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The Red Stapler

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The Red Stapler	comment	The situation where a work of fiction which features a Real Life product as a Prop has a significant effect on whether customers want to have that product. The effect can be negative or positive: it can increase demand or reduce it. This trope can also apply to goods and services (a film about a honky-tonk bar might increase enrollment in line dancing lessons, for example). The effects of this trope are usually temporary; only in Urban Legends does a work "kill" a product for all time. In fact, demand almost always increases for a product featured in a work, even when the product is portrayed negatively; advertisers call this the "Homer Simpson effect". Demand can also increase or decrease for unrelated reasons, so beware of assuming that correlation means causation. The Trope Namer is the red Swingline stapler prominently featured in Office Space. Swingline didn't make full-size red staplers; the one in the film was a black stapler painted red. Then life would imitate art, as people demanded a red version, and they got one. Outside the U.S., this trope has other names, too. Cooking shows are particularly prone to this: Brits usually refer to this as the "Delia Effect", after high-profile Cooking Show host Delia Smith, to the point that her publishers would let the shops know in advance what she was going to recommend. Australia calls it the "Masterchef Effect" for similar reasons. Defictionalization is when the fictional product comes into existence because of this trope, largely as tie-in merchandise to the show that spawned it. Creators who are trying to evoke this reaction may be getting money from sponsors to feature their products or they might be producing the products themselves. If a work increases demand for another work, that's the Colbert Bump; if it changes demand for a song, that's Revival by Commercialization. If it increases demand for a pet, that's Pet Fad Starter. If a name becomes popular because of a work, that's Baby Name Trend Starter. If it increases tourism for a certain location, that is Tourist Bump. Trend Killer overlaps with negative instances of this trope. See also Aluminum Christmas Trees, where something real but outlandish is shown in fiction and people think it must be fictional.
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The Red Stapler / int_1331990c	comment	The grim nature of Puella Magi Madoka Magica was rather offset by some of the commercials that appeared during the breaks. The Morning Rescue advert, in particular, caught the eyes of fansubbers, to the extent that one group began editing it into episodes where it had not originally appeared. Demand for the drink shot up due to curious Westerners who, having witnessed the Memetic Mutation in progress, wanted to try it for themselves; as a result, J-List began stocking Morning Rescue in their online store.
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The Red Stapler / int_154faf86	comment	Damn near anything in Homestuck. At its peak, any piece of real life memorabilia or item it referenced, like Gamzee's love of Faygo soda or John's hatred of gushers, was sure to drive up purchases from real life fans. Double for any obscure movies it referenced, and triple for the actual clothing of the protagonists. The official Homestuck shop made sure to keep real life versions of character outfits on hand, usually simple white Tees with their logos. Special mention goes to Dave Strider, whose sunglasses and red-sleeved shirt variant was a cheap and popular option for cosplayers.
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The Red Stapler / int_15e760eb	comment	Chihayafuru did this for Karuta.
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The Red Stapler / int_1670bd19	comment	On the other end of the spectrum are "Wasteland Builds" where gun enthusiast gamers will build or modify rifles (usually AK platform rifles, though occasionally G3 clones too) to match the aesthetic or even replicate specific in-game weapons from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Fallout, or Metro 2033 series. Said builds tend to involve lots of duct tape, scrap metal, and forum posts with cheesy fake Russian accents.
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The Red Stapler / int_1afaadc2	comment	RENT inspired an expensive clothing line to emulate the $5 rummage sale look.
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The Red Stapler / int_1b0c1df5	comment	Wish Upon the Pleiades is a lesser example, with Subaru cars. This one is a weird sort of stealth-Product Placement: it was sponsored by Subaru, but their cars do not appear in the anime—instead, the protagonist is named Subaru (a relatively common name in Japan), and the characters' magic brooms make car-like noises and have contraptions attached to them that look suspiciously like front-grilles of Subaru vehicles.
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The Red Stapler / int_1db0d5a0	comment	Kevin Owens's most iconic T-shirt in the WWE is one he made last-minute out of a regular black shirt and duct-tape. WWE would later produce their own version with a decal instead of duct tape.
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The Red Stapler / int_1f2e3a5b	comment	The popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy created a fad for dressing little boys in the style of clothing described and illustrated in the book, based on outfits author Frances Hodgson Burnett had designed for her own sons. And a generation later, there was a backlash against that kind of outfit for boys by fathers who remembered how much they'd hated them as youngsters.
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The Red Stapler / int_1ff419c5	comment	Kingdom Hearts II's inclusion of a TRON world can probably take the credit for the existence of TRON: Legacy and the little franchise that sprung up around it.
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The Red Stapler / int_20b4c71c	comment	Bocchi the Rock!: Sales of the Les Paul Custom and the Yamaha Pacifica went up when fans were inspired by this show to take up the guitar themselves.
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The Red Stapler / int_24c2e853	comment	A 2014 ad for UK supermarket Asda featured three identical garden gnomes fishing in a pond, staring in shock when a gnome in a mankini floats past on a lilo. This was to make some kind of point about the conventional gnomes representing "ordinary" supermarkets or something, but due to demand, they started selling replicas of the gnome. Mankini-gnomes already existed (one appears in Gnomeo & Juliet), but not this particular model.
