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Has anyone ever thought that maybe, just maybe, that our highly unscientific and inaccurate polling of a few store shelves and a cursory look at the Disney Store website just doesn't yield the reality of potential merch sales about a particular movie? Now maybe Disney dropped the ball for this movie, or maybe they purposely didn't ship to Target's in Utah, or maybe things just aren't as they seem and merch is being directed to the Parks instead or other places they are being targeting for specific merch sales.
Hollywood Studios Has the NEW Out-of-This-World 'Elio' Merchandise Collection!
Hollywood Studios has the NEW out-of-this-world 'Elio' merchandise collection!
OFFICIAL Elio Merch & Shirts | Hot Topic
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I agree, we shouldn't read a ton into it. But I'm not the one who famously makes Target runs to go look for the latest Disney movie merch and report back on it here.
Wouldn't you love to know how they decide how many toys to design and produce for the marketplace?
The lag time on designing them, getting them past legal and safety standards, some Chinese slave factory getting the order to produce, and then the toys and t-shirts actually showing up in a Target in Utah must be at least six months. A year?
So why didn't they do any toys at all for Elio? And if not, at what point in its production did they realize and say "Oh, darnit, this one won't sell anything." and forget about merchandise sales in the parks and big box stores?
Pixar sold over $10 Billion in boys toys and t-shirts for their movie Cars. It was that huge merchandise sales that convinced Burbank to greenlight $600 Million (in 2008 dollars, over a Billion today!) to build the fabulous Cars Land in DCA. Obviously not every movie can be a Cars for merchandise, but almost no merch at all doesn't make sense for Pixar.
No one can convince me they purposely greenlight a mega-budget movie in Emeryville and decide early on "Yeah, let's give up on merchandise sales for this one, it won't sell anything." So at what point in Elio's production cycle did they realize there was no reason to send out production orders for America's toy aisles????
I agree, we shouldn't read a ton into it. But I'm not the one who famously makes Target runs to go look for the latest Disney movie merch and report back on it here.
They tend to do that a lot to the people here.
And I’m sure the highlight of your day.In my deep defense, I also got a Scrub Daddy (ahem), a refill bottle of that shower glass spray I like so much, and a jumbo box of Purina Milkbones. All while riding out my Crumbl cookie sugar high. It was a rather good Target Run.
I think you're on to something!
When discussing Pixar's track record at the box office the past decade, I think it would be fair to ignore the four Covid era movies that basically had no theatrical run. This likely benefits Pixar, as my gut tells me Turning Red would have been a giant bomb, and the others (Onward, Soul, Luca) wouldn't have done very well in a normal box office run.
There may be some internal numbers that reflect that for Pixar though, so they likely now understand they would have lost big money on at least a couple of those had Covid not prevented them from running normally. Which could feed into their crisis of confidence.
The rest of Pixar's stuff the past decade, has mostly been big Billion dollar hits (inflation adjusted). It's really just the bomb that was Lightyear and the money-losing Elemental that would cause this crisis of confidence.
Still, it's a weird new world when the mega-budget summer tentpole from Pixar has no toys for sale at Target.
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Yeah, I'm kind of puzzled about a certain amount of glee around predicting Elio's failure.
The MyPillow guy??! What is his connection to Disney or movies? Or is this a typo?
I don’t think there is any connection, or that anyone wants him to specifically be Disney CEO. More that is what the poster thinks the anti-Disney crowd believes is an ideal CEO these days.
I think you're on to something!
When discussing Pixar's track record at the box office the past decade, I think it would be fair to ignore the four Covid era movies that basically had no theatrical run. This likely benefits Pixar, as my gut tells me Turning Red would have been a giant bomb, and the others (Onward, Soul, Luca) wouldn't have done very well in a normal box office run.
There may be some internal numbers that reflect that for Pixar though, so they likely now understand they would have lost big money on at least a couple of those had Covid not prevented them from running normally. Which could feed into their crisis of confidence.
The rest of Pixar's stuff the past decade, has mostly been big Billion dollar hits (inflation adjusted). It's really just the bomb that was Lightyear and the money-losing Elemental that would cause this crisis of confidence.
Still, it's a weird new world when the mega-budget summer tentpole from Pixar has no toys for sale at Target.
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