help themselves trying to appeal to people who do not buy merch and alienating their fanbase who in turn do not buy into the woke merch. Hopefully with their quarterly loses they figure it out and turn it around next year. The Marvels movie is going to be the turning point when it flops bigger than Indiana Jones.
3.5% of the population (aged 13-34). 64% of non-familial violent assaults nationwide. CHANGE
Police don't arrest white assailants. Shrimple as. What's the DA rate among (mostly white) cops, again?
Don't look up rape rates by race lmao
cope
Cope replying to a cope.
Here's your new world
https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1688513684652380160
If you'd been born in another decade, you would have been the sort of person to watch Nancy Grace. Instead, you have Twitter to instill the same fear.
Enjoy your crimes and violence.
Enjoy your prison of fear.
>bro just stop being robbed
Is this the robbery that the attention-seeking social media influencer you posted told you about?
cope
There is no reasoning. Anything that isn’t male, heterosexual and cis is automatically woke:
You'd think the right wing would commit mass suicide after getting BTFO hard by Mario.
Umm sweaty if a movie makes money it's not woke anymore, not even if they turn a white character into a black midget.
that's not what OP is saying at all but okay
How does the movie "go woke" beyond what it already did back in 2018?
I doubt op actually cares. He's just here for the box office and shitposting.
Black April I guess?
The 2018 show already did that.
Because Seth Rogen and black April O’Neil. Also people were trying to claim Splinter was gay.
Why are so many Americans convinced gross revenues are profits? Do they kill you if you refuse that dumb narrative?
it's a Hollywood thing. Or alternatively pol. Not sure which one OP is, but I doubt we're going to have any actual Cinemaphile content in this thread.
Take it to pol, sparky.
and even still it doesn't even bring up isom except when shills visit
>Go woke, make a ton of money
>>Nets 51 million
>>On a 70 million budget
KILL all Cinemaphilemblr morons.
>>>Nets 51 million
Grosses, in its first weekend.
I'm not defending the film since it looks like peak moron shit, and I don't give a single frick about box office homosexualry, but at least be literate when criticizing things please.
Grosses don't mean profits you moron.
Take your own advice.
>"I'm not (X) but"
Frick off and have a nice day you brainrot Redditag.
>Grosses don't mean profits you moron.
I never said it did you fricking moron, I'm pointing out that >netted 51 million is incorrect, because the figures you're quoting explicitly say grossed you god damned illiteral gay
>Uhm ackshually I am being le semantics!
Look at all zero people who give a shit you pseudointellectual smarmy homosexual.
Pointing out that you are a fricking moron who can't understand the words you are typing isn't arguing semantics, it's pointing out that you are a fricking moron who can't understand the words you are typing
I'm going to be honest, I did not read a single word of that, because I'm 99.9% sure it's going to be pedantic autism based around inventing some moronic context fo my post just so you can oretend to not understand a leyman phrase while sucking off a corporation only to prove the situation worse than from what you're trying to dissuade.
Full disclosure, incoherent rambling moron schizo replies are my fetish, so you're really helping me out right now. Just a couple more please, I'm almost there.
>BAAWW SCHIZO BAWWW
I accept your concession.
yeah that's the good shit
>t.
PS, if you want to samegay, do a little better than not using the shift key for kne post.
>moron can't read
>when confronted doubles down by continuing to be unable to read
unfathomably based, please misunderstand my post and react to it like a shrieking baboon next
>Oh yeah bro I'm not mad
>That's why I made two replies to your post
thanks bro, appreciate it, keep up the good work
Mario movie made $377m on the first weekend.
I doubt MM will make half of that total lifetime
And that somehow makes the moron saying the film has netted 51M based on it grossing 51M after its opening weekend correct?
>$51 million across 5 days
Oof, I don't think you know how bad this actually is.
I have no idea how bad that is, but box office is really Cinemaphile's departement. A bunch of movie threads like this are far more about shitposting and yelling at people they pretend to not like than actually discussing the biz side. Much less comics and cartoons.
I have noticed that I never ever saw a person using the "Go Woke Go Broke" thing unironically, I only ever see shills like OP using it, the early Elemental shill thread used it, the Barbie shill threads used it, but I have seen people unironically use woke and SJW terms, like 90s Rogue's VA who has them on her Twitter bio
legitimately curious to know what "details that make her so iconic" this person actually thinks they kept
Yellow. Always yellow. Why does yellow make me sweat?
I hate that you're right and the braindead homosexuals they have making this shit actually think just throwing a yellow piece of clothing onto a literal potato makes it clearly and iconically April O'Neil.
