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Iceman · 05-13-2014, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lionheart

Kids know squat. They want whatever is rammed down their throats. If X-Men was new and getting Avengers hype - as opposed to being a franchise re-boot, then the kids would love it. Doesn't help that these movies are being marketed as more serious and dark than the the other movies. From the time I stood in a toy shop and heard a kid say something that was simply not possible a few years earlier... "Iron Man is the coolest super hero!" I knew that kids taste could effectively be formed by the power of marketing and merch...

When I was a kid in the 90's the X-Men cartoon was the biggest thing for Marvel. X-Men and Spider-Man were what succeeded. We didn't know who the Avengers where. The Hulk and Iron Man TV shows weren't has good and didn't do as well (sold a lot less toys too). Cap was barely a c-list guy along with Iron Man. Before Marvel pushed them into onto the nation scene Marvel's biggest names were Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Hulk, and then guys like the Fantastic Four or Daredevil. Iron Man, Cap, and Thor were not very well known to most people.

I'm not saying they were bad characters or that in the realm of comic book readers they weren't big names but they were largely unknown to most. Before I read Ultimates and got into comics I thought of Thor as in Norse mythology and Cap I only knew his origin from appearing on Spider-Man and the Avengers arcade game (had no idea what that was about as a kid).

It's crazy when you get older and see how much of a difference there can be between people born 5 years after you, much less 10 or 20. They just don't know a lot of the things that we did. I find it weird because I was the kid that would watch old movies and try to appreciate old stuff so I figured that more kids would do that today since it's all so easy to access with the internet or Netflix or whatever. Then I realized that kids have too much new content coming at them from every direction (Youtube, social media, etc). A lot of us had a handful of channels and were forced to watch reruns of old shows and movies so we learned that there was cool stuff there. Maybe some day the X-Men will get a reset and proper movies made about the comic or just another solid TV show that kids attach to.

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Iceman MUtant Overlord Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tennessee Posts: 2,754	Quote: Originally Posted by Lionheart Kids know squat. They want whatever is rammed down their throats. If X-Men was new and getting Avengers hype - as opposed to being a franchise re-boot, then the kids would love it. Doesn't help that these movies are being marketed as more serious and dark than the the other movies. From the time I stood in a toy shop and heard a kid say something that was simply not possible a few years earlier... "Iron Man is the coolest super hero!" I knew that kids taste could effectively be formed by the power of marketing and merch... When I was a kid in the 90's the X-Men cartoon was the biggest thing for Marvel. X-Men and Spider-Man were what succeeded. We didn't know who the Avengers where. The Hulk and Iron Man TV shows weren't has good and didn't do as well (sold a lot less toys too). Cap was barely a c-list guy along with Iron Man. Before Marvel pushed them into onto the nation scene Marvel's biggest names were Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Hulk, and then guys like the Fantastic Four or Daredevil. Iron Man, Cap, and Thor were not very well known to most people. I'm not saying they were bad characters or that in the realm of comic book readers they weren't big names but they were largely unknown to most. Before I read Ultimates and got into comics I thought of Thor as in Norse mythology and Cap I only knew his origin from appearing on Spider-Man and the Avengers arcade game (had no idea what that was about as a kid). It's crazy when you get older and see how much of a difference there can be between people born 5 years after you, much less 10 or 20. They just don't know a lot of the things that we did. I find it weird because I was the kid that would watch old movies and try to appreciate old stuff so I figured that more kids would do that today since it's all so easy to access with the internet or Netflix or whatever. Then I realized that kids have too much new content coming at them from every direction (Youtube, social media, etc). A lot of us had a handful of channels and were forced to watch reruns of old shows and movies so we learned that there was cool stuff there. Maybe some day the X-Men will get a reset and proper movies made about the comic or just another solid TV show that kids attach to. __________________ BST Last edited by Iceman; 05-13-2014 at 10:00 PM..