If you want to know what's going on behind the scenes with major studios, the marketing and merchandising partners are often the first to find out. A toy industry expert and insider with more than three decades of experience at a Disney merchandising partner...
Have you ever seen a film that needed defense like this five years later? Why do they care enough to try? It really is an impressive feat that The Last Jedi has achieved. Despite coming in more than half-a-billion less than its predecessor film, the dogmatists who...
It's difficult to believe but both Ms. Marvel and Obi-Wan Kenobi are still generating less online searches than Stranger Things. What makes this so peculiar is that today is the launch date for Ms. Marvel and Stranger Things has now been out for nearly three weeks. We...
Who is really winning the streaming wars and is Obi-Wan Kenobi a cultural phenomenon like two other media entries this summer? If you've been visiting That Park Place very much, you know that there is a bit of controversy surrounding Stranger Things and Obi-Wan...
We told you the Nielsen ratings were coming... and there they are. In near-record time for Nielsen, we're finding out that when it comes to "minutes watched" for the first weekend of a Stranger Things debut, Season 4 came out swinging big time. The show tallied more...
Sympathy for the Disney Devil Recently, reviewing Obi-Wan Kenobi has put me in a bit of an awkward position - not only with the fan community in general, but myself. My review of the third episode put me on the opposite side of most fans who lost interest in Star Wars...
Let's just get this out of the way: Top Gun Maverick is one of the most important and successful movies we'll ever discuss on this website. Not only has this movie knocked out every other Memorial Day Weekend release so that it is now the top MDW box office success of...
Every single thing points to Disney's decade-long project with Star Wars being dead. It has utterly failed. Follow along as we detail just how spectacularly it died this week. It would be hard to have missed all the developments surrounding Lucasfilm, Star Wars...
Note: As before, I watched the episode twice before writing this review. There will be a non-spoiler impressions section at the top, followed by the full spoiler review after a warning. Impressions: I felt that Episode 3 of Obi-Wan Kenobi was a huge step up from...
It's time for another conversation between Valliant Renegade and WDW Pro as they look at the collapse in interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as the strange marketing strategy for Lucasfilm. Also of note to readers is that this conversation was recorded prior to...
That's one way to get attention when your show is in a distant third place. You have to give it to Star Wars, Lucasfilm and Disney. They have come up with a novel concept of branding their own fans in the absolute worst terms. How that can possibly be...
Our writers and analysts are shocked. Really. We will be sharing a more detailed explanation for what we think is going on later this week, but suffice for today is a straight news piece that details what is happening. And that happening is that while Stranger Things...
In just two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, we've already had TWO chase scenes involving a young Princess Leia runnning from adult men with outstanding success. Despite her clearly slow gate, this is one princess who knows how to evade. As a result of the two chase scenes...