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To quote Dan O'Brien at Cracked.com: "As some of you may know, your childhood is getting a crotch punt":
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All set?
>Disney has quietly embarked on an even larger project to rethink the character’s personality, from the way Mickey walks and talks to the way he appears on the Disney Channel
...and I don’t know WHO’S face he’s in; but it CERTAINLY isn’t mine!
*sigh* A long time ago a friend of mine (hi Chad!) did a BRILLIANT “Gangsta Mickey” routine. In retrospect I should have been a LOT more frightened by it.
>first glimmer of this will be the introduction next year of a new video game, Epic Mickey, in which the formerly squeaky clean character can be cantankerous and cunning, as well as heroic, as he traverses a forbidding wasteland.
Oboy! “Mad Mickey!” I wonder if they’ll have the “eat bodies of deceased” option....?
>or choose more selfish, destructive behavior with a harsher outcome, including a Mickey that starts to physically resemble a rat.
....well, okay then!
>“Ultimately,” Mr. Spector said, “players must ask themselves, ‘What kind of hero am I?’ ”
Gee.... that’s novel. Right?
*sigh*
>Keeping cartoon characters trapped in amber is one of the surest routes to irrelevancy....of his $5 billion in merchandise sales in 2009, less than 20 percent will come from the United States.
Gee.... ONLY 5 billion? QUICK! Get Wil Ferrel on the phone! AND a Jonas brother. Dosn't matter which one....
>“There’s a distinct risk of alienating your core consumer when you tweak a sacred character, but at this point it’s a risk they have to take,” said Matt Britton,
Oh yeah! The character ONLY sells $5 BILLION a year! We HAVE to do something! Obviously the whole idea's out of whack.
>“Mickey is never going to be evil or go around killing people,” Mr. Spector said.
....until the Rob Zombie remake.... (It’s only a matter of time, folks....)
>“This is a huge opportunity to create more relevancy for Mickey and pull him into the fastest-growing entertainment medium,”
“Kingdom Hearts” wasn’t enough?
Every time I see something like this, I think of “Poochie.” (And I bet I’m not the only one.) Everyone’s talking about marketing, but nobody’s talking about entertaining.... fun.... interesting....
*sigh*
Maybe they should just do a legit reissue of “Air Pirates?”
Don C.
To quote Dan O'Brien at Cracked.com: "As some of you may know, your childhood is getting a crotch punt":
NY Times Advertisement
Read the article, and come back for my own smarmy comments. I’ll wait.
All set?
>Disney has quietly embarked on an even larger project to rethink the character’s personality, from the way Mickey walks and talks to the way he appears on the Disney Channel
...and I don’t know WHO’S face he’s in; but it CERTAINLY isn’t mine!
*sigh* A long time ago a friend of mine (hi Chad!) did a BRILLIANT “Gangsta Mickey” routine. In retrospect I should have been a LOT more frightened by it.
>first glimmer of this will be the introduction next year of a new video game, Epic Mickey, in which the formerly squeaky clean character can be cantankerous and cunning, as well as heroic, as he traverses a forbidding wasteland.
Oboy! “Mad Mickey!” I wonder if they’ll have the “eat bodies of deceased” option....?
>or choose more selfish, destructive behavior with a harsher outcome, including a Mickey that starts to physically resemble a rat.
....well, okay then!
>“Ultimately,” Mr. Spector said, “players must ask themselves, ‘What kind of hero am I?’ ”
Gee.... that’s novel. Right?
*sigh*
>Keeping cartoon characters trapped in amber is one of the surest routes to irrelevancy....of his $5 billion in merchandise sales in 2009, less than 20 percent will come from the United States.
Gee.... ONLY 5 billion? QUICK! Get Wil Ferrel on the phone! AND a Jonas brother. Dosn't matter which one....
>“There’s a distinct risk of alienating your core consumer when you tweak a sacred character, but at this point it’s a risk they have to take,” said Matt Britton,
Oh yeah! The character ONLY sells $5 BILLION a year! We HAVE to do something! Obviously the whole idea's out of whack.
>“Mickey is never going to be evil or go around killing people,” Mr. Spector said.
....until the Rob Zombie remake.... (It’s only a matter of time, folks....)
>“This is a huge opportunity to create more relevancy for Mickey and pull him into the fastest-growing entertainment medium,”
“Kingdom Hearts” wasn’t enough?
Every time I see something like this, I think of “Poochie.” (And I bet I’m not the only one.) Everyone’s talking about marketing, but nobody’s talking about entertaining.... fun.... interesting....
*sigh*
Maybe they should just do a legit reissue of “Air Pirates?”
Don C.
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