Turning STAR WARS Female Centric KILLED the Golden Goose for Disney, Hasbro and everyone else!
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The time when Star Wars used to be a money printing machine, not just for Lucasfilm, but for every third party licensees like Hasbro and Ubisoft; is long since over. Now, the franchise has become a financial burden for almost everyone involved with it, and even the industry trades are beginning to admit that.
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"Disney took boy brands that girls liked and turned them into girl brands that nobody likes" -Chris Gore
The true irony is they allegedly bought those brands to corner the boy market since they knew they had the girl market pinned down.
@Blindluck92 Right? I mean Marvel SW should have boys on lock. My young son really isn't interested, he would rather watch Ninja Turtles, how to train your dragon or Ben 10.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@Blindluck92 This is absolutely true and everyone forgets that. In 2013, the teaser trailer for Frozen featured Olaf the snowman and Sven the reindeer instead of the two female main characters out of fear of alienating a potential male audience. Somehow, in less than a half a decade, Disney went from worrying about the male audience to deliberately making decisions that would drive them away. It's really quite amazing.
Go woke go broke 🤔
Disney ruined their female brands with their feminist agenda as well.
Weird weird as latina Snow White has said.
@@finned958 Frozen is Disney's ideological attempt to humanize the Snow Queen, the villianess from an old fairytale.
@@finned958Did Disney sweep that show under rug? Haven't heard a thing about it in months.🤷🏽♀️
@@marsoelflaco5722 Rescheduled for 2025. That’s the latest news. I don’t think it will do well.
@finned958 Damn! 2025!?! A few years ago, Disney seemed very proud of the prospect of this production. Now, it seems regretful and humiliated.🤦🏽♂️
'Put a chick in it. Make it lame and gay' will forever be known as the mantra that killed Star Wars !
Right on!👍🏽
And Marvel, and Pixar, and Disney's films
@@user-pc6so2ih2v 40k is on the chopping block now thanks to Amazon if certain leaks are true.
Is incredibly accurate to the bone of Disney stupidity…
40k is in their sights now. What happens next will either be predictable, or potentially the first loss for the usual suspects.
It amazes me how they simply refuse to course correct. Get strong writers who understand the source material and talented directors to put it to screen, and ta-dah! Profitable Star Wars.
It's too late. Even if they make "good Star wars" I am so over it
Judging by their action, Disney's goal is not to make money but to spread the message.
They can’t because their masters, black rock and DEI money
Because to course correct would mean to put fun and entertainment over agenda and the creatures running Disney and most of Hollywood these days are pushing agenda over profit. Frankly, if you look at how so much of modern entertainment is pushing the same agenda it becomes more and more obvious that it's an attempt at cult level brainwashing only on a massive scale. One of the ways cults brainwash their followers is by isolating them and then bombarding them 24/7/365 with their intended message until their subject is repeating the propaganda instinctively and reflexively. But any media consumed by the subject during that time that does not push the message or even contradicts it can damage or even break the brainwashing. That's why you see this same woke messaging EVERYWHERE in media these days.
@@CaptGroutsame, it would take a complete retcon of all Disney content into a seperate universe and bringing back OG E.U.
If my old man saw what Kennedy did to star wars, I think he'd spin fast enough to create earthquakes.
Agreed..same. it was my father's favorite movie. I had all the toys when I was little ( no barbies for me lol). I'm glad in a way he passed when he did because just like me I know his heart would be broken at the state of star wars.
Hasbro is struggling to sell Star Wars and Marvel toys. Meanwhile Bandai, Japan's biggest toy company, is making record profits off of Gundam model kits and Dragon Ball toys.
It's almost like toy and merch sales are driven by quality films and shows that large audiences enjoy. Strange that, huh?
As well as quality products. Yes Bandai has cheapo stuff but they have not have fallen as far as Hasbro in quality.
@@XenoJehuty84 Bandai was smart enough to actually have generic cheap toys (and by 'cheap' i don't mean bad quality! I mean actually affordable) for the kids such as the DX releases of the Rider Belts, Swords, etc and also cater to the adult collector with the CSM range which are so much more expensive than the DX range and limited in sales but always sells like hot cakes.
Imagine that respecting your properties and those kids who used to buy DX eventually grow up to spend on expensive CSM! You know just like how adult SW fans who grew up with the series are more than willing to fork out on more expensive 3rd party toys/licensed stuff like Lego Millenium Falcon/X-Wings and so forth.
