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Merchandise-Driven

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Merchandise-Driven	comment	The Merchandise-Driven show, otherwise known as the "half-hour toy commercial", is not merely a television show (or other work) with a line of toys licensed on the side, but a television show created from a line of toys. The program exists largely to sell these products to the audience. Although merchandise-driven cartoons and anime are usually targeted at younger viewers, examples aimed at the older demographic do exist, though they're fairly rare. Note that there are very few instances of the Merchandise Driven cartoons of today that predate the deregulation of children's television in the Reagan years. The FCC classified 1969's Hot Wheels cartoon as "a thirty-minute toy commercial", which pretty well killed the show (along with reruns of Linus the Lionhearted, a show starring the cartoon Mascots of the Post Cereal line). (Conversely, it was rare that a popular show would spawn action figures and toys when it was actually on the air in the US. Throughout The '60s and The '70s, the only reliable source for the various Cool Cars and Cool Ships from various science fiction and superhero shows were the Corgi line, imported from the UK. Mego's Star Trek: The Original Series figures didn't appear until well after the show was in reruns.) Today, there is a full symbiotic relationship between the show's production and the toy company (or other manufacturer licensed, show-themed products), which is usually the primary (or even only) sponsor of the show. But the key difference between this and normal licensed merchandising is that here, it is the toy manufacturer who dictates the show's Canon. They may be able to demand addition or removal of characters from the series based on the actual toys in their production line, or that new characters must be something that they can design a toy version for on demand (military or paramilitary-themed shows and Humongous Mecha anime are particularly prone to this). Another sign of a toy manufacturer exerting influence is the blatant structuring of episode plots solely around the newest merchandisable toy accessories, often where the characters Gotta Catch Them All or be declared a failure as a human being ... yeah, something like that. Meanwhile, in Tokusatsu works, it has become common for the production staff to use weapons and Transformation Trinkets from the show's toyline in the actual show itself. Merchandise Driven shows are not limited to a young audience either. Many works are adapted from manga, video games, toys, etc. only if there's an existing lucrative market, and older fans are often targeted for their potential loyalty and deeper wallets. That so many comic books and late-night anime can maintain a decent budget is due to this small but vocal group of fans. Can be halfheartedly avoided with the use of a Segregated Commercial. Still, this sometimes produces a Franchise Zombie. However, Tropes Are Not Bad — some fandoms like the merchandise more so than the show itself. Many musicals ensured that potential hit tunes were reprised a few times. This was as much for the sake of the song publishers as for dramatic opportunities like the Dark Reprise. The revues, which were formed around Sketch Comedy and had little to no plot, could get quite shameless: some of them explicitly introduced song reprises as a ploy to sell sheet music. Note that a show can have a line of licensed merchandise without being Merchandise Driven, and once the requirements are met the writers are basically given free rein to script what they want. See The Merch for that. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz was famously quoted as saying there is nothing wrong with using characters in marketing, so long as the quality of one's work stays refined. That said, Bill Watterson has, equally famously, taken no chances and limited Calvin and Hobbes to the print medium to prevent any decay in quality. (Unfortunately, this caused people to just make offensive unauthorized merchandise...) Also note while advertising can often be the main reason for a show's existence, it is never the only reason, that's what actual commercials are for. Shows of this nature always do their best to tell a story and to keep the viewers hooked with said story. Keep that in mind whenever viewing a show that falls under this trope. It's also notable that, when the series is particularly well-done, it may outlive the product that inspired it. This seems to be particularly true of comic books, such as Rom: Spaceknight and Micronauts. It's also common for merchandise driven shows to develop a cult following that long outlasts the original merchandise; such a fanbase may result in its eventually being Un-Canceled (usually with accompanying new merchandise), as the current incarnations of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and others can attest. Compare Misaimed Merchandising, where this sort of thinking is applied where it shouldn't be. See also Defictionalization, where the licensed merchandise is also merchandise inside the show; and Breakaway Advertisement. In some instances, this can also be intertwined with Off-the-Shelf FX. Contrast with The Merch, where the merchandise sales came after the work, in order to support it. For derivative works that are (usually) not metatextual focus of the original work, see Tie-In Novel, Licensed Game, and Advertisement Game. See also Product-Promotion Parade, a common occurrence in Merchandise Driven works, and Cash-Cow Franchise, and Toyline-Exclusive Character, where the merchandise includes characters that don't actually appear in the work made to promote the merchandise. See the Analysis page for a list of tropes enforced in these works as ways to sell more merchandise.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_11f588c8	comment	LBX: Little Battlers eXperience, a series that could be seen as a Spiritual Successor to Medabots, existed to promote a series of video games and a corresponding line of customizable, 1/1 scale model kits.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1429eb78	comment	All Japan Pro Wrestling's infamous "Puroresu Love" era was all about getting as much merchandising and sponsorship as possible after the bulk of its roster deserted the company in favor of Pro Wrestling NOAH, going from serious presented sport to...silliness. AJPW was noticeably behind the other majors critically and financially during this era but made enough money to stay open and eventually get back on track.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_16b68b54	comment	In universe, Jingle All the Way has a show to promote the Turbo Man toyline.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_181cea63	comment	The television movie Furby Island was made to promote the emoto-tronic Furby toys.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_18dcf269	comment	Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy was technically created to increase awareness of the Suzy's Zoo franchise in Japan.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon, in all of its anime forms, though not as blatantly as other examples in this page; the exact degree varies considerably. Even more so in manga form, as Cmon Digimon was finished before the v-pets. Notable as Bandai didn't care about anything except the merchandise and gave the anime writers a free hand, with... diverse results. Digimon Tamers even features merchandising from the franchise in the show. Adventure 02 is a good example — in the series, T.K. and Kari's Digimon had to evolve into Armor forms because the plot placed a restriction on normal evolution methods. Later in the series, the limitation was lifted, allowing Patamon and Gatomon to reach their (more powerful) angelic forms; nevertheless, they still went with the Armors most of the time, since they were what was selling then. Digimon Fusion tightly embraces the marketing side - practically every main character was clearly designed with Combining Mecha toys in mind, and as such the story primarily wove itself around said combining gimmick, but it is unclear how much of the story is influenced by it. It paid off, as its toy sales were reportedly the best of any Digimon line in years and were enough to get the show an extra season. Said extra season, Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, was significantly less toyetic, to the point where no actual toys for anything introduced in it are known to have been produced On the other hand, Digimon Frontier provided a rather blatant example, as Takuya, Koji and Koichi's combined forms, as well as their Ancient Digimon, were quite clearly designed as simple amalgamations of their earlier Hybrid forms and thus easily able to be made into toys. Susanoomon, the final hero, is also a visible amalgamation of EmperorGreymon and MagnaGarurumon. Coincidentally, the seasons after those toys were released are infamous for turning Takuya and Koji into a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, as they were the only ones to get the top-dollar armor-up action figures. (Koichi had one planned, but it was cancelled, leading to him making a few major appearances and then quickly dropping off in importance.)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1c85af95	comment	Darkened Skye is probably the weirdest case. When you look at it, it could have probably be an RPG on its very own (even the title doesn't look any Advergame-ish), but it's a game to promote the Skittles candies, riding the coat-tails of a similar venture by Mars Candy to promote M&M's. Since the makers had freedom (no Executive Meddling, since the executive producer flat-out refusedâ€”she is quoted as saying, "you can fire me now, or you can, like, not make me do this"â€”and only consented once she was good and schnockered), they decided to do it in a parodied way.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1dac7724	comment	All of the various anime seasons in the Battle Spirits franchise are made to promote a trading card game. While some of the seasons allow more focus on the characters and story, and may even gloss over the card battles sometimes, later seasons make the merchandise-driven nature more obvious, with the plot being driven by real-life set releases.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1db0d5a0	comment	Kevin Steen used this for one of his three reasons for joining Adam Cole and The Young Bucks in Pro Wrestling Guerilla (the other two being an inability to beat Cole and disrespect he and the bucks got from the fans), saying he wasn't selling enough shirts.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_1e81fec	comment	Hello Kitty and all her Sanrio friends. They have various adaptations including TV shows and comic books, but they are at heart saleable products first.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2237705a	comment	The reason Thrax has the power to change the appearance of cars in Osmosis Jones is because the creators thought it'd help sell toys. However, the film's toy line was never released, making the gesture somewhat meaningless.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar got this particularly bad when it first came out. They had general ideas for the setting, but a lot of the new model lines were still in development and nowhere near ready to go. This resulted in the setting being vague to the point of incomprehensibly at first and all the early storylines focusing on the new Stormcast Eternals, which were available at release. Even years later you can tell which realms still have major factions planned to be based in them when the model lines are done by the way the topic gets avoided in the fiction.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_237a86c	comment	Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, despite being a spinoff series aimed at an older target audience, is just as merchandise-driven as the mainline Sentai seasons. Specifically, the show is sponsored by Bandai's Tamashii Nations division, who are in charge of producing the S.H.Figuarts line of collectible action figures. As a result, guest Sentai warriors in Akibaranger tend to be characters who are being released as part of the Figuarts series.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_23aa2859	comment	Twinkle Toes was made to sell Skechers' new Twinkle Toes brand of light-up shoes. Yup, not even a toyline. Just shoes. Those kids' sneakers with the electric lights that flash every time you take a step, which were popular for a solid generation before Twinkle Toes. It's a charming kids' film in its own right, though, and if anything, the scene that introduces the shoes encourages kids to use their creativity to decorate their own shoes rather than buy Skechers.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2464fc89	comment	Super Dragon Ball Heroes is a worse offender because it turns up this trope to over 9000!. Characters like Future Trunks or Cooler who are fan favourites do nothing other then watching or getting beaten up. Hearts, one of the main villains, unlocks a form without warning. Cabba fades out of the story after two episodes. Kale and Caulifla, and later on Vegeta, ends up getting possessed by the tuffle for no good reason. Goku uses Ultra instinct for merchandise reasons. It gets to the point that it screams BUY THE CARD!!! at the end of the episode. In fact, many of the Super Saiyan transformations in the regular Dragon Ball series (Super, GT, Z) were primarily made to sell more action figures.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_24c2e853	comment	Gnomeo & Juliet is an interesting variation on this trope. It was put into production by Disney in the late '90s as a passion project for Elton John (who had previously done the music for Disney's The Lion King (1994)), who at that point hadn't made a compilation album. Disney's logic was that if they crammed as many of Elton John's biggest hits into the film as they could, they'd then make a fortune by positioning the movie's soundtrack as an unofficial "Greatest Hits" album. Seriously. It turns out this wasn't actually such a good idea, and after nearly a decade of trying to make the film work Disney gave up on it and handed it off to someone else.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_251e67c5	comment	A Justice League of America comic featuring Sears appliances.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2675c915	comment	An Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. comic featuring Lexus vehicles.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_28f8508d	comment	Subverted with Samurai Pizza Cats. The show was originally commissioned by Bandai as one of these, but the toyline ended up cancelled with the series already mid-way through production, so Tatsunoko decided to go ahead with it anyway.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2a826df6	comment	Cardfight!! Vanguard definitely smells of this, with a hefty number of early episodes being dedicated to instructions on how to play the gamenote By "early", this includes up to and during episodes as late as 25, throwing in real-life booster pack names now and then note In which characters say when facing a new card "Isn't that the new card from Insert booster pack name here?, and in one instance, promote a CD Single of their theme song.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2b4ed8de	comment	Yo-kai Watch, being based on a video game, is this, to the point where it's currently rivaling Pokemon in popularity.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Parodied when the webshow started advertising for sneakers on her show. The foot warmers and wi-fi pedometer linkup exploded and wiped hard drives, respectively, so they obviously didn't advertise them for long.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_2f1032e5	comment	By the time of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, the price of the HG kits are barely the half of the other kits thanks to the inner frame features, all mobile suits in these lines can interchange parts with each other as well as attaching Builder parts onto the peg holes on the frame.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_30a87a0a	comment	The degree to which Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future was merchandise-driven actually drove producer J. Michael Straczynski off the show.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_367f632a	comment	Oddly enough, for a very long time the company had almost no merch beyond the models and books themselves. Given the rabid fanbase, including many who love the setting but don't play the main tabletop game, this seemed to be an odd choice in an age where even every webcomic sells T-shirts. For quite some time, the only 40K merch available outside video games like Dawn of War and a few board and card games was directly related to the game itself: gaming accessories like branded dice and rulers, figure transport cases, and paintbrushes, the latter in the hope that the punters won't ever discover that Officeworks also sell paintbrushes. Some of their tools seem to have a reason to exist; not many manufacturers make a mould line removal implement, after all, but there are some you'd just get at Spotlight or another craft store, plus their special branded glues and basing materials. These are people who insist on trying to sell you a pot to fill with water to rinse your paintbrush in. They once had a souvenir mug, but apparently it went wrong and was not cleared for food use, so was sold as a different brush-washing pot. After the release of 8th edition, however, GW started moving into the non-game merch space with a vengeance, and now you can buy official 40K t-shirts, keychains, mugs, backpacks, sweaters, plushies, and comics, among other things.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_370f4bc0	comment	Zoids is unusual in this respect, as the original model line from the 80s had no supporting media, aside from two short promotional videos, a few video games and a comic series produced by Marvel Comics. The second model line, however, had numerous anime and manga adaptations, though only the first three (Zoids: Chaotic Century, Zoids: New Century and Zoids: Fuzors) saw distribution outside of Japan.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_3796155a	comment	Gundam Sousei discusses this. The show's ratings were absolutely terrible, so Tomino started creating blatantly toyetic mobile suits and vehicles (such as the G-Armor) in hopes that toy sales would keep the show afloat. It didn't work, but the strong toy and model kit sales did help convince the studio to do a trilogy of Compilation Movies, which eventually led to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, which was far more successful.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_398acbad	comment	Skylanders is Activision's foray into this area: An Action Game with collectible physical figurines and a device through which they can unlock virtual versions of themselves for player use. To date, consumer response has been positive due to the surprisingly high quality of the game component. You get three figures for free with the purchase of a game, and they're great characters, but in order to fully explore the game, you need a character from the other five elements. Nothing's stopping the completionist from collecting all the characters, though (and their variants, if so inclined).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_39dd055f	comment	Battle B-Daman had a similar premise, based on increasingly ludicrous games involving marble-shooting chibi robots.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_3c5675b	comment	A Black Panther comic featuring Lexus vehicles.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_3d258702	comment	The Wizard is a 90 minute infomercial for the Nintendo Entertainment System. They not only include showing characters playing popular video games at the time, they also show the Nintendo hint line, and most (in)famously the Mattel Power Glove (which doesn't work as well as advertised, making one character's Totally Radical statement "it's so bad" more true in the literal sense). The climax of the movie has them going to a video game championship where it's revealed that they will be playing a secret game. The not-released-at-the-time SUPER! MARIO! BROTHERS! 3! The climax of the movie is the new Super Mario Bros. game!