Like if you'd just shown that whole sheet of character designs to 100 random people before this film ever had any trailers released, do they honestly believe that a single person would have guessed who it was supposed to be?
I guess it's surface level understanding of the character or at least reducing her down to, "female human friend they trust and yellow." Though to be honest I was never as huge a fan of April, but in particular the 90's film iterations were probably my favorite. Likely because of the way she drove the story was pivotal without taking focus completely away from the turtles.
Also that post was also a reference to "I have No Mouth and I Must Scream."
>relatable and grounded in the real world
These people are so brainrotted that they without a single ounce of irony believe that "relatable" and "grounded in the real world" mean the same thing as "neither attractive, nor white"
Because remember kids, this design is not relatable, it is not grounded in the real world. People like this simply do not exist.
>Leo has a crush on this thing
>"Grounded and relatable"
>Leo has a crush on this thing
I mean, she is shaped more like a turtle than even the turtles are.
Based, we just didn't understand that by "grounded in the real world" meant that they were trying to capture the kind person that a horrible mutant reptile who lives in the sewers would find attractive. The people who worked on this were actually geniuses the whole time.
Didn't Robot Jones do the same thing with the protage having a crush on some c**t with braces?
She cute
Stuff like the Little Mermaid remake always do poorly outside of USA because people in LatAm, Asia and some European countries are less PC and don't fear getting "cancelled" and shit so they just make fun of the character's looks and don't waste money to see it
Based
Watch a youtuber
>51 mio.
>43 mio. of that from US/CAN alone
So in other words it's shit. American anglos are moronic tiktokers.
Funny how you rats abandoned your Daddy Iger when the going got tough, huh? Now you're reduced to sucking Zaslav's and Rogen's dicks, LMAO.
This is incomprehensible Cinemaphile posting. I like good shit. I dislike garbage. Are you just angry for the sake of being angry? BTW. Camrips out. Judge for yourself. I feel like I wasted bandwith, but if you like it, nothing wrong with that.
Barbie and Spiderverse made tons of money and they’re woke as hell, so yeah.
The little mermaid remake didn’t do as well as Disney wanted, but it still made money and is on the top 10 highest grossing films of the year.
>Barbie is woke as hell
Let me guess, you're one of those gays who tried to cope with "a-a-ackshually Mario is woke because Peach is better at the obstacle sense" to cope with TLM not doing well.
>the movie that mentions patriarchy 100 times and has a woman rant about how hard it is to be a woman isn't woke because...it made a billion dollars so it can't be woke
Pathetic loser
>The little mermaid remake didn’t do as well as Disney wanted, but it still made money
I really doubt it has. The only reason that movie wasn't a total disaster is because Americans worship blacks (see Spiderverse). The problem is that audience didn't really show up in great enough numbers early on. The longer a movie is in theatres, the larger the cut of the gross goes back to the cinema chains. This is the same reason Elemental won't be profitable theatircally.
I wouldn’t have nearly as much of an issue with race swapping if they didn’t go out of their way to pick the ugliest actors or character designs. They could have picked an attractive black actress to play Ariel in Mermaid, but instead they chose a woman with a cow face. They could have made an attractive character design for a black April, but instead they chose a design that looks as appealing as cat sick.
Someone who has seen the movie answer if you would:
I heard April doesn't really have a lot of screentime in this movie. That true?
I kinda like the style itself and that it looks "drawn" and I don't have an issue with reinterpretations or black April, I enjoyed the sakuga cartoon TMNT Rise a lot, but the humor and personalities from the trailer seem like a red flag and turn me off. TMNT Rise and other series also had them being wacky, but here it just looks like loud ADHD kids from tiktok and I cannot stand that shit and have to restrain myself from punching people whenever I met such creatures in the subway, so sadly I will skip this.
Not a fan of April's design either. Think that the black April from Rise was pretty, but the one here reminds me too much of online people I have bad memories of and her proportions seem fricked. Would still watch it maybe if it wasn't for this awful zoomer meme characters.
>Franchise that is rebooted every 5 years since its inception barely turns profit
Woooooooooooooow
>51 million
>Turning profit
You do it for free.
Whats with the big push with the turtles? Alpng with this movie they announced before its release a sequel and a series, are those getting canned?
But also now tmnt skins for Street fighter 6? This is just jarring cuz the turtles are already playable in NetherRealm (Mortal Kombat) games like Injustice 2
TMNT classics has been a big hit in the collectors market following the failure of RISE. The parent company saw this and is pushing with it including the new movie. They've been hanind out licenses for the TMNT classic style to pretty much everybody since rise was so bad at selling any merch. Now the nostalgia tug is spreading even to non-collectors and onto families with their own kids at the ages they remember seeing the TMNT boom of the 90s. Even the 2012 or 2003 series wasn't as widespread as we have TMNT right now. Viacom is striking when the iron is hot and riding it out until the last drop of milk.