@@RocKM001 Well said!!
@@XenoJehuty84 Even Bandai's cheap products are good.
I recently got an airbrush and wanted to practice on a model, so I bought a Entry Grade Gundam kit. This is the cheapest kit they make, $11CND for the basic kit and $16CND for the kit plus extra weapon set (meaning the kit starts at something like $7USD)
The kit is surprisingly great, especially when you take the price into account. It looks great, the articulation is much better than expected and the fit is perfect.
It is called Entry Grade because it is meant to get people into building Gundam model kits and I think it would completely succeed in that mission. If Bandai was greedy, they could totally justify charging two or three times the price.
Been buying Gunpla for ages now since Gundam and Star Wars have been my favorites. Star Wars is dead and I've not spent money on it since TLJ, so I've been buying even more Gunpla. I'm just about out of display space while I still have 6 kits in my backlog. haha
This seems to go beyond dereliction of fiduciary responsibility, into corporate deception and fraud.
Everything these companies do is malicious.
Remember when Lucasfilm was purchased. The sky was the limit, everyone was hopeful...very reminiscent of RMS Titanic as it left Southampton.😟
Nice nod to RobotHead's analogy.
Great analogy!
Great analogy!
@@erik1836 ✌🏾
I was probably one of the few that was worried about Disney purchasing Lucasfilm back in the mid 2000's because I was primarily worried about The Expanded Universe. Unfortunately, my worries became true throughout the years since Disney's acquisition.
Ironically TH-camrs are probably making more money off criticizing Star Wars than Disney is making Star Wars. 😂
It is also more entertaining to watch.
@@Grubnar Especially when you are pissed at what KK and Disney have done to it. It's pleasing to follow them ruining themselves in the process too. 😛
I'm fairly certain Disney still didn't break even on SW purchase. So, technically, I'm making more money writing this comment (that is - none) then Disney on SW (that is - they actually Lost money on it)
Now they’re doing it with the M-She-U as well! Genius😂
Misery loves company.
Star Wars devolved into She Wars
I cancelled my sub to Hulu because Disney now owns it completely. If Disney ever owns all water on the planet, I'm screwed.
No that’s nestle so your still screwed
I'll just drink my own piss then.
Don't give Iger ideas.
Can't even collect your own in some states. I smh.
100% I did the same. As soon as I heard hulu and disney were making a deal, I dropped hulu. Disney used to get ALL my money...now I check very carefully to make sure my money isn't going to that company. Disney needs to sell itself. It's a dead company at this point.
Who'd have thought ten years of calling paying customers every 'ist and 'phobe in the book while wrecking everything they loved would make those same customers close their wallets? (As the sarcasm detector overloads)
Kennedy's contract is up in a few months, but the damage is done. At this point I hope Iger renews her, so that Peltz can try, try again.
That's the plan now. KK has survived so many contract renewals that it's time to dare Disney to renew her so they can fail faster.
GL though is laughing. Not from the loss in his shares... But from the fact that the money he received is now worth more than the corporate value of LF.
I seriously doubt that she'll be kicked out. They've renewed her contract over and over so many times (despite her continued failures and making things worse every time) that the likelihood of it being renewed again is all but certain.
She cannot get kicked out. She has to decide if she wants to step down.
I'm just gonna call the last 10 years, the "Kathleen Kennedy Era" because it's clear Bob Iger is not in charge.
Somehow, Kathleen Kennedy returned 😮
Probably should be concerning that people are deriving more entertainment from the cottage industry set up around watching Disney fail than the content they produce.
Disney's original plan was to release 1 movie per year (or more) for Star Wars. That changed after the diminishing returns of the Disney trilogy (which they ridiculously had no plan for from one movie to the next). That in itself (no plan) should have been enough to fire KK. She is the worst studio head in history.
Their problem was just that they released too much Star Wars too quickly. If they only made Mandalorian Seasons 1 and 2, and no movies, the brand might still be worth something.
@@funkydiscogodNo. Quantity would not have killed Star Wars if the Quality was good.
Its worse than that it had a plan they threw it out, and at the same time they said they could make the trilogy in half the time Lucas did to produce, which was 3 years between films.
"Would they still have voted for Iger if they knew the truth?"
