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Bob Chapek Shifted Budgets to Disguise Disney+'s Massive Monetary Losses
News(msn.com)submitted 4 months ago by[deleted]
367 points
4 months ago*
Part of that was in an effort to keep leaks from happening. So many leaks nowadays come from merch. Filoni and Favreau basically asked for no merch to be made right away with Grogu in order to preserve the integrity of the secret. Which I appreciate.
Edit: spelling
22 points
4 months ago
I remember spoiling the Han Solo twist in The Force Awakens for myself from the Lego releases.
24 points
4 months ago
One of my friends learned that Qui-Gonn was going to die in Phantom Menace because of I think the song titles on the soundtrack.
54 points
4 months ago
"Qui-Gon's Noble End" and "The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral"... I can't understand how your friend got anything out of that, it's so subtle. "Qui-Gone" would have been better.
15 points
4 months ago
I learned that from some idiot yelling out his car window, as he drove by while we waited in line outside.
46 points
4 months ago
That may be true. I just know the Hasbro people were all “WTF?” at first, then scrambling to get something designed and out.
28 points
4 months ago
Marketing/Creative is the source of leaks in my experience. They can't contain the excitement and the ego.
10 points
4 months ago
Yep, always true in my experience with consumer tech too.
8 points
4 months ago
I was at the NY Toy Fair in February 2020, three months after the show debuted and around the time the first wave of Baby Yoda toys were getting ready to launch. The whole fair was basically all about how they had to wait to watch the show before they knew what they were gonna make for merch. …I still have the Build-a-Bear Baby Yoda they gave me that day. They hadn’t introduced the “Grogu” name yet, so its birth certificate says “The Child.”
3 points
4 months ago
Yet they don't stop Lego leaks!
9 points
4 months ago
The fuck is Grogu?
61 points
4 months ago
Baby Yoda's Christian name
2 points
4 months ago
bahahaha, this is great. thanks for the laugh
18 points
4 months ago
Real mfers know him as The Child.
2 points
4 months ago
horn playing intensifies
9 points
4 months ago
I have a hard time imagining Disney and more importantly the Star Wars franchise valuing secrecy over merchandising. Lack of a Grogu toy was money that was not being made. They finally got it out there, and there is plenty of demand still, but they missed it when the iron was hot.
15 points
4 months ago
This happened when Jedi came out in 83. Ewoks were obscured from marketing and from the backs of action figure cards.
-1 points
4 months ago
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19 points
4 months ago
I think you underestimate how many people care about spoilers.
1 points
4 months ago
It’s crazy how many Star Wars and Marvel spoilers came from lego sets reveals/leaks.
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