[ SECRET POST #1756 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1756 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 165 secrets from Secret Submission Post #251.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The only reason people call some things The New Harry Potter is because they want it to become the same sort of phenomenon. They don't actually think it's similar. They're just playing it up so that they can start up another giant worldwide phenomenon with multimillion dollar films, amusement parks, exhibitions, etc and rake in the cash. The thing is, it's not going to happen again, not the way it did with HP... at least not for a long time. You can't slap the title The New Beatles onto a band and expect a resurgence of Beatlemania. They joked about it with Bierber but c'mon.

It's rare, it's unique, and it requires a very lucky combination of things no one could predict. HP probably happened at an opportune moment. It exploded with the internet. It got lots of kids into reading. It was fun for boys and girls, and people of all ages, and its themes and ideas worked across all borders. Everyone could enjoy it. It also had a lot of ridiculous marketing thanks to religious groups trying to ban it. It was all over the place. Twilight couldn't recreate it with the Team Edward vs. Team Jacob crap. His Dark Materials was probably too controversial--it couldn't gain enough of a readership in the United States because of its atheist undertones (fairly blatant, to be honest). I don't know much about the Hunger Games so I can't comment on that.

All this to say that I highly doubt ANYTHING will be The New Harry Potter anytime soon. It won't even be the New Harry Potter... it'll just be its own thing. To be that big, it can't be in the shadow of something else. It has to have its own stage, it has to stand out for its own reasons, not to emulate something that came before. And it has to be lucky and appear at the right time.