Probably, most of those investors seem pretty thick, easily led and indoctrinated into the ways of _THE MESSAGE._
Don't you love how wanting to make a profit suddenly makes a guy an "activist investor."
“Activist investor” is a term used in business that has different connotations - it doesn’t refer to political activism.
People are avoiding the entire IP and it's affiliates they pushed their agenda too strong instead of catering to the base fandom
You are 100% correct.
It's so ironic that Disney hates the one woman on salary who actually is strong and independent: Gina Carano.
It killed He-Man, it killed Star Wars. Do not market that which has a fanbase consisting of 90 % men towards women. It can only fail.
To be fair, the IP before Disney bought it had really good female centric characters: Mon Mothma, Leia, Padme, Jaina Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, Bastilla Shan, Darth Zannah, Darth Talon, Kreia, Atrius, and the female Exile.
Disney SW female centric characters became politicized for an agenda the corporation is trying to push to fans and the general public that didn't ask for it
Don't forget Jan Ors, who teamed with Kyle Katarn in the "Dark Forces" video games, novels, etc.
Also Ahsoka
They thought writing new female characters as gods who can do no wrong and are perfect in every way are empowering for women. Nobody, even women, can relate to that.
I see Stellar Blade's Eve swinging her sword through all of this. One falls! One rises!
Disney also made Hasbro and the now-dead Toys R Us sign pre-order agreements to buy huge lots of Star Wars toys, which left them with massive amounts of worthless overstock they couldn't even give away. Disney then boasted that the merchandise sales proved how popular their Star Wars trilogy was to anyone who would listen. But the thing is . . . it's not the manufacturer-to-retailer sales that prove how popular something is. It's the retailer to CONSUMER sales which prove that.
It's almost like physical toys and toy stores are on the downturn due to the digital age and zoomers entertaining themselves with their phones and video games instead of antiquated action figures. I love how you guys think Star Wars toys aren't selling anymore purely because of Disney mismanagement. Toys R Us failed because of online shopping and a fall in demand for physical toys.
@@dzed5579Toys r us failed for more reasons than online shopping, though it definitely helped, poor story writing and poor quality of the Toys being produced also played important roles, and it was not just star wars, look at new star trek or he man.
Their so incredibly scammy, how anyone still has any trust in Iger specially goes beyond my head, he's 100% an evil villain who doesn't care if everything is in ruins as long some message was sent and he made his money. Though very stupid by these companies to trust Disney but at the same time Star Wars was very successful then. It's almost like Disney knew Star Wars would fail with the changes they are doing and almost like they wanted it to fail. Is there something Disney could win by destroying Star Wars
@teijaflink2226 destroying? No. Stumbling? Yes. I don't think Disney is destroying Star Wars. I think they don't know what to do with it, which us why they've had some successes and some failures. The Clone Wars finale was top tier Star Wars content. And the first season of the Mandalorian was a major success with baby Yoda. Rebels was relatively popular. And Andor was amazing. As was Rogue One. There's a lot i like from Disney Star Wars. But a lot I also dislike. I think Disney is doing fine with what they have. Not everything is gonna be a hit. It's Star Wars. It's not that deep.
They could have millions with Cara Dune's action figure, but KK and her ilks decided to give us the message instead. Bob Iger is not as smart as the shills made inn out to be.
He's nothing but a glorified weatherboy, who pretends he's the greatest ceo to have ever lived. He's a Jackass, the biggest idiot to have handled star wars the way he did.
I own the LEGO minifigure ... it is pretty cool!
Worst part is that, just like what happened with the recent Disney board vote, Kennedy and Feige will probably have their contracts renewed again. Doesn't matter how much they keep failing, profit doesn't matter to Disney anymore only political and cultural messaging.
Ironically, Disney's audience doesn't care for this political messaging.🤷🏽♀️
@@marsoelflaco5722 Everyone, including the higher ups at Disney, know this. Problem is that those same Disney higher ups don't care.
@@marsoelflaco5722 the Disney higher ups could care less if their continued focus on political messaging costs them profits. Iger and all the rest have sold all their stock in the company and have tens, if not hundreds, of millions stashed away already. Even if the company gets ruined and all the lower level employees lose their jobs the higher ups at Disney still have plenty to live on comfortably (one percent of the one percent level of comfort) for the rest of their lives.
@freedomwriter1995 Some people just hate pleasing their audience and making easy money.🤷🏽♀️
@freedomwriter1995 With that perspective/ideology, I'd make a lousy businessman. I'd want to please my customers and make as much as I can.