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The Red Stapler / int_261c8d3f	comment	...which was subsequently parodied on The Simpsons by having Homer (in an episode in which he briefly became a grunge-rock star) watch Weird Al parodying his hit song on TV. To take the pop-cultural references one level further, Weird Al now uses a clip of that Simpsons episode as part of the visuals shown in his concerts.
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The Red Stapler / int_29efc2f3	comment	Sleeping Beauty: Many a Princess Classic in Western Animation will sport dresses inspired by or homaging Aurora's. A good amount of princess costumes in stores are based off it too.
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The Red Stapler / int_2b01c44	comment	After Laid-Back Camp was released, the red Yamaha Vino scooter thar Rin used surged in popularity, enough to completely sell out its stock.
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The Red Stapler / int_2c521aa9	comment	Attack No. 1 and Attacker You! did this for volleyball.
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The Red Stapler / int_306233e6	comment	Summer Wars did this for Hanafuda.
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The Red Stapler / int_337dd7d8	comment	The Sound! Euphonium anime was many viewers' first introduction to the euphonium, an obscure concert band instrument that doesn't get much real spotlight otherwise.
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The Red Stapler / int_37b7264c	comment	Initial D popularized the Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno/Corolla GT-S by virtue of its protagonist beating seemingly much cooler cars with one on a regular basis, simply with raw driving skill. It didn't help that the manga contributed to the car's high resale value, which made obtaining an 86 in good working order a challenge, let alone in mint condition.
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The Red Stapler / int_381ef01	comment	The 1907 production of The Merry Widow, starring English actress Lily Elsie, paved way to the rise of the wide-brimmed overly-feathered hat that would remain popular during the rest of The Edwardian Era until the dawn of WWI.
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The Red Stapler / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: The books have reportedly increased the popularity of boarding schools among children in Britain. The books feature a magical beverage called "butterbeer", which people in real life have been wanting to try. A beverage of that name did exist in the Tudor era (as beer blended with butter, sugar, eggs, and spices, kind of like a 16th-centuy eggnog), but these days everybody seems to have his own recipe for it — including The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Studios Orlando. There's also a soda called Flying Cauldron Butterscotch Beer, which is not affiliated with the Harry Potter franchise, but seems likely to have been inspired by it. The books were also credited with a boost to the number of schoolchildren learning Latin, as the magic words for spells in the Harry Potter universe are normally a Latin (or Latin-ish) translation of the intended effect.
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The Red Stapler / int_3f3abe9	comment	After the season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty revealed that Rick was obsessed with the Szechuan dipping sauce McDonald's released to promote Mulan back in 1998, fans started clamoring for McDonald's to re-release the sauce. Not only did they oblige and release it in limited release in October 2017 followed by a wide release four months later, but McDonald's even sent series creator Justin Roiland a case of the stuff before anyone else got it!
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The Red Stapler / int_3f4a104b	comment	A doll of the Pointy-Haired Boss was made, after fans demanded one, seeing one depicted in the Dilbert comic strip.
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The Red Stapler / int_3ffb960f	comment	Hikaru no Go wound up tripling the number of Go players in the world.
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The Red Stapler / int_46f0352c	comment	This trope is the whole reason that we have The Shadow at all. Street and Smith was getting its clock cleaned in the detective-story magazine business in 1930, and so decided to latch on to a new gimmick — dramatizing their stories on the radio. They chose as a narrator/host character a mysterious, vaguely sinister figure that soon became known as "The Shadow" (a nod to a Charles Dickens character who was a hypothetical newspaper reporter). While he wasn't intended to do more than usher in the stories and never actually figured in them (think "The Cryptkeeper" from Tales from the Crypt), the public fell in love with the character and demanded to know more about him. Whereupon Street and Smith hired Walter B. Gibson to begin writing novel-length stories of The Shadow in a new magazine devoted to him. And the rest is history.
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The Red Stapler / int_4f091b42	comment	Tiger & Bunny's entirely unexpected popularity in Japan has led to the spike in sales for items only tangentially related to the show. The most notable was a brand of cologne that resembled a bottle the main character, Kotetsu, owned. It was apparently of utmost importance to 2ch and /a/ to know what he smelled like.◊ Sunrise noticed and decided that they'd start selling Kotetsu's oft-replicated hat.
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The Red Stapler / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye and its use of spinach as a Power-Up Food led to people eating more spinach. Crystal City, TX has a statue of Popeye as thanks, since spinach is the city's staple cash crop.
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The Red Stapler / int_51507cf2	comment	Indie developers have lately begun exploiting this by giving well-known Internet personalities permission to LP their games shortly after their initial release. Something Awful, the place Let's Play began at, even had to remove its rule about not LP'ing a game until three months after it came out because of the number of indie/early access titles people wanted to and were being given early permission to show off.
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The Red Stapler / int_518b056d	comment	The Da Vinci Code increased the popularity of the Mona Lisa, with hundreds of visitors wanting to view the painting because of the book and the film, as well as the part of the Louvre where the Magdalene may or may not be buried.
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The Red Stapler / int_58808436	comment	The town that Higurashi: When They Cry's Hinamizawa is based on had to build a new shrine wall because of the fans.
