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Franchises • Re: When Did They Begin?

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There's the fan club stuff, sure, but I don't know that any of that really led to much in the way of Cosplayers embracing the fandom. Fan Franchises definitely existed before the modern popularity and coining of the term Cosplay, I remember being a 13-14 year old wishing I could own my own proton pack in the early days of the internet and browsing through the OLD fan franchise websites. Some digging around on the Internet Archive got me to the old Proton Charging Links page circa 2000, and you can see there's already nearly a dozen fan franchises linked to there. We know folks started cosplaying as Ghostbusters pretty much from Day 1, but as far as when they started grouping together and pooling their resources to build the groups we know and love today? Since the 90's, at least, most likely shortly after the initial release, but anything from pre-internet would be hard to track down without actually knowing someone directly involved.

Statistics: Posted by Christof — September 29th, 2024, 9:53 am



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