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Ghostse said:
They aren't pandering to little girls. They are pandering to some woke make-believe ideal of what little girls want.
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I (no power level reveal) have a source at Lucasfilm. A high level one

Rey tests WELL with young girls. They like her alot and have strong feelings about Rey.

Rey just doesnt translate into product [Which has to do with the fact Lucasfilm wants to nuke some of their toy contracts]

But kids today in nerd culture dont try to totally deep dive into consumption. They will like something associated with Rey BUT not enough to buy it in and of itself
 
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Manwithn0n0men said:
I (no power level reveal) have a source at Lucasfilm. A high level one

Rey tests WELL with young girls. They like her alot and have strong feelings about Rey.

Rey just doesnt translate into product [Which has to do with the fact Lucasfilm wants to nuke some of their toy contracts]

But kids today in nerd culture dont try to totally deep dive into consumption. They will like something associated with Rey BUT not enough to buy it in and of itself
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Is the strategy to just tank the thing and then try to repair it?

It just seems so utterly clueless, looking from the outside. Star Wars will never appeal to girls, with the same intensity and passion, that it would with boys.

Not saying you should ignore them or not market to them, but that's not your foundation..

At best, you're going to appeal to a small subset of women who don't care much about the brand anyways....
 
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Ihavetinyweewee said:
Is the strategy to just tank the thing and then try to repair it?

It just seems so utterly clueless, looking from the outside. Star Wars will never appeal to girls, with the same intensity and passion, that it would with boys.

Not saying you should ignore them or not market to them, but that's not your foundation..
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Tanking the toys. The toy manufacturers are also tanking the toys. Neither wants to be in business with the other but quiting would lose to much money
 
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Manwithn0n0men said:
Tanking the toys. The toy manufacturers are also tanking the toys. Neither wants to be in business with the other but quiting would lose to much money
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Yeah, but Star Wars profits are its merchandise...

Do you have an idea what the long term goal is? Whats the internal climate at Lucasfilm. Is Kennedy as incompetent as she seems?
 
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Yes I am not sure what they're going with. It's not like little girls have a strong identity or can identify with any of this woke SJW stuff. They're just children. It's like that old thinking of little boys want to be army men or cowboys. That's not how humans develop.

I actually do think the Star Wars Rey stuff has been pretty mild. She's an extremely milquetoast character when you get down to it, and she herself evokes zero politicism. She's a borderline Mary Sue created to sell toys to girls. Great. It's just that her presence has been forced into these new movies and it makes them tamer for it. More boring. Not that emo "I hate your face mother!" Kylo is any better,

Fuck it all. I dearly hope they hard reboot this shit somehow after this next movie.
 
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Manwithn0n0men said:
Rey tests WELL with young girls. They like her alot and have strong feelings about Rey.
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That's funny; most people I've seen that give a shit about her are the moronic psychos who just want to fuck Adam Driver using her as their vehicle, like all shitty romance films in general. Most girls I've had to work with give more of a shit about *insert internet thing here* than that.

Kids in general just don't give a single shit about Star Wars since it's being written for babybrained manchildren who clap at diversity without consuming product.
 
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Adamska said:
That's funny; most people I've seen that give a shit about her are the moronic psychos who just want to fuck Adam Driver using her as their vehicle, like all shitty romance films in general. Most girls I've had to work with give more of a shit about *insert internet thing here* than that.

Kids in general just don't give a single shit about Star Wars since it's being written for babybrained manchildren who clap at diversity without consuming product.
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Focus groups of kids respond well to her [We can get into how focus groups are trash]
 
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Manwithn0n0men said:
I (no power level reveal) have a source at Lucasfilm. A high level one

Rey tests WELL with young girls. They like her alot and have strong feelings about Rey.

Rey just doesnt translate into product [Which has to do with the fact Lucasfilm wants to nuke some of their toy contracts]

But kids today in nerd culture dont try to totally deep dive into consumption. They will like something associated with Rey BUT not enough to buy it in and of itself
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What I don’t get is how some people have this idea that you have to trade one demographic for another. Star Wars is big enough for multiple demographics. There’s no need to push out or gatekeep some to make room for others. There’s enough room in Star Wars for kids, adults, men, women, and minorities.

Often the demographics intermingle and are connected. Before the Disney buyout, the biggest Star Wars whales I knew were all married middle or upper middle class men. They may not have spent as much time on Star Wars as single men living with relatives but they generally made a lot of money. So they spent a lot of money. These guys were often so enthusiastic about Star Wars, they passed this enthusiasm on to their family. This helped to justify their spending money on Star Wars merch. My point is if there’s a little girl that likes Star Wars, her parents and probably grandfather are likely Star Wars fans too. If Disney pisses off the parents or even grandparents then they risk losing all of them. The opposite is true too. If the kids lose interest then the parents will spend less money on merch.
 
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IAmNotAlpharius said:
What I don’t get is how some people have this idea that you have to trade one demographic for another. Star Wars is big enough for multiple demographics. There’s no need to push out or keep out some to make room for others. There’s enough room in Star Wars for kids, adults, men, women, and minorities.

Often the demographics intermingle and are connected. Before the Disney buyout, the biggest Star Wars whales I knew were all married middle or upper middle class men. They may not have spent as much time on Star Wars as single men living with relatives but they generally made a lot of money. So they spent a lot of money. These guys were often so enthusiastic about Star Wars, they passed this enthusiasm on to their family. This helped to justify their spending money on Star Wars merch. My point is if there’s a little girl that likes Star Wars, her parents and probably grandfather are likely Star Wars fans too. If Disney pisses off the parents or even grandparents then they risk losing all of them. The opposite is true too. If the kids lose interest then the parents will spend less money on merch.
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What my inside connection explained to me

The Disney Princess model started losing fans

While they bought SW and Marvel to own boys, they had to make girls a solid buying demo again
 
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IAmNotAlpharius said:
These guys were often so enthusiastic about Star Wars, they passed this enthusiasm on to their family. This helped to justify their spending money on Star Wars merch.
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My father introduced me to Star Wars at a young age, and I'm willing to bet something similar happened to all of you here.
If I ever have kids, I'll pass on the OT and maybe the PT, but certainly not the ST.
 
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Pixy Misa said:
Yeah, I press X hard on Rey becoming evil. There's no way in hell they would make their Mary Sue anything but a symbol of virtue and goodness.
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Starwars.com already confirmed (accidentally) that she's just a vision. But theory fags have already started going into denial mode and spreading around fan theories to stay relevant.
 
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