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** Which admittedly was a pretty big deal [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|if you were a kid at the time, but not so much now that there are roughly ten thousand Mario Brothers games]].
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'' is a rare example of a merchandise driven product that turned out beautifully. The studio had the rights to a catalog of songs, and asked some filmmakers to make a movie with those songs in it for promotional value. A more crass motive you could not imagine, and yet ''Singin' in the Rain'' is considered one of the best movie musicals of all time.
* Surprisingly, ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' was not made for this, although it happens to be perfect for selling toys
** Movie reviewers loved the early [[Pixar]] movies, but gave ''[[Cars]]'' mixed reviews which only got worse for the cash-in sequels. As a vehicle for selling toy model cars, on the other hand, the ''Cars'' franchise made a mint for Mattel as pretty much every car-acter (except for "Bessie", the inanimate paver-compactor) was made into a Mattel toy.
* Apparently, one of the main reasons ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' sucked so bad was because [[Executive Meddling|the studio]] forced [[Joel Schumacher]] to make the film "more toyetic" (a word the director had never heard before then).
* The ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movies were created to promote the already popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride, then the subsequent merchandise. [[Vicious Cycle|Which led to]] the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride being refurbished to feature umpteen Jack Sparrows, to hype the movies' DVD sales and box-office receipts. Predictably, this [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|disgusted fans of the attraction's classic layout]] [[Love It or Hate It|but]] [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|was a blessing for fans of the movies who always wanted to see]] [[Rule of Cool|Jack and the crew as part of the original ride]].
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