but the real question, Bobby
is when is it a bomba
On the top of a mountain of clearance games surrounded by a circular mesh fence, you must climb. Climb, climb, until the air is thin and the cold bites at what exposed skin remains like the eager beaks of a red-shelled koopa. And when you finally reach the top of this slippery mountain, shedding plastic cases and dented cardboard with every tender, reaching step you take, you will find a single Shovel Knight amiibo. You must take the amiibo, descend the clearance bin, return to your milk-crate furnished hovel, scan the amiibo, and then return it to the store. It is then that you will look up, and find Wario64 is the man processing your return. But you must not speak his name, or talk directly to him. Avoid contact, wait as he finishes tweeting the contents of a weekend circular, and he will finish when he finishes. Patience will be needed, and patience will be rewarded.
And when he hands you the reciept and credits the purchase back to your card, you will see at the bottom of the slip of paper, that he has decreed "bomba."
You will nod solemnly at each other, go wall-eyed, and vomit all over your chests while farting.
You're not factoring in absurd marketing costs and distribution costs. It won't be a bomb but it would be a giant disappointment.
It's still ridiculous. A large amount of the marketing costs are going to be ameliorated by tie-in deals and product placement, as well as lowered/reduced rates on their own media outlets (EW, CW, etc. etc.) Distribution won't cost all that much, and we're STILL only considering domestic reciepts. These are two of the most well-recognized superheroes ever, in the same live-action movie for the first time. A film that makes north of $400 million domestic is likely going to make at LEAST another $400 mil international, but much more likely that it'll make anywhere from 600-800 million. That's 1.2 billion.
There is no way you can consider that a bomb. It's ridiculous to even try and suggest as much.
