Sean
I know you know the answers to this post and are
just trying to bring other people's understanding of it up to snuff.
In case you don't know.. people under a certain
age are more interested in video games and dvd's
than any other popular culture media
It just happens to be what these kids spent all
their time with. Playing Nintendo and X-Box for 16 hours on end
so what will really be the great collectible in
the future are the video games in the boxes and
the old video game players and even to a lesser
extent the artwork on the boxes.. However because
most of the art is now computer generated, that area will have a limitation.
I already know of at least 1 really nice
collection that a member on the CGC boards has
Meanwhile the other side is that, as Bruce has
pointed out in the past, there is no place where
a person can really go on entry level to find out
about posters. They aren't sold at theatres which
is the likely place to create collectors. So
there's no entrenue. The only places I know of
where these people can get introduced to them is
a Wal Mart or Target etc where they sell repros of stuff and scene posters.
All hobbying of the past generations is going to
be historical. The next generations will be doing
what is nostalgia to them.. and seeing as B&W
movies are forbidden to young folks.. we already
know where that stuff is eventually headed
At 01:46 PM 5/30/2009, Sean Linkenback wrote:
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 dont see this happening (at shows)
with movie paper. There wasnt 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 dont 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 dont 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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