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The Red Stapler / int_58fd69fb	comment	The classical-music industry in the Asia-Pacific region has reasons to thank Nodame Cantabile.
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The Red Stapler / int_5908ee91	comment	Any fantasy-based game of reasonable popularity will quickly find its weapons and armour converted into LARP props. The glass and Daedric weapons from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Master Sword and Hylian Shield from The Legend of Zelda series, and several of the famous World of Warcraft pieces are frequent appearances at big meets, and there are even some examples of the equipment used in Minecraft, complete with the original blockiness.
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The Red Stapler / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3, one of the social links involves playing an online MMO themed around the Shin Megami Tensei series. The character involved in the link mentions that the MMO does not have a lot of players and is dying. Cue the defictionalization into Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE, a game based on the Shin Megami Tensei series where, following a very obscure release and some very bad choices on the developer's part, one of the most frequent complaints until it finally shut down in 2016 was that the game does not have a lot of players and is dying.
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The Red Stapler / int_594b85e4	comment	Roots (and especially its miniseries adaptation) sparked a boom in interest in people tracing their ancestry and genealogy. This was partly the intention of the book's author Alex Haley, but while he mainly intended the book for a Black audience as a way of rediscovering family lineages that had been forgotten during slavery, it resonated far and wide and led to many White Americans doing the same with their ancestors in Europe.
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The Red Stapler / int_597fe68d	comment	Christiane F., an autobiographical story about a teenaged drug addict from West Berlin, turned several, mainly German teenagers curious about a rather unfortunate product: Heroin.
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The Red Stapler / int_59ae1426	comment	The Drops of God is an incredibly powerful example of this trope. Thanks to the miracle of Internet wine ordering, thousands of Japanese people are treated to a charismatic character's opinion of a specific wine on his quest to find seven specific varieties, and can then go and order those very wines and taste them for themselves. This has caused quite a stir in the world's wine industries.
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The Red Stapler / int_59e9298	comment	Big name LPers are able to bring spikes in popularity to otherwise unknown franchises. Chuggaaconroy, for example, has helped the popularity of what were at the time relatively unknown games like Ōkami and Xenoblade Chronicles 1.
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The Red Stapler / int_5b3356f8	comment	After Turning Red was released, popularity of red pandas increased rapidly, and many fans flocked to the zoos to see them, and some donated to wildlife centers to help save them.
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The Red Stapler / int_5c600b17	comment	On August 1st, the day the original Digi Destined first went to the Digital World, Digimon fans meet up in Dai-san Daiba park in Odaiba, where the Digi Destined met up on the third anniversary of their Digital World adventure. Many western Digimon fans will make a point to visit Odaiba when visiting Japan as well.
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The Red Stapler / int_63cc19aa	comment	In 1933, James Hilton wrote a book called Lost Horizon, where the survivors of a plane crash stumble upon a perfect utopia called Shangri-La. The book is obscure now, but Shangri-La and what it represents — longing for a faraway place of beauty, spiritual replenishment, and supernatural longevity — stuck around. When Tibet realized that heavy logging of their old-growth forests was causing disastrous floods, they turned to tourism, found that it paid really well, and renovated a village, renaming it Shangri-La. There was an even odder two-step version during World War II. When reporters asked President Roosevelt where the bombers for the Doolittle Raid came from, he blew off the question by joking that they took off from "Shangri-La." Shortly afterward the U.S. Navy launched a carrier named the U.S.S. Shangri-La (CV-38), which served until the Vietnam era.
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The Red Stapler / int_68a59532	comment	Maddox, of The Best Page in the Universe, hates this trope, and directs his rant on the subject at Sideways specifically. He figures that, if you're so impressionable that a movie is going to radically alter your opinion on something, you don't have any business being allowed out of the house to begin with.
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The Red Stapler / int_68aeaa68	comment	1Q84: During the 20 years of JanÃ¡Ä�ek's Sinfonietta being available on CD, it sold 6,000 copies (so, 300 copies per year on average). Thanks to its inclusion in 1Q84 as a connection between lead characters Tengo and Aomame, the album sold the exact same number in only one week.
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The Red Stapler / int_69a9c9ca	comment	U.S. presidents have been known to affect demand for things they like, but John F. Kennedy was one of the biggest. When word circulated that he could read 1600 words per minute, attendance in speed-reading courses went up. He also listed From Russia with Love as one of his favorite books in Life; it instantly became a best-seller, piqued American interest in James Bond, and ensured that it would be the next Bond novel adapted to film. He's even credited with "killing the hat" by not appearing in public with one, although that one's apocryphal — the hat was already in decline since the early-mid 1940s (almost two decades before he became President),note This was partly because of wartime restrictions and rising post-war use of cars and the hat would remain a standard piece of menswear until around 1965-67. Furthermore, he did wear a top hat to his inauguration (only to take it off for his "Ask Not" speech).
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The Red Stapler / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War resulted in fans flocking to YouTube searching for videos related to Soran Bushi.
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The Red Stapler / int_7385bc4d	comment	The eponymous character in Doraemon has a particular fondness for dorayaki, and when the show became a success, dorayaki also became extremely popular in Japanese bakeries and confection shops, not just in Japan, but in any region the anime is popular as well — for example, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and The Philippines.
