I knew someone at Disney wanted the company to distance themselves from shows like Marsupilami (pretty big story there), Shnookums and Meat, and Nightmare Ned, but I didn't think they hated Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and House of Mouse, especially not the latter considering it ran on Toon Disney until the bitter end, even as other, better known shows like Darkwing Duck and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh got the boot. I guess a lot can change within a decade...
Not a surprise about Marsupilami. I'm only happy the original creator got to sue.
Not only that, but it was a rare instance where Disney's lawyers didn't get their way. The courts actually acknowledged that Disney dicked around with the property too much and that Franquin deserved justice. Too bad he died around that same time...
Sad he did, not enough time to enjoy his success against the Mouse. I knew a guy online who never shut up about Disney's version of that character like that was the only thing he ever saw in his impressionable youth. We had to ban him eventually but it just annoyed me how much Disney's version got to him. André Franquin rolls in his grave.
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Because they are retards, all of them!
That's hilarious since no one I knew liked that show. We used to think of it the same way we did Barney, as some dumb baby show only dumb babies liked. Considering how short lived that show was apparently this was a very popular and widespread opinion.
Really that was a hill he wanted to die on?
I don't know what John Lassiter had picture. But I thought the cartoon was good.Not remembering the specifics was starting to bug me , so I did a little bit of research and it was John Lasseter who wasn't fond of the Buzz Lightyear cartoon. I don't think he's ever given an exact reason but some people think it was because he had a different idea of what a Buzz Lightyear cartoon should be like or he was just pissed at Disney for dipping their greedy fingers in too deeply and the cartoon got hate as collateral damage
Tad Stones, one of the co-creators of the cartoon talked about it on a podcast 10 years ago.
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That's gotta suck though, because John was one of the guys who heard the initial pitch
In fairness, he created the character in the 50's and was widely popular in French-speaking territories. I'm sure Disney wanted the same success Hanna-Barbera had with The Smurfs.
I'm talking about the forum user not the creator
Oops, sorry for not noticing who you were speaking of, but yes, that guy was that way.
Wasn't this around the time Disney did Jungle 2 Jungle, made EuroDisney, and otherwise pretended French people mattered?
Yeah, just about. They even had a studio set up in Paris that slaved away on those Disney Afternoon shows.
Touchstone dubbed the original film that it was a remake of under the title Little Indian, Big City. Siskel and Ebert both gave it really bad reviews... tell you the truth, I'm kind of curious about just how bad it really is.
I recall hearing the original was pretty dumb and the remake was worse. But yeah now that I think about it I'm curious how shit they are.
I can't imagine they liked Jungle 2 Jungle any better, unless they were really big Tim Allen fans. And thought that scene after scene of Tim Allen being annoyed at his loincloth-wearing teenage son was funny. That seems like a pretty big stretch though, considering the only kinda-sorta amusing bit I can recall from that movie was the scene where Tim Allen and Martin Short can't remember the secret knock to see the Russian mob boss, and after fucking up it up many times he just tells them to come in because he's so annoyed at their knocking.