How does this make you feel?

How does this make you feel?

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horny

like someone else shit my pants.

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he's not even a fork, he's a spork

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Like capitalism has finally reached the stage where you can brand anything and profit from it, even a literal bag of garbage. Makes me hope for one of /pol/'s happenings to actually happen.

Like somehow, somewhere, we took a wrong turn as a society.

I WANT TO PUT IT IN MY ASS

>Like capitalism has finally reached the stage
We've been at the point where you can print a card for mediocre "collectible" card game on .0004 cents worth of cardboard, and people will pay upwards of a thousands dollars for "rare" ones. For decades.

>even a literal bag of garbage
Or boxes of it, and call it loot.

I mean that's dumb too, but at least those are produced for that purpose and in limited quantities. This is just a bag containing a plastic spork, a pipe cleaner, a lump of blu-tack a lolly stick. What's its retail price?

Are kids' arts and crafts kits a new concept to you? This kind of shit has been around for decades, grow up.

Makes slightly more sense than paying millions for an unusable postage stamp. Humans just love to hoard and collect random shit, capitalist corporations be damned.

I want Toy Story 5 to be about the toys discovering that they're alive because of Violet Parr's psychic energy and that as soon as she dies so will they.

Funko Pop figure when?

I mean, if you're surprised by this, you're retarded. So I feel neutral

This is a test to see who the real mouse cultists are.
I'm convinced that Disney's doing more and more to turn their fanbase into something like the Sonic fandom, where they can shit on a plate and they'll lap it up, begging for more.
inb4 it's like that already

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Reminder that Bonnie should be entering high school this year.

Yeah, but his name is Forky. He's Forky the Spork.
I don't know how I feel about the actual merchandise, but the character raises a lot of questions about how toys work, and so did KH3, so I am quite confused by that.

already exists

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Don't you have a Special Director's Cut Apology Edition Blu Ray to be buying?

The people who pay millions for an old stamp have so much money that they literally can't spend it all.
The people who dump hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on "rare" magic cards drive shitheap cars in danger of breaking down, and live check to check.

you just described contemporary art a single sentence. I hope you die before you get to reflect upon this irony.

they released this gift card you can buy for 300 dollars. it has 90 dollars on it

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It doesn't make me feel anything. I'm numb to this whole movie

What's the irony? That's exactly how I feel about contemporary art as well. Because it's an aspect of the exact same consumer capitalism.

Who must be killed?

No, because I've been too interested in good animation to even give a rat's ass about what Disney puts out nowadays.

The last Avengers movie I saw was Civil War, the last Star Wars movie I saw was Rogue One, and the last animated Disney movie I saw was Big Hero 6. The last Disney gritty reboot I saw was the first Alice in Wonderland. I don't really think I've missed out on much.

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WOW, I wish I could hang out with you irl, Cool Guy who shows up in threads to express his disinterest in the thread topic!

Not until people start to realize Disney is the EA of the animation industry

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hello darkness my old friend

People were somehow able to form their own opinions of EA and Disney without you.

>covered with Swarovski Crystals
Well, there's your problem.

Though I always eye their Disney crystal statues when I walk by their stores.

>contemporary art
Does that mean something like "modern art" or is it literally just art that is contemporary? I'm not an expert when it comes to art, so I can't tell if it's really straightforward or not, because modern in that context doesn't actually mean modern in the way most people use the term.

Stay salty, nerd

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Value is just scarcity plus sentiment. The dollar you would spend to pay for a card is backed purely by a promise of that currency's worth by the government, and the public's faith in it. That faith can fail (see: Venezuela) and when it does fail, that fucking Pokemon card might do more for you than your dollar is. Gold has a similar lack of utility, but you'd be a goddamned fool to refuse it if it was offered to you.

"Modern" art is actually art from the early 1900s through World War II.
Contemporary art is often associated with the "conceptual" art movement, which is where you get the destruction of objectivity and a filing drawer stuffed with pubes can be in a museum.

Looks fucking awful. If this is the reason they included forky in the movies then that's just sad, even by disney's standards.

So what is contemporary art then?

>That faith can fail (see: Venezuela)
Ok, it's nice to see that you know very little about Economics, Venezuela or the causes of that nation's hyper-inflation.
But I admire your confidence in weighing in on those topics while goldbugging simultaneously.

No you fucking intentionally ignorant retard. THE FUCKING POINT OF THE CHARACTER IS THAT A LITERAL CHILD COULD MAKE IT AT HOME AND THEY ARE SELLING IT AS AN ACTUAL FUCKING TOYSET LIKE THEY CAN BRAND PIPE CLEANERS AND GOOGLE EYES ON A PLASTIC FORK

If you think they can't brand that specific configuration of pipe-cleaners, spork and googly eyes, you haven't been paying attention to the last 30ish years of of corporate patent law.
I can take a box of wheat flakes and patent the use of a specific color on the box. Not the overall design, mascot or logos on it, just the "famous" color of red on the background.