Funny how, every time they fail utterly, it is always one of two thing: it is either someone else's fault, or it is everyone else's fault. This is the magic formula of THE MESSAGE.
was at toys r us. almost the whole boys section was gone, replaced with t-shirts and DVD-LP books, like regular books.
Its all at Ollie's discount store.
@ardendragoon hello fellow world class bullsh itters fan :3
They don't make toys for that demographic anymore.
Boys are certainly being given the raw deal this generation
@@funkydiscogod Yeah they don't, but then they dare complain about the toy industry collapsing onto itself
These actually sound like actionable, criminal complaints that should be brought before a Grand Jury. Is Disney somehow immune to the laws that brought Enron down? Arthur Anderson went out of business due to their complicity in helping Enron cook the books. They're long gone, so I have to wonder who is cooking the books for Disney.
Possibly the same people who brought down Enron.
"The Rey movie they keep threatening us with!" 😂 darn right ✅ 👌🏼
I don't care that Peltz was unsuccessful in his proxy war. I want Disney to go the way of the dinosaur. They have tainted Star Wars and every IP they own, including their own original properties so horrendously, that even if someone turns it around right now, I'm not coming back ever. Star Wars and Disney are long dead, and there is no magic that can resurrect them now. Let us NEVER forget the names Kennedy and Iger as the murderers responsible for this.
Disney has even managed to make ILM suck.
It's basically every aspect of what made Star Wars work in OT and PT being killed all at once, be it as some weird plot or as the effects of the management as a whole taking many levels in dumbass. Consummate love for the crafts of filmmaking were hallmarks of both those trilogies. So come new management, the new honcho in charge mishandles and mismanages them as horribly as game studios do their devs, crushing them with bad direction and crunch and pay and benefit issues so they collapse.
Only thing that makes me think it's not some deliberate plot and rather Homeric incompetence, is that the same happens across the entire VFX industry too.
I think a follow-up question to Forbes is wanted... "What is the crowd pleasing formula that Disney rediscovered?"
More feminism! It's been so successful in the past.
11:00 - One's wonder why Iger was so easily convinced, that he didn't even gave it to his market-research execs to bring their expert opinion. What was it about KK that got him so convinced? Could it be that it was an ultimatum? It does sheds a whole new light on Iger, isn't it.
And then KK brought in Headland. The woman who can end careers with a... 'I think my old boss had his name on a roladex.'
Star Wars ended in 1983.
Instead, I will sit under my classic Hildebrandt poster, slip in a DVD of 4K77, touch-up and re-card my old figures and beat-up Kenner TIE....and remember when things were not hot garbage.
No
The films ended in 2005.*
The Franchise itself ended in 2014 with the end of the Expanded Universe.
There, I fixed it for you...
Kotor was good though. And Kotor 2 had the best takes on force in the franchise.
"It's dead, Jim"
DAMN! YOu beat me to it!
Just wait until Star Wars makes a massive comeback.
We will all be saying "somehow, Palpatine returned" but in a good way.
Here's the thing, Star Wars has always had strong, female characters in it. Princess Leia is always the obvious one. But everyone seems to forget that Mon Mothma was the one in charge of the Rebellion. How can any female character live up to the fact that Mon Mothma successfully lead the Rebellion?
Mara Jade and Jaina Solo were very popular strong female characters from Stars books and comics
The saddest thing is that people don’t hate Star Wars, they just don’t care anymore. Having no feelings about something is worse than hating it because there’s just no emotional connection at all.
Apart from TLJ…..I genuinely hate that movie.
Star Worse is hopelessly dead.
The only bright spot in Disney SW was the first 2 seasons of Mandalorian. And I think they ruined S3 and ran off Favreau.
Nothing to think, it's fact.
Nelson peltz vs Bob iger:
The big take away is that shareholders are clueless on what's going on and will just gladly go along with a sinking ship until they realize it's too late.
For their stupidity and inability to read the room beyond gobbling up misleading data from Disney - as the joker put it best - "you get what you f%$#ing deserve!!" BLAM!!
