X-Men: Apocalypse - May 27, 2016

[MegaPrime33]

I immediately thought of the cartoon Prof as soon as I saw that pic. It's a little freaky, and awesome. If this takes place in the 80s, will Wolverine be wearing yellow and blue spandex? Please?

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davegonzales/2015/05/31/marvel-is-killing-x-men-and-fantastic-four-merchandising/

Disgraceful actions by Marvel.

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Anyway. Bryan Singer tweeted this...

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

It isn't Marvel's fault. It's Disney.

 

[pturtle]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davegonzales/2015/05/31/marvel-is-killing-x-men-and-fantastic-four-merchandising/

Disgraceful actions by Marvel.

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Anyway. Bryan Singer tweeted this...

Feel bad for the statue guys, I know most of them were looking forward to that epic Magneto statue that got canceled.

 

[cilantropants]

Not sure what's disgraceful about it. Why should they throw money away? The return they'd get on merch for those movies would never come close to what they would put into development, production and distribution.
It's disappointing for fans, but it's just smart business. Maybe a little sour grapes as well, but so what? They're not in the business of doing favors for consumers.

 

[Khev]

They're not in the business of doing favors for consumers.

Or their competitors.

 

[cilantropants]

Or their competitors.

This as well. And even more importantly.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Not sure what's disgraceful about it. Why should they throw money away? The return they'd get on merch for those movies would never come close to what they would put into development, production and distribution.
It's disappointing for fans, but it's just smart business. Maybe a little sour grapes as well, but so what? They're not in the business of doing favors for consumers.

It's not movie merchandise, it's comic merchandise and they get all the money from those. And it's not just merchandise. They excluded X-Men and F4 entirely from from the 2015 Marvel comics line-up poster.

They're basically saying X-Men and F4 arent Marvel characters anymore. Won't be long before the X-Men comics get cancelled entirely.

At this point theyre burying all the potential of the comics X-Men property (which they solely own). Might as well sell the comic franchise off to image or DC since they're systematically phasing them out

Or their competitors.

They weren't doing favours for their competitors. Having comic X-Men in the comic posters or on group shot t-shirts or making comic-based X-Men statues doesn't help the movies, just the same as removing them doesn't hurt them.

The movies will make money if they're marketed well or good movies. Comic X-Men doesn't affect Movie X-Men so them cancelling comic stuff won't affect the movies.

Hell the movies are basically free advertising for comic-based Merch so the movies would help Marvel in merch sales

 

[Khev]

Sounds like they're just aiming for symmetry across all media (movies, comics, cartoons, etc.) For that symmetry to occur they would need to either assimilate X-Men and FF into the MCU (which they can't do) OR drop the X-Men and FF from all non-film related media (which they can do.)

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

And that leaves X-Men comic fans with no cartoon, no toys, no collectibles, no t-shirts and not even being able to see the characters represented as Marvel characters alongside the rest.

So marvel are basically alienating the fanbase of the franchise AND losing out on the money they could earn themselves if they produced those.

Win/win for all around apparently

 

[jye4ever]

It's a shrewd business, when they all say fans come first they really mean money comes first, nothing new going on here.

Look at the legendary battles between DC, Siegel, Shuster, Marvel, Lee, Kirby, Wolfman so on and so forth.

Creative/Financial control will live on forever in the movie and comic book industry, figured you would be used to it by now.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

I'm not getting any of the money from Disney, Marvel or Fox so I don't care.

 

[jye4ever]

I occasionally get an awesome MCU movie out of it.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

I occasionaly get an awesome MCU movie out of it.

I hear ya, Jye!

 

[jye4ever]

We are occasionally worthy

 

[Darth Snoopy]

 

[jye4ever]

What Marvel is doing to Fox.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Pretty much.

 

[Khev]

And that leaves X-Men comic fans with no cartoon, no toys, no collectibles, no t-shirts and not even being able to see the characters represented as Marvel characters alongside the rest.

So marvel are basically alienating the fanbase of the franchise AND losing out on the money they could earn themselves if they produced those.

Win/win for all around apparently

Correct Marvel is reducing even their own profits from comics and comic based figures, statues, etc., from this move. Just goes to show that they're more concerned with having a cohesive, unified universe and potentially narrative as well across all media instead of just being "in it for the toys." Fox and many other studios could learn a thing or too about artistic integrity from Marvel.

 

[jye4ever]

Well said Khev, now choke those Fox bastards until they cry uncle and sell those properties back to Marvel.

Why?

Because X-Men > Inhumans