2015 Shareholders Meeting: Game Thread

[Martiyoman]

This is literally the dumbest thing ever written on the Internet

1) Iger had nothing to do with making them not canon
2) making them non canon allows them to adapt characters and concepts from those stories without having to adhere to a strict limited existing continuity. Like marvel does with their films being loosely based off the comics.
3) a ton of stuff needed to be removed from the canon anyway

Yeah, but aren't you used to it yet?

 

[ford91exploder]

Yeah, but it also dissolves plastic...

It pretty much dissolves anything petroleum based - except for polyethlyene (it's used to thin epoxies among other uses) very very useful and very dangerous if misused.

 

[ford91exploder]

I think it's a Roger Rabbit reference. At the end of the movie, the villain (judge character?) was revealed to be a toon when acetone was spilled on him and he dissolved...

That was 'Dip' a solvent which dissolved Toon's because they were made of ink, Big difference between referring to a fictional liquid McGuffin in a movie and threatening to spray someone with a volatile industrial solvent.

 

[Atomicmickey]

This is literally the dumbest thing ever written on the Internet

1) Iger had nothing to do with making them not canon
2) making them non canon allows them to adapt characters and concepts from those stories without having to adhere to a strict limited existing continuity. Like marvel does with their films being loosely based off the comics.
3) a ton of stuff needed to be removed from the canon anyway

If that's the case, it must be Obama's fault. Thanks Obama.

 

[ford91exploder]

If that's the case, it must be Obama's fault. Thanks Obama.

Obama has enough to answer for without adding things which have nothing to do with him, Iger OTOH...

 

[RSoxNo1]

Knowing the types of questions that would actually get answered at a shareholders meeting, I've thought about what type of parks related question I would ask. The question was posed to this forum not long ago (probably in a Spirited thread), but here's my new answer:
The trend in theme park entertainment is to construct visually stunning areas that are tied to a specific intellectual property. It seems that any and all rumors circulating right now about future expansion in Disney World and Disneyland is also tied to successful intellectual property. However, most classic attractions, as well as many of the most popular new attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, Soarin' and Expedition Everest were not tied to an intellectual property when they were first created. Additional attractions like Tower of Terror and Splash Mountain are tied to IPs that aren't used for any sort of additional marketing tie in, but more for the presence of a backstory.

It seems that these types of attractions are 100% Imagineering with little executive input into the creative process. Allowing Imagineering to amaze the guests without any other guidelines seems like a far purer way to revitalize struggling areas of the parks instead of shoehorning intellectual property into an existing facility. Forcing an intellectual property into an existing area has consistently failed.

Will we ever see Imagineering again have the true free reign to create?

 

[Martiyoman]

It pretty much dissolves anything petroleum based - except for polyethlyene (it's used to thin epoxies among other uses) very very useful and very dangerous if misused.

Yeah, but, but... You're COMPLETELY missing the point, and the joke. And reality...

Too much?

 

[ford91exploder]

Yeah, but, but... You're COMPLETELY missing the point, and the joke. And reality...

Too much?

illiterate Americans have forgotten that words have meaning, I'm not missing the point if said nutball said If I spray you with DIP you would disappear I would have laughed because well it's a joke riffing off Roger Rabbit and what happened to the Judge.

If nutball says If I spray you with ACETONE which is a solvent the compliance guys need to keep records for its purchase and usage and the little containers in the lab have the NFPA hazard diamond on them I'm thinking THREAT.

 

[ford91exploder]

Knowing the types of questions that would actually get answered at a shareholders meeting, I've thought about what type of parks related question I would ask. The question was posed to this forum not long ago (probably in a Spirited thread), but here's my new answer:
The trend in theme park entertainment is to construct visually stunning areas that are tied to a specific intellectual property. It seems that any and all rumors circulating right now about future expansion in Disney World and Disneyland is also tied to successful intellectual property. However, most classic attractions, as well as many of the most popular new attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, Soarin' and Expedition Everest were not tied to an intellectual property when they were first created. Additional attractions like Tower of Terror and Splash Mountain are tied to IPs that aren't used for any sort of additional marketing tie in, but more for the presence of a backstory.

It seems that these types of attractions are 100% Imagineering with little executive input into the creative process. Allowing Imagineering to amaze the guests without any other guidelines seems like a far purer way to revitalize struggling areas of the parks instead of shoehorning intellectual property into an existing facility. Forcing an intellectual property into an existing area has consistently failed.

Will we ever see Imagineering again have the true free reign to create?

It will happen after the inevitable crash of the current strategy. When is up to the universe to decide

 

[Martiyoman]

illiterate Americans have forgotten that words have meaning, I'm not missing the point if said nutball said If I spray you with DIP you would disappear I would have laughed because well it's a joke riffing off Roger Rabbit and what happened to the Judge.

If nutball says If I spray you with ACETONE which is a solvent the compliance guys need to keep records for its purchase and usage and the little containers in the lab have the NFPA hazard diamond on them I'm thinking THREAT.

Whatever dude. I like your sig line. It makes sense.