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Originally Posted by Paxtin

Also, I don't think most kids are cynical enough to judge things for character development or story predictability. I know a lot of geeks like to pretend that when we were kids we all were as informed and critical as we are now, but in actualtiy we were not. We were kids. Crazy spectacles are what got us to buy toys in the first place. If it looked like a fun cool toy, we wanted it.

While I agree with you about the spectacle I still think that character is very important to everyone, especially kids. I remember when I was a kid and loved Wolverine because he smoked cigars and did all the shit that other superheroes wouldn't do. I was never conscience of why I liked him, but I damn well recognized that he was different and unique. Avatar didn't really have any characters that are vastly different from anything we have experienced before. And that's saying something for a movie that featured giant blue cat people.

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Originally Posted by Paxtin

And that's really the reason the Avatar toys failed. In contrast to the blockbuster film, the toys themselves had no visual punch to them. They all looked very mediocre.

True dat