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The Red Stapler / int_73d660e	comment	Lucky Star: The show also re-popularised anime merchandise and conventions. There has even been talk in the city council to make the local high school dress code match the one seen in the series. In turn, the girls became official honour residents of the city.
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The Red Stapler / int_74a4c704	comment	Before Kingdom Hearts, The Nightmare Before Christmas had a following but wasn't exactly what you'd call a Disney classic. Most people didn't even know it was a Disney film, as it was released under the Touchstone banner. But it's always been regarded as a Disney classic overseas, so it was included in the game, leading to its American fandom becoming much more mainstream. Disney made a video game sequel to the film, started putting their name on future home video releases, and re-released the film in 3D.
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The Red Stapler / int_74aab514	comment	KanColle has also increased the sales of ship model kits in addition to its own action figures. Previously, there were not many buyers for less well known ship models; most collectors will only get famous ones like Yamato. Demands of less known ship models rose significantly as the game increase in popularity with many collectors looking for model kits of cruisers and destroyers as well instead of just the famous ones. Even more so now with other games like World of Warships in tow.
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The Red Stapler / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The massive success of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time resulted in a massive spike in ocarina sales, specifically potato ocarinas like the one used in the game. Music stores sold out of ocarinas and couldn't keep up with demand. To this day, Renaissance Fairs still sell baby-blue transverse ocarinas, usually with a Triforce-like sign to indicate them. Songbird Ocarinas was the first to do that; they ran ads in Nintendo Power for at least 12 years up until its cancellation (from 1999 to 2012).
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The Red Stapler / int_767794f0	comment	Oliver Tree's iconic pink and purple Montbell windbreaker caused demand of the jackets amongst his many fans, but the actual jacket he wears is quite rare, so it lead to increased demands of any windbreaker jackets that are the same colors.
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The Red Stapler / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe got people to start collecting gemstones, prompting warnings to be sent out that certain minerals — such as lapis lazuli and (appropriately enough) malachite — are highly toxic.
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The Red Stapler / int_7d9d39aa	comment	Pendulum: Rob Swire's use of the Starr Labs Ztar Z6 model MIDI guitar controller on songs where he does vocals led to MIDI guitar controllers regaining popularity.
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The Red Stapler / int_7f39a041	comment	Gintama apparently did this to wooden swords. it also helps that they were already ubiquitous in tourist shops and can't really be used as weapons (which means you can take them through customs more easily).
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The Red Stapler / int_7fbf9019	comment	Steins;Gate features the soft drink of Dr. Pepper prominently, although it calls it Dk. Pepper instead, probably because of lack of sponsorship agreement. Nevertheless, this anime series boosted up the sales of Dr. Pepper considerably in Japan. The makers of Dr. Pepper itself have noticed this, and later launched an official collaboration with the sequel series Steins;Gate 0.
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The Red Stapler / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie dolls also got a boost from the second film, although Mattel's paranoia almost prevented this from happening. Pixar had wanted to use Barbie in the first movie, but Mattel said no, objecting to her being used as a Sarah Connor-esque badass. Then Mattel saw how the toys the movie did feature got a sales boost (particularly Mr. Potato Head), and they were only too happy to see Barbie used in the second and third movies (with something of a compromise in personality).
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The Red Stapler / int_8192cba	comment	The Toy Story movies created a huge demand for many of the toys it featured. It raised demand for simple plastic green army men so much that The 3DO Company started an entire video game series dedicated to the concept. Barbie dolls also got a boost from the second film, although Mattel's paranoia almost prevented this from happening. Pixar had wanted to use Barbie in the first movie, but Mattel said no, objecting to her being used as a Sarah Connor-esque badass. Then Mattel saw how the toys the movie did feature got a sales boost (particularly Mr. Potato Head), and they were only too happy to see Barbie used in the second and third movies (with something of a compromise in personality). The Slinky company had previously taken the Slinky Dog off the market years before Toy Story. They brought it back because of the movie, albeit modified to account for the character and due to stricter safety regulations. Toy Story 4 prompted demand for a movie-accurate Gabby Gabby doll. However, Gabby Gabby has strangely not received a toy apart from smaller-scale action figures and plushies. This has led to some enthusiasts customising dolls of the same scale and design (such as American Girl dolls, Disney Animator dolls, or Chatty Cathy) to better resemble the character. There did eventually exist a full-sized Gabby Gabby doll with accurate clothes and hair—but it is exclusive to Brazil having being made by a local toy manufacturer under licence. As to whether Thinkway Toys (or some other firm whom Disney has a contract with) would do a similar doll is anyone's guess. As for Gabby's "very best friend" Benson, good luck trying to have one sculpted by a puppetmaker. A full-scale dummy can go for around several thousand dollars depending on how advanced the controls are. That isn't to say that a full-size Benson figure is out of the question as similar dummies can be had for under a hundred dollars—albeit as an entry-level dummy rather than a bespoke, professional-grade figure.
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The Red Stapler / int_82a8aa75	comment	Similarly, the Killer Dagger bass is almost exclusively bought and used by fans of Taiji Sawada, especially outside of Japan where the brand was never available except via import.