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Merchandise-Driven / int_3f01b5a4	comment	Power Rangers Samurai has a nasty case of it. Due to Disney stopping production on the series, Samurai was initially designed as a toy-only installment and the toymakers used the freedom to take liberties with the original designs from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. But then Saban picked up the rights and rushed a new TV season into production, forcing both sides to suddenly try and pivot to line up with one another. So the Rangers' Transformation Sequence involves transforming first into the suits minus helmets but with face-concealing masks (as that is how the toy makers did the usual head-flipping figures without actors to base heads on) and then the helmets form. During mecha fights, the toy versions of the Rangers' gear is used while in the cockpits, and only there. This means there are enough all-new suits and weapons that you could make a whole new series out of them if you wanted... and all this stuff only exists while piloting the Megazord and serves no purpose whatsoever within the show. (You'd think morphing from the show version to the toy version would make a good Mid-Season Upgrade, but that'd mean making expensive new fight scenes instead of being able to use Shinkenger's Stock Footage.) Later seasons would follow Samurai's example and have the Rangers continue to don new armor and weapons in the Megazord cockpits. On the plus side, these were better justified in-show as assisting in powering and operating the Megazord (Samurai had no such explanation) and were strictly secondary merch where the Samurai toyline focused on the zord armor at the expense of the regular suits.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_3f633fb4	comment	As Cracked pointed out, there's an entire genre of promotional comics published by DC and Marvel designed to plug various products. These include (among other examples): A Justice League of America comic featuring Sears appliances. An Avengers comic featuring Harley-Davidson motorcycles. This partnership also spilled into installments featuring Captain America and Thor. An Avengers comic featuring Audi vehicles, with the cast consisting of characters featured in Captain America: Civil War (Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, etc.) An Avengers comic featuring Pirate's Booty snacks. An All-New, All-Different Avengers comic featuring Western Union. A Captain America comic featuring Kiehl's cosmetics. An Iron Man comic featuring a DJI drone. A Fantastic Four comic featuring tech from Hitatchi Data Systems. There was also the time they went to Office Max. An The Incredible Hulk comic featuring mattresses from Sleepy's. A comic starring a Canon Foreigner hero who drove a Pontiac Solstice, featuring a guest appearance from Black Canary. A series of Justice League of America comics featuring Subway sandwiches and cameos from famous athletes. An Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. comic featuring Lexus vehicles. A Superman and Wonder Woman comic featuring Tandy TRS-80 home computers. The unforgettable The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man. A Black Panther comic featuring Lexus vehicles. An Ant-Man and The Wasp comic featuring Dell computers. The Freshmen, a team of young heroes created as a collaboration between Marvel and the grooming company Axe. And Marvel's Combo Man, who somehow gained the powers of various Marvel characters by eating Combos.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: A repeating gag is that Calvin, for all his artistic pretension, definitely wants in on the market share. Calvin's dad especially rails against the consumerism of mass media, a viewpoint that mirror's Watterson's own.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_42c17ca1	comment	Beginning with Power Rangers in Space, they began to add American-exclusive "Battlizer" modes (typically only for the Red Ranger) with over-the-top designs and abilities for the purposes of shilling the equally-crazy action figures. (The toylines will also give the other male Rangers similar gimmicks, but these never get seen in the show....and the female Rangers often get no powerups outside of team-wide gear.) And that's not even getting into the extra vehicles; PR loves to add motorcycles and other crazy vehicles on top of whatever the source footage had (in some cases, they have to justify it whenever the Rangers can either teleport or have some other mode of transportation already available); the toylines often include a variant of the new vehicles for the Sixth Ranger (or, if the extra team member has their own personal vehicle, they give variants to the other Rangers).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_42e6eb8b	comment	The Oatmeal may be such a comic, according to this article.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_44715363	comment	Contrary to what some may believe, the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga/anime did not fit this trope: not only was Duel Monsters not originally part of the series, it took a while before it could be developed into a real collectible card game, which explains why the series seemed to be making up rules as it went along before the Battle City arc, which was lampshaded heavily in the Abridged Series. Future series, however, were very much this, causing some fans of the original to complain.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_44b3af49	comment	This may also be why in the movie, the Rangers' costumes were redesigned to incorporate emblems of their respective dinosaurs on their chests. This had long been a feature of most of the Power Rangers action figures, merchandise, and promotional material, but couldn't be incorporated into the show itself because of the reliance on Japanese stock footage. When it came time to make a movie out of 100 percent original footage, the Rangers now conveniently looked more like their action figures.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield, as its creator Jim Davis would eventually reveal, was created specifically with this kind of marketability in mind. Maybe not as a toy per se (the character was dramatically less toyetic in appearance in the beginning), but definitely as a line of merchandise. Garfield and Friends frequently lampshaded this. In one episode, another cat named Gabriel performs a Hostile Show Takeover, eventually leading Garfield to complain that "He's got my merchandising!"
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Merchandise-Driven / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably the most famous example of the "it wasn't meant to be a toy commercial, but it ended up becoming one anyway" subtrope. It was conceived to deliver a basic message, not to shill for toys; however, with the series becoming a smash hit, everybody and their mom started craving model kits of the Evangelions and figures of the girls. Especially the figures of the girls. Everything released since the original series is made to cater to all the plentiful diehard fans around the world - the merch was in fact so successful it managed to singlehandedly save Studio Gainax from bankruptcy, and then some!
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Merchandise-Driven / int_49887298	comment	Likewise, DC Comics Bombshells began life as a series of statues depicting DC's various heroines and villainesses as World War 2-era pinup girls.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_49a5082f	comment	Romper Room effectively became this when Claster Television, the company that created the show, was bought by Hasbro in 1969.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_4b2c1779	comment	Power Rangers Megaforce didn't have the cockpit armor of Samurai, but it was just as bad of a case, if not worse, due to the first half adapting Tensou Sentai Goseiger, a series with a rather large amount of mechs as well as collectible cards. Due to Nickelodeon forcing Saban to limit each season to 20 episodes, the zords debuted back-to-back - for an idea of just how forced this was, by the end of episode 5 in Megaforce, the team had the same number of Zords that the Goseigers had gotten by episode 9 of that seriesnote not counting Exotic Brothers, which was a one-off powerup - in fact, of the 20 episodesnote not counting the Halloween or Christmas episodes of Megaforce, the team gains mechs or some other powerup in 12 of them. The second half, Super Megaforce, was a bit better in the mecha department, since the majority of the zords the team gained were from older seasons,note and the only zords from Super Megaforce that were released were the new ones but it was just as bad if not worse overall, since Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the sentai Super Megaforce was adapted from, had ranger keys, which allowed the team to transform into past ranger modes - one key for each ranger; while they didn't release all the keys used in the seriesnote the only keys they didn't release were the ones of the Sentai-exclusive teams, although the keys from Dairanger were teased at a toy fair; also, the female Red Samurai Ranger and Super Megaforce Gold mode keys were never released they did release several toyline exclusive keys.note The keys for the extra heroes - other than the the Magna Defender and Wolf Warrior - as well as the Titanium Ranger and Phantom Ranger, were not used in the show, but did have keys exclusive to the toyline.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2, the helmet and repulsor toys worn by the kid who Tony rescues from nearly getting killed, later retconned to be a young Peter Parker, are actually from the toyline. This is quite possibly the only superhero movie where using the actual toys used to promote the film is completely appropriate in-story.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_4be3aedd	comment	In the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the Rangers' Power Morphers were designed to be worn on their belts while in civilian gear, but this gimmick was dropped after the first episode, with the teens usually just keeping them in their pockets instead. This is likely because in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the Morphers ("Dino Bucklers") were supposed to be stylized belt buckles with golden "Z" symbols on the back (with the Z visible when the heroes put their Bucklers on backwards), but the American Morpher toys neglected to include the Z stickers or the holsters needed to attach the toys to a belt. Since the toys completely missed out on the whole belt buckle disguise aspect, the show didn't use it either.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_4d238cb5	comment	Parodied in RoboCop: The Series with the Show Within a Show cartoon superhero Commander Cash. Created by OCP to sell toys (some of which are explosive), cereal and promote the positive side of shady business practices; because OCP cares about the future.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: In-Universe, The Squiddles is this.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_50d447ba	comment	"Helikopter Mission" promoting the German Armed Forces and specifically service as a Helicopter pilot. Gameplay and graphics were similar to Desert Strike, but no enemies, weapons or violence was involved and missions consisted of dropping paratroopers and supplies.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_54f1f0c	comment	Kemono Friends was made to promote a mobile game, but outlasted it as the original game shut down a little before the series aired. When the show's suprise popularity revived interest, new games were made — but they now promote the show, not the other way around.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_55b4e41c	comment	Pepsiman, based on a series of TV commercials that also had an associated toyline. One big difference from other advergames is that while the rest have little in common with what they are advertising, Pepsiman succeeds in making you remember which product you are supposed to buy. How? It brainwashes you with a song that repeats the product's name, "PEPSI-MAN!"
