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Harms Young Minds" book, and more.) There's a proper article here. I do agree that all the examples need sourcing from secondary places, but it's relatively easy to find these (eg for transformers, "The
Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television ..." calls out both the show and movies.). This is more than just a neologism documented only at Urban Dictionary - its a term that's been used since the 80s. --
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Toyetic applies to encyclopedic topics makes it appropriate to keep on WP (though of course there's no reason a Wikictionary entry could be included too). There is probably more that can be added in discussing cross-promotional materials that
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in providing knowledge about how some games come to market where others fail. Still needs work to make it truly useful to a casual reader but that's a different discussion. Cheers -
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