Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Proves Force is Strong with Star Wars Economy

Star Wars is worth an estimated $42 billion.

If you were one of the millions of people freaking out with joy over the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie trailer this week, get ready for a power stronger than The Force will ever be: Star Wars merchandising.

As Disney plans to release Star Wars films every two weeks now (perhaps an overstatement), toys, clothes, video games and more will find their way to store shelves and online shops everywhere. It's all a part of the Star Wars economy or the estimated $42 billion dollar industry that has amassed itself ever since Star Wars: A New Hope came out in the 1970s. 

For more check out "The Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Think."

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[Crusty Juggler]

"Too big to fail, too big to exist." Break it up!

[commodious spittoon]

Wake me up when they're using miniatures for filming rather than merchandising.

[Almanian's Rusty Woodchipper]

+1 Thunderbirds

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

So I guess all movie trailers are the same now: fade into intro shot, piano plays few notes of franchise theme, fade cut to action scene, crank up volume on music and you're done. Just slap together some more action scenes and kill the music with a lingering shot of something to tease the audience.

[Hamster of Doom]

After all the agonizing care they put into the movie itself, they just got a bit tired. It'll explain this in the next movie.

[Agammamon]

bern!

[lap83]

Yeah he tried to pull that "I'll explain later!!" crap with Lost. Never again.

[Agammamon]

Ha.

'There are so many people *here* who have been defending him with exactly that - oh he *had* to remake ep 4 and 8 will be better and all the stupid shit in 7 will be explained properly and you'll see it was awesome all along!'

'But . . . I'm not going to see ep 8.'

'oh'

[DarkPassenger]

Yep, they're all the same now. The guys over at RedLetterMedia did a great job of illustrating just how formulaic they are now.

http://youtu.be/Pc71YvWG0GQ

[Cyto]

The best "Non-formula" teaser I can remember was the first Michael Keaton Batman movie.

I was at the movies with a group of guys and they just put up the batman logo. Nothing else. Just a logo for a while. Then a warehouse roll-up door...... machine guns cut the door in half and the new batmobile roars through. Cut to logo with release date.

Holy crap, did that work. They definitely succeed in generating "buzz".

[GILMORE?]

I feel like this trailer was lacking in positive latino transgender role-models. Ugh, Disney. This "hunger-games-remix" is so 2012

[generic Brand]

For a movie called Rogue One, I was seriously disappointed with the severe lack of X-wings in that trailer, or flight scenes of any kind.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Hear! Hear!

Star Wars is about pilots, DAMMIT!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The REAL Rogue 1

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Based on a sample size of two movies (ESB and Top Gun) I can conclude being in the rear seat of a two seater aircraft is a death sentence.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

WSOs are basically redshirts. Everyone needs a purpose. 😉

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Except in that completely abysmal movie with Owen Wilson.

UGH!

[Trials and Trippelations]

Also don't be a black guy at the site of a historic murder/creepy legend.

[Notorious UGCC]

And regardless of race, try not to relieve your tension with a monster on the loose by having sex with your boyfriend/girlfriend.

[JeremyR]

Yeah, I was expecting it to be about fighter pilots (the Rogue Squadron) but apparently it's about spy chicks

[UnCivilServant]

Wait, that's supposed to be a human and not an emotionless droid?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Here we go!

FILM CRITICS ASSEMBLE!

[__Warren__]

I won't watch the Star Wars since they decided Captain Kirk isn't going to be the Time Doctor on Babylon Five anymore.

[Notorious UGCC]

Right, it's like when Dumbledore fought the Balrog.

[Quincy.]

Or when they made Mal Reynolds punch Mark Watney in the face while riding a sandworm. These kinds of things annoy me.

[gagster]

Disney plans to release Star Wars films every two weeks now

They must have a pretty intensive shooting schedule. I hope the force is with them.

[Notorious UGCC]

I suspect it won't be the same team on each movie.