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The Red Stapler / int_84724d58	comment	Played with in KaBlam!, which had a scene in an episode where Henry and June show the audience their poseable action figures. After it aired, kids across the US searched in Toys R Us/Wal Mart/Target for H&J toys. They don't exist.
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The Red Stapler / int_8577f936	comment	Wuthering Heights is enjoying a revival thanks to Bella's fondness for it (coupled with Edward's derision).
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The Red Stapler / int_85d8f203	comment	The Tragically Hip's "Bobcaygeon" garnered interest in increased tourism of the eastern Ontario town of the same name. The largest community events in Bobcaygeon's history included a viewing of the Hip's last tour, and a candlelight vigil for their late frontman Gord Downie. Despite this, the song is not about the town but the name was included to complete a rhyme.
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The Red Stapler / int_8815832f	comment	Mondelez International, the makers of Toblerone, reportedly saw their share prices increase after the release of Neo Yokio and the famous "You don't deserve this big Toblerone" scene.
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The Red Stapler / int_8865d1d6	comment	The Saiai brand of sakÃ© enjoyed a surge in demand when Babymetal fans discovered the brand shares the same kanji characters with Moametal's given name. The Yui-no-Mizu mineral water experienced the same to a lesser degree.
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The Red Stapler / int_8ac4e993	comment	As part of their 30th Anniversary for the Gundam franchise, Sunrise commissioned a project to build an actual 1:1 scale 60ft tall statue of the show's flagship machine, RX-78-2 Gundam. Downplayed in that unlike its fictional counterpart, the statue can't move due to the Square-Cube Law making it infeasible and maybe impossible, but Sunrise has stated they would like to eventually "upgrade" the statue to be moving.
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The Red Stapler / int_8fd3db0b	comment	When the full trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 aired, one of the scenes showed Boimler talking to a collector plate of Star Trek: Voyager's Tom Paris. Immediately after, it was revealed they thought ahead and made those very collector plates.
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The Red Stapler / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: A mother in Finland once wrote an article stating that Kim Possible encouraged her daughter to take up cheerleading and martial arts lessons. Fans credit this with Taco Bell's creation of the Crunchwrap Supreme, as it is very similar in concept to the naco. Taco Bell would also introduce Diablo sauce in black packets much like the ones on the show.
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The Red Stapler / int_959dd815	comment	Mexican Professional Wrestling fans have made a tradition of wearing a replica of their favorite wrestler's mask when they go to the shows. This show of support also made inroads north of the border, with the success of masked wrestlers like Rey Mysterio and The Hurricane.
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The Red Stapler / int_989298d3	comment	World of Tanks has gotten in on the act. Scale model sales have gone up as a result of the game to the extent that some companies and stores even offer special World of Tanks bonus codes for buying specific model kits. On top of that, the game also has a virtual replica of the title tank from Fury. Oddly enough, with all the royalties being paid out, Wargaming has decided to go on a restoration spree by channeling some of the money they make from the game into restoring old tanks, ships, and planes to a showable (if not flyable/drivable/sailable) condition. Even their rival, Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of War Thunder has gotten in on this, and are also restoring old tanks and planes to further preserve them.
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The Red Stapler / int_9ad7adc8	comment	The Who's Quadrophenia album, as well as its accompanying film, has been credited for kick-starting the mod revival of the late '70s and early '80s. It also made Vespa scooters cool again.
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The Red Stapler / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Despicable Me: Real life carnival booths stocking real life Fluffy Unicorns have become a common sight. More kids have been eating bananas as a snack since it's the Minions' Trademark Favorite Food.
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The Red Stapler / int_9ebcdcd3	comment	The German comic Werner heavily featured the beer from the then-small Flensburger brewery, which was obscure even in its home in northern Germany. It was known for being among the last few German beer brands sold in swing-top bottles. Then, when the comic popularized the brand, it got so popular in Germany that the brewery had trouble keeping up with demand. Then Werner made his own beer in the sixth book, which would be defictionalized (and stopped the free advertising for Flensburger).
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The Red Stapler / int_9f89a5f0	comment	With so many PokÃ©mon, treating every PokÃ©mon equally in regards to official merchandise is nearly impossible. What ends up happening is that sales of a particular PokÃ©mon's merchandise correlates strongly with which ones are showing up in other media, mostly the anime. It's not as predictable as you'd think, though; while the super-cute (Pichu, Jigglypuff) and the super-cool (Charizard, Zekrom) have had their runs, even weird PokÃ©mon like Stunfisk get theirs.
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The Red Stapler / int_a0ae471	comment	Toy Story 4 prompted demand for a movie-accurate Gabby Gabby doll. However, Gabby Gabby has strangely not received a toy apart from smaller-scale action figures and plushies. This has led to some enthusiasts customising dolls of the same scale and design (such as American Girl dolls, Disney Animator dolls, or Chatty Cathy) to better resemble the character. There did eventually exist a full-sized Gabby Gabby doll with accurate clothes and hair—but it is exclusive to Brazil having being made by a local toy manufacturer under licence. As to whether Thinkway Toys (or some other firm whom Disney has a contract with) would do a similar doll is anyone's guess.
