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Aug 31, 2017 - 8:18 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Getting back to TMP merchandise, it's interesting that it was largely marketed as a children's movie, which it most definitely is not, but then Star Trek must have been watched by millions of kids throughout the 1970s via syndication. Clearly Mego had Star Wars on the brain when they produced their TMP figure line.
However, it seems that Trek's primary audience would have been high school and college-aged people, making TMP's toy, coloring book, Happy Meal, action figure products all the more baffling...little did they know that adults would, by the 1990s, become a major audience for action figures!
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Aug 31, 2017 - 8:32 AM
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Solium
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Getting back to TMP merchandise, it's interesting that it was largely marketed as a children's movie, which it most definitely is not, but then Star Trek must have been watched by millions of kids throughout the 1970s via syndication. Clearly Mego had Star Wars on the brain when they produced their TMP figure line.
However, it seems that Trek's primary audience would have been high school and college-aged people, making TMP's toy, coloring book, Happy Meal, action figure products all the more baffling...little did they know that adults would, by the 1990s, become a major audience for action figures!
Your underestimating the ignorance of people in suits and marketing. They saw Star Wars business at the box office and thought, we have our own "Star Wars" Sci Fi property. Approved and sold it as such!
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However, it seems that Trek's primary audience would have been high school and college-aged people, making TMP's toy, coloring book, Happy Meal, action figure products all the more baffling...little did they know that adults would, by the 1990s, become a major audience for action figures!
This was exactly the group of people I waited in line with to see the movie opening night, so you're right about that. And having just graduated from high school, I never even thought about searching for action figures and the like (embarrasingly enough, I didn't start buying action figures until my late 20's!). Maybe that's why I didn't know about any of this stuff.
I don't even recall the Marvel comics adaptation, even though I haunted a couple of comics shops every week. Hmmm.
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As for Dudley Simpson it's criminal that most of his stuff is lost. I'd love a collection. Heath on this very site put a good selection of synth re-recordings together. I wish they would do another with the exact ensembles used for his tv music. A documentary during Who's 50th anniversary year had a tiny piece which showed how good it would sound.
Not just Doctor Who, I believe other shows Dudley Simpson worked on suffered the same fate. Blakes 7 being a prime example.
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