Sales of toys resembling Kylo Ren mild sabers, BB-eight droids and models of the Millennium Falcon spacecraft totaled more than these related to movie franchises Jurassic World,” Minions” and Avengers” combined, NPD Group said on Wednesday.
The exception was Japan, which kept the genre alive by their cartoons and children’s motion pictures, including their very own twists which normally involved both big robots or superheroes. It was a combination of fond childhood memories of house opera films and his love for Japanese cinema that impressed George Lucas to write down Star Wars. His American revival of the genre added one thing it by no means had before, massive budget special results. With state of the art particular results and sound effects, Lucas was capable of amplify the thrill far beyond what the original space opera movies supplied. But while he was reviving a pre-existing genre, he was also reinterpreting the …