One thing that I noticed while walking the floors of Cinevent was what
seemed to be a dearth of "young blood" at the show, most obvious in the form
of no younger dealers (I think I was the baby at the show and I turned 40
this year) and also in no younger collectors in attendance.
I certainly realize that eBay and the internet in general have had a
chilling effect on conventions/shows overall, but I was still surprised by
what I perceived to be a lack of a younger audience interested in movie
paper.
When doing comic shows, there would always be the "original dealers" who
have been selling since the 60s/70s and are still hauling around merchandise
in the same boxes they used in 1967, then there would be the guys who
started in the 80s/90s who now have a more advanced/mature inventory and
offerings, and then the "young guns" who had recently gotten started and had
vast inventories of new "hot" comics. The trend would always be that as
time goes on, attrition takes a few out of each level, while some step up to
the next and more "young guns" enter and start the cycle over.
I really don't see this happening (at shows) with movie paper. There wasn't
a single dealer at the show set up selling rolls of new Dark Knight or Star
Trek posters or whatever the flavor of the month is. I know that some are
out there - I see them on eBay and on the boards. Do you guys go to shows
at all? Or is it that you find Cinevent full of "older" collectors who
don't' want posters from any movie made in color? Or is it that it is just
so much easier to send an email out to your customer list and let them know
you have the new Transformers2 poster that you don't need to spend the extra
money to go to a show and try to add to your clientele?
Just curious about all this, as I think it would be great if there was a
huge poster show where dealers of all eras were set up and there were enough
collectors there to make it worthwhile.
Sean
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