Life's Great Mysteries
Sometimes, i have questions about the world and it takes me years to get the answer. I'm starting this thread for people to share these very important life mysteries...
So first one: When I was a kid, my sister watched Sailor Moon. What always perplexed me is that during the transformation scene, she puts on nail polish right before putting on gloves.
Exhibit A:
The main answer I've had over the years was that SHE knew she was wearing it... but that answer didn't satisfy me... I thought there must be something deeper here.
This great mystery came up recently in conversation with my friend, and she told me it's because of the toys. The more permutations of the costume they have, the more different toys they can sell. Source: https://daily.jstor.org/selling-toys-with-the-sailor-moon-transformation-sequence/
That makes a lot more sense to me. Mystery solved!
Anybody else had these kinds of experiences?
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This great mystery came up recently in conversation with my friend, and she told me it's because of the toys. The more permutations of the costume they have, the more different toys they can sell. Source: https://daily.jstor.org/selling-toys-with-the-sailor-moon-transformation-sequence/
This is the case with so many franchises. The one I noticed that was recently very obvious was the recent DragonBall movie. Beautifully animated, but they had the characters go through basically every transformation they've ever had. Why? So they could make new toys of all the variations.
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A lot of shows started with the concept of the toys to be sold before even starting a story board.
Jem and The Holograms was exactly that.
The series was a joint collaboration by Hasbro, Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions, the same team responsible for G.I. Joe and Transformers.[5] The creator of the series, Christy Marx, had also been a staff writer for the aforementioned programs.[6] The animation for most of the episodes was provided by Japanese animation studio Toei Animation.[3]
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@Adam Charron I really don't think selling toys applies to Dragonball/Z/Super. Toriyama just gives the fans what they want, Broly and Goku/Vegeta fusions.
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Ironically back in the day toys and merchandising wasn't even considered a business. George Lucas started it all, by working cheaper but getting all rights merchandising.
Good read here:
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Often the logic just goes out the window & it's either just because it looks cool or for fan-servicing purpose. Like here...
Why does the seat spins TWICE? ?
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Not so much a great mystery that I was pondering, but a minor "mind-blown" moment that I think could be amusing for some, and maybe it's something that somebody else has pondered:
In one of my past jobs I was doing a client visit at a Tate & Lyle facility outside of Chicago. Most may not be familiar with the name, but these guys are a huge global supplier of food and beverage ingredients to industrial markets. In particular sugar, they are also the ones who invented Splenda. In your life you probably ate something that they produced.
They gave me a bit of a tour and a really neat thing that I learned was that they sell tons and tons of starch to wrapping paper companies. This starch is added to the paper to give wrapping paper its distinct sound when it rips.
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