It will be more like "the team which makes the most successful movie will be moved to Floor Three, the one where the cubicles have walls."

[gagster]

If they're releasing 26 Star Wars movies per year, there's no way it could be the same team on each.

[Quincy.]

The Key Grip looks at the overtime schedule, plans to retire at 35.

[Rhywun]

If each movie is one hour long, it's doable.

SW:TNG

[Agammamon]

The team with the least sucessfull movie is fed to Disney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeB2Q2xmZQ

[JeremyR]

And imagine how much more it would be if copyright laws were only 28 years or so. Everyone could make Star Wars films and merchandise.

Look at how much Dracula has generated over the years, thanks it to being PD

[That's A Bingo!]

Pretty much everyone does make Star Wars films. Fan films based on Star Wars have their own Wikipedia category.

[PapayaSF]

OT: Labour councillor suspended over claims she called Hitler 'the greatest man in history'

But Labour is left wing! How could this be?

Aysegul Gurbuz

OK, got it.

[Rhywun]

"Like, OMG, politics is hard and stuff."

[Quincy.]

"He won Time's "Man of the Year" twice! Why are you people still quibbling about this?"

[Notorious UGCC]

Let's rearrange the letters in the name "Aysegul Gurbuz" using the Internet Anagram Server.

Gauze Rubs Ugly
Lazy Bug Use Rug

[Quincy.]

Blaze US, Rug Guy.

[commodious spittoon]

Brilliant.

[W. Chipper Dove]

I hear it as being similar to 'Nazgul Goebbels'

[Notorious UGCC]

Let's not jump to conclusions:

"Miss Gurbuz denied she had written the tweets and claimed her sister may have posted them, the Mail on Sunday reported."

I know a gal who lives on the hill
She won't goosestep but her sister will

[PapayaSF]

"My account was hijacked" is the new "the dog ate my homework."

[Notorious UGCC]

It was Nietzsche's excuse, too.

[Notorious UGCC]

explanation of the above joke

[Slammer]

The story is ludicrous...Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

She fixes the Twitter?

[PapayaSF]

Pakistani Islamist Behind Mumbai Attacks Captured in Austria After Entering Europe as Refugee

[Rhywun]

The system works.

[Hamster of Doom]

Italy to France - BITCH I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU

Such is the horror inspired by the new Gallic take on their traditional dish, that Italians are dubbing it "carbonara-gate" and some have even ? tongue in cheek ? urged the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, to intervene.

In the end the French surrendered, so all is well.

[Rhywun]

You SF'ed the link.

[Hamster of Doom]

Here.

[Rhywun]

French is the most over-rated cuisine on the planet. There's a reason why on a drive from Germany to Spain, we didn't stop to eat anything there.

[PapayaSF]

The French basically invented modern cuisine, and it can still be first-rate, but that doesn't mean every restaurant in France is great. Also, apparently the high minimum wage means many caf?s no longer make their own food. They get pre-prepared stuff and reheat it.

[Rhywun]

To be fair, I don't do much "fine" dining, so that could influence my opinion. But of the various countries I've visited other than France (Germany, Spain, China) I'll take the everyday food from any of them first.

[Notorious UGCC]

"Voulez-vous des pommes frites avec ca?"

[Quincy.]

"Bien sur."

[Agammamon]

Uh, do you have any ketchup?

[commodious spittoon]

Chandler Beckner 22 hours ago (edited)

this is an empire right?...i emp?

[Quincy.]

The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified

[GILMORE?]

that was significantly better than most of the other political analysis you will find in the WaPo today

[GILMORE?]

Journalist Casts Boring Political Mechanics As High-Drama: Here's Who You'd Expect Doing That.

[Rhywun]

It's weird seeing these dopes in NYS. Even the Dem's have never bothered because the winner was always known in advance.

When he took the stage, Trump recited numbers of job losses in Rochester, naming individual companies that he would "hit with a 35 percent tax" until they agreed to return and create jobs.