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5874fe63	comment	In the live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, the weapons and accessories used by the characters in the show were the actual toys on sale concurrently in the shops.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5ada27d7	comment	Spellbound! Magical Princess Lil'Pri is an adaptation of a Sega arcade game called Lilpri - Yubi Puru Hime Chen, which allows players to scan cards to customize their own Magic Idol Singer. The cards are even used in the show by the three main characters and are advertised at the end of each episode.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5ae07dd1	comment	Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling were accused of hiring Megumi Kudo for the purpose of selling catalogs after she had been cut from the Zenjo roster and faded into obscurity. However, their most infamous case was perhaps during the "World Entertainment Wrestling" era when Mr. Gannosuke appeared in a porno wearing Hayabusa's mask. Supposedly this was an attempt by Team No Respect to destroy the Hayabusa Brand.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5b0088a8	comment	Parodied by the Joueur du Grenier in his special about Merchandise-Driven shows: He reveals that his show was originally created to sell JdG dolls, but for some reason they never took off. That a pull-ring doll that tells racist jokes might not be marketable to children apparently never occurred to them.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5d4687d0	comment	Robotman, created by United Feature Syndicate in the '80s to be a marketing icon — a rare instance of a character actually being created by a syndicate and handed over to a cartoonist instead of the other way around, and an excellent example of how Merchandise Driven the comic strip industry in general had become by this point. After looking over a comic submitted for syndication by a young Bill Watterson and recommending that he spin off two of its minor characters into their own strip, they asked him to incorporate Robotman into the resulting product. Watterson, unsurprisingly, refused, and wound up not getting the gig. He moved on to rival Universal Press Syndicate, and the rest is history. And what became of Robotman, you ask? He eventually did get his own comic strip, but it never became the marketing boom the syndicate hoped, and was eventually renamed Monty after the eponymous character was written out at the syndicate's own recommendation when they discovered it was hard to market a strip called Robotman.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_5eab8c2b	comment	Seven Mortal Sins was a figurine line first before it became an anime, and its purpose is to flesh out the characters' backstory.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_62ec6df0	comment	An All-New, All-Different Avengers comic featuring Western Union.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy gives a lot of details to him developing and repurposing all of his gear. Utility Belt playsets were very common, and each movie introduces a new vehicle for him to use. All that said, it's downplayed compared to the Burton/Schumacher films due to having more consistency of his costume and vehicles and having less colorful villains.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_657a1bd8	comment	PaRappa the Rapper was made purely for this.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_68318e20	comment	The Pretty Series, as well as its spin-offs PriPara and King of Prism, are based off arcade games.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_68c8e9ad	comment	It also resulted in the series making it to Super Robot Wars, Keroro's living the mecha fanboy dream.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man 2, the helmet and repulsor toys worn by the kid who Tony rescues from nearly getting killed, later retconned to be a young Peter Parker, are actually from the toyline. This is quite possibly the only superhero movie where using the actual toys used to promote the film is completely appropriate in-story. In general, it's speculated that one of the reasons Iron Man changes suits in every MCU movie (sometimes sporting multiple armors in a single film) is because it gives the toy companies more products to sell. Iron Man 3 in particular had an entire fleet of new armors that got very little screen time but nonetheless featured heavily in the merchandise for the film. Other recurring characters like Captain America, Thor and Spider-Man have gone through multiple costume changes which are reflected in the merchandise.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Avengers: Mech Strike, a comic book mini-series where Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk, Captain Marvel and Black Widow pilot Humongous Mechas to battle Kaiju, was launched to promote a line of toys from Hasbro and Lego.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_71495571	comment	In Wonder Woman 1984, it's widely believed that the only reason Diana sports the Gold Armor was to have another action figure to sell. The armor bears little relevance to the plot and when Diana finally wears it, it's destroyed by Cheetah almost immediately.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_743130b4	comment	Rainbow Ruby has a stuffed bear and a magical suitcase that were made into toys in the show's home country of Korea. In addition, there have been many dolls made of Ruby's various costume changes in the series.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_74d492c0	comment	Our Friend Power 5: Toys for the film, including character figures and a board game, were made around the same time as the film, and produced by the same company. The film was most likely made as a vehicle to promote the toys.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7558ef22	comment	Cars quickly became Disney/Pixar's Cash-Cow Franchise in terms of selling merchandise. Kids don't really want Woody, Buzz, or any of the other characters Pixar created; they want cars. It's a symbiotic relationship: despite consistent lukewarm critical and box office reception, John Lasseter kept producing Cars films at Pixar, and spin-offs set in the same universe made by DisneyToon Studios, because that world was his personal pet project, and Disney had no problem letting him do it because he happened to pack each film full of more marketable new vehicle characters than an entire Transformers series. To put this into a wider perspective, the first Cars film was green-lit by Michael Eisner specifically because he knew how much money other companies were making by selling car toys. The project Eisner turned down in order to make Cars? An early version of Toy Story 3. THAT is how valuable he felt the Cars franchise could become.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_755c9804	comment	LEGO has LEGO Dimensions, which is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover LEGO Adaptation Game using their own franchises and multiple well-known franchises from various companies, although Warner Bros. (and various properties acquired by them over the years, like Hanna-Barbera toons and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films) is a little more prominent here; they published the game.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_763704be	comment	Parodied in Gateway Championship Wrestling by Matt Sydal, the shameless wrestling shirt salesman.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_76feae04	comment	A particularly bad example is when, in Power Rangers Mystic Force, the debut of the Red Ranger's motorcycle overshadowed the debut of one of the show's staples — the team's Humongous Mecha. Worse, there was a monster that turned into a car not too many episodes later, which would have been perfect for debuting the bike and working with the plot rather than against it.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7885461f	comment	Kotobukiya was quite blunt about making the anime adaptation of Frame Arms Girls very much about enticing people to buy kits of the small robot girls. It lends the show a certain cheesy charm in its unabashedness in marketing them.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_79b17f0f	comment	An Ant-Man and The Wasp comic featuring Dell computers.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7c61ff7a	comment	In-universe example in the NBC Wonder Woman pilot. The heroine's garish costume was explained as something she wore specifically to sell Wonder Woman action figures, as this version of the character was a corporate businesswoman who used merchandise sales to fund her vigilante activities.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Bill the Cat of Bloom County was created as a vicious parody of Garfield's heavily merchandised nature, with the joke being that he was a hideous, uncouth character completely unfit for merchandising. Ironically, Bill became a Breakout Character and accrued quite a bit of merchandising himself.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7d39a11b	comment	Beast Saga, due to being the Spiritual Successor to Battle Beasts/Beastformers.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_7e6db060	comment	Crush Gear Turbo was advertising for a rather strange game where battery-powered toy cars rolled around and collided in a small tray until one of them had the wheels fall off, or something. The merchandise is almost as hard to find as the show itself.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_803beb04	comment	Earthworm Jim was born of a collaboration between Shiny Entertainment and Playmates Toys, which was riding high on the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The original game was intended to kickstart a multimedia empire on the same scale as TMNT (albeit even sillier), complete with tie-in toyline, with all of this being unsubtly shilled in the game manual's "Hints and Tips" section. In the end, though, this attempt ended up as a dud, and while the first two games and the animated series are fondly-remembered Cult Classics, the action figures wallowed in obscurity and are largely forgotten.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8125b468	comment	The Batman franchise: The Tim Burton films are pretty good examples of this. Batman has a wide range of gadgets, vehicles and outfits depending on the situation, making him a gold mine of different merchandise to produce and sell. Part of the reason that Burton left the franchise after the second film was that it was felt that his increasingly Darker and Edgier vision was causing problems with creating child-friendly merchandise. Warner Bros. forced Joel Schumacher to make Batman & Robin "more toyetic," a word the director had never heard before then. The film's garish visual design choices were partly a result of the art design being rushed so that they could start producing the toys. The Dark Knight Trilogy gives a lot of details to him developing and repurposing all of his gear. Utility Belt playsets were very common, and each movie introduces a new vehicle for him to use. All that said, it's downplayed compared to the Burton/Schumacher films due to having more consistency of his costume and vehicles and having less colorful villains. The DC Extended Universe Batman gives him multiple outfits and vehicles for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and more variations throughout the story of Justice League (2017). This approach bled into the rest of the shared universe. Superman's suit had some slight alterations in-between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, with Zack Snyder's Justice League giving him a black and silver variant. Wonder Woman's signature outfit comes in varying shades of red, blue and gold for every appearance, with her solo films giving her an Amazonian training outfit and golden armor. Aquaman has a new suit with every major appearance, going from green in Justice League to gold in his solo film and dark blue in the solo's sequel. The Flash got a total of three new suits in his solo movie; one being an upgrade of his early costume, another being appropriated from a spare Batsuit for his doppelganger and the third being a horrific melding of rubber, shrapnel and possibly flesh for his Evil Knockoff. Outside of the Justice League are Harley Quinn and the Shazamily - who all get new costumes with every appearance - and Black Adam, whose own movie also introduced four members of the Justice Society. Joker is a major inversion in recent memory. Simply put, no merch was made around it, at the request of director Todd Phillips (if you ever see a Funko Pop! of it, it's custom-made). Phillips was infamously told by some Warner Bros. executives who doubted of the film's potential that "they can't sell pajamas with this version of the Joker on them".
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8192cba	comment	Surprisingly, Toy Story was not made for this, although it happens to be perfect for selling toys anyway. But the Shows Within The Movie, Woody's Roundup and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (the latter was Defictionalized) both are, and the two main characters are part of the merchandise. Woody's Roundup is even said to have been Cut Short because the toys weren't selling anymore, the fate of too many real-life series to name.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_82107120	comment	Bandai produces toys for the Indonesian tokusatsu BIMA Satria Garuda, just like for the Japanese franchises it was inspired by.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_84377fd8	comment	GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra was created as a revival of the G.I. Joe toyline. While the film wasn't the biggest hit, the toys were major sellers; so much that the sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, was funded with the money made from the toys.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_84705e25	comment	Aikatsu! was made to promote an arcade card/rhythm game of the same name. The events of the anime and the clothes worn by the characters during performances are made to match the content of the expansion pack released on the arcade game. Some episodes are even related to some of the side merchandises. During its first years, it perhaps was one of the most successful of these kinds of shows in Japan-it makes more money than Pretty Cure does! Unfortunately, that success didnâ€™t last too long, as the series became less and less profitable over the years, especially recently, but it didnâ€™t lose its dedicated fanbase that it gained during these years.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_86f6da00	comment	Street Fighter: A lot of the stuff involving tanks and other vehicles was put there at the behest of Hasbro, who wanted the film to promote their tie-in toy line.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_86fe8128	comment	Urban Rivals manages to do this without a tangible product. The Web Comics promote characters on the cards, often with gang team-ups, sometimes with what appears to be a Crack Pairing that actually hints as to how the cards could work together in a hand. The showcased character cards enjoy a boost in popularity and price, and purchasable booster packs tout the inclusion of the characters.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8966a34	comment	Medabots was a vehicle to sell a series of video games and customizable action figures; justified in-universe by having battlers being able to take one part from their opponent on victory and add it to their robot. Fits this trope to a T; and was also pretty memorable in its own right.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8ac4e993	comment	The "success" of a Gundam anime series is often considered to be measured by the number of Gunpla models it sells. The fact that many of these series are either good, great, or mind-blowing, seems completely unimportant to Sunrise, their animation studio. Ironically, Tomino made the original Gundam series in an attempt to make the Giant Robot genre something other than a toy commercial. It hasn't always worked. For example, the color scheme of the titular mech was drastically altered to be more visually appealing (even though it was much, much less realistic). And all of the other modifications to the original story. Even more ironically, the Gundam series' continued survival and success is largely down to the fact that Bandai chose to sponsor the series and sell plastic models. The original series' cancellation was in part due to poor merchandising. Gundam Sousei discusses this. The show's ratings were absolutely terrible, so Tomino started creating blatantly toyetic mobile suits and vehicles (such as the G-Armor) in hopes that toy sales would keep the show afloat. It didn't work, but the strong toy and model kit sales did help convince the studio to do a trilogy of Compilation Movies, which eventually led to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, which was far more successful. In the later parts of the UC timeline, mobile suit technology is refined to the point where the suits can be built 20-30% smaller and lighter without sacrificing power or armor. And so Bandai gets to market smaller and cheaper models in the same scales, grades, and price points as before. Despite the expense of new kits, this has been phased out as newer kits are often priced depending on their weight and complexity. Kits like the 00 Qant and the Unicorn Gundam are hot sellers but they are priced according to how much plastic is in those kits. On the other hand, large kits like the Sinanju err to the more expensive side. By the time of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, the price of the HG kits are barely the half of the other kits thanks to the inner frame features, all mobile suits in these lines can interchange parts with each other as well as attaching Builder parts onto the peg holes on the frame. Often times, Bandai will find ways to release old kits as a new model with various ways to make them seem like legitimate standalone kits. One such method is to market recolors (0 Gundam and the Celestial Being colors) or spin-off variations of a kit (Astraea, Astraea type F) without having to create entirely new runners. This can be both subtle and completely in your face, like the GN condenser 00 where the frame is the exact same except for an extra clip that gives you the condenser pieces. Gundam Build Fighters is what happens when Gundam abandons any pretense at not being merchandise driven. It's a typical toy-driven To Be a Master series... except the toys are Gundam models. Build Fighters is marginally more decent about this than its predecessor, Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G, though. The previous show had An Aesop that modifying your kits or scratch-building parts is bad (though we know the real reason why Bandai would rather you buy stock parts), whereas scratch-building is very much celebrated in Build Fighters. Funnily, this is also the creation behind Sunrise shows that fans call "it's Gundam, only not". Since the Gundam name has such a specific stigma behind it and requires model sales to be successful, Sunrise will make shows that in many ways are Gundam series, but called something else in order to avoid said stigma. Examples being Code Geass, Valvrave, and Dragonar, which was called by fans "the best Gundam show of the 80s".