>fail 10,000 times
>but what about this one time where I was right? THE THEORY WORKS
Disney is literally going bankrupt because of coping morons like you.
Studios are finally realising movie dont really need 250 million budgets, this oppenheimer are safe thank to s.aml budget
When's the digital release. I hate theaters.
>Made LESS than it's budget despite opening 4 days earlier than the weekend
>Tons of money
Sure pal
That's pretty normal and isn't really any indication of whether the film will or won't make money over its entire theatrical run, but you've really gotta stop replying to box office spammers, sage and hide
Having seen the movie, it doesn't have the legs to stay.
Blue Beetle is only next week, which is going to eat a lot of attention from it, which isn't saying much since that will flop too but I digress,and this won't be an Elemental situation which was released relatively close to the start of Summer, where as TMNT was released near the end, parents won't be focused on going to the movies, instead they'll be buying school supplies, which are starting to open again.
Plus, it's already confirmed for a digital streaming date in less than a month, on September 5th, which gives parents or anymone even LESS reason to go out and see it. This movie had one chance of making an impression it's opening weekend and it didn'twork
You missed the point
>Cinemaphile - homosexuals arguing about box office numbers
What point? This thread is about BO and I'm talking BO
Yes, and that's bad because it's moronic and so are you.
It made less than the original one with the puppets that was released in the 90's
Opening weekend. Besides, it has a small budget and what really counts is profits.
Literally does not matter. Are you a paramount shareholder? Cause I'm not, so I don't give a single frick how much money this piece of shit makes or or loses.
That's literally what the thread is about
>please stop consuming shit and telling people about it
>but this thread is literally about consuming shit!
The thread is about some Cinemaphile subhuman trying to rile people up by talking about box office and rotten tomatoes percentages, like they've been doing for years now, because it's an easy method to harvest (you)s
It has a small budget so it's bound to make profit.
It had a small budget, and likely make it back, but I don't think it'll do much beyond that. Which I imagine will be a far cry from what Nick and Paramount hoped.
Making 51 million on the first weekend for a 70 million budget movie is pretty good start. Not a flop. Not underperforming either.
$70 million budget + $70 million marketing = $140 million
Theatres take half the revenue so it needs to make $280 million to break even.
Only $229 million to go.
That's more like $51 million over its first week. They're counting screenings from as early as Monday in that "opening weekend."
>movie didn't instantly make its budget back the week of its release so it has to be a failure
You know nothing about box office so don't even try to pretend you know anything
That's fine. The question is whether the legs will kick in. In that regards, OP is indeed celebrating a little early just like the Mission Impossible Chuds did
Movie sucked hard.
>The Big Picture
Wait a minute...Moviebob? Is that you?
>the United States and Canada, Mutant Mayhem was projected to gross around $30 million from 3,851 theaters over its first five days of release
>It went on to make $28 million in its opening weekend (and a total of $43 million over the five days),
beating projections
Traditional family values movie wins again.
???
Congratulations in a week worldwide you made less than the Barbie movie made in the USA in one day.
I'm entirely confused why I was replied to with this. Did you click my post by mistake perhaps?
my guy, they quoted every single post
But why?
First time seeing a schizo post?
No, but I suppose I'm still rattled by them. Like I'm about to see the post again sometime later in an article next to, "manifesto" and or, "died drinking gasoline."
To stop OP's misinformation
Because the objective of the thread from post one is to generate "buzz" for the movie and to put the positive opening post high in the catalog.. Not to actually talk about it.
Your dubs are sweet, but your post is not Cinemaphile in any way shape or form.
It's fine to like the movie, but this entire thread is dumping garbage. I think the movie is complete trash, but my opinion doesn't matter. Camrip.
half of this thread are shitposters seething about this movie for literally no reason, at least people hating on Spider-Verse had their own reasons like Peter and Miguel allowing or even making innocents die or Miles being shilled again, the hatred for this movie in the other hand is 100% spam, no one ever explain anything
It was actually because I had to sit through months of people whining about this movie not being what they wanted it to be and I wanted to rub it in their faces that it's going to do fine anyway.
Honestly I was expecting this movie to be nothing but trash after all those months of shitposting but it ended up being a pretty good story.
It's mediocre as frick, at best. Barely fine for a one-off experimental iteration on the TMNT, fricking awful for the launching point of a whole new batch of cartoons and movies.
