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** More recently, after merging with a toy company, Marvel produced a comic based on its own ''MegaMorphs'' [[Transforming Mecha]] toys. Fans seem to regard the resultant comic as [[So Bad It's Good]]. |
** More recently, after merging with a toy company, Marvel produced a comic based on its own ''MegaMorphs'' [[Transforming Mecha]] toys. Fans seem to regard the resultant comic as [[So Bad It's Good]]. |
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* Marvel's ''[[Secret Wars]]'' miniseries was created to promote sales of Mattel's Marvel toys. |
* Marvel's ''[[Secret Wars]]'' miniseries was created to promote sales of Mattel's Marvel toys. |
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* The Superfriends cartoon had a tie-in comic, and was later renamed The Super Powers |
* The ''[[Superfriends]]'' cartoon had a tie-in comic, and was later renamed ''The Super Powers Show'' to help promote the toyline. |
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* The original ''[[Atari Force]]'' started off as promotional giveaways included with [[Atari 2600]] game cartridges. The second series kept the backstory and the characters, but was otherwise an original sci-fi romp. |
* The original ''[[Atari Force]]'' started off as promotional giveaways included with [[Atari 2600]] game cartridges. The second series kept the backstory and the characters, but was otherwise an original sci-fi romp. |
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* ''[[Bionicle]]'' was, for [[LEGO]], something of an experiment in this trope in response to increasing financial trouble and realising that reliance on their ''[[Star Wars]]'' licence wasn't a good permanent solution - the company theorised that promoting a line with a story would bolster sales compared to lines without a story. It's hard to tell whether the story was much of a factor, but they were proved right for a while -- no other LEGO line sold better until around 2007, this being when the story really started to become bloated. Though the toyline was terminated in early 2010, the line's head writer continues to write story serials, making ''BIONICLE'' an example of a merchandise-driven property that outlived the merchandise. Its [[Spiritual Successor]], ''[[Hero Factory]]'', is still merchandise-driven but doesn't push its story as much in comparison. |
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' was, for [[LEGO]], something of an experiment in this trope in response to increasing financial trouble and realising that reliance on their ''[[Star Wars]]'' licence wasn't a good permanent solution - the company theorised that promoting a line with a story would bolster sales compared to lines without a story. It's hard to tell whether the story was much of a factor, but they were proved right for a while -- no other LEGO line sold better until around 2007, this being when the story really started to become bloated. Though the toyline was terminated in early 2010, the line's head writer continues to write story serials, making ''BIONICLE'' an example of a merchandise-driven property that outlived the merchandise. Its [[Spiritual Successor]], ''[[Hero Factory]]'', is still merchandise-driven but doesn't push its story as much in comparison. |
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