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> Harry Potter LEGO sets have a long life because Harry Potter has sustained popularity Really doubt it. JK Rowling is the Enid Blyton of our time. How many ki

• gbear605 8y ago
  Harry Potter has already had a sustained popularity, compared with many other popular young adult/childrens series.
  • oska 8y ago
    Enid Blyton sustained an extremely high level of popularity [1] through three decades (the 40s, 50s and 60s) which only started to decline in the 70s. So 30 years against Rowling's 20 years so far. But again, very few children read Blyton's books now. I think it is too early to say that Rowling will enjoy a sustained popularity and it is my personal opinion that she won't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton#Commercial_success https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton#Commercial_success
    • kuschku 8y ago
      Enid Blytons’s books are still so successful that in Germany, the publishers decided to have other authors continue her stories, and so far they’re still continuing and publishing new books, recording new audio books, and even filming new movies to this day. With unbroken popularity. "The Twins at St. Clare's", in Germany known as "Hanni und Nanni" is so popular, the movies in 2010, 2012 and 2013 were some of the most popular German movies at the time, and the reboot in 2017 also was extremely popular. And even in Britain, another author continued the "Twins at St. Clare’s" book series into the 2000s. So, if Rowling does equally well, and her works are also continued by other authors after her death, we’ll have decades of new Potter movies and books ahead of us. The Fantastic Beasts trilogy is already a taste of what’s to come.