I didn't even talk about the money it makes stop quoting every fricking post you sperg.
Probably attention. Known assburgers on Cinemaphile are regularly doing that as well. Mass quoting should legit be a bannable offense.
>Probably attention
>replies to the schizo giving him the >(you) he craves so badly
stop it
>Mass quoting should legit be a bannable offense.
it is if you report it instead of replying to it
>new yorkers helping turtles defeat BBEG
Love that shit
It was just a worse version of what they did in Spider-Man 2.
Which was just a worse version of what they did in Spider-Man 1
No it isn't. The bridge scene in Spider-Man 1 is good, but it's nowhere near as impactful as the train scene in 2
...it's barelly first weekend you moron.
Where's the "ton of money" OP was talking about?
morons trying to normalize ugliness reminds of a Frank Frazetta quote he said when these people started egging him at the way he draws women
>morons: You know not women look like blow up dolls
>Him: Yeah but I don't wanna create any ordinary women and want to draw extremes as this painting I want to stare at for a lifetime
If only more people had his backbone.
>If only more people had his backbone.
You say, while telling other people how they should draw.
low quality bait, apply yourself
calling something "low quality bait" is low quality bait
>If only more people had his backbone.
had his backbone = DO AS I SAY AND LIKE
>had his backbone = not giving a shit what others say and drawing peek sexy curvy women because he likes em round and big while doing his gig.
And what if he liked them frick ugly? Would you even quote him?
If he liked them ugly, moronic people wouldn't be harassing him online trying to get him to change his style and he'd have no reason to say anything to be quoted in the first place.
You think Frank Frazetta was online bullied?
Bad faith questioning.
In other words, having said literally that Frazetta's quote was a response to online bullying and been called on it, you've realised how stupid you sound and need to eject from the conversation fast?
>no, because then he would had his backbone the wrong way = not the way I like it! You can only had you backbone the way I approve it!
So it’s okay for Frazetta to draw how he wants but you then become a total hypocrite and want to do nothing but b***h when other artists want to draw in a way that doesn’t get your dick hard?
Yes
Artists should draw only appealing things that I and my friends like, if they don't then they should die. Kill all ugly people because ugliness is bad
>b***h when other artists want to draw in a way that doesn’t get your dick hard?
Idkw homosexuals always latch onto the beauty = sexual attraction shtick as I wouldn't even mind if they uses her 2012 design here. April 2012 doesn't really get my dick hard the same way 80s do anyway. She just comes as a normal cute girl much like one you see from Inspector Gadget. Turning April into a child seems like a personal choice while not everyone agrees with in their own right isn't as egregious as later making her black and then fat. Black/Fat April just comes off as conformist from execs mandating it and if there's any rejection towards it you'll be treated as a social pariah and called a racist which is so typical in their playbook. This shit is always a "rules for thee, never for me" situation when they never comply to any else demands and wanna enforce their crap onto others with social pressure/contagion. I bet that one day the TMNT creators will confirm April was always black despite the mountain of evidence behind that claim being bs but will do so anyways because they don't wanna be ostracized and have to perform history revisionist to appease that crowd. See this is what I mean when I wish more creators/people had more of a backbone against this shit. I've watched the movie, I'm black, and I can smell the bullshit from here.
>$51 million
This is supposed to impress
TMNT is one of the most guaranteed money makers
>TMNT is one of the most guaranteed money makers
This is objectively not true, it's no longer the 80s
More like shit like Rise made kids no longer like it. You people believe in magical trends that have no actual cause
No you moron, look at the actual data of the films that have come out. TMNT was a "guaranteed money maker" when the movie was a new thing coming right off the 80s popularity of the cartoon, but TMNT movies are no longer a novelty, they've made a shit ton of them and most of them have underperformed financially
>Data
So you have a mind of a marketing executive. I'm talking about the artwork and its appeal moron
You're also trying to gaslight that 2003 and 2012 weren't popular things and so you're obviously looking for minors to groom
>but TMNT movies are no longer a novelty,
Kids are literally 7 years old, they don't care what's a novelty. Everything is a novelty to them shit head
>namegay is an illiterate schizo
it's all so tiresome
Is it funny that leftists ignore all of the examples of woke media failing and latch on to the ones that buck the trend as if they dubunk the argument?
is it good?
>anti-human joke Splinter
Frick off.
It was a good movie, but it's fair enough that it will never have a proper conversation here when April looked like that.
