Hasbro Harry Potter

I love the books and the films and InArt’s offerings have been nothing but mind blowing but so very expensive. If we can get a decent line of figures from the original films out of Hasbro, I’ll be very happy. It’s proven to be a strong line for Lego. Hopefully this isn’t going to be too bogged down by the unproven new series. I suspect we’ll get a mix of old and new like Black Series.
 
fac said:
Not to derail things, but if you had a 12-year-old kid who said they wanted to read Harry Potter, would you discourage that due to JK?
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I would discourage them because JK is a shitty -writer- and her barely-mid books are brimming with inherent, often barely-disguised, bigotry. Once you see it, you'll not be able to believe you didn't see it before, and you'll wonder how the world fell in love with such a truly vile woman and her trash books.
So, as a parent, I would recommend my kids read books that don't suck. And that is what I do. And it has worked so far.




Anyway.. Capitalism blah blah blah.. but I am massively disappointed in Hasbro that they've decided to once again platform that disgusting cunt's shitty story and put even more money into her psychotic hatespeech coffers.
 
My wife and I like the books and movies. My daughters love the books and movies. I took them to Universal Studios, and it was such a blast for everyone. There are some very cool dolls of these characters that I got for my daughters. Getting them as action figures as well would be very cool. I was tempted by the Figuarts, but I’d want playable figures that my daughters could play with. So cool news about Hasbro making figures!


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spinc said:
Personally, I separate the art from the artist. I mean, to give an example, Tolkien was a staunch Catholic who would not agree with many people today who enjoy his work, but they don't think about that, do they? And who knows how many of the CEOs of companies we enjoy products of are just like JKR or worse, but because we know nothing of their beliefs, we still support those companies.
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A few things.. Me supporting Lord of the Rings doesn't put money in Tolkien's pocket since he's long dead. We can assume most CEO's are greedy assholes, its sort of a prerequisite, but you can choose not to support the ones that are vocal and loud about being terrible. If JKR had just kept her trap shut she could have gone on being as odious as she wanted to be privately and people would have kept supporting Harry Potter... but she decided to make herself the face of the anti-trans movement and be loud about it. So choosing to still support her means, at least on some level, validating her position.

Separating the art from the artist is all well and good unless supporting the art still actively puts money in the artists pocket.

I can try to separate art from artist with something like The Usual Suspects. That is a movie I thoroughly enjoyed when it came out and still appreciate. It is harder to enjoy it now knowing Spacey and Singer are pedophiles... and I wouldn't pay money to engage with it to have money funnel to either of them... but I didn't throw away the DVD i already owned before I found out, because the movie itself is still really good.

But I don't want to support anything that puts money in Rowling's pocket...
 
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