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Correctly guessing that there's a crossover between having Magik as a favorite mutant and having Space Channel 5 nostalgia is goddamn sorcery.

Well, it's a...step above 4H intern, maybe? Oh my God, of course they would get a grifter hanger-on for this. Of course. I did playtesting for the Return to Dark Tower expansions, why didn't they call me?!

Just to drive the point home a little bit, I'm just sort of going to live-write what I know about this campaign just from looking at it for the first time right now. The 1-minute video alone tells me: It's a sci-fi campaign setting for D&D 5E It adds a customizable mecha game mechanic It adds a...

I'd actually be interested in Rivals Legends, I like the design sensibility of the characters. Also, I need this Y2K hyperpop Magik or I'm going to steal everyone's sunshine.

Most definitely. Even with WWE's show-unique rosters, there's still tons of crossover. No matter who your favorite is, they're probably going to have a match or be in a stable or team with just about any other active wrestler of their own gender on any roster. (And stables cross gender lines, so...

Which also dovetails with full waves of ML ending up in bargain stores when the media offerings hit a popularity nadir, including some characters they've sold successfully before. Although I don't know if the comic waves are quite as susceptible to those trends or not, but if Target didn't even...

My argument isn't that Mr. Terrific won't sell, though, or that he's unpopular. My argument is that Mr. Terrific sells to enough of the line's market segment to make him worth producing within their existing framework but not enough where that framework needs him to have multiple iterations or...

Mattel WWE still utilizes a pretty traditional wave structure, but they've also experimented a bit with the separate SKUs for separate characters, full character cases thing. I don't know if that's going to be a potential approach here. I think it's probably even more viable here than WWE, where...

I should clarify that I don't think that a wave anchor is magic that makes the rest of the wave sell. To me "wave anchor" is just a way of saying "every wave and every case packout needs to be composed predominantly of characters at a certain popularity level to ensure consistent enough sales...

Oh my God, just absolute dozens of Batmen that you can sell over and over again in a Greatest Hits line. Different eras, different stories, different artists, Dick Grayson, Thomas Wayne, Azrael, more popular Elseworlds looks, video games, movies...like they can go way further than DC Superheroes...

I think at a certain point in the line they're likely going to adopt a WWE Top Picks/Greatest Hits style line that re-issues A-lister figures. Especially if the line ends up successful enough that waves get sold through quickly. Anything to make sure there's always a Batman on the pegs.

Agreed, DC's a special case with a pretty fragmented audience. It's possible just to hang out in one corner of the DCU and not care about the rest. Most other franchises don't compare. ML is less fragmented but they still use anchors. G.I. Joe has never really been character-first in the same...

Well, I had thought we were friends.

I find myself deeply concerned for anyone who tries to enter your house via ladder, though.

I think a company like NECA would probably do well with the Fraser Mummy films. There's a shocking amount of Millennial nostalgia for the original and I don't think it'd be hard to at least sell Rick and Imhotep with NECA's very undemanding, piecemeal release strategy (plus you'd get to make...