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The Red Stapler / int_a49a890c	comment	"Fuck Communism" Zippo lighters only became popular ever since they were featured in Preacher. These were not made up by Garth Ennis, but originally carried by US soldiers in Vietnam, who would often stamp the message along with the name of their company or platoon.
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The Red Stapler / int_ad41ee71	comment	In 2004, Sanei released a series of Mario Party 5 plush dolls. These plushes are notorious for fetching high after-market prices thanks to their usage in SuperMarioLogan and other similar series. The 7-inch Luigi in particular can go for over $300 (though its actual value is closer to $100).
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The Red Stapler / int_afd1e4d2	comment	Kids on the Slope has caused many people to get into jazz, particularly the '50s and '60s styles featured in the show.
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The Red Stapler / int_b0fc9724	comment	She also wore a Napanee Home Hardware t-shirt, a hardware store from her tiny Ontario hometown, for an appearance on Saturday Night Live. The demand was such that the chain began producing them in large quantities and selling them nationwide.
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The Red Stapler / int_b155d130	comment	One of the many reasons why the Yamaha CS80 is so expensive is that it's the key element in Vangelis' trademark sound, and many musicians want to sound like this. Just listen to the Blade Runner soundtrack.
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The Red Stapler / int_b5ad49c5	comment	The Adventures of Superman inverted this trope significantly. In 1946, Florida-native activist Stetson Kennedy had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and learned its secret greetings and rituals, but the Klan at this time had grown powerful enough that the police were reluctant to stand up to them. He decided instead to pitch a story to the producers of The Adventures of Superman in which Superman takes on an Expy organization called "The Klan of the Fiery Cross". The 16-episode arc revealed the Klan secrets that Kennedy had discovered, stripping the Klan of much of its air of menace and mystery. As a result, new recruitment for the Klan dried up to almost zero within a few weeks of the initial episode broadcasts, and Kennedy and his episodes were regarded by some as "the single greatest contributor to the weakening of the Klan." Read more here.
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The Red Stapler / int_b94ae31e	comment	While declining sales caused the last of the creameries which manufacture the centuries-old Wensleydale cheese to teeter on the edge of closure in the early '90s, Wensleydale received a chance mention in the popular Wallace & Gromit shorts. Noticing the increased interest, the creamery persuaded Aardman Animations to endorse a Wallace & Gromit-branded cheese, which worked to rebuild Wensleydale into a thriving product worldwide. The Stinking Bishop cheese is also featured in a plot-critical moment in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; sales of this niche culinary product rose by 500% after the film was released.
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The Red Stapler / int_b9cbb636	comment	BitLife has potential In-Universe examples if you're a CEO; experts may predict increased demand for your product if it appears in a popular TV show or movie.
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The Red Stapler / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton is credited with causing a huge resurgence of interest in the lives of both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which helped turn Ron Chernow's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda's primary inspiration) into a massive bestseller when the play was at the peak of its popularity; sales of Gore Vidal's 1973 historical fiction novel Burr similarly skyrocketed, with the publisher even advertising directly to Hamilton fans.note Interestingly, Burr is effectively a direct antithesis to the musical, portraying Aaron Burr in a comparatively positive light while portraying Alexander Hamilton as a much more villainous and unsympathetic figure
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The Red Stapler / int_ba1083f7	comment	Guitar Hero and Rock Band have drastically increased the younger fanbases of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Rush, KISS, and many other old-school bands, and given many other bands like Dragonforce big career leg-ups.
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The Red Stapler / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role brought a Newbie Boom to Dungeons & Dragons, and especially its Fifth Edition, thanks to the success of the show. The Exandria setting created by Matthew Mercer for his table eventually got its own official campaign setting published by Wizards of the Coast. All of this was completely unintentional; Mercer has stated that he thought the series would last maybe six episodes before he and his friends just went back to his house and played there.invoked
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The Red Stapler / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: Many young clarinet players picked up the instrument thanks to Squidward.
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The Red Stapler / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Ask around any knife/blade shop and chances are they have had a number of people asking about butterfly knives, thanks to that globetrotting rogue, the Spy. The game is also responsible for the popularity of real-life hat obsession among its fans, though part of it is also due to said fans wanting to Cosplay.
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The Red Stapler / int_c29ae72f	comment	Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, about a Bishōnen artist/poet who shoots himself when the love of his life marries the man she was already engaged to when Werther met her, was a huge bestseller in 1774, touching off a wave of copycat suicides. This cropped up again in Palestine in the 1930s when the book was published there. There was a huge demand for blue frock-coats and yellow vests as well, because Werther is described as wearing them. And the merchandise — Werther perfume. And the fan fiction (in the 18th century, yet). And the opera.
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The Red Stapler / int_c3303aea	comment	Michael from Vsauce managed to do this to a word; his video titled "The Zipf Mystery" at one point talks about the word "quizzaciously" (meaning "in a mocking manner"), which is a word that's only appeared once in Google search results, at the time before the video's release. After the video's release, a subreddit was made and the word gained so many mentions all over the 'net.
