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I remember there was indeed social media uproar over people revealing the bonus items with the Ghost of Past.

Spoiler culture is out of hand.

If Burger King puts out a new sandwich and I have it and I tell you to try it because I thought it had a nice honey mustard, someone's going to call me out for spoiling it for them.
 
Red Ogre said:
I have always hated spoilers. If it's something I'm fiercely adamant about, I'll avoid the entirety of the internet. If I don't want to know about it, it's on me to dodge the information.
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Relevant story...
The year was 1991, the date, January 27. I had just finished my 9-hour shift at the shifty and shitty grocery store I worked at. Beyond all hope I had managed to avoid Super Bowl SPOILERS and I got word that the VCR did happen to pick that night to function properly and record. I was a mild Giants fan at the time and was excited to see the game. On my drive home, I was so damn happy, Jimmy Cliff's I Can See Clearly Now was playing on the radio. I still remember the cold air, the rattle of my Oldsmobile Cutlass gliding down the road. The song ended and the DJ jumped in with "Congratulations to the New York Giants on winning the Super Bowl."


Mother.
FUCKER!
 
I think I became immune to spoilers once I could just pick apart any story on a structural, writer level and call almost every shot. I just see the pattern and code. But to me what's important is the emotional beats and action scenes that get me there. Then I can decide if it worked for me.

Context is king to me.

As such, I became the tank for all spoilers. Someone mad about being spoiled or learning something in advance and bursting to share? I'll take it.

Even in your example, knowing the winning team might dissolve fourth quarter tension, but I still want to know and experience the highs and lows for myself.

But I also think that is a very fair thing to want to avoid. I think media is fair to avoid. I never got to experience the Sixth Sense correctly because someone told me. I'm aware I will never be able to know what that was like. It's kind of weird. In a way what actually upsets me is was that I won't actually be able to pick it apart the way I do every other story to see if I could get there.

But I do draw the line on things like action figures or food. And the other half of the equation is some of the most spoiler sensitive people I know live on social media in the first place, so... If you're swimming with sharks, why you going to get mad that sharks are interrupting your swim? Why are you hanging out on the Star Wars leaks Reddit if you don't want Star Wars leaks.

You got to have accountability somewhere.
 
Couldn’t help myself and looked at the spoiler. Not sure why they felt the need to keep it a secret. It’s a cool addition that may convince a few more to buy the figure. These secret items really ought to be more along the lines of the golden gag accessories at the Armory experience rather than the really cool bonuses they have been. I guess I’m glad we’re getting better stuff than just repainted accessories (well, Krampus’ was just skulls and skeleton hands) but you’d think they’d want to advertise them more, after the spoiler embargo.
 
Red Ogre said:
Relevant story...
The year was 1991, the date, January 27. I had just finished my 9-hour shift at the shifty and shitty grocery store I worked at. Beyond all hope I had managed to avoid Super Bowl SPOILERS and I got word that the VCR did happen to pick that night to function properly and record. I was a mild Giants fan at the time and was excited to see the game. On my drive home, I was so damn happy, Jimmy Cliff's I Can See Clearly Now was playing on the radio. I still remember the cold air, the rattle of my Oldsmobile Cutlass gliding down the road. The song ended and the DJ jumped in with "Congratulations to the New York Giants on winning the Super Bowl."
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Fuck man, spoiler alert! I'm a bit behind on my football and was queued up to watch this one!
 
I don’t have a problem with protecting certain spoilers, especially in a social media feed where you don’t often have a choice if you see it or not. They’ve been doing these for years now and it takes forever to get them all shipped. Everyone who paid the pretty high ask deserves to have the same opening experience when they get it.
 
Misfit said:
It all comes down to approach. Scrooge is an old guy, but he's not always portrayed as some spindly, slight, elderly man. Michael Caine isn't exactly a small guy and I don't recall anyone ever critiquing how he looks in The Muppets Christmas Carol. If anything, that might be the most popular portrayal of Scrooge in this day and age. We do have the painting of Scrooge in his study that came with Marley and he does appear to be pretty skinny there, but I don't think they are beholden to that look. If they want to make a Scrooge, I don't think they need worry about tooling an entirely new body to accomplish such a thing. It will come down to if they want to do it, feel it's necessary, and think it will sell.
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Very good point. Another truly iconic film Scrooge is George C. Scott, who was not a frail, old skinny dude either. Most artwork from Dickens time does depict him as thin, but it's not a necessity. Now, the portrait does make me think if they did him they'd likely go with a similar look, but they do have other options.
Red Ogre said:
I have always hated spoilers. If it's something I'm fiercely adamant about, I'll avoid the entirety of the internet. If I don't want to know about it, it's on me to dodge the information.
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For me, it depends on my interest in it. If it's a film/show/book I'm really enthusiastic about, I do my best to avoid spoilers, but if I'm not that emotionally invested it doesn't really matter to me. For a figure, I don't get it at all. I like knowing what I'm getting, and in this case the
Nutcracker head would likely have made me want to buy it if I were on the fence
 
Agree 100% with GillMan's spoiler point. It has me considering a second figure.

As for Red Ogre's story, that Super Bowl is one of the few you wouldn't want to be spoiled on. I was at a party here in Buffalo and it was a real rollercoaster ride — that eventually went off the tracks, hit a tree and exploded in flames...

I was OK, though, never been a Bills fan.
 
I'm happy to avoid spoiling FO pack ins for others who see them as such, particularly in the dedicated Mythic Legions FB group. 'When in Rome' applies. But for me, the concept of spoilers doesn't really apply outside of the context of a narrative, where one's experience of the unfolding of that narrative may be adversely altered by foreknowledge of revelations ahead of where they are positioned in the narrative. A toy can have spoilers for a narrative - say, character X is sold with "severed limb action!' ahead of a movie's release - but if the Mouse King includes a secret sugar plum fairy figurine (i have no idea what the pack in is), I don't know how that's a spoiler.
 
The biggest thing that was EVER spoiled for me was when some kid on the playground who got to see Empire Strikes Back on opening night told me Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's dad. We weren't going to see it until the weekend, so I had that surprise ruined.
 
I got hit on the next movie — the damn comic book adaptation of Return of the Jedi came out a couple weeks before the film hit (or I got to see it, maybe. I wasn't there opening night or anything) and the damn kid who lived next door to me wasted no time in letting me know who was brother and sister ...

And I wouldn't call the Mouse King item a spoiler, but it is a neat surprise for those who bought in and I can't fault anyone for not wanting to have that surprise ruined.
 
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