$51,000,000 is donkey piss for a popular IP you c**t
They wanted a billion dollar success. Something that emptied toy store shelves and revived turtlemania. Don't forget they already greenlit 2 seasons of a cartoon and plan to make several more tie-in movies. A tepid opening that barely breaks even in a few more months (once you account for advertising, merchandising, and everything else they spent to hype this shit up) is more of a liability than a success.
Nobody outside America watches Cinemaphile shit. It's repulsive to us.
51 millions on a summer weekend?
The movie is a fricking failure.
Too early to but God I hope that's the case. I hope barbenheimer blows this shit out of the water. I would rather have the Mattel cinematic universe than for tmnt to be stuck in this phrase for 10 years or so.
>BU-B-BUT BEAUTY IS SUBJECTIVE!!!!!!
Bullshit. Beauty is an objective concept. Take a Japanese man to see the Taj Mahal and he'll say it's beautiful. Take an American man to the Sistine Chapel and he'll say it's beautiful. Take a French man to the Grand Canyon and he'll say it's beautiful. Hedge cases don't count, most anyone you'll meet can recognize beauty as soon as they see it. Beauty is so easily recognized even small children and animals can recognize it. Beautiful people are objectively so and it's readily apparent. Sure, cultural trends and personal tastes play a part but there's plenty of overlap across the board. TL;DR: No, you're not a "Rubenesque" girl born in the wrong time, your BMI is the same as a killer whale's and it's been weeks since your last shower. Maybe hit the gym and stop eating so much cake instead of sending death threats to fan artists on tumblr. You fat ugly moron.
ok,groomer
how did you know OP was a Catholic priest and votes republican?
hit a nerve?
This movie is not even woke at all, I can see how you can push Spider-Verse 2 as woke in some ways but TMNT being "woke" comments were 100% shiposters
>"woke" comments were 100% shiposters
that is the continuing trend because the word has lost all meaning and zoomers are morons
It's a convenient way to spam the thread while hiding their seething.
The truth is the movie animation is great, the story is solid, the voice acting is good, they don't frick up in any way.
Hi Seth
Remember when How to Train your Dragon 2 was a major box office disappointment when it made similar money worldwide in 2014? Yeah people seem to have forgotten how well films did prior to covid.
>woke up this morning got some woke turtles
>and then I woke up the next and got some more woke turtles
>keep waking up keep getting different kinds of woke shows
>even got a woke show from scooby doo
It's probably unintentional, but the film seemed very UNWOKE to me. April was evil, ugly, fat journalist but in the Mutant Mayhem world all human beings are horribly ugly.
The villain was a black fly with an afro who spoke in ebonics who was obsessed with revenge and oppression like Tariq Nasneed and the heroes learned that they didn't have to follow him.
The moral was how instead of hating people for not accepting you you should actually be a good person and develop your skills.
should I go see it in 15 minutes?
don't have anything to do after wageslaving
Just find a camrip online. It's a painfully average movie at it's best moments.
Reminder that this is the same board that insists Captain Marvel and Black Panther were flops and that the numbers were faked but that it's totally believable that an outrage youtuber with zero experience released the best selling single issue comic book of all time.
cope and rent free
I get that cuckservasharts equate financial success with moral legitimacy but I'm not sure why you "anarcho-communists" are doing it.
I just keep thinking about how this movie could already be in the profit margins if they didn't waste so much of the budget on star casting for characters who said a handful lines of dialogue.
Even though it has a low production cost, $51m is pretty bad for a start. Not impossible since even Elemental had strong holds from word-of-mouth even though that one didn't technically break even. They need a little under $200m to cover production cost and possible marketing cost. Let's say they at least get over $200m and it did fine at least.
It's bombing dude
I think the most depressing thing about this whole fricking shitshow isn't that people worked hard and it failed or that they browngraded another ginger. It's that they will keep letting Seth Rogen make awful shows and movies because they only made this shit in the first place to reinvigorate their brand rights. Viacom/Paramount/Nick had deals to sell merch and make a certain amount of profit off the TMNT IP and this shit was just an expensive placeholder to keep people talking about the turtles again. They just need SOMETHING, anything, on TV and being discussed so they can hype up their new wave of classic 87' era TMNT merch. The Minecraft Crossover, the SF6 crossover, the inevitable Fortnite crossover.
So as long as people are excited to buy the nostalgic turtles merch, Mutant Mayhem will keep getting sequels and cartoons pumped out while they find new places to sell more TMNT 87' merch.
Been saying something similar for a while. Kids don't need action figures now that there are games that have become endless, constantly updating, constantly crossed-over toyboxes that replace action figures and collectibles in every possible way. Not like the crossover stuff for Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite won't make the studio even more money anyways.