MrT-Tar said:
Well, whenever I'm in London I go to a shop called Tokyo Toys that sells anime and manga merchandise, such as wall scrolls, cosplay accessories, bags and clothes. The shop also sells some limited gaming merchandise (for example I've bought Castlevania and Paper Mario key rings and a Final Fantasy VII wall scroll). Let me put it this way, the people in there (myself included) aren't exactly what one would classify as 'kids'. |
while merchandise, i don't think a specialty shops meet the point of the OP when he specifically bring up walmart. he simply brought up that movies have loads of merchandising while i gaming it is mostly just nintendo and asked why more video games don't merchandize more. I simply wanted to point out that movies don't tend to merchandise everything but rather a select demographic of movies lend themselves to merchandising (which is largely targeted at children).
top 10 movies from last week (gross):
| 1 | 1 | 36% | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2 | $47.1M | $261.1M | $11.5k | 4107 |
| 2 | -- | 73% | Horrible Bosses | 1 | $28.3M | $28.3M | $9.3k | 3040 |
| 3 | -- | 14% | Zookeeper | 1 | $20.1M | $20.1M | $5.8k | 3482 |
| 4 | 2 | 35% | Cars 2 | 3 | $15.2M | $148.8M | $3.8k | 3990 |
| 5 | 3 | 44% | Bad Teacher | 3 | $8.9M | $78.7M | $3.0k | 2962 |
| 6 | 4 | 36% | Larry Crowne | 2 | $5.9M | $26.2M | $2.0k | 2976 |
| 7 | 5 | 81% | Super 8 | 5 | $4.8M | $118.1M | $2.1k | 2292 |
| 8 | 6 | 39% | Monte Carlo | 2 | $3.8M | $16.1M | $1.5k | 2473 |
| 9 | 8 | 47% | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 4 | $3.2M | $58.1M | $1.6k | 1996 |
| 10 | 7 | 26% | Green Lantern | 4 | $3.1M | $109.7M | $1.6k | 2015 |
how many of these actualy have merchandising? Transformers, Car 2, Green Lantern.
many of nintendo's IPs lend themselves well to merchandising. i think other game companies could merchandise more but things like MW/GTA just don't merchandise well. T-shirts is about it for possibilities.
