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fandomsecrets2025-11-22 02:53 pm
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(Anonymous) 2025-11-22 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)I think that some things are over the top-- slapping 'wicked' on the packaging of something isn't going to make me buy it. But, like... with the Stranger Things branded grocery items, some of it is stuff I'm buying either way. I love the feeling of like... you know, my childhood self would have wanted some kind of colorful tie-in breakfast cereal that we were not going to buy. Now sometimes my adult self gets to buy the cute version of things. Cheese with Stranger Things packaging, mac and cheese shaped like something cute. Baked beans with Bluey on them, what have you. If it's grocery items that I need either way, I'm all for whimsy, but it can still be a turn off when you walk into a store and EVERYTHING is jumping on the SAME branding bandwagon. It stops being a special thing.
Hm... I think maybe to me there's also a difference between TV and movie marketing? Like, I have a family member with Netflix, so I've watched Stranger Things. Bluey or Spongebob come on TV. I guess some of the Mario stuff is for the movies and not the game series, but like... Mario is also just a guy I know, you know? I had a friend with a Nintendo system as a child, seeing Mario shaped macaroni doesn't make me feel pressured to buy a film ticket. Just like seeing Sonic stuff roll out when that was in theaters was just like 'oh, there's a video game mascot from my childhood' rather than a feeling of 'BUY A TICKET TO THIS MOVIE THIS IS THE BIG MOVIE'.
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(Anonymous) 2025-11-23 12:56 am (UTC)(link)The tie-ins aren't going to make me buy anything I wasn't going to buy anyway, but I was once tempted by some Mean Girls Toaster Strudels, because this is so funny and stupid. https://www.foodandwine.com/thmb/QSnn0xqpCwlYBvCgP8cebqi_Un4=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Mean-Girls-Toaster-Strudel-2-FT-BLOG0920-08af7968de8549f0bccf083bc9ea27a7.jpg