I don't think it's a matter of just moving to the female centric point. Half the damage was done with TLJ initially when they cut the audience in half at best. The subsequent products after that have of course been female centric but two of the biggest sticking points that have been a common thread have been poor quality and atrocious fan/customer interaction on the company's part. If every female character since TFA was changed to a male and they they removed the misandrist messaging, the products would still be terrible quality and fans would still have been out in a mass exodus. They haven't only been attacking men and/or our interests. They've fundamentally been attacking and defacing SW as a brand showing a fundamental disagreement with the basis of the Jedi. That's why they've gone out of their way to fundamentally change the Jedi in their "High Republic" setting moving them fundamentally away from anything the Jedi stand for and orienting them around values more in line with the Sith than anything.
I think they were trying to take the Star Trek route where they successfully jumped from Kirk/Spock/Bones to TNG, DS9, and VOY.
Even going female-cenrtic isn't bad, it's an easy way to make a show different from the others, but Disney did it in such a resentful woke way. I watched a pirated Solo with an apolitical friend and even he said "Why is a woman the hero in every new SW's movie?"
@@stephenshelton4267 Even if they were trying to make that jump, it's especially not hard with SW. There's a long history of well written female characters that were part of the stories up until Disney got their claws on it. By all means, they should have tapped that but instead they decided to retcon everything and went out of their way to ruin as many legacy characters as they could. It's not just incompetence. It's malevolent incompetence as we saw from the Kenobi series.
For Kenobi they went out of their way to hire someone who not only wasn't a fan but hand not so much as watched even one of the movies. They then had him write and produce the project while fundamentally ignoring that he was working with characters who already had a story line going and Kenobi was at best a bridge series from the end of Ep3 to A New Hope. In other words, just to write for the series as a matter of necessity anyone doing work would have needed to watch both movies at a minimum to understand who the characters and motivations were. Instead they chose to Jake Skywalker Kenobi's character out of spite for fans once again.
Gotta disagree on the sith comment. Sith are pragmatists and there is nothing pragmatic about what they are doing.
Interesting discussion! I agree with most of the posters here.
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to." - Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi
The only SW FunkPop I own is Cara Dune
Me too! 🙂
LOL This is just so funny now. Iger literally gets a money printing press and because some-never-was declared the ink should be pink, he tore the machine apart to replace the ink and now it don’t work. That is Iger’s legacy LOL!
He overpaid for everything just to have all the toys.
Well I'm not a gamer but a lover of Sci fi etc. I am a father of 2 boys so the fact that I've checked out with my boys that's 2 generations so that means their children won't be brought in.. it is the fan that continues the franchises not the other way. There was a time that business made a product for the masses. Oh well back to original Star Trek on Pluto TV Oh the same goes for Dr Who too. To quote the late DeForest Kelly, "They're Dead, Jim"
"Is there hope for the future" Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
I see a potential hope, but it requires Order 66 on those from Team Iger and Team KK.
@@lunatic0verlord10There is no hope. She will run the show until she doesn’t want to anymore.
@@JoeOvercoat But she's not laserproof.
Imagine if someone said 'Barbie' was too female-centric, so the sequel had Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van-Damme as the leads. Recipe for success?
I can’t wait the day when Disney goes bankrupt.
Will never happen.They keep borrowing money from invisible banks.........
Iger has now publicly demonstrated himself a liar, to his shareholders.
20 years ago i remenber being so hyped for revenge of the sith, now i cant believe i want sw to fail....
I can't believe it's nearly been 20 years since Episode III (my favorite) released 😭
All I can think is that this must be what it's like to go through a really horrific divorce.
With George Lucas seemingly siding with Iger and Jon Favareu leaving Lucasfilm, Star Wars' future is as bright as Darth Vader's cape.
4:18 - You mean - If Lucas hadn't sold: He chose Disney & KK. It's bad
Iger swindled him, and kk stabbed him in the back.
@@ardendragoon So Lucas doesn't have 4 billion dollars in his pocket while Iger has a worthless franchise that bleeds money and is still yet to pay for itself?
@@wefinishthisnow3883 Iger has a "worthless" franchise because he ruined it. It's not George's fault he sold them gold and Disney turned it into garbage.
They turned Star Wars from a boy brand into a girl brand. The type of girl brand barely any girls actually have any interest in. They had 'Reylo' for the weirdos, but they managed to even mess that up. Like I'm willing to bet they had more female fans of the property when Star Wars was a 'boy brand' when compared to now, and also the male audience has tanked. Just unbelievably stupid.
I don't know what girls saw in Kylo, he's an ugly actor.
They turned Star Wars from a boy brand into a nobody brand.
