Like so many other things movie merchandise-related, it goes back to Star Wars. The toy companies are granted early access to film scripts and character models, both to avoid any chance of another Batman Returns-McDonalds fiasco and also to get started on toy designs and production.īut when exactly did movie-related toys transition from fun recreations of characters and scenes kids have already seen to tantalizing hints of what’s yet to come? However, isn’t it kind of weird that they’re a source for spoilers at all? It’s a natural side effect of Hollywood’s need to eventivize each new blockbuster movie with market saturation advertising, ultra-wide worldwide openings and early production and releases of various related toy products to kickstart a film’s true source of profit, i.e., merchandise, not ticket sales. Of course, as far as sources for plot spoilers go toy sets are near the bottom of the list, somewhere below movie trailers and overly descriptive song titles on original soundtracks.
Maybe velociraptor code names barely qualify as a spoiler, but it’s still something which feeds into the never-ending news cycle for a movie like Jurassic World.
Hasbro’s Jurassic World toys revealed the code names of Owen’s velociraptors, specifically Charlie, Delta and Echo (not Blue, though), and the first full look at the Indominus Rex. Other times, it adds up to nothing, such as CinemaBlend’s argument last year that Lego’s Ant-Man toy set supposedly revealed Hank Pym to be the film’s secret villain. That’s how Iron Man 3’s big twist with Aldrich Killian was spoiled, and it’s where the world got its first look at Avengers: Age of Ultron‘s version of The Vision. Sometimes it works, particularly with LEGO sets for Marvel movies. In the push to be the first to break big plot spoilers from a blockbuster movie, various corners of the internet have learned to look toward movie-related toys, hopeful that the film studio and toymakers tripped up somewhere. In context, well, it may still look pretty bad, but we won’t know until we see the movie.
The latter is the most notable because it looks just like a more menacing version of the ghost from the actual Ghostbuster logo if it had razor-sharp teeth and wore a red bowtie. So, the new Slimer looks pretty much like the old one, and the new bad guys are named Mayhem and Rowan. Those headlines I mentioned earlier were all inspired by the following video from Instagram user and YouTube star PixelDan: This most recent example comes out of the New York City Toy Fair, which is sort of like the Comic-Con of toys except instead of rolling out panels and new movie trailers they display rows of movie-related toys well before they ever go on sale. How did we get to this point in pop culture? When exactly did we start looking to toys for movie spoilers? Actress Deepika Padukone shared the screen space with talented actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan in the film.Perhaps you’ve seen the recent headlines: New Toys for the Upcoming Ghostbusters Reboot Spoil the Movie.Ĭollider framed it as a question,”Did ‘Ghostbusters’ Toys Just Reveal the Film’s Villains?” ComingSoon took a more authoritative angle, “The Ghostbusters villain revealed at Toy Fair.” You had to scroll down for a while to find any headlines which merely commented on the actual appeal and quality of the toys as opposed to what they tell us about the film’s plot. Sonam Kapoor played the lead in the film and bagged the National Award for it. The film was based on the real-life story of Neerja Bhanot, an air hostess who lost her life saving passengers from terrorists. Actors Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor will also play crucial roles. Actress Deepika Padukone will be seen as the protagonist in the film. It is based on the life of Queen Padmavati. Padmavatiĭirected by filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the movie is yet to be released. There are many movies which have the name of the female characters as the title. The film industry that was earlier referred as ‘male dominated’ not only delivered multiple women centric films but titles of the film were also given keeping in mind the female protagonists. Over the time, things have changed in Bollywood. The lady shined in each frame of two-minute-long trailer and proved once again that she doesn’t need star power to deliver a blockbuster.
The trailer of actress Kangana Ranaut’s Simran was released recently and it received rave reviews from the audiences.
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