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8d7f29ec	comment	The later seasons of Glee had gone from a TV show about life in a glee club to a commercial to sell cover albums. Unsurprisingly, the ratings went down.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8df73143	comment	Monsuno, a series centered around a card game and a line of toys where monsters burst forth from spun tubes.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8e077a1	comment	Power Rangers Ninja Steel has another major example of toys dictating the show. In the source series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the Rangers' Cool Swords are their Transformation Trinkets; when Saban was adapting the show, Bandai asked them to make it so that the Rangers' secondary Swiss-Army Weapon (which is shaped like a giant ninja star) was the transformation device instead, since they wanted to move as many toys as possible and knew the sword would already sell well by virtue of being the Rangers' primary weapon.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_8eba18b	comment	Webkinz is an earlier game which functioned similar to the toys-to-life concept. It was made so that the player would buy a plush and then adopt its virtual counterpart in-game. It used to be that a premium account would expire a year after being activated by a plush, forcing players to keep buying plushies to play, but this was stopped due to complaints.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9322493f	comment	Discussed in the fourth-wall-breaking Supplementary Plan tie-in for Kamen Rider Zi-O. Sougo wonders aloud why Kuroto Dan, a character from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, was such a major character in episodes that were a tribute to Kamen Rider OOO (pointing to the various OOO-themed merchandise released at the same time) instead of the ones actually devoted to Ex-Aid. When he learns that there was a promotional item based on Kuroto released during those episodes, he concludes that the show runs at the whim of the toy company. But Kuroto himself denies that he was brought on just to hawk some toys, and Woz explains that the toy release was adjusted to match the show instead of the other way around. (In real life, it was a matter of when Kuroto's actor had room in his schedule.)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_952d2e68	comment	The American Girls Collection. Every book in the series (until the BeForever remvamp) made sure to tie the images in the books to the historical character's collections. They featured at minimal a new outfit for the central character and corresponding doll—a school-themed outfit, a Christmas or holiday-themed outfit, a birthday party outfit, and so on—along with accessories. For example, the cover of Happy Birthday Samantha has her in her birthday dress, holding her gifted teddy bear, and with her table and chairs decked out with her birthday treatsâ€”all things that could be purchased as part of her collection. It can sometimes feel like a stretch to include these items—Addy, recently emancipated from enslavement and starting life over in the city, manages to get nice new dresses regularly (that show the fashions of the era) because her mother is a seamstress. Others make little sense or were clearly shoehorned in to fit the patterns of the characters—e.g. Felicity gets a lamb for her birthday because every character had to have a pet in her birthday book and while it's written that Posie is to help teach Felicity and her siblings about caring for young creatures, Posie is never seen after that book. The merchandise ends up working for the series, though, because the items are (even if improbable to the story) impressively well-researched and usually end up contributing to the sense of representing the era history or have meaning in the story.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_961b37e0	comment	The DC Extended Universe Batman gives him multiple outfits and vehicles for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and more variations throughout the story of Justice League (2017). This approach bled into the rest of the shared universe. Superman's suit had some slight alterations in-between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, with Zack Snyder's Justice League giving him a black and silver variant. Wonder Woman's signature outfit comes in varying shades of red, blue and gold for every appearance, with her solo films giving her an Amazonian training outfit and golden armor. Aquaman has a new suit with every major appearance, going from green in Justice League to gold in his solo film and dark blue in the solo's sequel. The Flash got a total of three new suits in his solo movie; one being an upgrade of his early costume, another being appropriated from a spare Batsuit for his doppelganger and the third being a horrific melding of rubber, shrapnel and possibly flesh for his Evil Knockoff. Outside of the Justice League are Harley Quinn and the Shazamily - who all get new costumes with every appearance - and Black Adam, whose own movie also introduced four members of the Justice Society.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_99b204c6	comment	PokÃ©mon Origins is a completely separate OVA created to promote PokÃ©mon X and Y, aimed at older fans who grew up with the original games. As such, it still serves as a promotional arm for the games, especially with Mega Charizard X's appearance, but otherwise focuses more on bringing the original games to life rather than shoving all the newest PokÃ©mon and features in viewers' faces.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9b00ac88	comment	The Metal Heroes franchise of the early '80s to mid-'90s featured the same kind of toys most sentai do, however a lot more emphasis was placed on firearms such as Blue Swat's famous Dictator, which fired frighteningly similar to a real gun. Also, they had crazy arsenals even when it was just one hero, as much gear as the average Super Sentai series (right down to the giant robot in some cases). Bikes, tanks, drill-tanks, fighter jets, and at least one giant mecha-dragon all launched from a huge flying base (the base itself will often transform into something, including the aforementioned mecha-dragon). There are whole Sentai teams who don't have as deep a bag of tricks as a Space Sheriff may on his lonesome.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9b741b8b	comment	The entire Brave Series was heavily Merchandise Driven; the franchise was essentially a remake of Transformers when Takara was having difficulty with its other contractors about that franchise and so turned to Sunrise, then already famous for Mobile Suit Gundam, and asked them to animate several toy-driven kid's shows. The brand never did as well as Takara had hoped it would and they eventually stopped caring, which led to everything that ever happened in GaoGaiGar.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9e282c8	comment	selector infected WIXOSS is an unusual instance of this played straight. On the surface it looks to be a TCG anime akin to Yu-Gi-Oh! with a dash of Magical Girl for flavor. A closer examination shows that the presentation is a Deconstruction of the Serious Business mentality such shows treat their card games with. Wixoss seems just to be a cute game for girls, but those who can see and speak with special cards known as LRIG's are Selectors, unique in that they can battle in hopes of granting a girl's greatest wish. The game is revealed to have a dark consequence for those who fail three battles, quickly reversing the effects of their wish into a curse, and their cute LRIG companion will disappear. The anime delves into what a harsh system will do to girls as they struggle to win battles at any cost, sacrificing friendships in the name of achieving their wishes, and a worse twist that befalls those unlucky enough to win. Ostensibly it exists to promote the Wixoss card game, but unlike most anime of this nature the rules are barely explained and focus more on the characterization of those playing, the psychological complexity of those desperate enough to play, and exploring many Darker and Edgier themes that make you wonder why little girls would buy such a depressing product.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9e63932d	comment	Ojamajo Doremi showcased magical accessories that were not only gaudy and colorful, but even in the anime looked like cheap plastic, and featured sounds, lights, and actions that were easy to replicate via the magic of mass production. This Dreamspinner◊, for example, is precisely as depicted in the show, right up to the point where it fails to spit out a magic wand and costume — they're sold separately.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9f48001f	comment	Joker is a major inversion in recent memory. Simply put, no merch was made around it, at the request of director Todd Phillips (if you ever see a Funko Pop! of it, it's custom-made). Phillips was infamously told by some Warner Bros. executives who doubted of the film's potential that "they can't sell pajamas with this version of the Joker on them".
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Merchandise-Driven / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Almost all PokÃ©mon manga is this, though they can handle the Merchandise-Driven aspect in different ways. PokÃ©mon Adventures, for example, isn't as relentless in this regard as the regular anime (as evidenced by its Schedule Slip tendencies), and puts a stronger focus on characters and storytelling.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_a0e4a1cb	comment	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie: Khalil was changed from being a worm to a half-caterpillar, half-worm due to this trope. After seeing his inital design, Phil Vischer said "No child in America is gonna want to hug that", referring to the fact that his design wasn't cute enough for merchandising.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_a4274674	comment	This approach bled into the rest of the shared universe. Superman's suit had some slight alterations in-between Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, with Zack Snyder's Justice League giving him a black and silver variant. Wonder Woman's signature outfit comes in varying shades of red, blue and gold for every appearance, with her solo films giving her an Amazonian training outfit and golden armor. Aquaman has a new suit with every major appearance, going from green in Justice League to gold in his solo film and dark blue in the solo's sequel. The Flash got a total of three new suits in his solo movie; one being an upgrade of his early costume, another being appropriated from a spare Batsuit for his doppelganger and the third being a horrific melding of rubber, shrapnel and possibly flesh for his Evil Knockoff. Outside of the Justice League are Harley Quinn and the Shazamily - who all get new costumes with every appearance - and Black Adam, whose own movie also introduced four members of the Justice Society.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_a5efcdf4	comment	Out of popular otome franchises, special mention goes to the Tsukipro franchise and its mascots. There's a different animal for each series of two idol units - Tsukiuta's Tsukiusa (rabbit), SQ's Lizz-kun (squirrel), Alive's Arainu (dog), and Vazzrock's Vazzcat - and the mascots come in each character's image color. Not only do they sell a ton of different permutations of plushies of them, they also make clothes and accessories for the original size ones. And they encourage fans to be creative with them - many fans make tiny versions of the characters' costumes from the illustrations and stage plays, for the plushies, and there are plenty of instagram accounts of fans taking photos of the plushies in interesting arrangements. They even had an official photo contest.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_a61ca024	comment	Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue is a good example of the whole "adding vehicles" thing. They start with a Humvee (the "Rescue Rover") which was never available as a toy; they soon get the Lightspeed Cycles (with an additional sidecar, the "Rescue Speeder", which could be used as a weapon), with the Red Mobile Armored Vehicle added around mid-season (though it barely saw use outside of a "Groundhog Day" Loop episode, and then in the finale as a method of bringing down a hijacked Megazord). The final vehicle added, the Trans-Armor Cycle, also doubled as Carter's Battlizer (with both Joel and Chad getting their own "Mega Battle" powerups). They even went so far as adding a Sixth Ranger, in the form of the Titanium Ranger (the source material didn't have a full-time sixth member), the first time PR ever added a new US-exclusive Ranger. (He got no vehicle in the show, probably because of Ryan being Put on a Bus to account for him not being in the Japanese footage and shooting new US footage to include him was getting expensive; the toyline gave him his own "Titanium Land Crawler".)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_a9fdd959	comment	After Toru Yano snapped in 2004, he became the drunken DVD advertisement of New Japan.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_aa153bc5	comment	Any Beyblade series, which focus on a wildly popular world dominating sport where competitors play with little spinning top toys and try to tip each others' toys over.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ac7f7bc2	comment	The original Atari Force started off as promotional giveaways included with Atari 2600 game cartridges. The second series kept the backstory and the characters, but was otherwise an original sci-fi romp.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ace263fa	comment	Deltora Quest, which started as a standard fantasy series; but gained an anime adaptation with a card game and series of collectible figurines.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ad97c383	comment	In Queen's Blade the Visual Battle Books are what really ignites any other related product for the franchise, from figurines to Anime/Manga and Video Games; Hobby Japan itself are endorsed by other companies to make merchandise of their products, so making some for their in-house creation comes off as expected.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_aedfc20a	comment	And again with The LEGO Movie, but this time the movie itself has more control than the toys. In fact, the movie itself is a love letter to the LEGO brand, and the toys are on the side.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_af6562ac	comment	Deconstructed in Sailor Nothing, when Himei notes that "I'm very tired." wouldn't sell any action figures. Nor would her second catch phrase, "I want to live."
