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Post by Snaptastic on Apr 9, 2011 8:44:09 GMT -5
Seems like it worked somewhat.
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Post by The Tank on Apr 9, 2011 8:46:07 GMT -5
.............great.
Now they're gonna do MORE crap like that!
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Post by Snaptastic on Apr 9, 2011 8:56:38 GMT -5
.............great. Now they're gonna do MORE crap like that! Perhaps...unless the buyrate is poor. But I'm thinking over 1,000,000 buys. |
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Post by Cronant on Apr 9, 2011 9:08:15 GMT -5
The early estimates for the buyrate do hint at it being over a million.
Basically, its a success.
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Post by Bishblast on Apr 9, 2011 9:27:10 GMT -5
Hmm. Yeah, I knew the gate would be huge, but over/around 1 million buys? Holy s***.
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Post by hoganhallnash on Apr 9, 2011 11:02:09 GMT -5
Just because the show sucked doesn't mean they didn't make a crap load of money.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Apr 9, 2011 11:35:20 GMT -5
The early estimates for the buyrate do hint at it being over a million. Basically, its a success. source? |
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Post by Cronant on Apr 9, 2011 11:52:50 GMT -5
It was in the observer. Its an early estimate though, which was 630,000 domestic, which is well over last years. The worldwide numbers added would make it over a million presumably.
Nothing set in stone, its just hinting at a pretty good number.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Apr 9, 2011 11:59:25 GMT -5
It was in the observer. Its an early estimate though, which was 630,000 domestic, which is well over last years. The worldwide numbers added would make it over a million presumably. Nothing set in stone, its just hinting at a pretty good number. Just curious, I've got money on this ;D |
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Post by saintpat on Apr 9, 2011 18:01:23 GMT -5
The people on boards like this aren't a reflection of the average buying fan. If anything, just the opposite.
Signing Snooki alone bought millions of dollars worth of publicity -- it got mentioned on every TMZ/Entertainment Tonight/gossip show/publication in the country. Over and over and over. People didn't buy it to see Snooki, but a lot of people who heard about it because Snooki was on it did buy.
And having The Rock involved was a brilliant stroke. In general, when I told people -- non-fans -- I was going to WM, the reaction was 'meh.' When it was announced that Rocky was involved, people came up to me or texted me and said, "Wow, you're going to see the Rock!!! Cool!!!"
The average WWE fan/PPV buyer wasn't saying, "Well if Daniel Bryan is in a dark match ..." or "I'm very disappointed John Morrison and Dolph didn't get a solo match ..."
As a matter of fact, a decent percentage of the people on here trashing the show didn't watch it. And admit they haven't watched the product in years. Or maybe they found a pirated signal. Those people don't matter to WWE, and shouldn't.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 18:13:14 GMT -5
Good sales for a good Mania after the one match extravaganza of 25 and 26.
In the end the Snooki match was 5 minutes long and the fan relax match before the main event, and it brought some promotion for it from media spots who usually ignore WWE, that combined with The Rock bringing in some ex-fans/casual fans was superb.
I just noticed the post above me, said it better than I could. I really enjoyed Mania, nowhere near the best but it surprised me at points and didn't have too many crap moments outside of backstage skits and one or two meh matches..
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Post by againareku on Apr 9, 2011 18:40:55 GMT -5
if only the average fan did care..I'd love to attend a riot demanding a refund for pushing dragon and sheamus off the card and not giving ziggler and morrison a proper match. and that ridiculous main event
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Apr 9, 2011 18:50:12 GMT -5
Not suprised..........I was there and the line was huge. Also, you could tell very easily the attendance would be huge. Hell, the hotel people in Atlanta were saying they had never seen anything like this with the Wrestlemania 27 turnout all week.
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Post by Tony Stark on Apr 9, 2011 18:52:47 GMT -5
if only the average fan did care..I'd love to attend a riot demanding a refund for pushing dragon and sheamus off the card and not giving ziggler and morrison a proper match. and that ridiculous main event But that's the thing. Average fans DO care. You guys blow it out of all proportion. Not everyone tunes in to see 5 star pure wrestling. Everyone has different tastes. I'd argue this year's Mania had something for everyone. You had Cena/Miz for the core demographic. You had Alberto getting a title shot and appearances by Rock, Austin, JR, and Trish for the internet guys. You had Snooki for the outsiders. Face it, this year's Mania had all the bases covered. Sure not every match was a 5 star match. Maybe none of them were. But looking back at the much revered WrestleMania X-Seven, the only things that stand out are Austin/Rock, Taker/HHH, TLC, and Benoit/Jericho. You had crap like the Gimmick Battle Royal, Tazz and APA vs RTC, Shane vs Vince, Kane vs Show vs Raven. Fact is, if that happened today, you guys would probably shit all over it. I'm not trying to say 27 was flawless, but the way you people go on about it, you'd swear it was worse than WrestleMania XIII. /rant |
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