Fixed it for you.
💯
These IPs used to be hot, but under Disney they have become dogs. And unfortunately, the companies that make the retail items (games, figures, etc), they are discovering that when you lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
On the back of mostly the Star Wars licence, FFG became the largest tabletop wargaming company in the world from 2016 to 2019, overthrowing nearly two decades of Games Workshop holding that position, but then in 2020 between GW's sales skyrocketting due to the pandemic to an all time high in volume (even today, as 2021, 2022 and 2023 all saw less volume movies year on year though revenue increased due to prices increasing higher then volume dropped) while FFG's sales dropped significantly due to the drop in popularity of Star Wars over the past decade (though there are other reasons why their sales went in the opposite direction as GW in the same market but Star Wars' decline is a significant part of it).
Disney must have absolutely no respect for their investors to think they don't know the difference between revenue and profit. I learned about that in 10th grade basic economics.
So, it appears there was shades of Enron accounting in forecasting and claiming future profits.
Definitely. But our DOJ will won’t act.
Hope they renew Kennedy’s contract. It’s become far more entertaining watching them F it up. Not the way I was hoping to enjoy Star Wars but it is far cheaper.
I'll disagree. Writing this bad would still be bad even if it were male centric, or anything else.
It's not dead, it's being suffocated by a tumor right now. Although there's no hope of recovery because the sufferer just denies the condition, and still makes the problem worse. The solution is still there : get rid of the sh*t, and start over with the healthy stuff.
Star Wars use to make action figures. Now they make drama dolls.
At this point, every Star Wars action figure should just come with a hair brush and tea set.
Nobody wants to buy the criminal who robbed them at the local store action figure........
6:39 This is the same kind of accounting shenanigans that Enron used.
But hey, their DEI score is good lol.
You can bet that Ubisoft spent at least $200 million on SW Outlaws and another $100 million on marketing. This game along with Avatar could spell financial ruin for Ubisoft.
God, I hope so!
Nah. They will just down size.
Becauze siege, farcry and assassin's creed still print money.
Even people cry about them, they still buy them.
I’m so checked out on Disney Star Wars, I thought The Acolyte already came out/..
I know what you mean.✌🏾
Modern businesses are surprised to learn they need customers in order to make a profit, and need profits to survive.
What amazes me most about this whole thing is the common practice of insulting viewers and customers. Even if your criticisms are valid, and obviously they aren’t here, it’s irrelevant because you NEED those people! A lot more than they need you. Do these people seriously think that if you call millions of potential customers losers and racists, that what, they’re going to be more likely to pay money to see your movie?
They ruined terminator and almost ruined Ghostbusters. I dont see why companies would be silly enough to allow them to continue sending the message when people are clearly no interested
“Maybe we are not explaining it to them loudly enough. Cue up a female Ghostbusters sequel.”
The irony that even even they want an ugly character they hire a beautiful one to serve as the model is too rich. 😆
Any investor worthy of a decent return on their money would quickly notice that the information provided them lacked the full disclosure of costs
I get the feeling that the only reason that Iger wanted Star Wars was to change it. It’s apparent that he’s not interested in using it to make a profit, he wanted it to rewrite it to his liking. He wanted ti take it away from the mostly male fans and give it to a female audience that never turned out. He did the same with Marvel, that had a mainly male fan base and he wanted to rip it from them and give it to the girls. He doesn’t care if they make money, it’s about the message and doing what he can to destroy the old. If it was about making money he would have reversed course and returned to what worked.
I'm surprised that this article wasn't released before the board vote. This should've swayed shareholders to not vote for Iger.
Can always tell the health of an IP by the merch it sells, People only buy merch for thing they like, nobody buy merch to remind them of franchises they dont like. Star Wars mech sits on the shelf and even buried in landfills to hide the numbers.
Right after this video, I got recommended another Hasbro-related video: one talking about how they are ceasing to make Power Rangers toys (a franchise that they own outright) and are licensing out the toys to the other companies. Should we be speculating that bad Star Wars toys lead to the demise of the Habro toy division the same way we speculate that they lead to the demise of Toys'R'Us?
That last quote applies across the board for nearly every legacy franchise. "It's dead Jim."
Give it another 10 years and Star Wars will be nothing but a distant memory. So few people will visit Disneyworld's Galaxy's Edge that it'll be shut down.
