Quoted from NC_Pin:Look at “merchandise” $7b vs $17b - that is where the tie-in to yt becomes relevant. It also shows the value of the license. I have been to the last 6 New York toy fairs…. Ts is in probably 5x the number of booths as hp.
On the flip side, google trends shows that HP is searched 3 to 1 more than TS (indicative of the much deeper universes). So I am definitely not saying HP isn’t a valuable license… it is… but it is foolish to undersell TS.
I get your arguments, but there are way too many variables that analysis ignores such as time, audience age, cultural shift and more. Let’s just take time as an example. Inflation combined with population growth is why current blockbuster movies frequently eclipse prior blockbuster box office records. In simplest terms, there are more people in the audience for everything, paying more for everything every day. Also, you really can’t infer anything from YouTube play counts. Way too many parents just plug their kids into something they deem cheerfully safe and leave it playing. I would wager that many hundreds of thousands of views played to empty rooms, or as background noise, or were watched for 10 minutes here, two minutes there for the 100th time.
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