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Merchandise-Driven / int_afe6f7f0	comment	Wonder Woman and the Star Riders: Was meant to sell a line of dolls and accessories by Mattel, but the show and toys ended up cancelled after a few previews leaving the short tie-in promotional comic as the only complete and published bit of the project.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b0183e04	comment	Garth Marenghis Darkplace parodies this twice: When the plot of an episode slams to a halt so Garth can moralize about how you should always buy name-brand batteries. It's not clear whether this is an attempt at product placement or just one of Marenghi's many personal hang-ups. Garth also frequently uses the Show Within a Show to advertise his numerous books, usually by having characters read his books in-universe and then praise them.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b09be8	comment	Gundam Build Fighters is what happens when Gundam abandons any pretense at not being merchandise driven. It's a typical toy-driven To Be a Master series... except the toys are Gundam models. Build Fighters is marginally more decent about this than its predecessor, Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G, though. The previous show had An Aesop that modifying your kits or scratch-building parts is bad (though we know the real reason why Bandai would rather you buy stock parts), whereas scratch-building is very much celebrated in Build Fighters.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Another toku franchise, the Ultra Series, is quite merchandise driven with its numerous Transformation Trinkets, weapons, planes, spaceships, kaijus and Ultras all waiting to be turned into plastic toys. In the most recent era (starting in 2013), they've also adopted the collectible aspect from Sentai and Rider; and the first of these series (Ultraman Ginga and Ultraman X) were the most blatant as the action figures themselves were used as the in-show collectible (though in defense, Ginga started out with No Budget and Off-the-Shelf FX was a necessity). Since then they've moved to cards (X again, Ultraman Orb, and later Ultraman Decker), capsules (Ultraman Geed), crystals (Ultraman R/B), bracelets and rings (Ultraman Taiga), various kinds of discs (Ultraman Z and Ultraman Blazar), and USB-like "keys" (Ultraman Trigger).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b30eb501	comment	My Pet Monster: A film based on a stuffed animal made to promote it. There was also a cartoon from the same people aired the year after on ABC.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b3690647	comment	Part of why X-Men: The Last Stand has such a bloated cast (many of whom appear in only a few scenes and\or die anticlimactically) was hoping to make as many toys possible. Ironically the fast-tracked Troubled Production wound up making development too rushed for ToyBiz to be able to put together action figures for it - only a year after the movie came out Hasbro made some Last Stand toys in the Marvel Legends line.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b40513b1	comment	Regularly mocked in Foxtrot, where Jason makes no secret whatsoever that he wants money, not artistic recognition. One of his proposed Slug-man comics was nothing but Slug-man and Paige-o-tron using their various weapons against each other (Each Sold Separately, *batteries not included, and all ending in a Trade Snark) ending with Jason wondering if it was customary to approach network executives or toy manufacturers first. Another had him submit a comic strip to his school newspaper. And this immortal line:
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b50cc7e6	comment	An The Incredible Hulk comic featuring mattresses from Sleepy's.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b5929672	comment	Singin' in the Rain is a rare example of a merchandise driven product that turned out beautifully. The studio had the rights to a catalog of songs, and asked some filmmakers to make a movie with those songs in it for promotional value. A more crass motive you could not imagine, and yet Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the best movie musicals of all time.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b89bf586	comment	The practice of crafting a story behind the toys has clearly caught on, as two of Lego's current flagships are Ninjago and Legends of Chima.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_b91debeb	comment	The Black★Rock Shooter franchise exists to promote new BRS figurines. It would have been less egregious if other Other-world characters have their figurines released, but they just keep releasing BRS variations (regular, 2035, BRSB, IBRS...), and the variations aren't even all that different. Anime distributing company Funimation have even gone on to say that the reason why they were unable to get the rights to the TV series was because of the expensive toy dealings that were practically tacked on to the rights. It is very telling when GoodSmile were already announcing figures for the spinoff anime Blackâ˜…Rock Shooter DAWN FALL before it even aired.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bab66e95	comment	This is becoming more and more common in "regular" comic books, from Events to other stories. Many, many stories now heavily feature rapid-fire costume switches and variants on old costume designs, as heroes gain temporary power-ups. DC's Blackest Night and Marvel's Fear Itself show this most strongly. In the former, a dozen heroes get possessed by Power Rings that alter their costumes more than once. In the latter, heroes and villains get new costumes and weapons. All have the side-effect of allowing whole new sets of toys to be created in their likeness. Although curiously, Fear Itself didn't receive a line of toys, and there haven't been any variants produced of the characters in the toy-lines. Blackest Night, on the other hand? Almost every Black Lantern has received a figure, at the very least.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bc1dc95a	comment	The Pirates of the Caribbean movies were created to promote the already popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride, then the subsequent merchandise. Which led to the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride being refurbished to feature umpteen Jack Sparrow, to hype the movies' DVD sales and box-office receipts. Predictably, this disgusted fans of the attraction's classic layout but was a blessing for fans of the movies who wanted to see Jack and the crew as part of the original ride.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: What once started as a joke among the fanbase became less of a joke when Games Workshop started releasing rulesets that seemed tailored to force people to buy new models. One of the most memorable cases came with the 5th edition Codex Tyranids. The iconic Carnifex, which had been a staple of any Tyranid list worth its salt for two editions running, was nerfed into near oblivion. But fear not, Tyranid players, for Games Workshop's new Tyranid model range was full of winning units, such as the Trygon/Mawloc kit, and the now-ubiquitous Hive Guard. Have fun buying new models, kiddies! 8th edition led to a massive surge in people calling bullshit on GW, since it featured a new line of Primaris Space Marines that became the face of the SM faction. Space Marine players therefore found themselves obligated to buy dozens of expensive new models to stay competitive in the game. This has only escalated in the last several years, as more and more Primaris kits and army sets have been released, often with rules that make them outright broken to play against. Some players think that Games Workshop is steering away from this due to the increasing number of units with complete rules developed long before the models come out. Former examples include the Space Marine Drop Pod, Ork Battlewagon, Tyranid Gargoyles and Tervigon, Chaos Daemons' Seekers of Slaanesh and Dark Eldar Razorwing, while current examples (as of October 2012) include various special characters like Old Zogwort, Justicar Thawn, and Baron Sathonyx and a vast number of Tyranid units including the Harpy, Shrike Brood, Doom of Malan'tai, and Parasite of Mortrex. Forge World, the division of GW that specializes in big expensive resin kits, will sometimes sell kits for these units, but crack is not only cheaper, but has an infinitely simpler assembly. Oddly enough, for a very long time the company had almost no merch beyond the models and books themselves. Given the rabid fanbase, including many who love the setting but don't play the main tabletop game, this seemed to be an odd choice in an age where even every webcomic sells T-shirts. For quite some time, the only 40K merch available outside video games like Dawn of War and a few board and card games was directly related to the game itself: gaming accessories like branded dice and rulers, figure transport cases, and paintbrushes, the latter in the hope that the punters won't ever discover that Officeworks also sell paintbrushes. Some of their tools seem to have a reason to exist; not many manufacturers make a mould line removal implement, after all, but there are some you'd just get at Spotlight or another craft store, plus their special branded glues and basing materials. These are people who insist on trying to sell you a pot to fill with water to rinse your paintbrush in. They once had a souvenir mug, but apparently it went wrong and was not cleared for food use, so was sold as a different brush-washing pot. After the release of 8th edition, however, GW started moving into the non-game merch space with a vengeance, and now you can buy official 40K t-shirts, keychains, mugs, backpacks, sweaters, plushies, and comics, among other things. Games Workshop undoubtedly swung back in this direction for a while, after their legal team's trademark debacle with the author of Spots the Space Marine a few years back. Almost all units and characters that had rules, but never got official models, eventually disappeared from the tabletop as the books containing their rules were superseded, with only a few exceptions (usually units with official models that went out of production and were never replaced). Likewise, practically all model-less units and characters in Warhammer failed to make the transition to its successor, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, although Games Workshop acknowledged that some players and collectors made their own models for them by recommending units that they could be used to proxy. Another sign of a more merchandise-driven approach was a move towards artwork that replicated the miniatures, detail-for-detail, rather than focusing on exploring the setting beyond the tabletop like in the past (although this may also have been due to an increased reliance on freelance artists). However, recent information about the art direction of Warhammer 40,000's 8th edition suggests that they may be swinging back in the opposite direction again.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bd3bfb55	comment	Every single episode of Madan Senki Ryukendo is devoted to the introduction of some new toy. The main character has four different forms (with four different action figures) each with its own robot sidekick — that's eight episodes to introduce everything. Then towards the end of the series he gets a Super Mode that upgrades everything he has, meaning another eight episodes to introduce all of his new powers. And then at the end of that, he gets an Ultimate Form. With equally Ultimate robot sidekicks. This isn't counting the episodes where he gains a new piece of barely-useful equipment (Madan Dagger, anyone?) or one of the two other main heroes gets a new upgrade/robot sidekick/finisher. God forbid he use the powers he already has in a new and interesting way. The show's Spiritual Successors, Tomica Hero Rescue Force and Rescue Fire, actually have the toy company's brand name (The Tomica series of die-cast cars) in the title, although at least they're better about making the toys fit in with the storyline.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bfd23f28	comment	Mattel execs hoped Masters of the Universe would save the then-dying franchise of the same name by reigniting interest in the brand. Unfortunately, the toys and TV show being on a downward trend affected the film production itself, which flopped and couldn't do anything to save the toyline.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_bff01809	comment	The Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels published by Black Library sometimes seem like this. Occasionally, it seems like every named character in the Horus Heresy series who doesn't die is condemned for his heresy to spend eternity as an expensive piece of plastic. Horus Heresy isn't really the best example as GW proper does not produce any Heresy-era miniatures (their sister company Forgeworld announced a series of Horus Heresy campaign books and models, but the book series had been going for years before). Many BL books heavily feature special characters from the games and sometimes you can catch hints of new models in books released shortly before a new codex/armybook that feature the army in question.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c11df2bf	comment	In the same gamut, Bakugan. At least it has a better justification (parallel universe and all).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c18fbf6	comment	Annihilators: Earthfall has an in-universe example with Mojo's show about Rocket Raccoon and Groot. He's made at least four different Environment-Specific Action Figure toys of Rocket, and each is packaged with one piece of a buildable Groot toy. He expects the toy sales to make up a big chunk of the profits.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c3cda553	comment	Magic Mike's Last Dance is a rare example of this trope being applied to a franchise that isn't primarily geared towards children and/or "geek" types, primarily existing to promote the Magic Mike Live stage show and featuring many of the dancers who perform in it.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c489a759	comment	Adventure 02 is a good example — in the series, T.K. and Kari's Digimon had to evolve into Armor forms because the plot placed a restriction on normal evolution methods. Later in the series, the limitation was lifted, allowing Patamon and Gatomon to reach their (more powerful) angelic forms; nevertheless, they still went with the Armors most of the time, since they were what was selling then.