The Sandman Writer Neil Gaiman Explains Why Franchises Like Star Wars And Star Trek Have Lost Significant Portions Of Their Fan Bases

Actually it was just one interview. Then multiple press sources reported it. No pansexual is different. No, Tolkien’s characters were basically sexless, a very chaste story.

No, it was huge, and the merch juiced all the money out of its hugeness they could get. But even then it hit a saturation point and burnout. By ‘88 the juice was out, Marvel had ended the comic, Del Ray was bailing on the books, the toy line had expired. Burnout happened. The dip DID HAPPEN. And one smart move from Del Ray started it back up the hill.

Games are toys. TRU sold toys. And frankly the game subsection of the market became another point of TRU losing to competition. Once the consoles got harddrives and could buy product online, then you add Steam and its ilk on the PC side the solid physical game market became a nightmare. TRU DID stop being a place to buy toys, that’s why they’re out of business. Things were different in the 90s. They could compete with Walmart. The big punch was Amazon, who wasn’t in the toy market in the 90s. You insist on being believed a lot, and then you say things that are obviously factually incorrect.

Nope. I’m pointing out that you’re wrong. And then you go for a whole paragraph of attacks. So we clearly both know you’re wrong. Bye.

“Actually it was just one interview. Then multiple press sources reported it. No pansexual is different. No, Tolkien’s characters were basically sexless, a very chaste story.”

Doesn’t change anything, especially when the fact that it got multiple press releases STILL contributed to Solo’s downfall.

Pansexual, from what I understand, is basically having sex with everything and everyone, aka, bisexual, omnisexual at that.

And maybe you’ve forgotten, but Aragorn married an elf, and a vision she had indicated they had children, meaning sex was very much implied there (they’d need to have sex to have children, after all). Sure, it was within the confines of marriage, but that’s still sex.

“No, it was huge, and the merch juiced all the money out of its hugeness they could get. But even then it hit a saturation point and burnout. By ‘88 the juice was out, Marvel had ended the comic, Del Ray was bailing on the books, the toy line had expired. Burnout happened. The dip DID HAPPEN. And one smart move from Del Ray started it back up the hill.”

Nope, actually, they still managed to sell quite well even before Del Ray’s policy. If it didn’t they’d immediately declare Chapter 11 once it dipped a dollar, like other companies have done. Besides, Disney Star Wars Is Dumb would beg to differ with you. The MCU also had similar problems, yet even THAT did better overall than Star Wars, which should tell you something about fatigue.

“Games are toys. TRU sold toys. And frankly the game subsection of the market became another point of TRU losing to competition. Once the consoles got harddrives and could buy product online, then you add Steam and its ilk on the PC side the solid physical game market became a nightmare. TRU DID stop being a place to buy toys, that’s why they’re out of business. Things were different in the 90s. They could compete with Walmart. The big punch was Amazon, who wasn’t in the toy market in the 90s. You insist on being believed a lot, and then you say things that are obviously factually incorrect.”

Video games are not toys. They’re if anything media, and I’d know because the likes of Blockbuster and Versatile Video sold video games as part of their otherwise video wares back when I was five (and at that time, the SNES was still barely the current nintendo system out there). And I definitely remember Toys R Us having video games by the time of the Nintendo 64 at least. Now, board games? Sure, they technically qualified as toys as well.

“Nope. I’m pointing out that you’re wrong. And then you go for a whole paragraph of attacks. So we clearly both know you’re wrong. Bye.”

I didn’t attack you at all, but I did point out that you were engaging in arguments more in favor of the left despite what your bio of being a paleoconservative stated, which this wasn’t even the first time I’ve had to deal with it (real conservatives, for starters would not condemn the Founding Fathers as irredeemable evil like our woke SJWs).

There are many gas stars and suns, gas giants and rocky planets but no sign of life. They can measure waves of things and I’m not the only one who thinks this, many scientists also feel it’s looking that way.

Oh I know, the ‘there’s billions and billions of...out there’ but that is how I feel.

Now the other side of the coin, there is nothing to go on at all but ‘we can’t be the only ones, there are billions and billions of planets out there’ but I think the likelihood of them being habited is slight to nothing. If they are I would accept it but that is what I think.

Btw they have found that in space for a human being an extended stay the red blood cells drift apart due to low to no gravity and limbs would die and fall off. Now that is reality. I really think space travel is not going to happen. It might be with robots and I know all these people who believe we are going to go into outer space hang onto some miraculous discovery of how we are going to do it.

I do not.

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