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The Red Stapler / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic created a craze for unicorn-themed media, as its protagonist was a unicorn. The craze still goes on to this day. Despicable Me may have also contributed to the unicorn craze, as one scene features Agnes winning a stuffed unicorn from a carnival. Replicas of this specific stuffed unicorn are a popular prize at carnivals and state fairs.
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The Red Stapler / int_c4df4e18	comment	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been credited, including by Tony Hawk himself, with providing a massive surge to the popularity of skateboarding and extreme sports in general in the early 2000s. Many young people from that time first picked up a skateboard after playing the games, and while it wound up a passing fad for many, a great number of professional skateboarders today credit the series with getting them interested in the sport.
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The Red Stapler / int_c56f8e8a	comment	Akazukin Chacha received a surge in interest after Another Note revealed Beyond Birthday is a fan of the manga.
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The Red Stapler / int_ccae327f	comment	The Spoony Experiment: Spoony's review of the 1994 PC game Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge had gamers hitting the used game stores and bargain bins in droves, searching for the obscure title. Which, in turn, nicely remedied his problem of not being able to find any info on it.
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The Red Stapler / int_ce9c80bf	comment	Slam Dunk was a smash hit in not just Japan, but also the Philippines and Korea (and to a lesser extent, among Chinese teens in Malaysia). The manga was even credited by the Japanese Basketball Association for popularizing the sport in Asia, especially since a lot of the players in the Japanese league grew up reading it.
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The Red Stapler / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga: The town of Forks, Washington saw a 600% increase in tourism after the books and the movies came out, nearly all of it due to it being the main setting of the series. There have even been a pair of documentaries, Twilight in Forks and Destination Forks, made about how the town has been affected by this. The Twilight tourism has also rubbed off on neighboring towns, most notably La Push (home of Jacob Black and the Quileute tribe) and Port Angeles (the main town on the Olympic Peninsula, and where several scenes from the book took place). The restaurant Bella Italia in Port Angeles, where Bella and Edward have their first date, received so many requests for the mushroom ravioli that Bella orders in the book that they added it to the menu under the name of "Bella's Mushroom Ravioli." The defictionalization was taken a step further in 2011 when the dish was made available by the restaurant as a frozen take-home entree. Wuthering Heights is enjoying a revival thanks to Bella's fondness for it (coupled with Edward's derision).
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The Red Stapler / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games caused a spike in the popularity of archery, particularly among young women, thanks to its Action Girl protagonist Katniss Everdeen being a bow hunter who makes heavy use of her archery skills throughout the books.
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The Red Stapler / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon: Google searches and interest for malasadas shot up since the game's release.
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The Red Stapler / int_d534bbbb	comment	Davie504: Davie has managed to spark interest in the bass as an instrument. Before, despite being considered one of the most important instruments in music, it remained relatively obscure outside of music fans. With his shift in channel audience to a more general audience, many more of the general public have been exposed to the bass and have picked it up themselves.
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The Red Stapler / int_d5ac3d6a	comment	The expansion pack for SWAT 4 featured a stun gun that held two cartridges instead of one. A few years later came the TASER X2 Defender, which holds two charges. Even better, around the same time was the TASER X3, which holds three.
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The Red Stapler / int_d894c92	comment	Ylvis' "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" supposedly caused a surge in the sale of fox Halloween costumes.
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The Red Stapler / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: After the Lady Gaga song "Poker Face" made an appearance in an episode where the boys are playing Rock Band, the song quickly made it into the real game. Even better? So did Cartman's version. The Casa Bonita episode affected the real version so much that they have to track down whenever the episode airs to accommodate for a potential increase in business. In 2021, Trey Parker and Matt Stone would end up buying the real-life Casa Bonita after it went bankrupt.
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The Red Stapler / int_ded0e62f	comment	The Count of Monte Cristo is the reason why the Chateau d'If, otherwise a random old prison in the south of France, is popular with tourists.
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The Red Stapler / int_e167c371	comment	The Tama Zoo in western Tokyo, Japan getting in koalas as a gesture of goodwill from Australia caused a surge in demand for media about koalas, which lead to the productions of Adventures of the Little Koala and The Noozles.
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The Red Stapler / int_e21a006	comment	In one of the more bizarre examples of the phenomenon, BTS member Jungkook managed to cause a nationwide shortage of the fabric softener Downy in South Korea by simply mentioning he was using it to do his laundry. Once Downy caught up to demand, they later partnered with BTS to release fabric softener branded with their mascot characters.
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The Red Stapler / int_e25322af	comment	Zippo did not make cigarette lighters with the BMW logo on them until Strong Bad was repeatedly seen using a BMW lighter.
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The Red Stapler / int_e32f00d6	comment	Negi Haruba, the author of The Quintessential Quintuplets, featured Miku Nakano wearing audio-technica's ATH-AR3BT headphones and later, their ATH-WS990BT headphones. This caused demand for both models to rise significantly. The company has recognized this, and gifted Negi with a set of the latter model as thanks. Ayane Sakura, who voiced Miku and her quintuplet sisters in a short commercial to promote the manga, also wore the former model as part of a Miku cosplay◊ in promotional photos.