Like the commies might have a point with that late stage capitalism nonsense.
I don't believe it for a second, but it looks that way.

I think the important thing we are all missing here is that China WILL bootleg Forky.
And they will somehow get him hilariously wrong.

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This is the only real solace here.

Contemporary is more of a general term, encapsulating our time period or simply "art made today".
With the atomization of cultural trends, there are a lot of different artistic movements but conceptualism is by far one of the most famous.

Of course, things could get further confused if "contemporary" art ends up describing the 2010s in particular. The same happened with "modern" art - originally it was probably a catchall term but it ended up describing a certain time period.

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I await China's best efforts.

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A socialist government indulged in rampant kleptocracy and mismanaged what should have been abundant national wealth derived from petroleum production. This, combined with an American-backed banking blockade stemming from what amounts to the Venezuelan government itself smelling like a crypto-tier exist scam (see: Petro on the NEM Blockchain), an overconfidence in executive ability to manage an economy sans economists, and numerous other factors create the perfect economic shitstorm.

But at the end of the day, the value of that bolivar was decided by people trusting, or not trusting, that a competent government existed to give that dollar value. Considering the rioting and mass exodus of Venezuelans into neighboring Columbia, I'd register the amount of faith as low.

My point about gold isn't that you should go out and buy some, just that it has value based on faith. It's a hunk of metal, malleable and soft, not particularly conductive. Looks kind've nice, and can be exchanged for other goods or services since most people agree it has value. If somebody gave it to you, you wouldn't chuck it. You would either keep it, or exchange it for an item you perceive as having greater value in the present or future.

Okay, so what exactly did the two anons going on about irony mean by "contemporary art"?
>funny person
Well, the name isn't exactly inaccurate. The box is though.

thanks freakazoid

do kids even buy toys anymore ? I read they are more invested in video games, tablets and smartphones and don't care about toys, tv or comics anymore

I expect Chinese Forky to be an off-color Aquaman trident with the Joker's face melted to it.

Like they badly missed the point. If they had any creative integrity at all they would have shipped it as a collection of disassembled parts encouraging children to build him, maybe even add some other random stuff so they can make their own OC.

if enough people do it we can get on the news again.

>Okay, so what exactly did the two anons going on about irony mean by "contemporary art"?
As I mentioned before, the biggest artistic movement of the last few decades is conceptualism, which (for better or worse) is connected to postmodernist thinking. The actual art piece is less important than the ideas behind it.

As a result, the credentials of the artist are often what gives art legitimacy instead of the inherent value of the piece itself, which often is a "found object" in conceptualism. These, frankly put, are simply already existing items appropriated into an art piece, often with no change made by the artist.

As a result, one can end up in a situation where the anons above were describing, where a bag stuffed full of trash is considered an important piece of artwork worth thousands of dollars.

I hope that explained things a bit.

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...They did, that's what it is. It's right there on the packaging
>Create your own Forky

The only thing to get mad at is the fact that Disney is gonna sell them for way much more than the combined materials would cost in the first place. Googly eyes, pipe cleaners and plastic sporks are cheap as shit, along with putty.

"Spork" is trademarked.

Well, shit, my fault for not enlarging the image and making an assumption. Hats off to them, then.

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Hasbro's doing better. Kids do buy toys, as long as their fucking good. They make toys of video games too.

This whole thread is retarded. Did you guys actually read what's in the kit ?
They're not litterally selling sporks, there's a mold in it and you're supposed to make him out of plaster.

It's dumb in itself, but you're all getting you panties in a twist over a misunderstanding.

I think it's more
>here's a character made with explicitly non-toy materials, and this is important to the plot
>it's still sold as a toy

It's like that Lorax SUV promotion.

Ehh, nothing to really beat yourself over. The toy kit is still dumb as shit though, because as I said earlier, Dis is gonna jack up the price on this toy kit, when the real things are gonna be cheap

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>19.95
>Sold Out

You know what, I'm glad young people are in debt. If they buy shit like this.

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There's a toy set of queen Watevra Wannabi from the Lego Movie 2, marketting not caring about the point of a character is nothing new.

The funny thing is is that they tried to justify the price tag by making it a mold type thing instead of simply giving the kid a spork to work with. It fails though because they’re still trying to charge 20 bucks for this garbage

>You know what, I'm glad young people are in debt. If they buy shit like this.
Yeah those damn five year olds in crippling debt.

How out of touch are you old man?

Did any of you have childhoods? Ever been to an arts and craft shop ever?

These kind of kits are everywhere, they're nothing new at all, you're flipping out over shit which has been industry standard for decades. They're stocking fillers and birthday presents for nieces and nephews you don't know that well.

