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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The same idiot that didn’t immediately greenlight Strange New Worlds. Also happens to be the same idiot staring at Star Trek: Legacy and deciding whether or not to greenlight it.

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  • Especially_the_lies@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Disney did it right with the freaking porgs when Episode VIII dropped. Those things were everywhere

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Disney are masters at marketing. CBS/Paramount have no clue what they’re doing.

      In other words, when it comes to marketing (and a considerable number of other decisions) Disney are the Romulans. Don’t always make the right decision, and they definitely don’t make friends, but they’re effective and insidious.

      CBS/Paramount might as well be Pakleds. Effectively braindead and somehow stumbling through just enough success to keep themselves alive.

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      • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “I don’t have a big enough helmet to approve production of moopsy plushes.”

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      • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If anyone feels that comparing CBS Parount’s toy tie-in marketing to Pakleds is unfair, I submit this evidence:

        duckduckgo.com/?q=start+trek+toy+helmet

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      • aaaa@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It wasn’t even necessarily Disney’s lead on this one. Lucasfilm has always used Star Wars as a vehicle to sell toys, and that didn’t change since the Disney acquisition.

        Grabbed, Disney is good at that as well, so it was a pretty good match up.

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