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The Red Stapler / int_e485375e	comment	K-On! did this with the characters' instruments, particularly Fender. For instance, Mio's Fender Jazz Bass is now popularly demanded in real life — even though the original is left-handed and the defictionalized ones are mostly stringed for right-handed use. The one main exception is Gibson guitars, mostly because they're hideously expensive (the Les Paul that Yui plays starts at around $2500 USD), although Les Paul clones are popping up marketed with the show's imagery.
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The Red Stapler / int_e64a6382	comment	After the Arknights character Skadi was given a summer-themed skin that replaced her weapon with a red orca plush, enough players flocked to manufacturers of similar plush toys to ask if they made them in red that at least one company made thousands of extra sales from it.
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The Red Stapler / int_e70dee64	comment	Nancy Sinatra's hit song "These Boots are Made for Walin" was credited with further popularising go-go boots in The '60s.
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The Red Stapler / int_ea77c5ab	comment	Captain Tsubasa tremendously helped the development of soccer as a whole in Japan, spurring the creation of the national pro league JFA and thrust the sport from obscurity to the second-most played sport in the country. Many Japanese and non-Japanese players credit it for their inspiration to play soccer.
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The Red Stapler / int_f1785a72	comment	When Nissan came up with the Skyline GT-R line of sports cars based on the Skyline luxury car range, it was not officially sold in Western markets. However, the likes of Gran Turismo and The Fast and the Furious among others spurred so much mainstream interest in the "Godzilla" that grey-market importers stepped in to cater to the demand. One such importer was Motorex, who supplied the GT-R used by Paul Walker's character in the first film. Nissan eventually took notice and developed the R35 GT-R, first conceptualised in 2001 and released in 2007. The R35 branched off from the mainline Skyline range, as part of its Continuity Reboot.
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The Red Stapler / int_f65a4841	comment	Moira wields a Surefire 6P flashlight in Resident Evil: Revelations 2. Capcom anticipated this trope and launched a Biohazard-branded limited edition model as promotional material for the game.
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The Red Stapler / int_f6a54e75	comment	Similar to Super Smash Bros, Kingdom Hearts occasionally gives exposure to an obscure Disney property which proceeds to become much less obscure. Before Kingdom Hearts, The Nightmare Before Christmas had a following but wasn't exactly what you'd call a Disney classic. Most people didn't even know it was a Disney film, as it was released under the Touchstone banner. But it's always been regarded as a Disney classic overseas, so it was included in the game, leading to its American fandom becoming much more mainstream. Disney made a video game sequel to the film, started putting their name on future home video releases, and re-released the film in 3D. Kingdom Hearts II's inclusion of a TRON world can probably take the credit for the existence of TRON: Legacy and the little franchise that sprung up around it. Thanks to the Optional Boss of Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], a whole new generation rediscovered Runaway Brain. Downplayed with Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, easily the most obscure Disney property ever to get a Kingdom Hearts world, which people became more aware of but didn't enjoy any particular boost in popularity.
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The Red Stapler / int_f7a1fa09	comment	Inverted with A Charlie Brown Christmas; the special's denouncement of aluminum Christmas trees is credited with helping kill the fad.
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The Red Stapler / int_fb9c177d	comment	The Transformers Wiki calls it the Bludgeon Effect: the franchise has many more toys created than there are characters in the TV show, and the Expanded Universe has a huge source of characters that you've never heard of and haven't even got a personality. The name refers to Bludgeon, a relatively minor character who became Decepticon leader late in the Marvel Comics run and stayed a prominent character in subsequent series — much more so than his unpopular toy line would have indicated. This most commonly happens to characters the IDW comics use to good effect; their toys' value online will skyrocket. The biggest beneficiary of this was not Bludgeon, but Ironfist, a character who had never been used in a story until a single appearance in an IDW comic and a Fun Publications comic. Good luck getting your hands on an intact version for less than $100.
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The Red Stapler / int_fd780dc7	comment	The yellow heart-print Fernandes guitar owned by Hideto Matsumoto has become so iconic in the years after his death, that much of the merchandise sold today include that particular pattern. Similarly, the Killer Dagger bass is almost exclusively bought and used by fans of Taiji Sawada, especially outside of Japan where the brand was never available except via import.
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The Red Stapler / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros. is well known for its role in this effect: obscure franchises which receive representation in this series have seen their popularity explode following their appearance. Kid Icarus sees this the most: Brawl was largely, if not entirely, responsible for its eventual reboot. Fire Emblem also appeared in the west following Smash appearances. And EarthBound (1994) got Vindicated by History, and its predecessor finally released outside of Japan, thanks to Ness's appearance in Smash convincing people to give the game a second chance.
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The Red Stapler / int_fe9efc72	comment	The Hamtaro series caused many children to get pet hamsters. Especially with the amount of episodes and spin-off material that aired throughout the 2000s including a couple video games.
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Sideways	seeAlso	The Red Stapler
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (Music)	seeAlso	The Red Stapler
The Tempest (Music) / int_3bfc3184	type	The Red Stapler
Jessica Jones (2015) / int_3bfc3184	type	The Red Stapler
Duolingo (Video Game) / int_3bfc3184	type	The Red Stapler
Miss Management (Video Game) / int_3bfc3184	type	The Red Stapler
Least I Could Do (Webcomic) / int_3bfc3184	type	The Red Stapler

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