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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#1: Sep 5th 2011 at 10:40:23 PM

Advertising-Only Continuity has a whopping zero wicks, and this is after it was renamed from Plot Sold Separately. The example list is also very puny.

Seriously, if a trope has ZERO wicks, I have to doubt that it's even a trope. Shall we cutlist?

edited 5th Sep '11 11:35:55 PM by Twentington

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#2: Sep 6th 2011 at 4:43:48 AM

Has the requisite three examples. Needs to be reciprocal linked.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#3: Sep 6th 2011 at 5:28:18 AM

It seems to be a toy trope. We don't really have a whole hell of a lot of toy pages now do we?

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Jeysie Diva of Virtual Death from Western Massachusetts Since: Jun, 2010
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#4: Sep 6th 2011 at 5:42:03 AM

[up] Toys

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#5: Sep 6th 2011 at 6:34:55 AM

And if you'll note, most of those are about the shows.

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#6: Sep 6th 2011 at 7:07:51 AM

[up] Yep all those are pretty much just an index of Merchandise-Driven stuff... woefully incomplete too.

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#7: Sep 6th 2011 at 7:11:31 AM

A few of them are just toys, though. Off the top of my head, LEGO (and everything under that), Nerf Brand, Furby, and I'm sure there are a few others. The list could use some cutting down of the things that are just Merchandise-Driven, though.

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#8: Sep 6th 2011 at 7:13:03 AM

If they are Merchandise-Driven they really should have their own page on the.. well... Toys in the Toys namespace. Especially if they have their own continuity. (even though this page right now is completely about advertising flubs and mistakes.)

edited 6th Sep '11 7:14:02 AM by Raso

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Jeysie Diva of Virtual Death from Western Massachusetts Since: Jun, 2010
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#9: Sep 6th 2011 at 7:52:28 AM

Also, some of the things like Barbie and Transformers have subthings that are shows, comics, whatever, but the main page is properly Toys because the franchise taken as a whole revolves around the toys. There's plenty of Transformers toy-only characters and fiction, for instance.

edited 6th Sep '11 7:53:45 AM by Jeysie

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#10: Sep 7th 2011 at 12:29:32 PM

Even if ads violate a series' continuity, ads themselves are not a continuity. Delete this one.

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