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c4a22754	comment	Parodied in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series' first movie, where the climactic scene (the Big Bad getting his attack laughed off then getting pulverized by a giant dragon with Ode to Joy blaring in the background) is only slightly marred by the fact that half the action is obscured by a gigantic "BUY YU-GI-OH CARDS TODAY". Characters in-universe refer to Duel Monsters almost exclusively as "a children's card game", and much humor is derived from how everyone treats an innocuous playground activity as Serious Business.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c4dc9e01	comment	Sunrise's other multimedia darling, the Love Live! franchise is not much different. The multiple animation productions tie-in with continuous merchandise releases, such as CDs with the songs that the idols perform in anime, waffers with collectible cards, nesoberi plushies, keychains and more bizarre paraphernalia like nippers and fidget spinners. The bulk of the sales, however, comes from the CD and Bluray releases that accompany each anime episode, which contain lottery codes for live concerts; it's not uncommon to see fans purchase 10 or more CDs while attempting to win a ticket. And this is without getting into the mobile games, that hold multiple events to promote the anime, and viceversa. The franchise has stayed in the top 10 of the best selling franchises in the Oricon chart since 2015 thanks to this.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c5810f6f	comment	The DC Super Hero Girls web shorts exist to promote Mattel's line of DC dolls and toys.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c5c45c70	comment	Marvel's Micronauts comic book series was created specifically to sell the action figure toy line, but writer Bill Mantlo successfully turned it into a well-written and sometimes deeply philosophical science fiction epic, while doing all they could to avoid some amazing similarities between the toy line and the recently-released Star Wars: A New Hope. The comics outlasted the toy line, but since Marvel doesn't own the trademark, the Micronauts have rarely reappeared in the Marvel Universe, and their more familiar aspects, and name, have been suspiciously absent when they did appear. Bug still appears without the rest of the team, since he bears so little resemblance to the "Galactic Warrior" figure on which he was very loosely based, that Marvel can claim him as their own original creation.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c66ffb9c	comment	The Disney Fairies movies were made to sell the franchiseâ€™s toy line. When the toys stopped selling well, the franchise was discontinued.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_c80ce6da	comment	Battle Skipper: The mechas the girls use are based on a toy line by Takara Tomy. The series is a three-parter, fan-service-riddled, easily side-tracked commercial.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus parodied this with "Trim-Jeans Theatre," which presented plays and movies with the cast members all wearing Trim-Jeans.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ccbaad5d	comment	Digimon Fusion tightly embraces the marketing side - practically every main character was clearly designed with Combining Mecha toys in mind, and as such the story primarily wove itself around said combining gimmick, but it is unclear how much of the story is influenced by it. It paid off, as its toy sales were reportedly the best of any Digimon line in years and were enough to get the show an extra season. Said extra season, Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, was significantly less toyetic, to the point where no actual toys for anything introduced in it are known to have been produced
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Merchandise-Driven / int_cf3e7a82	comment	At least part of the reason why the Superman movie franchise was in Development Hell for so long is due to executives wanting to depower the Man of Steel so they could give him Batman-like toys that they could sell to kids. Several of the script drafts for Tim Burton's Superman Lives movie (including the one by Kevin Smith) featured Superman donning a suit of Powered Armor and using gadgets like high-tech goggles and S-shaped throwing stars.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend does this in-universe, by using Merchandise to power the Command & Conquer Economy.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d0744832	comment	An Avengers comic featuring Audi vehicles, with the cast consisting of characters featured in Captain America: Civil War (Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, etc.)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d154285c	comment	In TNA, the Suicide gimmick was devised to sell copies of their Midway developed video game. To this end, at least five men were put under the mask to keep it going.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d266b137	comment	ChexQuest was probably the coolest thing you EVER got out of a cereal box if you grew up in the 90s. This one actually became so pervasive that it spawned a fandom of its own and is a popular subject for Doom modders (since it is a Doom-engine game). There are both unofficial and moderately official (as in "with the input of the original developers", although Chex themselves not so much) follow-ups to the original series as well. So Merchandise-Driven as it may have been, it no longer is bound to that and the "Chex" name and setting remain simply because that's what started it.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d36f0081	comment	The Toei Tokusatsu franchises Super Sentai and Kamen Rider have devoted whole episodes to new merchandise, and Power Rangers adds their own merch on top of that. In the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the Rangers' Power Morphers were designed to be worn on their belts while in civilian gear, but this gimmick was dropped after the first episode, with the teens usually just keeping them in their pockets instead. This is likely because in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the Morphers ("Dino Bucklers") were supposed to be stylized belt buckles with golden "Z" symbols on the back (with the Z visible when the heroes put their Bucklers on backwards), but the American Morpher toys neglected to include the Z stickers or the holsters needed to attach the toys to a belt. Since the toys completely missed out on the whole belt buckle disguise aspect, the show didn't use it either. This may also be why in the movie, the Rangers' costumes were redesigned to incorporate emblems of their respective dinosaurs on their chests. This had long been a feature of most of the Power Rangers action figures, merchandise, and promotional material, but couldn't be incorporated into the show itself because of the reliance on Japanese stock footage. When it came time to make a movie out of 100 percent original footage, the Rangers now conveniently looked more like their action figures. Beginning with Power Rangers in Space, they began to add American-exclusive "Battlizer" modes (typically only for the Red Ranger) with over-the-top designs and abilities for the purposes of shilling the equally-crazy action figures. (The toylines will also give the other male Rangers similar gimmicks, but these never get seen in the show....and the female Rangers often get no powerups outside of team-wide gear.) And that's not even getting into the extra vehicles; PR loves to add motorcycles and other crazy vehicles on top of whatever the source footage had (in some cases, they have to justify it whenever the Rangers can either teleport or have some other mode of transportation already available); the toylines often include a variant of the new vehicles for the Sixth Ranger (or, if the extra team member has their own personal vehicle, they give variants to the other Rangers). Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue is a good example of the whole "adding vehicles" thing. They start with a Humvee (the "Rescue Rover") which was never available as a toy; they soon get the Lightspeed Cycles (with an additional sidecar, the "Rescue Speeder", which could be used as a weapon), with the Red Mobile Armored Vehicle added around mid-season (though it barely saw use outside of a "Groundhog Day" Loop episode, and then in the finale as a method of bringing down a hijacked Megazord). The final vehicle added, the Trans-Armor Cycle, also doubled as Carter's Battlizer (with both Joel and Chad getting their own "Mega Battle" powerups). They even went so far as adding a Sixth Ranger, in the form of the Titanium Ranger (the source material didn't have a full-time sixth member), the first time PR ever added a new US-exclusive Ranger. (He got no vehicle in the show, probably because of Ryan being Put on a Bus to account for him not being in the Japanese footage and shooting new US footage to include him was getting expensive; the toyline gave him his own "Titanium Land Crawler".) A particularly bad example is when, in Power Rangers Mystic Force, the debut of the Red Ranger's motorcycle overshadowed the debut of one of the show's staples — the team's Humongous Mecha. Worse, there was a monster that turned into a car not too many episodes later, which would have been perfect for debuting the bike and working with the plot rather than against it. The Milestone Celebration episode Forever Red in Power Rangers Wild Force was a hideous example of this. The original finale to the episode was supposed to have had the classic Megazords fighting Serpentera, but was shot down because they didn't want to promote old toys. Even more, because Bandai was helping finance the episode (as it was made during the transition between Saban and Disney), they were forced to use the brand new motorcycle Cole got the episode before, leading to the ridiculous Curb-Stomp Battle between it and Serpentera. Power Rangers Samurai has a nasty case of it. Due to Disney stopping production on the series, Samurai was initially designed as a toy-only installment and the toymakers used the freedom to take liberties with the original designs from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. But then Saban picked up the rights and rushed a new TV season into production, forcing both sides to suddenly try and pivot to line up with one another. So the Rangers' Transformation Sequence involves transforming first into the suits minus helmets but with face-concealing masks (as that is how the toy makers did the usual head-flipping figures without actors to base heads on) and then the helmets form. During mecha fights, the toy versions of the Rangers' gear is used while in the cockpits, and only there. This means there are enough all-new suits and weapons that you could make a whole new series out of them if you wanted... and all this stuff only exists while piloting the Megazord and serves no purpose whatsoever within the show. (You'd think morphing from the show version to the toy version would make a good Mid-Season Upgrade, but that'd mean making expensive new fight scenes instead of being able to use Shinkenger's Stock Footage.) Later seasons would follow Samurai's example and have the Rangers continue to don new armor and weapons in the Megazord cockpits. On the plus side, these were better justified in-show as assisting in powering and operating the Megazord (Samurai had no such explanation) and were strictly secondary merch where the Samurai toyline focused on the zord armor at the expense of the regular suits. Power Rangers Megaforce didn't have the cockpit armor of Samurai, but it was just as bad of a case, if not worse, due to the first half adapting Tensou Sentai Goseiger, a series with a rather large amount of mechs as well as collectible cards. Due to Nickelodeon forcing Saban to limit each season to 20 episodes, the zords debuted back-to-back - for an idea of just how forced this was, by the end of episode 5 in Megaforce, the team had the same number of Zords that the Goseigers had gotten by episode 9 of that seriesnote not counting Exotic Brothers, which was a one-off powerup - in fact, of the 20 episodesnote not counting the Halloween or Christmas episodes of Megaforce, the team gains mechs or some other powerup in 12 of them. The second half, Super Megaforce, was a bit better in the mecha department, since the majority of the zords the team gained were from older seasons,note and the only zords from Super Megaforce that were released were the new ones but it was just as bad if not worse overall, since Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the sentai Super Megaforce was adapted from, had ranger keys, which allowed the team to transform into past ranger modes - one key for each ranger; while they didn't release all the keys used in the seriesnote the only keys they didn't release were the ones of the Sentai-exclusive teams, although the keys from Dairanger were teased at a toy fair; also, the female Red Samurai Ranger and Super Megaforce Gold mode keys were never released they did release several toyline exclusive keys.note The keys for the extra heroes - other than the the Magna Defender and Wolf Warrior - as well as the Titanium Ranger and Phantom Ranger, were not used in the show, but did have keys exclusive to the toyline. Power Rangers Ninja Steel has another major example of toys dictating the show. In the source series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the Rangers' Cool Swords are their Transformation Trinkets; when Saban was adapting the show, Bandai asked them to make it so that the Rangers' secondary Swiss-Army Weapon (which is shaped like a giant ninja star) was the transformation device instead, since they wanted to move as many toys as possible and knew the sword would already sell well by virtue of being the Rangers' primary weapon. Merchandising concerns ended up working to the detriment of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger. The toys didn't sell well, but the Lupinranger merch sold better than merch for the Patrangers. In order to push sales, the Lupinrangers became a Spotlight-Stealing Squad and items intended for the Patrangers were reassigned to them (with the plot justification that the Lupinrangers were already established as thieves who would swipe stuff for themselves). Lupinranger VS Patranger was followed by Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, yet another dinosaur Sentai coming a few years earlier than the franchise usually likes to recycle that theme. The reason they went back to dinosaurs so soon is that toy sales had been slumping for the last few years, but Kids Love Dinosaurs and they sell. (Though it didn't work this time, as it in fact had even lower toy sales than its predecessors.) Discussed in the fourth-wall-breaking Supplementary Plan tie-in for Kamen Rider Zi-O. Sougo wonders aloud why Kuroto Dan, a character from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, was such a major character in episodes that were a tribute to