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09-21-2021, 10:30 AM | #71 |
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Agreed. All these sort of ball-tickling sorts of teaser advertisements do is set people up to be disappointed as our imaginations are *always* bigger and better than what Reality can deliver. It just leads to some percentage of 'That's IT?!?!' from the customer bas
e. “Here’s a 10 second teaser for a movie trailer! Trailer coming soon!” Buddy, you’re showing me a teaser to tell me a commercial for your product is coming? (That’s what a trailer is, after all) “We’ll reveal the next wave at comicon!” Not everything needs to be a goddamn mystery. I’m busy, just sell me the thing you want to sell me.
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09-21-2021, 10:38 AM | #72 |
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I promise you we’d all be just as, if not more excited if there was just a post that said “Hey, we’re a new company and we’re making a new Roboskull. Here’s some pics, here’s the price, and here’s where to order it.” than this weeks long, burlesque fan dance cock tease bullshit.
Price. Where to order. That’s all we need.
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09-21-2021, 02:38 PM | #73 |
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completely agree.
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09-21-2021, 02:56 PM | #74 |
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It’s everything now.
“Here’s a 10 second teaser for a movie trailer! Trailer coming soon!” Buddy, you’re showing me a teaser to tell me a commercial for your product is coming? (That’s what a trailer is, after all) “We’ll reveal the next wave at comicon!” Not everything needs to be a goddamn mystery. I’m busy, just sell me the thing you want to sell me. Not everything has to be immediate gratification. |
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09-21-2021, 03:08 PM | #75 |
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I'll counter... I love the tease. I love building mystery. If folks let their speculation get ahead of themselves... that's on them. But it builds a more solid foundation of interest than just immediate gratification. Same reason a lot of companies have started airing their shows weekly again, instead of dropping them all once.
Not everything has to be immediate gratification.
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09-21-2021, 03:20 PM | #76 |
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It’s a cool idea when it’s used sparingly, but it’s being overdone. Just announcing the TITLE of a movie has to be a freaking event.
Half the time it backfires anyway… see Hasbro holding off on announcing Stalker and the Trooper only for someone to post that they’d found them at retail 15 minutes after the livestream said to wait two months… it just gets annoying. Also, to the people making the Roboskull, I’m not coming down on you guys. I want to see what you’re cooking up, this is just a personal peeve of mine.
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09-21-2021, 05:46 PM | #77 |
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But it builds a more solid foundation of interest than just immediate gratification. Same reason a lot of companies have started airing their shows weekly again, instead of dropping them all once.
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09-21-2021, 06:25 PM | #78 |
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That's like saying it's on the guy for getting horny at the strip club, imho. That's the *point* of the tease.
TV shows aren't comparable to toys or other tangible products. Drawing a story out is part of the very process of the artform itself. You can't tell a story by literally typing the words over the same character space in order to give the reader the story 'all at once'; while you can't give a collector just part of a toy to have them enjoy the tension and build-up to the full toy. Nobody enjoys having just half of a BAF. And I have lots of customers who enjoy part of a BAF, cuz they like the hunt for the parts. So I don’t think that works either. You’re building hype for the finale. It’s marketing 101. It’s got folks following & refreshing their page, talking to their buddies about it, seeing if anyone knows anything. Speculation in this very thread. This thread would be half as long if they just posted an image & price as their first post. Instead it’s… what is this? Who’s involved? What’s it gonna look like? What’s it gonna fit? And from what I’ve heard, folks are gonna be stoked. |
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09-22-2021, 05:31 PM | #79 |
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Actually, there’s a difference between getting horny (excited) by the tease & expecting/demanding sex out of it. Excitement is good & part of the system. If you get worked up thinking the girls gonna screw you… then you’re doing it wrong. That’s a more apt comparison there. It’s about managing your own expectations.
And I have lots of customers who enjoy part of a BAF, cuz they like the hunt for the parts. So I don’t think that works either. You’re building hype for the finale. It’s marketing 101. It’s got folks following & refreshing their page, talking to their buddies about it, seeing if anyone knows anything. Speculation in this very thread. This thread would be half as long if they just posted an image & price as their first post. Instead it’s… what is this? Who’s involved? What’s it gonna look like? What’s it gonna fit? And from what I’ve heard, folks are gonna be stoked. BAF means Battle Action Force right? Well thats what I always use them letters for! flag for new zealand emojis |
09-23-2021, 02:22 AM | #80 |
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Build A Figure, where you get the parts to assemble a larger scale figure in a wave of several different figures.
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