Paladinus posted:

Poe is handsome and he pilots space planes well. That's his character.
Phasma is evil??? And bossy??? And that's her character.

I'm glad they've accounted for fans' reaction, because those characters need some development.

veedubfreak posted:

But Phasma is CHROME.

Sgt. Politeness posted:

Yeah, where are all these Phasma action figures? Cause I've been looking.

And obviously you have to wait for the second movie before the "new Boba Fett" can leave her mark.

Some Numbers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOSCASqLsE

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

Cool design and gets chumped basically off screen? That's the new Boba Fett alright. Especially if they only flesh out her character in books and comics.

Paladinus posted:

Phasma is evil??? And bossy??? And that's her character.

Alaois posted:

spoiler: a character in a star wars movie uses a lightsaber(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

kalstrams posted:

I watched TFA thrice, and I had to google who Phasma was.

Elfface posted:

I heard the real reason there aren't many Rey toys is because they were delayed to later waves, so she could be bundled with her lightsaber without spoiling that its hers.

HaB posted:

This theory doesn't hold up in light of the fact that Luke had different versions for different outfits he wore in the original trilogy: Tattooine Luke, X-Wing Luke, Jedi Luke, etc etc. So they could have easily done a version of Rey without a saber because movie reasons.

Pretty sure they just (erroneously) thought A- action figure buying nerdboys wouldn't give a poo poo about a female lead character and B - girls don't like science fiction (or buy nerd toys) and that's it.

So simple stupidity/sexism, basically.

dini interview on young justice posted:

DINI: “But then, there’s been this weird—there’s been a, a sudden trend in animation, with super-heroes. Like, ‘it’s too old. It’s too old for our audience, and it has to be younger. It has to be funnier.’ And that’s when I watch the first couple of episodes of Teen Titans Go!, it’s like those are the wacky moments in the Teen Titans cartoon, without any of the more serious moments. ‘Let’s just do them all fighting over pizza, or running around crazy and everything, ’cause our audience—the audience we wanna go after, is not the Young Justice audience any more. We wanna go after little kids, who are into—boys who are into goofy humor, goofy random humor, like on Adventure Time or Regular Show. We wanna do that goofy, that sense of humor, that’s where we’re going for.’”
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DINI: “They’re all for boys ’we do not want the girls’, I mean, I’ve heard executives say this, you know, not where I am, but at other places, saying like, ‘We do not want girls watching this show.”
SMITH: “WHY? That’s 51% of the population.”
DINI: “They. Do. Not. Buy. Toys. The girls buy different toys. The girls may watch the show—”
SMITH: “So you can sell them T-shirts if they don’t—A: I disagree, I think girls buy toys as well, I mean not as many as f***ing boys do, but, B: sell them something else, man! Don’t be lazy and be like, ‘well I can’t sell a girl a toy.’ Sell ‘em a T-shirt, man, sell them f***ing umbrella with the f***ing character on it, something like that. But if it’s not a toy, there’s something else you could sell ‘em! Like, just because you can’t figure out your job, don’t kill chances of, like, something that’s gonna reach an audi—that’s just so self-defeating, when people go, like… these are the same fuckers who go, like, ‘Oh, girls don’t read comics, girls aren’t into comics.’ It’s all self-fulfilling prophecies. They just make it that way, by going like, ‘I can’t sell ‘em a toy, what’s the point?’
DINI: “That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as the boys, but right there.’ And then we began writing stories that got into the two girls’ back stories, and they were really interesting. And suddenly we had families and girls watching, and girls really became a big part of our audience, in sort of like they picked up that Harry Potter type of serialized way, which is what The Batman and [indistinct]’s really gonna kill. But, the Cartoon Network was saying, ‘F***, no, we want the boys’ action, it’s boys’ action, this goofy boy humor we’ve gotta get that in there. And we can’t—’ and I’d say, but look at the numbers, we’ve got parents watching, with the families, and then when you break it down—’Yeah, but the—so many—we’ve got too many girls. We need more boys.’”
SMITH: “That’s heart-breaking.”
DINI: “And then that’s why they cancelled us, and they put on a show called Level Up, which is, you know, goofy nerds fighting CG monsters. It’s like, ‘We don’t want the girls because the girls won’t buy toys.’ We had a whole, a merchandise line for Tower Prep that they s***canned before it ever got off the launching pad, because it’s like, ‘Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they buy the action figures, girls buy princesses, we’re not selling princesses.’”

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VendaGoat posted:

I jerk it to bad posts.

kirbysuperstar posted:

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kirbysuperstar posted:

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kalstrams posted:

Six-Of-Hearts posted:

Some Numbers posted:

The stormtrooper who shouts "traitor!" and fights Finn with the anti-Jedi baton is the real Boba Fett of the movie.

grumplestiltzkin posted:

TR-8R. He died for our spins.

hiddenriverninja posted:

His official name is FN-2199 I believe. You'd think with dumb "wordplay" names like Grievous and Plagueis TR-8R would be a slam dunk.

DoctorWhat posted:

They DID make Rey toys. They just sold out really fast.

Hremsfeld posted:

Trast posted:

Several people who worked for Marvel and Disney were vocal in their complaints about the lack of toys feature the women characters in both Force Awakens and Avengers 2. It's safe to say Disney's higher ups neglected the market for their own reasons.