Lolwut? This must be another example of that thing he does where he just says random shit that's floating around in his head but doesn't actually mean it.

[GILMORE?]

When he took the stage, Trump recited numbers of job losses in Rochester, naming individual companies that he would "hit with a 35 percent tax" until they agreed to return and create jobs.

The only difference between him and sanders is that sanders would say, "50%" and he has a brooklyn instead of queens accent.

[Notorious UGCC]

"This must be another example of that thing he does where he just says random shit that's floating around in his head but doesn't actually mean it."

And where each time he does it, he picks up more votes. Or so it sometimes seems.

[__Warren__]

When he took the stage, Trump recited numbers of job losses in Rochester, naming individual companies that he would "hit with a 35 percent tax" until they agreed to return and create jobs.

"I will bring it back so fast," he promised. "Your head will spin."

I.....what? Is that even......? Does he not understand......things?

they're trying to subvert the movement with crooked shenanigans

Paul Manafort, accused Cruz of "Gestapo tactics."

I know the first phrase that pops into my head when thinking of the Gestapo is "crooked shenanigans".

By the way I caught Crooked Shenanigans at O'Malley's Booze n' Bowl in Harrisburg. They were energetic but the acoustics were horrible and people were still bowling which drowned out many of the lyrics.

[Rhywun]

Does he not understand......things?

I wonder what companies he named. I'm from Rochester and the only company that matters is Kodak, which is on its deathbed. Trump's not going to change that.

[Notorious UGCC]

He should probably add another threat - tell them not to go bankrupt.

That will prevent the "we can't afford it" excuse.

[Rhywun]

They already did.

[Notorious UGCC]

Losers.

[Notorious UGCC]

/sarc

[Notorious UGCC]

Incidentally, a near neighbor I knew was a retired Kodak guy.

He talked about being a student antiwar protester. That was in 1940. Then he joined the army when the U.S. got into the war.

[commodious spittoon]

Tax them till they quit going bankrupt!

This oaf is almost that unbelievable.

[Notorious UGCC]

Better add a tax for companies which fail to establish plants in the first place for fear of being penalized if they have to close down.

Gotta plug all possible loopholes.

[Notorious UGCC]

Oh, and apply a penalty for companies which contract with foreign companies instead of having their own people do stuff, so as to artificially inflate their "we employ Americans" numbers.

[__Warren__]

Maybe Kodak can get the hipsters to go on an Instamatic bender.....

[C. Anacreon]

They were energetic but the acoustics were horrible and people were still bowling which drowned out many of the lyrics.

I'm not quite sure why, but this line had me laughing for over a minute.

[AlmightyJB]

Says skeletor

http://nbc4i.com/2016/04/10/97.....-to-study/

[Rhywun]

Some day we're going to reminisce fondly about when this stuff was just spit out by moral scolds and HR departments.

[AlmightyJB]

No doubt. Most likely during the forced marches.

[Rhywun]

Or the wallscreen.

[Rhywun]

*as we watch it coming from

[Rothbard'sbitch]

I hate Disney's Star Wars. Bunch of incoherent bullshit and SJW nonsense.

[BigT]

"Star Wars: A New Hope came out in the 1970s. "

Uh, no. Star Wars came out in the 70's and was re-named later..

[Cyto]

Not SJW enough. .... never SJW enough....

[Migrant Log Chipper]

I don't give a shit about Star Wars, didn't give a shit when it first came out, didn't give a shit with the second go around, don't give a shit about it now. I'm confused that libertarians care about stupid shit like this.

It's ridiculous, what am I missing, why does any libertarian give a fuck about fucking Star Wars.

[Notorious UGCC]

Yes...yes...feel the hate flow through you...

[Notorious UGCC]

Now, say that Southpark is nothing but crudely-drawn, overhyped and sanctimonious crap, and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete.

[Cyto]

You guys should take a class at the groundlings. That's some grade-a improv right there....

[AlmightyJB]

Rebels rising up against an unjust Empire? Oh idk.

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