Pushed to the Moon
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Tony Schiavone in Disguise
Working myself into a shoot
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 25, 2019 8:44:44 GMT -5
In a way the Attitude era was bad for now because instead of trying to replicate the FORMULA of what made them successful in terms of fresh characters and ideas they're trying to replicate the SAME characters from the past instead of creating something new. So because Rock was popular now every main eventer has to be a stand up comedian. Because Vince was amazing as the evil boss, now every authority figure is evil and we're supposed to feel the same about Baron Corbin. Shit like that.
Also because everyone was so much more popular back then, they rely on bringing old people back and saying "look how much cooler all these guys are than the goobers we employ now!" which makes the current roster look lame.
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Mecca
Wade Wilson
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Post by Mecca on Feb 25, 2019 8:48:03 GMT -5
Nah it spawned probably the most interesting and creative time in the business. Just because they are a bland company today that has no idea how to make a star anymore, is not the fault of the guys that made it happen 20 years ago.
A lot of the era happened because they were going to go out of business...Steve Austin only got over because they had no choice, today Steve Austin would have been the ringmaster forever and never gotten out of being a mid card jobber.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 25, 2019 8:49:16 GMT -5
Again, the highest selling Pokemon game to date is Sun and Moon. The highest before then was X and Y. They grow their audience every time for every game and in terms of age ratios, younger kids are playing more because their parents are playing with them. If you go to any Pokemon related event, you see as many families going as you do anyone else. A couple of years ago, I worked at a Primary school and the topics they couldn’t stop talking about at the time were Minecraft and Pokemon. Fortnite might have changed things but, again, the reason that’s not talked about as much is because it’s not stamped into everyone’s minds as it was the late 90s. In comparison, kids are going to indie shows (there was a bunch at the last OTT show I went to even though it was 18+ but Irish people are weird) and parents are taking them to wrestling but WWE’s core audience is way older because they aren’t getting to them. Looking into it I don't think that's actually accurate - best I could find Sun & Moon are actually the worst-selling, albeit that's from a year ago and they just barely lose to X & Y and Ruby & Sapphire so that's probably changed by now - but still, Pokemon is a good point of comparison because the brand constantly finds ways to reinvent itself and extend its appeal and is still absolutely gigantic on a wide array of fronts. The series is still a complete behemoth and is probably going to take off even more if Detective Pikachu ends up doing well like by all signs it's going to. And even with what was becoming the red mark on the series, the rapidly diminishing returns and poor critical reception of the (animated) movies, they managed to completely turn around once they actually decided to address it. I just plain can't see WWE managing to have that same level of adaptability Yeah, I’ll backtrack on the sales stuff since I might have been off a generation or two but the fact the “worst selling” can be that close to the best says a lot about the health of the franchise overall especially with Let’s Go selling 10 million worldwide and the movie coming in May. WWE is pretty much coasting on TV deals at this point with what feels like not much understanding of what the market is or even an attempt on how to get there and part of that was because of mistakes made in the Attitude Era. The fact Bruce Pritchard is coming back to the fold, a man who does not watch modern wrestling, just says everything to me about the direction going forward.
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Mecca
Wade Wilson
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Post by Mecca on Feb 25, 2019 8:54:23 GMT -5
Two national companies dead, God knows how many wrestlers whose careers were dramatically shortened or ruined, hundreds of hours of footage that's honestly embarrassing to go back and watch nowadays. This is the reason I've never subscribed to the whole "competition is good for business" belief. That embarrassing stuff got more pops and reaction than anything on the show today does....like it or not that was the time then. At least that product captured what the culture was. Today the WWE has no clue how to capture any type of pop culture genre to get people interested.
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