a curious lack of memorabilia

as a big Terminator fan ive always purchased stuff for each film (books, magazines, comics - not so much figures/toys/games) - this began way back with T2 (Making Of book, Script/Photo book, Starlog official T2 magazine, Marvel comic adaptation, novels of T2 and T1, I even got some T2 bubble gum cards)..then T3 had a couple of magazines, novel, some prequel comics etc. T4 had a bunch of stuff I never bothered to buy other than the official magazine (think there were 2 'coffee table' books, novel, prequel novel, comic, prequel comics etc plus a load of toys) and while TG initially seemed abit light on stuff there was a big 'coffee table' making of book (that I waited a while and picked up for like a quarter the price in a bargain book store) plus there was also a strange looking board game and the usual various Hot Toys figures (which are like thousands of dollars) but there was no official film magazine, comic adaptation or prequel comics or even the novel that T2/3/4 got - granted the marketplace had changed with ppl not so bothered about buying books and magazines when all the information is on their phone/tablet/laptop..(hell the wiki entry for each movie bests anything written in any expensive making of book or official magazine and you want photos simply google images and theres all youd ever need - and as for the novel and comic adaptation well the movie is available to buy/download the second its left theatres and that was the selling point for te novel/comic as back in the 70s/80s/90s the film could take a good while to be available to buy or show on tv .. so alot of genre films just do prequel comics and novels these days.. I guess they figure an adaptation of the actual movie is pretty much pointless now)

which leads to Dark Fate...

I can find absolutely sweet FUCK ALL..

seriously go on amazon type in T:DF and theres NOTHING - no books, no magazines. no comics. just the score mp3 (not even cd - and you can get any score for any film on utube now anyway) and a listing for the eventual dvd/blu (for comparison sake just 2 years ago there seemed to be a plethora of Alien Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 stuff - big coffee table books, magazines, prequel novels etc .. I bought the Covenant magazine and novel and am still waiting to get the big Art of BR2049 when I can get it cheap)

so the only thing ive got on DF is a Den of Geek magazine that I got from ebay that was handed out at the SD comic con a while back and has a nice cover with a 4page article inside (initially I figured itd be the entire magazine dedicated to DF like similar to the official magazines for T234 but nope)...

another thing - Empire magazine which ive been buying every month since the mid 90s didn't bother to do a T:DF cover issue or have any lengthy article in the mag (other than a brief 2page 'coming soon' piece a while back) yet for each Terminator film before they've done a cover and a big 8-10 page article on the making of the film (even for Genisys) - this time ..NOTHING (which is strange as this Terminator film deals with all the SJW stuff that Empire are have a big hard on for) Total Film the lesser magazine in UK did do a cover though but I stopped buying that years ago as its virtually the same as Empire (I remember the TF issue for TG had free teaser poster for TG which I stuck an 'R' rating logo on to make me feel better about it being PG13 in the run up to release! yes that was/is how sad I am ..lol...well I got my wish with DF as it was R rated lol)