>>9127595>So uh you have no proof then?I offer real proof. You've offered nothing to back your bull except "nuh uh"
Again, things wouldn't exist if what i said were false. Magazines, especially multi-volume color mags, wouldn't exist if there wasnt a large fanbase. You need tens of thousands of buyers to make that worthwhile for a publisher. The fact that mag is multi-volumes means that the presequent volume was a success. (to be clear, collector toys sell 5k-100k per figure)
With that PSX "game", that's even more expensive, so that requires an even larger audience. The fact it was released on the Playstation means they knew there was a large enough market that it overlapped with another hobby that had a $300 entry point.
These two things alone proves McFarlane Toy's success in Japan. I shouldn't even point out the fact that "tens of thousands" isn't even going to be the entirety of a fanbase, because you're only going to attract maybe a tenth of a base with the publication you're producing.
>blogs "blogs" didn't become a norm until LiveJournal hit in 1999 (not an immediate success, so you add another year or two to grow that base to become a norm) and that's not even a real blog. Before that we only had the most nerdiest of the nerdest make their own website to host their sorta-kinda-quasiblog. Nevermind that hosting was fuckton expensive, so only the hardcore or professionals dedicated a website for their hobby. Even if you were an amateur and created a weakshit fansite with AOL or geocities, you had 10mb of space. So your piss-weak site couldn't actually be a "blog", muchless get more than a few reviews out.
The fact that you think you can even find collections right now and pretend it's somehow a comprehensive search means you're a dumbshit zoomer, not understanding how little of the pre-2010 internet exists today. A lot of my favorite websites are gone forever and most people never rehosted that shit, even when they created another site.