Kamen Rider OOO (pointing to the various OOO-themed merchandise released at the same time) instead of the ones actually devoted to Ex-Aid. When he learns that there was a promotional item based on Kuroto released during those episodes, he concludes that the show runs at the whim of the toy company. But Kuroto himself denies that he was brought on just to hawk some toys, and Woz explains that the toy release was adjusted to match the show instead of the other way around. (In real life, it was a matter of when Kuroto's actor had room in his schedule.) The production staff of both series have even said that TV ratings are an afterthought compared to merchandise sales. The reason behind the increasing amount of mecha and Rangers in newer Super Sentai seasons are to recoup the losses of an underperforming Power Rangers under Disney's tenure with the show. Power Rangers is also typically the best-selling boys' toyline in America; so it's often a big deal when it's outperformed, as other examples of this trope can prove. Notable examples of awkwardly introduced pieces of merchandise: the Faiz Axel in Kamen Rider 555 and the Zect Mizer in Kamen Rider Kabuto. Since around 2010, both Sentai and Rider have added to this by making the Transformation Trinket depend upon a number of smaller collectible items that provide new weapons, equipment, form changes and Super Modes, etc. This adds a pseudo-Gotta Catch Them All aspect, since Bandai spreads the devices among multiple bits of merchandise,note Usually this is a logical combination, such as pairing the trinkets with whatever weapon or gear they grant; other times they'll pair the device with whatever weapon it was first used with in the show meaning the only way to get all the trinkets is by buying all the role-play toys. Bandai shows mercy with a few series like Kamen Rider Double by having cheaper versions of the trinkets available as Gashapon prizes, but if you want the high-end ones, well, better crack open that wallet... Kamen Rider has whistles for Kiva, cards for Decade, USB memory sticks for Double, medals for OOO, switches for Fourze, rings for Wizard, padlocks for Gaim, cars for Drive, eyeball-like gadgets for Ghost, video game cartridges for Ex-Aid, bottles for Build, pocketwatches for Zi-O, keycards for Zero-One, books for Saber, stamps for Revice, belt buckle attachments for Geats, and cards again for Gotchard. Not only do these objects work with the toys such as the Transformation Trinket and the weapons, but they also provide powerups in the arcade games. Super Sentai originally pushed as hard as Kamen Rider did, with power cells in Go-Onger, discs in Shinkenger, and both cards and "headers" (mecha heads) in Goseiger. Since then, though, they've settled into a pattern where only every other year features the collectible aspect: keys in Gokaiger, batteries in Kyoryuger, shuriken in Ninninger, globes in Kyuranger, knight figures in Ryusoulger, and gears in Zenkaiger and its successor Donbrothers. In many cases, the collectible isn't just tied to the roleplay gear but is built into the mecha as well; and even in off-years the mecha toys may be compatible with the roleplay items as if they were the collectibles (see ToQger and Lupinranger VS Patranger). Power Rangers includes these collectibles when they adapt such a season, but generally doesn't appear to market them as hard — but conversely, when they adapted a season without collectibles (Tokumei Sentai Go Busters), they took the opportunity to add their own (a set of keys in Power Rangers Beast Morphers). In fact, you can see the different priorities in toy sales between Sentai and Rangers by what gets featured in the show: Japan favors the roleplay gear, hence the collectibles; while America pushes action figures more and so promotes Super Modes and Environment-Specific armors. Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, despite being a spinoff series aimed at an older target audience, is just as merchandise-driven as the mainline Sentai seasons. Specifically, the show is sponsored by Bandai's Tamashii Nations division, who are in charge of producing the S.H.Figuarts line of collectible action figures. As a result, guest Sentai warriors in Akibaranger tend to be characters who are being released as part of the Figuarts series. This is also why in all these franchises, an overpowered Super Mode or giant overkill mecha combination will be used for almost every episode after it's introduced, even against monsters that are clearly no stronger than the ones who came before. Some series justify it by showing that the heroes really are going up the Sorting Algorithm of Evil; for example in Kamen Rider Fourze, the Monsters of the Week give way to high-level commanders. Meanwhile, Kamen Rider Kiva had real-life reasons: the original costume was so heavy that it almost killed suit actor Seiji Takaiwa during the filming of one episode, so Kiva gained his Emperor Form (whose costume was made to be much lighter) relatively early in the show and started using it far more often.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d5caef92	comment	Variations of Super Sonico (and her friend Super Pochaco) exist to promote her figurines. While most of her variations are different (swimsuit version, bathing version, waitress version and so on), there are some egregious examples like the Tanned version and color variants (which are, well, recolors), see it for yourself, along with her other merchandises (the link doesn't contain her prize figures). That's also not counting her various manga spinoffs and CDs starring her anime band, as well as her games. It was to be expected, though, as she owes her existence to being a concert poster girl.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series is an arm for advertising the video game series, with storylines being tied to the games, certain PokÃ©mon games being promoted near the time of release, and character and plot being de-emphasized over showcasing the newest monsters. And it worked; it became one of the most popular children's cartoons and anime series at the time of release, and helped turn PokÃ©mon into the Cash-Cow Franchise it is now. PokÃ©mon Origins is a completely separate OVA created to promote PokÃ©mon X and Y, aimed at older fans who grew up with the original games. As such, it still serves as a promotional arm for the games, especially with Mega Charizard X's appearance, but otherwise focuses more on bringing the original games to life rather than shoving all the newest PokÃ©mon and features in viewers' faces. Almost all PokÃ©mon manga is this, though they can handle the Merchandise-Driven aspect in different ways. PokÃ©mon Adventures, for example, isn't as relentless in this regard as the regular anime (as evidenced by its Schedule Slip tendencies), and puts a stronger focus on characters and storytelling.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d64c56f6	comment	Both McKids and Cool Spot, which are remembered for their great gameplay. The problem is that neither of them have a lot of relationship with what they are trying to sell.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d6ed834e	comment	Die Anstalt is a flash game made to promote a series of plush toys of various cute animals with severe mental issues (the goal of the game is to help the toys overcome their issues).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_d7aab7c1	comment	In Sailor Moon, the Outer Senshi had unique Transformation Sequences due to the transformation wands Bandai sold at the time. Since the Outer wands came with tubes of lipstick, the Outer Senshi were given close-ups of their lipstick magically gliding over their mouths during their transformations. In the live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, the weapons and accessories used by the characters in the show were the actual toys on sale concurrently in the shops. Also, Naoko Takeuchi originally designed the Sailor Starlights with short hair (which fit the androgynous theme behind the characters), but was convinced to give them ponytails after Bandai representatives informed her that it was difficult to produce short-haired dolls.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_dad73e07	comment	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was underwritten by the Quaker Oats Company to help launch a new line of Willy Wonka candy. Ironically, the Wonka Bar was quickly recalled, leading to a curious, decades-long lack of chocolate in the chocolate-themed IP's products.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e0af7af	comment	Merchandising concerns ended up working to the detriment of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger. The toys didn't sell well, but the Lupinranger merch sold better than merch for the Patrangers. In order to push sales, the Lupinrangers became a Spotlight-Stealing Squad and items intended for the Patrangers were reassigned to them (with the plot justification that the Lupinrangers were already established as thieves who would swipe stuff for themselves).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e0f3d2b6	comment	The Honest Trailers' video for Frozen (2013), in its introduction of the cast, called Olaf "Mershandising"
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e10e56f9	comment	An episode of Feral TV (spinoff of the Australian programme The Ferals) had an episode where the boss of the station had, for reasons best known only to him, purchased a container or two full of colourful plastic lampshades and demanded the characters make up a programme to sell them. The result: The ''Mighty Dorky Power Whingers!'' Cancelled after one episode due to all the lampshades selling out, including those on set. The boss then announces that he now has a load of bananas and pyjamas, which require a programme to be created to sell them.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Parodied with the Show Within a Show Cheat Commandos, which is an obvious spoof of merchandise-driven cartoons from the 80s (particularly G.I. Joe). The show is not only blatantly market-driven, it doesn't even attempt to hide this fact. Buildings are routinely referred to as "playsets," and one of the toys is called the "action figure storage truck" within the show. The "Cheap as Free" (the name of the fictional toy manufacturer) logo appears every time a new object is shown, and the show's theme song includes "Buy all our playsets and toys!" In one episode, they even go through the battery compartment of the Headquarters Playset, where the batteries have been left in too long and have leaked. This is particularly ironic since Homestarrunner.com is, itself, entirely supported by merchandise. In fact, they sell an actual set of Cheat Commandos figures in the shop, and papercraft playsets are downloadable for free.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e3876b26	comment	On the other hand, Digimon Frontier provided a rather blatant example, as Takuya, Koji and Koichi's combined forms, as well as their Ancient Digimon, were quite clearly designed as simple amalgamations of their earlier Hybrid forms and thus easily able to be made into toys. Susanoomon, the final hero, is also a visible amalgamation of EmperorGreymon and MagnaGarurumon. Coincidentally, the seasons after those toys were released are infamous for turning Takuya and Koji into a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, as they were the only ones to get the top-dollar armor-up action figures. (Koichi had one planned, but it was cancelled, leading to him making a few major appearances and then quickly dropping off in importance.)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: Becoming a long running Cash-Cow Franchise for Toei Animation. The franchise grew so popular over the years that toys, dolls, accessories, and coloring books are released long before the new season even airs or even proves ratings worthy.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e5d5d23c	comment	This one actually became so pervasive that it spawned a fandom of its own and is a popular subject for Doom modders (since it is a Doom-engine game). There are both unofficial and moderately official (as in "with the input of the original developers", although Chex themselves not so much) follow-ups to the original series as well. So Merchandise-Driven as it may have been, it no longer is bound to that and the "Chex" name and setting remain simply because that's what started it.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e5dfd265	comment	Zool (Chupa Chups).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e70d1ca3	comment	Homaged with the Cartoon Action Hour role-playing game. The first version even suggested players think of gimmicks for a corresponding action figure when creating characters.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_e885c808	comment	While not itself a victim of the trope, Spaceballs lampshaded and parodied it throughout for the laughs. Countless background objects have the movie's name on them culminating with a few lines from Yogurt. Apparently one caveat is that Mel Brooks received help from George Lucas on the condition that the film didn't have a toyline (which would have competed directly with Star Wars).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ea1a786f	comment	Monica's Gang had a comic series about the theme park based on the franchise, the main stories was about the characters having adventures on the park or just enjoying it, one can wonder how the characters can go to a theme park based on themselves but can be explained by the Animated Actors trope, and the comic was quite good and it wasn't much of shameless advertising, the rest of the stories in each issue were not related to the park, when the park was closed, the comic series was cancelled.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ec9cdc92	comment	Lupinranger VS Patranger was followed by Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, yet another dinosaur Sentai coming a few years earlier than the franchise usually likes to recycle that theme. The reason they went back to dinosaurs so soon is that toy sales had been slumping for the last few years, but Kids Love Dinosaurs and they sell. (Though it didn't work this time, as it in fact had even lower toy sales than its predecessors.)
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ed02b09	comment	One notable failure for LEGO in this area was Galidor, mainly because the figures were not constructed — they instead had mostly-incompatible stuff; not only that, the show was pretty boring, the video game sucked, and the show got screwed over in the switch from Fox Kids to ABC Family; it served as a lesson for LEGO not to deviate from their main area of expertise (which they forgot when they created a Ben 10 line that had the exact same setup, and also flopped).
