Given Disney nowadays, would you say that the people in charge of Disney are viewing "Walt Disney", the man, as some kind of monkey on their backs? By that, I mean, has Walt the man become a nuisance to the company?
In layman's terms, is Walt's ideology and wholesome brand that many people associated with shown as a nuisance to the current company from having them go full out? Does the current company view Walt as a millstone dragging the company down and preferring to just bury him and everything he stands for in history?
In layman's terms, is Walt's ideology and wholesome brand that many people associated with shown as a nuisance to the current company from having them go full out? Does the current company view Walt as a millstone dragging the company down and preferring to just bury him and everything he stands for in history?
Sometimes I wonder about that myself. Walt left a legacy and an expectation that IMO, Michael Eisner and Robert Iger both fail to fully understand. Eisner wouldn't have bought the Muppets, and Iger wouldn't have bought Marvel, if they did. True Disney does things the Disney way! It creates its own version of a book, a character, a concept, and plusses it; it doesn't just buy something and stick it as is into the parks or the Disney pantheon. I saw a Disney poster not long ago that showed Kermit and Miss Piggy right next to Mickey, Minnie, Donald, the Disney version of Peter Pan, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp etc. It made me want to hurl. The only thing that would have made it worse would have been if The Incredible Hulk was shown next to the Incredibles. :hurl:
You mean "have they grown bored with money"?
No, I mean, have they been wishing that could just treat Walt's company like any other stereotypical company?
No, I mean, have they been wishing that could just treat Walt's company like any other stereotypical company?
It's kinda like saying "what would Walt do?" Nobody but a dead man can answer that question for sure.
What does that mean?
Think about it. Why ask a philosophical question if you can't take the answer?
Here's a hint:
There is no answer.
Yes, but there are educated guesses. One can extrapolate what Walt might do in a given situation if he were alive today by looking at his past behavior. He had a philosophy and a way of doing things that were proven to be winning strategies. Given his past methods, the notion that Walt would buy entities like Marvel and the Muppets and just stick them as is into his creative stable seems unbelievable and absurd. He just didn't operate that way. Some here seem to believe that because the world has changed, that Walt would change, possibly into a typical CEO. But Walt resisted that kind of thing all his life. If he were alive today, why would he morph into a Michael Eisner or Robert Iger? It makes no sense.
People seem to forget the Walt himself acquired the rights to Winnie the Pooh, so it's not THAT absurd.
You CANNOT, with any certainty, know what a dead man would do.
Sometimes I wonder about that myself. Walt left a legacy and an expectation that IMO, Michael Eisner and Robert Iger both fail to fully understand. Eisner wouldn't have bought the Muppets, and Iger wouldn't have bought Marvel, if they did. True Disney does things the Disney way! It creates its own version of a book, a character, a concept, and plusses it; it doesn't just buy something and stick it as is into the parks or the Disney pantheon. I saw a Disney poster not long ago that showed Kermit and Miss Piggy right next to Mickey, Minnie, Donald, the Disney version of Peter Pan, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp etc. It made me want to hurl. The only thing that would have made it worse would have been if The Incredible Hulk was shown next to the Incredibles. :hurl:
Like OP stated, Walt Disney did buy the rights to Winnie the Pooh and I don't quite understand what your grudge against the purchase of The Muppets is? The Muppets was bought because it's a great franchise that was created by a man who in many ways was similar to Walt. It shares alot of the same values that Walt Disney instilled in his movies and his theme parks. The Disney Company had everything to gain and nothing to lose from this purchase. As far as the marvel purchase? It doesn't make sense unless you look at it purely from a $$$ standpoint. I don't believe it's a deal that Walt would have made but theirs nothing that we can do about except hope and pray that some day someone with similar thinking and heart like Walt takes over the reins at the Disney Company.
I have to disagree. With a new Muppets movie in the works everything I've heard about it has me looking forward to it (especially Jason Segal being a big part of it). Disney can't create a Disney version of The Muppets because there's nothing to "plus" as far as the Muppets are concerned.
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