3. Tie-In Toys
If you have children, or if you just like walking round toy shops like I do, youll find a whole bunch of merchandise to tie in with big films. So youll see Battle Damaged Ironman, Trapped In a Mexican Prison Bruce Wayne or Scarfaces Mate, With Detachable Spleen and Chainsaw Injuries and know that, ultimately, those things will be happening in the film. Thankfully the greed of the toy makers sometimes means that they want more sales and also produce things like Spidermans Spidercopter/motorbike/thunder trousers to tempt the kiddies with, branded with the films logo, but nowhere to be seen in the actual movie. Unless of course I missed the part in the last Spiderman film where he used his special glowing banana webs in his laser hover caravan. Tip to avoid spoilers: Avoid having children. Thats a handy money saving tip too in fact.
Tim Colman
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I'm a Westcountry exile now living in Yorkshire with lovely wife and cats (also lovely). I'm a big fan of films, robots, timetravel, and films about timetravelling robots, as well as lots of other action, sci-fi and comedy. I'm currently trying to write a sitcom that doesn't involve robots, and I also blog nonsense on timolsky.blogspot.com. Thanks for taking the time to read my stuff, and feel free to comment.
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