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...
 
altcunningham said:
Yeah. I dunno. I'll offset the footprint on Hermione and Sirius by donating to an LGBT fund or pay someone to kneecap her.
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That's what a couple of my friends did when Hogwarts Legacy came out. They donated a little more than the cost of the game to LGBT and Trans charities. Ain't perfect, but it's something.

I don't mean to seem like a heartless wretch. I get how difficult it is to give up something that meant so much to you. Especially since a lot of my friends also have their fair share of hyperfixations, of which HP is for a lot of them. Or they have beloved memories of sharing it with a loved one who's no longer here, whatever. It all comes down to intent; I don't begrudge anyone their vices in this day and age. I don't expect you to throw out all your old stuff, but keep the new money to a minimum, and if you absolutely must, for whatever reason, at least make sure you're giving as much, if not more, to the people who actually stand to lose something here.

Ru1977 said:
Knees aren't necessary for hate!
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I can't wait to hear her claim that the trans community stole her knees and divvied them up across all their hormone treatments. Let's be real, the Black Mold that's taken control of her body would just form new knees for her anyway.
 
joshsquash729 said:
That's what a couple of my friends did when Hogwarts Legacy came out. They donated a little more than the cost of the game to LGBT and Trans charities. Ain't perfect, but it's something.

I don't mean to seem like a heartless wretch. I get how difficult it is to give up something that meant so much to you. Especially since a lot of my friends also have their fair share of hyperfixations, of which HP is for a lot of them. Or they have beloved memories of sharing it with a loved one who's no longer here, whatever. It all comes down to intent; I don't begrudge anyone their vices in this day and age. I don't expect you to throw out all your old stuff, but keep the new money to a minimum, and if you absolutely must, for whatever reason, at least make sure you're giving as much, if not more, to the people who actually stand to lose something here.


I can't wait to hear her claim that the trans community stole her knees and divvied them up across all their hormone treatments. Let's be real, the Black Mold that's taken control of her body would just form new knees for her anyway.
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Yeah. I got into it because of my younger siblings and they were in stock books at Toys R Us I could kill a shift with around the time of Phoenix. It's not as... Complicated for me to cut ties as if we learned Stan Lee was a grand wizard or funding Epstein.
 
altcunningham said:
It's not as... Complicated for me to cut ties as if we learned Stan Lee was a grand wizard or funding Epstein.
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That thought had never crossed my mind. There's probably very few people where it would genuinely break my heart to hear they were associated with that man, but Stan the Man would be one of them. May that day never come. *sad Excelsior noises*
 
All these decisions and personal of course, and there's nuance to it. I know my sister and her family aren't ready for a heavy conversation about it and the kids barely read so any port in a storm. But I know a lot of people in my life would trust me less if I were talking about spending a lot of time in Hogwarts Legacy. Actions define you and all that. Like, I can't kick someone out of the D&D group I run for being anti-trans, which I have, because we have trans people AT THAT FUCKING TABLE WITH THEM, but also have a living room full of Potter Lego sets. (FWIW, my living room's center "art" piece is Rivendell.)

If you want a better world you gotta try to do the work. But also nobody's perfect. I've said it a million times, I do the ethical thing and refuse to allow my books on Amazon, I lose 90% of my sales overnight, and Bezos is the motherfucker of the planet. I try to balance that out by all the education events I teach at for free, but it really will never balance the scales.

I assume Stan did some shady shit. But at this point, if you're buying Marvel you're putting money in Disney shareholders' pockets, not Stan, or Jack, or anyone else, and that's a whole different level of hell is empty and all the devils are here...

(I think if anything refusing to enrich Joann is one of the rare ways we can tell a shitty person they're being shitty. Not buying Teslas is another. Bezos has his claws in the actual bones of the internet, we're fucked with him. Disney is Legion. And hell, as we've learned, everything everywhere is run by and owned by the worst people on Earth.)
 
I will look to others with horses in the race for leads because I just want to be informed and be a good humanitarian and friend, and sometimes that leads me to weird places that fracture against my black and white morality.

Not hypocrisy per se. Maybe it is.

Like a friend of mine who collects the Lego and still likes Harry Potter because their childhood Trump's everything else. But at the same time they recognize the lives lost and damage done thanks to Rowling's engine. I can't reconcile that thinking.

Or someone I met recently who is anti-ice and anti-maga, but at the same time clearly also anti-white in general.

Or years ago with a feminist circle when I thought I understood what was going on and then some of the people involved truly believe all men, every man, is guilty and should be executed because it is inevitable you will do harm.

Like they say in Wayne's World. The world's a twisted place.
 
I dunno.
As a white male, I definitely understand and accept that some folks are going to hate and distrust me just because of how I appear and the class I come from, because I am *absolutely* a perceived threat.
I hold zero ill will towards anyone from an oppressed class who sees me as part of the problem or even evil. I’ll do my best to define myself by my deeds, but that is not nor should not be me putting coins into the vending machine expecting a “good ally” badge.

I wouldn’t trust me either. Especially if I didn’t know me. And no one from an oppressed class has an obligation to get to know me.

And definitely “YES all men”, at least potentially. Dealing with any white man is like picking up a gun when you don’t know whether it is loaded or not. *I* know I’m not that kind of guy, but *they* don’t, and come on: saying “hey I’m not that kind of guy!” is its own red flag.

All of that is to say: if someone has been hurt by the white patriarchy, I have zero expectations that they will do the significant emotional labor of putting any kind of trust or affection on me. I neither need nor deserve positive strokes for being baseline decent, and seeking those positive strokes makes me a bad ally right out of the gate.

Folks hurt by my culture deserve their rage. I won’t be the one to tell them to back off or stand down.
 
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