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There was a line wrapped half way around the block in front of Target on 86th street for pokémon cards? Not a single child in the line. Everyone is like 30 years old and holding a camping chair.
No fun costumes or cute tee-shirts on this crowd: They look really serious and a little mean? I’m scared.
@MichaelTBacon @futurebird actual kids don't have the disposable income for Pokemon now, the 30-somethings are where the money is
Do you think all of the targets in the city are like this?
@futurebird No idea. I don't know what's going on, I'm just guessing.
That said, my kid came home the other day and said, "Pokemon is bigger than Star Wars." I was dubious but he often gets things like this right so I looked it up.
The sheer scale of Pokemon's global value absolutely floored me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
@MichaelTBacon @futurebird I guess most of this comes down those parts of Asia south and/or east of the Himalayas. That's where most of the global economy is, and that's where pokemon is really far ahead of star wars and the other listed franchises. Star wars might even be ahead of pokemon in a few USA-specific stats, but globally that would hardly matter.
@MichaelTBacon @futurebird And yet The Pokemon Company can't be bothered to provide more resources to Game Freak so they can make better games.
@MichaelTBacon @futurebird A couple of months ago I was looking for a birthday gift for my niece, and naively thought I could just walk into a store that sold geeky fandom type things and buy Pokemon cards.
The store people were very nice about it, but they set me straight.
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@futurebird Gonna buy the max allotments of special release cards themselves and mark them up 5x on eBay for actual kids?