Putting on my "smart boy" hat for a second: As long as there has been "action figures" there has been imaginative crossover, insofar as kids like to take different franchises' figures and play with them together. This is endemic to figure-based play patterns in children. - ThreadSky

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derachi.com • 13 days ago

Putting on my "smart boy" hat for a second:

As long as there has been "action figures" there has been imaginative crossover, insofar as kids like to take different franchises' figures and play with them together. This is endemic to figure-based play patterns in children.

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derachi.com•13 days ago

However: it's a recent cultural phenomenon for this franchise mashup to happen on a corporate level, whether it be due to the kids in the first generation of "figure-based play" now working for those companies, or those companies seeing profit in facilitating that style of play, or both.

derachi.com•13 days ago

Fortnite as an entity, seems to be the biggest "catalyst" for this. That game is a massive collection of humanoid characters somehow legally cleared/licensed and thrown into one big cultural vat. Honestly it's impressive on a licensing level that they've managed to do it and get away with it.

derachi.com•13 days ago

But I don't even know where to begin on the topic of "is it good or bad, culturally, that this one extremely large corpo entity has commercialized, to immense financial success, the childhood-endemic play of slamming action figures from different brands together." That's for someone smarter than me.

batbugz.bsky.social•13 days ago

Aa long as its fun its good imho. Like I'm all for fuck corpo but we're talking about a game where Hatsune Miku and Hank Hill can team up with Spiderman and Godzilla and hit the griddy on Snake eyes from GI Joe and peter griffin. In a way its like robot chicken. Its goofy fun.

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