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ee221a4e	comment	At least for the first few issues, The Transformers (Marvel) was considered part of the mainline Marvel Comics universe, in that there was some overlap, but not as much as there would be between Marvel's main titles. Spider-Man appeared in issue 3 of Transformers, and the Transformers comic villain Circuit Breaker made an appearance in Secret Wars II (so that Marvel wouldn't lose the copyright on the character to Hasbro). Issue 8 had the last specific reference to the Marvel Universe in the American series with an appearance of the Savage Land (which was only used as a Lost World backdrop to explain the origin of the Dinobots). Material written for the UK version of the comic kept occasionally referencing the Marvel Universe for another year, with the last reference there being the appearance of Roxxon in issue 46.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ef2e1620	comment	MegaMan NT Warrior existed to promote Capcom's already-popular Mega Man Battle Network video games; as well as the accompanying merchandise for the series itself.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_ef7b3325	comment	A Fantastic Four comic featuring tech from Hitatchi Data Systems. There was also the time they went to Office Max.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_f688799b	comment	The scene in My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) where the ponies go underwater could have easily been completed without them turning into sea ponies. The main reason why that happened was so people would want to buy toys of the Mane Six as sea ponies.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog: Inverted here - it's Keroro's love of Gundams that earned them Bandai as its merchandising arm. The KeroPla line of plastic models features Keronian characters and mecha all compatible with existing Gundam models. It also resulted in the series making it to Super Robot Wars, Keroro's living the mecha fanboy dream. And on Keron, the platoon is a super duper popular cash cow... but they didn't actually know this until they got letters from Keronian kids on New Year's. Somebody's really rich, but it sure as Hell isn't them. It's parodied in episode 10 of the anime (at least in the dub), where an armored vehicle is introduced just to add it to the toy line.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_f6feecde	comment	JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time was commissioned by Target to promote its line of Justice League action figures. In an example of Tropes Are Not Bad, the film was pretty well received by fans and critics.
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Merchandise-Driven / int_fbcf21d5	comment	In-universe in Youngblood (Image Comics). Shaft would have to meet with the toy company to go over his action figures planned for the year. Four variants for 1993, and Badrock's gonna collect em all!
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Merchandise-Driven / int_fe83990a	comment	Saint Seiya: Part of the reason why the protagonists' Cloths evolve constantly. In fact, when the manga was to be adapted to anime for the first time, Bandai requested that the Cloths were altered to cover more body parts, so as to make the action figures more appealing.
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Beyblade: Shogun Steel / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Bikini Warriors / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
BravePoliceJ-Decker	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Busou Shinki / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Cowboy Bebop / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Crush Gear Turbo / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon Frontier / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ã©X-Driver / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Future Robot Daltanious / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Gaist Crusher / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
GaoGaiGar / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
HeartCatch Pretty Cure! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Idol Densetsu Eriko / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Luck & Logic / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Magical Princess Minky Momo / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mapletown / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Metal Fight Beyblade / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mobile Fighter G Gundam / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mobile Suit Gundam / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mon Colle Knights / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
NanoInvaders	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Neon Genesis Evangelion / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ojamajo Doremi / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Petit Eva / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pokémon 2000 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pokémon Origins / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PokÃ©mon: The First Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PokÃ©mon: The Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pretty Cure / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Queen's Blade / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ronin Warriors / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
SSSS.DYNɅZENON / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Samurai Pizza Cats / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sanrio Boys / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shinzo / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Doll★Licca-chan / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Dragon Ball Heroes / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sylvanian Families / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tamagotchi / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legend of the Supermutants / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tenkai Knights / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Big O / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tiger & Bunny / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidou Kyuukyuu Keisatsu / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Cybertron / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Energon / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Go! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: ★Headmasters / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Robots in Disguise / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers Zone / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Weiß Survive / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wish Upon the Pleiades / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yes! Pretty Cure 5 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Zoids: Wild / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Zoobles / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Annihilators (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Atari Force (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Brute Force (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Elephantmen (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
ManTech (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Micronauts (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
ROM: Space Knight (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Secret Wars (1984) (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shi (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shogun Warriors (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Star Wars: The Halcyon Legacy (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Mario Adventures (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Boys (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Guardian Project (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Invisible Terror (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Transformers: Combiner Wars (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Transformers: Dark Cybertron (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
TransformersClassics	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers Combiner Wars (Comic Book)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Generation 2 (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Comic Book)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Shattered Glass (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wild CATS (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Youngblood (Image Comics) (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Secret Wars / Comicbook	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Superman (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chicken Little / Disney / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tales from the Other Railway (Fanfic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Infinite Loops / Fan Fic / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Changeling Space Program & The Maretian (Fanfic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Muse Hysteria (Fanfic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Typical Gundam SEED Destiny (Fanfic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
To Aruverse Rewrite Project (Fanfic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Batman & Robin / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Batman Forever / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Batman: The Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Bratz / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Death Race / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Flubber / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Godzilla (1998) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Green Lantern (2011) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Iron Man 2 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Magic Mike's Last Dance / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mr. B Natural / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Napoleon Dynamite / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Our Friend Power 5 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Red Cliff / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Spice World / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Rocket Boy / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Truman Show / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Wizard / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Thor / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers Film Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
BIONICLE (Franchise)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Care Bears (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Cars (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Disney Fairies (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
G.I. Joe (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Gundam (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hello Kitty (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Love Live! (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Masters of the Universe (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony (Generation 4) (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Power Rangers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
RoboCop (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
SD Gundam (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Sentai (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Smurfs (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
TransformersClassics	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers Film Series (Franchise)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Generation 1 (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ultra Series (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Franchise) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
A Hippie in the House of Mouse / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
American Girls Collection / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Angelina Ballerina / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Anpanman / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Clifford the Big Red Dog / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Diaclone VS. Gridman / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Horus Heresy / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Little Princess / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Madeline / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tadao Nagahama: Robot Romance Animation Chronicle Infobook / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
BillMantlo	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
BoredOnBoard	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
BusouShinki	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
CalvinBall	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
DarkenedSkye	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
EZRider	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
GARO	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
IncredibleChange-Bots	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
MainframeEntertainment	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
MisAimedMarketing	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
MysticStudiosProductions	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
New Hollywood	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Ptitle4li39txl4edb	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Ptitlet1pg15v4ymi2	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
SchoolHouseRock	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
SecretWars	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Segregated Commercial	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
SpaceIronmenKyodain	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
StudioGallop	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
TheDemonHeadmaster	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
The '80s	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
TomicaHeroRescueFire	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
TomicaHeroRescueForce	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Udiverge	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
ptitleq07uuq3h	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!! (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dash! Yonkuro (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kaitou Saint Tail (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kinnikuman (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kodocha (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kodomo no Omocha (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legendz (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sgt. Frog (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers Zone (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wedding Peach (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Yo-kai Watch (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dark Heaven (Manhwa) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
EXO (Music) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Music) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Momoiro Clover Z (Music) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PassCode (Music) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Let's Pretend (Radio) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Hour Of The Void (Roleplay) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Aikatsu Planet! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Armor Hero / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Baby Einstein / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Barney & Friends / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Big Time Rush / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dinosaurs / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Fraggle Rock / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Galidor / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Girl Gun Lady / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Godzilla Island / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider 555 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Build / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Decade / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Gaim / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Ghost / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Gotchard / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider OOO / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Wizard / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kamen Rider Zi-O / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Last Man Standing (2011) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legend Heroes / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Madan Senki Ryukendo / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Magic x Warrior Magi Majo Pures! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Oobi / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pokémon Sunday / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
RoboCop: The Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Seiun Kamen Machineman / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Hero Time / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Switch! (1997) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tensou Sentai Goseiger / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Mandalorian / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Monkees / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Naked Brothers Band / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wonder Woman (2011 pilot) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Zoobilee Zoo / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Beyblade (Tabletop Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Cartoon Action Hour (Tabletop Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon (Tabletop Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legend of the Five Rings (Tabletop Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Angry Birds (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Angry Birds Star Wars (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Angry Birds Transformers (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Animal Jam (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
BrÃ¼tal Legend (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Cool Spot (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Copy Kitty (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Disney Infinity (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Gundam Breaker (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
LEGO Dimensions (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mega Man Star Force (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PriPara (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ratchet: Deadlocked (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Retro City Rampage (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
SD Gundam G Generation (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shadow Hearts (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Skylanders (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
THE iDOLM@STER: Million Live! (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Cheat Commandos (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
DEATH BATTLE! (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dr. Tran (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Homestar Runner (Web Animation)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mi Perro Chocolo (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super Freakin' Parody Rangers (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Two More Eggs (Web Animation) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ask That Guy with the Glasses (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Aventures (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dark Side of the Toon (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Familiar Faces (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Friendship is Witchcraft (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
History of Power Rangers (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mr. Plinkett Reviews (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mother's Basement (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Third Rate Gamer (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Trash Taste (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wedding Peach Abridged (Web Video) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chainsawsuit (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Draconia Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Friendship Is 4komagic (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hipster Hitler (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Insecticomics (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Moon Sticks (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Penny Arcade (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shortpacked! (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
T.E.S.T. Kitchen (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (Webcomic) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
TFWiki.net (Website) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Editing Room (Website) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Alpha Teens on Machines / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
An Extremely Goofy Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Angelina Ballerina / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Batman Beyond / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Beast Wars / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ben 10 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Bionic Six / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Black Star / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Blaze and the Monster Machines / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Blue's Clues / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
C.O.P.S. (1988) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Caillou / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Captain N: The Game Master / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Centurions / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Challenge of the GoBots / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chaotic / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chicken Little / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Creepy Crawlers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dino-Riders / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dinosaucers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Doc McStuffins / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Double Dragon (1993) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Doug / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dragon Flyz / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dungeons & Dragons / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Dungeons & Dragons (1983) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Exo Squad / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Extreme Dinosaurs / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Filly Funtasia / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Freakazoid! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Frosty the Snowman / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Furby Island / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
G.I. Joe Extreme / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
G.I. Joe: The Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Garfield and Friends / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Gargoyles / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Inhumanoids / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Iron Man: The Animated Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Jem / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Jingle All the Way / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kaijudo	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legends of Chima / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legion of Super Heroes (2006) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
LEGO Elves / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Little People / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Little People (Egmont) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Littlest Pet Shop (1995) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Littlest Pet Shop (2012) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
M.A.S.K. / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Martha Speaks / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Max Steel (2013) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mighty Max / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mighty Orbots / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mixels / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mummies Alive! / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony: Pony Life / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
My Little Pony Tales / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
MyLittlePonyandFriends	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
My Pet Monster / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
NASCAR Racers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ninjago / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
PJ Sparkles / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pocket Dragon Adventures / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Police Academy: The Animated Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Rainbow Brite / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Rambo: The Force of Freedom / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Rescue Heroes / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Robotix / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Shadow Raiders / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
SilverHawks / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Skeleton Warriors / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sky Commanders / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sky Dancers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Spider-Man: The Animated Series / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Spider-Man Unlimited / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Spiral Zone / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Strawberry Shortcake / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Street Sharks / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Super 4 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Superfriends / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sushi Pack / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Sylvanian Families / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
T.O.T.S. / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Avengers: United They Stand / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Bots Master / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Barbie Diaries / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Batman / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The King Kong Show / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The LEGO Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The New Adventures of He-Man / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Powerpuff Girls (2016) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Real Ghostbusters / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Transformers / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Transformers: The Movie / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Wuzzles / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The ZhuZhus / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Thomas & Friends / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
ThunderCats (1985) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Animated / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Cyberverse / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Go-Bots / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: Rescue Bots / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: The Movie	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Trollz / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ultimate Spider-Man / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Visionaries / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wild C.A.T.s (1994) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Zevo-3 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Al Snow (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Honky Tonk Man (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Keiji Mutoh (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Kevin Owens (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Great Muta (Wrestling)	seeAlso	Merchandise-Driven
The Road Warriors (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
The Young Bucks (Wrestling) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon Adventure 02 / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon Fusion / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Digimon Xros Wars / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Thunderbolts (Comic Book) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Nobody Dies / Fan Fic / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Singin' in the Rain / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Hikaru no Go (Manga) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Die Anstalt (Video Game) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Legion of Super-Heroes / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Mutant League / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Pound Puppies (1980s) / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven

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