Post by MegaTuga on Feb 25, 2015 18:53:28 GMT -5
Now that I got your attention to the thread with a funny title (even though it is involved to a point) , lets get into more serious matters. To be more precise: I was wondering what are your standpoints, as Legends fans, regarding the great impact that the Servbot image has outside of Legends games (or Megaman games, in fact)
This thought occurred to me when I was watching a gameplay video of Dead Rising 3, where there is a toy store filled with servbot dolls, figurines and wearable helmets, it even has a human-sized Servbot on the front door. Not only that but the game itself seems to use the servbot heads (You know, like this:
) as icons to grab items and whatnot.
This got me thinking: Not only the Dead Rising franchise but plenty of other Capcom games make cameos of Servbots like these, and on top of that there are plenty of merchandising items involving servbots, regardless of being tied to the Legends franchise or not. Which also begs the question that if the Servbots are already a "thing" of their own.
To be honest I am kind of in a mild gray area regarding this. While I am happy to see my beloved characters becoming so popular and known, that same popularity may fall on deaf ears of people who only know the servbots by the way they look (Lego men, yellow robots, etc) and by the sheer amount of times they are featured, despite not knowing their real name (I'm a big offender to that since until a couple years ago I kept calling them "Serverbots") or their origin.
It makes me happy and sad at the same time annoyed by that simple fact. Then again, it might be because I myself am a Legends fan and I don't like seeing the things belonging to my fandom being so incredibly trivialized. But then again, I might be just taking this too seriously as I myself don't see the mascots and icons of other fandoms making consecutive appearances everywhere and never bothering to look them up. So I am also to blame if other people might feel the same way I do regarding this.
P.S. - As a matter of creating an example, and not having to do with this thread that much, let me say this: I always found the memes and plushies of Kyuubey (a mascot character of an anime called Madoka Magica) to be very adorable and funny. But even though I say that I always thought it was simply a long-eared cat which somebody designed and was turned into a merchandising or something. I imagine that if I ever said this to a fan of that series I bet they would get incredibly angry at me. Well I did watch the anime and understand who Kyuubey was at least (it's a tiny horrible and annoying bastard, by the way) so I didn't made a fool of myself in the future.
This thought occurred to me when I was watching a gameplay video of Dead Rising 3, where there is a toy store filled with servbot dolls, figurines and wearable helmets, it even has a human-sized Servbot on the front door. Not only that but the game itself seems to use the servbot heads (You know, like this:
) as icons to grab items and whatnot.This got me thinking: Not only the Dead Rising franchise but plenty of other Capcom games make cameos of Servbots like these, and on top of that there are plenty of merchandising items involving servbots, regardless of being tied to the Legends franchise or not. Which also begs the question that if the Servbots are already a "thing" of their own.
To be honest I am kind of in a mild gray area regarding this. While I am happy to see my beloved characters becoming so popular and known, that same popularity may fall on deaf ears of people who only know the servbots by the way they look (Lego men, yellow robots, etc) and by the sheer amount of times they are featured, despite not knowing their real name (I'm a big offender to that since until a couple years ago I kept calling them "Serverbots") or their origin.
It makes me happy and sad at the same time annoyed by that simple fact. Then again, it might be because I myself am a Legends fan and I don't like seeing the things belonging to my fandom being so incredibly trivialized. But then again, I might be just taking this too seriously as I myself don't see the mascots and icons of other fandoms making consecutive appearances everywhere and never bothering to look them up. So I am also to blame if other people might feel the same way I do regarding this.
P.S. - As a matter of creating an example, and not having to do with this thread that much, let me say this: I always found the memes and plushies of Kyuubey (a mascot character of an anime called Madoka Magica) to be very adorable and funny. But even though I say that I always thought it was simply a long-eared cat which somebody designed and was turned into a merchandising or something. I imagine that if I ever said this to a fan of that series I bet they would get incredibly angry at me. Well I did watch the anime and understand who Kyuubey was at least (it's a tiny horrible and annoying bastard, by the way) so I didn't made a fool of myself in the future.
