1/6 Hot Toys Rogue One: JYN ERSO

[WesMordine]

I was cracking up at the decrepit hero of atheism line.
He paid *really* close attention to that movie, lol.
It wasn't about physics. It was about atheism.
I was worried Richard Dawkins had died and i hadn't heard about it.

Lol!

Stephen it is then.

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[pixletwin]

Stephen hawking. He's been on he Big Bang theory.

And is of course a really famous physicist.

But still $450 for an autograph just seems ridiculous.

Don't forget his excellent guest spot on The Simpsons:

 

[Lee in MI]

$450 for an autograph

She was good...but not THAT good

 

[guy66657]

$450 for an autograph

She was good...but not THAT good

It's $450 for a photo op and an autograph together.

 

[SilverStar17]

Regardless, $450 for just an autograph and photo combined is still asinine.

 

[Jedha Patrol]

lmao people who pay for autographs make me laugh

 

[ShadowX81]

$450? Damn dude, even my photo/autograph with Chris Evans only cost about half that.

Hell, this year my friend got photos with both William Shatner and Mark Hamill for less combined than shes charging.


Don't get me wrong, she was great in Rouge One, but she isn't a legend yet.

 

[SilverStar17]

Reminds me of an encounter that my aunt and uncle had with Cher that he told me awhile back.

While sitting in a theater waiting see a show in Vegas, Cher was sitting in front of them and her hair was falling over the back of her chair, and kept touching my uncle's legs and getting caught between his legs and the chair. When she realized this was happening, she apologized. Cher then asked my uncle if he "wanted an autograph or something."

His response: "No. Do you want mine?"

 

[FlyAndFight]

That was great, SilverStar17! What was her reaction to your uncle's great reply?

 

[SilverStar17]

He said she didn't say anything. Just sort of had a surprised look on her face.

 

[Darth Lam]

Do you guys typically get the photos that you take with celebrities signed by said celebrities? Seems like overkill.

 

[FlyAndFight]

He said she didn't say anything. Just sort of had a surprised look on her face.

 

[Username]

$450? Damn dude, even my photo/autograph with Chris Evans only cost about half that.

Hell, this year my friend got photos with both William Shatner and Mark Hamill for less combined than shes charging.


Don't get me wrong, she was great in Rouge One, but she isn't a legend yet.

In my mind, it's not that she's a legend. Just that she's one and done. No more SW for her.
It's a golden goose egg for now and her star will wane as time goes on. Good luck to her if she can make $450 for a photo op and an autograph.
If you want one, but can't afford the fee, that's a different matter altogether. It's a major fee, to be sure.
But she's not going to be in the next three SW movies. She's already done.
This is her moment in the sun. If she charged $100, she might get four times the people able to afford them. But more than likely, her line will still be mammoth. If i was in the area when this was going on, i'd pay that for a photo op.
But i don't go to these kinds of things, and will be happy with my RO HT figures.

 

[Niltusk]

Cash in on that 15 minutes... a girls gotta hustle.

 

[spindrift]

Don't blame her one bit and I bet she will be swamped with folks with 450 in their hand begging her to take it!
(i just want to see all the photo op pics posted somewhere afterwards...)

 

[Mara]

I can't think of many things worse than having to be stuck in a sea of creepy man children/annoying fans/kids wanting a picture of you, and having to fake smile through hundreds of pictures and put up with strangers all day. Barf. $450 sounds about right.

Then again I would also never pay someone for the privlage of having a picture taken. Seems like a very inorganic way to have a human connection. Like, I would absolutely love to meet David Fincher but I would never ever consider paying him for the chance. I don't want my interactions with people I care about to be some bizzare marketplace transaction.

This whole idea gives me the creeps.

 

[TaliBane]

I can't think of many things worse than having to be stuck in a sea of creepy man children/annoying fans/kids wanting a picture of you, and having to fake smile through hundreds of pictures and put up with strangers all day. Barf. $450 sounds about right.

Are you kidding? She was drawn to the entertainment industry. She loves it.

Then again I would also never pay someone for the privlage of having a picture taken. Seems like a very inorganic way to have a human connection. Like, I would absolutely love to meet David Fincher but I would never ever consider paying him for the chance. I don't want my interactions with people I care about to be some bizzare marketplace transaction.

This whole idea gives me the creeps.

But... the problem for celebrities is there are tens of thousands of people who want an "organic way to have a human connection" with them. And they want it 24/7, whether the celeb is taking out their trash, dropping their kid at school, and no matter what they have going on personally in that moment. It's just "it's you! Can I take a selfie?" As if they are the only person that week who has asked for it.

Hence - a marketplace transaction develops.

 

[SilverStar17]

I can't think of many things worse than having to be stuck in a sea of creepy man children/annoying fans/kids wanting a picture of you, and having to fake smile through hundreds of pictures and put up with strangers all day. Barf. $450 sounds about right.

Then again I would also never pay someone for the privlage of having a picture taken. Seems like a very inorganic way to have a human connection. Like, I would absolutely love to meet David Fincher but I would never ever consider paying him for the chance. I don't want my interactions with people I care about to be some bizzare marketplace transaction.

This whole idea gives me the creeps.

Those creepy men, children and annoying fans are the very people who pay to see their films and who they profit off of in a free market system. If they have to feign a smile because they don't want to put up with these people, then I would say they're in the wrong profession. Perhaps playing make believe for a living isn't for them.

They can charge whatever they want for a picture and an autograph, absolutely. However, people can simply decide not to pay it.

 

[ShadowX81]

Honestly I don't know why they even charge anything besides the fact that they can.

If I was famous enough where people wanted to travel hundreds if not thousands of miles just to meet me and let me know that they appreciate my work, taking a minute to take a picture and write down my name on a piece of paper seems like the least I could do to thank them.

This is one of the reasons ive never been a fan of the "maybe they were just having a bad day" excuse when it comes to bad celebrity encounters. I have horrible days too. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be a major jerk if I took my anger out on strangers.

 

[Stryker2011]

I've met several celebrities over the years, even had my picture taken with a few of them, and not once did I have to pay them for the "privelege". Now, granted, I get that these folks have to travel hundreds of (if not a couple thousand) miles to go to these conventions, but honestly, like athletes, these people are paid obscene amounts of money to play pretend on film, the least they could do is sign autographs for free. Otherwise... F&$k them.