I'm guessing you weren't around in late seventies or early eighties.

Dec 2, 2015
6:38:53am

thaws All-American

Star Wars created merchandising and flooding the markets with stuff. The franchise sold for $2BB, so not just about movies.

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thaws

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Disney is destroying Star Wars...

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 9:35pm

Jar Jar already destroyed Star Wars

CougarCanuck76

12/1/15 9:37pm

George Lucas did it first.

Turnpike Lane

12/1/15 9:38pm

No way...there is so much Star Wars crap for sale now, that it is almost comical

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 9:41pm

Lucas built his films around merchandising from ESB on

Turnpike Lane

12/1/15 9:57pm

Bro, every one since ROTJ has been this way.

GuitarGuy

12/1/15 9:40pm

I was 4 in 1983 as well...there is no way it compares to what Disney is doing

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 9:43pm

By comparison, yes it was. It was also pre Internet

Downtown

12/1/15 9:52pm

I don't buy it. The reach that Disney has today dwarfs any corporate enterprise

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:01pm

So I'm guessing you never saw Revenge of the Jedi?

shimmy

12/1/15 9:40pm

Coldplay always sucked, just like hatb(f). Star wars has always been big.

Cougarrrs

12/1/15 9:41pm

If you saw either of those bands in a club w/ 50 people before they got big, you

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 9:47pm

If I were a hipster, you're right, I would think that. But I'm not a hipster.

Cougarrrs

12/1/15 9:49pm

I don't believe it...there are some bands that are good but it is uncool to

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 9:55pm

You know what the most hipster thing to do is? Hate on hipsters.

Cougarrrs

12/1/15 10:02pm

Exactly...which is what you did. You are clearly a closet hipster. Like the

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:07pm

*sniff* *sniff* YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! *sniff*

Cougarrrs

12/1/15 10:17pm

RE: Disney is destroying Star Wars...

AllHailTheOverlord

12/1/15 9:43pm

Lucas started ruining it in 1997. Finished the job w/the prequels

Downtown

12/1/15 9:51pm

Fast and Furious 8, MI6, countless superhero movies......i doubt the public gets

BYUheaven

12/1/15 9:51pm

All credibility lost just for thinking Hootie & the Blowfish were EVER any good

kalifi

12/1/15 9:56pm

* closet hipster alert

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:32pm

It doesn't take a hipster to recognize that Hootie & the Blowfish sucked from

DB Cooper

12/2/15 2:35am

I've never been a huge Star Wars fan. All this publicity is kind of pulling me

Disco LaFleur

12/1/15 10:00pm

RE: Disney is destroying Star Wars...

fredgarvin

12/1/15 10:04pm

Exclusivity has always been desireable...ever more so now, with the Internet....

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:10pm

What do you propose they do? Make a new Star Wars on the down low? Only show it

Disco LaFleur

12/1/15 10:21pm

No...I guess I am making a commentary about the all or nothing commercial

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:28pm

I see what you're saying, but business is business. Of course they'll do all

Disco LaFleur

12/1/15 10:41pm

Disco clubs to be precise!

greatbam

12/2/15 1:15am

Yeah...Star Wars was never that.

fredgarvin

12/1/15 10:21pm

Exactly. The original (a new hope) was the box office record holder for 5 yrs

Cougarrrs

12/1/15 10:25pm

Adjusted for inflation, it's the third-biggest movie ever.

fredgarvin

12/1/15 10:37pm

Star Wars was cultish for about 3 weeks in 1977.

Scratch

12/1/15 10:04pm

Choppy production? What are you smoking? Those were ground breaking in their

Coach's Dad

12/1/15 10:15pm

There's never been a better time to be a Star Wars fan than now.

SpiffCoug

12/1/15 10:31pm

I predict you'll be burned out in a year or 2.

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:34pm

I've been a Star Wars fan for 34 years, I don't plan on stopping

SpiffCoug

12/2/15 8:07am

Have a Pabst Blue Ribbon to drown out that commercialization

Cheesy Gordita

12/1/15 10:36pm

The first wise comment of the evening...there is little that a tall glass of

OhYePoorFools

12/1/15 10:39pm

You mean when it was like this?

grosven

12/1/15 10:46pm

Coldplay and Hootie were never good or cool.

Backcountry

12/2/15 12:30am

Star Wars has never been cultish and strangely cool. Always been mainstream

LifeLongLakerFan

12/2/15 12:48am

I suggest googling star wars and toyetic. Star wars has a long merchandising

Non-donor troll

12/2/15 4:58am

hootie went away because fairweather johnson sucked.

bald man

12/2/15 6:31am

I'm guessing you weren't around in late seventies or early eighties.

thaws

12/2/15 6:38am

It sold for $4B. You were off by 50%. it's a great time for Star Wars fans

SpiffCoug

12/2/15 8:08am

Oops--

thaws

12/2/15 8:15am

you lost me when you compared Star Wars to Hootie and the Blowfish

TheDeek

12/2/15 8:27am

So when I had a ESB lunchbox in 2nd grade, I was cool and cultish?

Carnac el Magnifico

12/2/15 8:58am

Hoodie and Coldplay are terrible and always have been. Terrible comparison

dizthewiz

12/2/15 11:33pm

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