No one among those with a financial interest cared enough to save SW and we've joined them in not caring.
that paid handsomely for his little piece of it.
The board would have voted against Pelts. They aren't voting for anything more than the dream of the PC overlord.
I don't think anyone expected Peltz to change any minds. We just wanted him to be able to look at the books.
Imagine if Disney had just released the original unaltered theatrical versions of the original trilogy like fans have always wanted. They would've made so much money without having to produce a single film or TV show.
I've been saying this for 10 years, good to see the fanbase is finally starting to get there.
8:11 If the shareholders can't see through the smokescreen then there's no reason to think they ever would've made a different decision. Bottom line, they deserve whatever they get at this point. Peltz tried, Peltz failed, Disney will sink like a stone and nobody will be able to say they weren't warned.
Dereliction of duty for all in charge.
Share holders are not happy.
The bus drove off the cliff a few miles ago.
No survivors.
I didn't mind the female centric Rey premise. The real issue was just how badly the character was written, and how much the films strayed from lore, or anything recognizable from the original Star Wars vision.
Even if management got the boot tomorrow, it would take too much to recover trust. Disney has lost all of it.
For SW/Marvel to recover ASAP, ownership needs to shift and even then people will wait and see until 3 years later when the first products show up... because people would be hoping for Disney SW to get flushed and Legends to be restored.
Yeah nobody cares anymore. Star Wars is dead. Fk Disney and Lucasfilm
Franchise purgatory with a former fanbase that could care less. Perfect example of selling your ip to the wrong company and placing the wrong people in charge of it
It's a damn shame. Amazing how Kennedy is still employed.🤷🏽♀️
If that was true, we wouldn't be talking about it. The fans that hate Star Wars now will keep it alive right along with the hordes of bots that have infested the web
@@robt.v.8688 There should be a clarification. No one CARES TO WATCH Star Wars, but discussing its follies is a riveting pass time.😉
@@marsoelflaco5722 I still have hope that someday we'll have good if not great stories again. But I don't see that happening ever with Disney. I have a new appreciation for Fan films.
1:09 George doesn’t look very happy signing that document.
When talking about Star Wars toys in shops: Any idea why they went away in Norway years ago(together with almost all other merchandising toys?).
1:40 God that Forbes article is unreadable... so many meaning-destroying typos and no one fixed them after a year.
"Ahsoka got 1.2 million households to watch in its first five days, even with Andor, which featured no major Star Wars characters, only a co-star of Rogue One." ??????
the final nail in the Dismalney's coffin is when Lucas himself sided with Iger
We should’ve realized that when they remade the scene to have Han shoot first. That was our first hint.
If Favreau is out I don't know.
I think he was our last hope
To be fair about the Ubisoft game, that would have gotten caught in the Sweet Baby Inc. crossfire even if Star Wars had been doing great and the character turns out to be well-written in-game. (I don't think having a female smuggler look more or less like I'd expect a female truck driver to look is necessarily out of place, if you were to remove that decision from all the other context that likely contributed to it). But Disney-Lucasfilm's constant bungling of the Star Wars franchise isn't doing the game any favors right now, either.
I managed to stay a loyal Star Wars fan, pouring money into toys and games as a grown adult, expecting to share this with my kids… now I have kids at the right age to share it with, but I’m done with Star Wars. Never would’ve thought they were capable of doing that
I'm right there with you. I'll still probably get around to watching the original trilogy with them, but for now we're watching Spy x Family. Never would have thought...
How quickly can Hasbro get rid of the license?
Since we know their ideological stance and what they did to WotC and Magic the Gathering because of that, I hope never, or until they go bankrupt at least.
I love and respect the sponsorship pivot, but Disney Star Wars isn't even worth the bandwidth anymore. 😆🤣
Well I recommend cancelling subscriptiond
Cancel Netflix, cancel Hulu.Anyone who supports people who publicly hate me because of my skin color.........
That chin reminds me of Jay Leno
Unlike the ubisoft character, Jay Leno actually is a strong, independent woman!
One of the karmic wherefores workin against original cast of Star Wars is that the members thereof forgot to not be witches. Each of them made a decision to be no good.
From money-printing machine to money-burning machine.
Disney must just love their losses that identify as profits!
When Disney first bought Star Wars I was worried they would turn it into too much of “kids” movie. Boy was I wrong. It was much much worse
Perhaps the back scratching is something they are unwilling to give up.