"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
I tend to like Time Warner's IPs better, but they're worse-run than Disney and people tend to overlook their properties because they don't have the money-printing prowess that Disney's do
And properties like the Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry have been kind of under-exposed in the last decade...
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Also, if Disney paying $4 billion for Marvel and not getting the movie rights to Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four was a good business decision, why didn't they buy it when it was cheap and the rights were still intact? It's not like buying a comic publisher was beneath the conglomorates - Warner has owned DC since the '70s.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, if Disney paying $4 billion for Marvel and not getting the movie rights to Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four was a good business decision, why didn't they buy it when it was cheap and the rights were still intact? It's not like buying a comic publisher was beneath the conglomorates - Warner has owned DC since the '70s.
Those properties' massive money-making potential hadn't yet been unlocked (though Disney already owned a bunch of old Marvel cartoons, having inherited them from Fox Family Worldwide in 2001)...indeed, Marvel wasn't entirely smart about it because by the time they decided to start making their own movies, most of their A-list properties were locked up with other studios.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Those properties' massive money-making potential hadn't yet been unlocked (though Disney already owned a bunch of old Marvel cartoons, having inherited them from Fox Family Worldwide in 2001)...indeed, Marvel wasn't entirely smart about it because by the time they decided to start making their own movies, most of their A-list properties were locked up with other studios.
This sounds like the superhero IP was worth very little itself, and it was only the creation of Marvel Studios that made them worth buying to an entertainment conglomorate.
But why? What structural factors would have prevented Disney from making the movies like Fox or Sony?
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Movies' primary usefulness is as loss-leading awareness for properties which power other, more profitable parts of a marketing machine. At least for Disney, anyway.
(to clarify: big box-office revenues don't necessarily mean huge profits)
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Also, as for marketing machines, there is one other crucial thing that has yet to revert to Disney: the theme park license for Marvel characters. That's still locked up with Universal Parks & Resorts...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Still, not having the movie rights to three of Marvel's properties, or the theme park rights to any of them, doesn't stop Disney from making toys or cartoons out of them...there are so many ways to exploit the characters.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hahaha I did it
I made it through Halloween night without falling asleep this year
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Railroad Track Leading To A Cliff And Nowhere Else
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I dunno, but now you've got me wanting to make up some kind of backstory.
I had it in my head that the Centralia National Railway would be full of weird or silly things. Tracks that just go to a cliff, an abandoned line leading to a disused rock candy mine, steam engines inexplicably in use in 2013...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hee hee, Thomas the Tank Engine
For some reason that's one of few British franchises that I don't associate all that much with the UK
Perhaps because my first exposure to it was the edited-to-death PBS series narrated by George Carlin
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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^ Take THAT, Warner Bros.
i'm still not used to thinking of it as a Disney property
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
This sounds like the superhero IP was worth very little itself, and it was only the creation of Marvel Studios that made them worth buying to an entertainment conglomorate.
But why? What structural factors would have prevented Disney from making the movies like Fox or Sony?
and i have so much leftover candy to eat
or did something happen?
your what
I must know
you know back home we occasionally do get steam engines
obviously they're only running for the novelty/historical interest, but still
also i know there's a steam train that runs from here to Devil's Bridge, tho i haven't been on it...
i visited the gift shop at the Bridge the other day and it was full of Thomas the Tank Engine toys
or was, i don't know what it's like now
but i meant the show itself ^_^;
i haven't seen it since i was a kid
while these are overlapping categories and easily confused, they are not the same