McFraggle said:
I am pretty sure that Winnie the Pooh and characters like that are also under Consumer Products. It doesn't mean that we won't get films or anything like that because Disney has more synergy with other divisions in the Company than most do.
Bean Bunny said:
Other Disney proteries tha fall under Consumer Products are Mickey & Friends, Winnie The Poohs, Disney Princesses, Kim Possble. W.I.T.C.H.S, Power Rangers and now the Muppets and Bear. There more proteries but I just listed some of them.
Their most successful line is Winnie the Pooh, that's without saying. I learned that when I worked at The Disney Store (back when I first began to become uninterested in The Big Cheese). Disney Princesses and Power Rangers are big in the market place, but I don't recognize them on TV at all. I have NO idea what W.I.T.C.H.S. is about; and Kim Possible is reportedly doing well.
Actually, when did Power Rangers become part of anything Disney? I thought that was through another company?
How is Mickey and Friends doing nowadays? I don't know. All I do know is that the Dizzy Co. is struggling to remember who Mickey is and what defines his character as more than the corporate symbol he has become.
I just can't be convinced that, at least while Eisner is in place, there will be anything positive in the LONG TERM scheme of things. In more immediate years, we'll get what we have wished for all along. I think it'll all decline afterwards, though.
I have to agree with whoever said that not all Disney merchandise is horrible. I've seen some plush (and even OWN SOME
) that look exactly like the characters they represent. I do think, however, that Disney looks in the wrong direction with flooding the market with merchandise and produce some really dumb things. Not really unlike the dolls from Sababa of Statler and Waldorf From the Hood!! I hate those. It can be good when it's good, but when it's bad, it's VERY bad!
As far as sequels goes, I don't think any other company in the world has produced as many as Disney; however, their remakes are generally okay (Freaky Friday was awesome). Disney needs to lay off the Sequel things, and keep their Masterpiece Movies as just that! Stay away from TV series and sequels and spend that money making NEW and INNOVATIVE stuff--that's what those of us are yelping about, not just because they created Cinderally 33.5.
Beaker said:
Jim Henson's Muppets 1955-2004
Disney's Muppets 2004-2004
At least we have Muppet Family Chritsmas, a time when Muppet Show muppets, Sesame and Fraggle Rock were all under one roof...literally.
I share that same sentiment for the most part.
The thing I dread most about all this is that, even though Eisner isn't taking the helm of things, his former assistant is and that's bad enough.
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