This thread has some intense bitter old boomer stink to it.

You'd have a point, if this was like $2.99. As just pointed out it's fucking $20 and you don't even get a real spork, you get a mould to make a spork out of modelling clay, presumably because kids can't be trusted not to poke out their own eyes with sporks.

>Air dry clay cost around 11.06 dollar, but comes in a five pound bucket

This is if you want to maybe use the clay as a base for the spork toy for the kids, or just want to free hand it.

>2.19 for a pack of 100 sporks

>1.19 for a pack of pipe cleaners

>4.98 for a bulk 600 count feather assortment

You can probably buy all this even cheaper at a Wal-Mart art's and craft section/Hobby Lobby, but you can still make hundreds of them for less than ten bucks, not including the clay.

But Disney want you to buy this "kit" that can maybe make around ten Forky's for 19.95.

Yeah I go to arts and craft stores, and save money by making my own shit, rather than buy the "Branded Content" of some multibillion dollar entertainment company that's jacking up the prices of cheap shit for a profit.

You guys never heard of the Pet Rock fad?
People will buy anything

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yet Roblox was able to use Spork in a non-licensed gear

Eh, Watevra Wanabi is actually a good marketing job, just because it''s just a smaller scale version of "creative" LEGO sets like pic related, which have existed since forever

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>capitalism
Corporatism

The ultimate proof TS4 is a lazy cash grab

>IT'S DIFFERENT BECAUSE I SAY IT'S DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO PRETEND I LIVE IN THE ERA THAT IS THE START OF DOWNFALL OF HUMANITY BECAUSE I'M SO DEPRESSED, LET ME HAVE THIS, REEEEEEEEEEE!!

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>and you don't even get a real spork, you get a mould to make a spork out of modelling clay, presumably because kids can't be trusted not to poke out their own eyes with sporks.
Couldn't possibly be because they want their arts and crafts kit to be... craft based?

>Yeah I go to arts and craft stores, and save money by making my own shit, rather than buy the "Branded Content" of some multibillion dollar entertainment company that's jacking up the prices of cheap shit for a profit.
Are you four though?

You're not the target audience here dude.

>The "Pet Rock" fad, created by one person who got sick and tired of hearing the complaints of people who buy pets and then realize they actually have to take care of it
>Created a gag gift, that was known to be a fucking joke in the first place, for fun
>Made a manual for the joke gift himself
>only costed 4 dollars
>Made his profit and created a bar and lived his life till the age of 78

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One is a single man, the other is a multinational multi billion dollar media conglomerate.

Even then, it was dumb then and dumb now.

>IT'S ONLY DIFFERENT BECAUSE I SAY IT'S DIFFERENT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It was still a fucking rock sold on shelves for $4 you retard, it doesn't matter what elaborate backstory there was. You're most likely a 20 - 30 year old man crying because Disney is a capitalist company, just throw yourself off your building and get it over with.

He self identifies as a fork you hate monger.

it's a shit toy, but at least it's a "do it yourself" toy I guess.

.Can't dispute anything
>Calls for me to kill myself because you have no argument

I still said both things are dumb. Because they are stupid as hell, jacking up prices on cheap as dirt garbage, when you can buy the items in bulk for a lot cheaper.

Some people just decided to vote for a political party over this toy. Let this sink in on how mentally ill this site is.

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>DISNEY HACKBAR INFIDEL SHUT UP AND LISTEN THE GOSPEL OR ELSE
yikes.

I think they could have maybe done something cool with the "Build your own toy" kit, too bad they just did that spork thing.

Then again, my parents bought me Zoid model kits when I was old enough to be trusted with small pieces. That shit was fun.

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>"You're either with me or you're a shill!!!"

Yikes indeed.

You know how easy it is to make ice cream? Take milk, sugar, and flavor extract, pour it into a zip-lock bag, shake, and store in the freezer.

Guess what, people are still gonna buy fucking Haagen-Daz.

>Comparing haagen-daz with frozen milk with sugar
You are baiting right ? Or are you just a poor faggot who never tasted branded things ?

I take it you've never heard of a pet rock.

>LOL LOOK AT THIS POORFAG WHO MAKES HIS OWN ICE CREAM
>I'm going to buy this overpriced pint instead while shoveling it down my throat complaining about over-priced arts n' crafts kits

I can tell you've never made your own ice cream or even any of your own meals considering you think anything homemade must immediately taste like shit.

Careful there user, you don't wanna piss off any of art history majors in the thread. They tend to autistically defend contemporary art, and they shit themselves if you make the mistake of thinking modern and contemporary are interchangeable terms.

...What the fuck do you think Haagen-Daz is made out of? Magic?

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wat

Nobody tell the Spork estate about this