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What was so kiddy about John Carter, Pirates of the Carribbean, the Muppets, Tron Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Brave, Lone Ranger, on top of the stated Marvel films? Disney has a long history of kids films, but also a long history of films young adult/adult films and films in between that are very enjoyable….
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Anyone used to play Disney’s Duck Tales game? I loved that game.
Yeah, my friends worked on Wayforward’s remake. 
There’s an awesome addition to the game which I can’t mention, but def check it out when its released. ^_^
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What was so kiddy about John Carter, Pirates of the Carribbean, the Muppets, Tron Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Brave, Lone Ranger, on top of the stated Marvel films? Disney has a long history of kids films, but also a long history of films young adult/adult films and films in between that are very enjoyable….
I agree with your sentiment in general, but most of those are terrible examples of good “adult” Disney movies. The Marvel movies are about the only ones that really hold up against other movies meant for an older audience.
Pixar? That’s the actual counter-argument. Pixar who was almost ‘last week’s’ purchase. Pixar wasn’t made by Disney, it was made on their own and then sold off. If anything, I would bet their popularity has fallen since then, at least outside ages below 18.
Actually Pixar was bought by Disney in 2006, almost 7 years ago, hardly what you can call ‘last week’s’ purchase, but it is true that Pixar wasn’t made by Disney.
Overall i agree with TimovieMan, Disney has improved a lot since they got rid of Eisner. The simple truth is that for better or worse Disney has turned into a entertainment conglomerate, but at least they seem to know what they are doing, which is more than you can say about LucasArt in the recent years.
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Yeah, at this point - anything we say about Disney with regards to LucasArts properties is pure speculation. Let’s hope they have the good sense to do something decent with the properties.
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The simple truth is that for better or worse Disney has turned into a entertainment conglomerate, but at least they seem to know what they are doing, which is more than you can say about LucasArt in the recent years.
^ If there was a point to all my Disney ramblings here, this was it! 
Thanks, Iznogood.
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Anyone used to play Disney’s Duck Tales game? I loved that game.
Designed and produced by Sierra if I’m not mistaken.
For whom the games toll,
they toll for thee.
Ooooh you guys were talking about that less than okay game and not the overly popular game everyone played?
Stuart Bradley Newsom - Naughty Shinobi || Our Game: Shadow Over Isolation
What was so kiddy about John Carter, Pirates of the Carribbean, the Muppets, Tron Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Brave, Lone Ranger, on top of the stated Marvel films? Disney has a long history of kids films, but also a long history of films young adult/adult films and films in between that are very enjoyable….
I didn’t say any of those were kid movies? I mentioned that they made other things than blockbusters and kid oriented films, which no one else seemed to recognize.
Really?!
Silly me, I thought it was Miramax Films that produced Pulp Fiction!
It is true that Miramax was owned by Disney at the time, but they still operated more or less independently from Disney. That is not the case with LucasArts, hence the title of this thread!
At least the early word on the Lucasfilm (etc.) acquisition was that they’d keep running the business fairly independently from “Disney central command,” just as with ESPN, Marvel, Pixar, etc., and as with Miramax back in the day. I don’t think the situations are fundamentally different.
By the way, in a 20th anniversary retrospective on Pulp Fiction, Harvey Weinstein talks about how he ran the script by Jeffrey Katzenberg:
When I read the Pulp Fiction script, I went to him and said, ‘Even though I have the right to make this, I want to clear it with you.’ He read it and said, ‘Easy on the heroin scene, if you can, but that is one of the best scripts I have ever read. Even though you don’t need it, I am giving you my blessing.’ ”
But even if you leave Miramax out of it, you still have e.g. Touchstone, which is just a brand Disney puts on its more adult-oriented movies, such as Lincoln or The Prestige.
The point is that, going back to the 1980s, Disney has branched out from its kids-and-family focus, although it rarely sticks the Disney brand on the edgier fare. It often diversifies by acquisitions, and it usually allows the new divisions a pretty large amount of autonomy. Expecting Disney to kiddify the Lucas properties just because they’re Disney is based on a poor understanding of what the company is.
Pixar? That’s the actual counter-argument. Pixar who was almost ‘last week’s’ purchase. Pixar wasn’t made by Disney, it was made on their own and then sold off. If anything, I would bet their popularity has fallen since then, at least outside ages below 18.
I can’t stand this argument, I feel a strong need to stand on a soap box and scream: “Disney wrote all of Pixar’s plots! From the beginning! Even Toy Story!!”
I play story-heavy games, watch animation, anime, B-movies, disaster movies, sci-fi movies and crime shows and try to write about it all on my blog: Snark, pedantry and random geekery
Anyone used to play Disney’s Duck Tales game? I loved that game.
Designed and produced by Sierra if I’m not mistaken.
The same Sierra that made Mega Man and Street Fighter?
Anyone used to play Disney’s Duck Tales game? I loved that game.
Designed and produced by Sierra if I’m not mistaken.
The same Sierra that made Mega Man and Street Fighter?
That Sierra.
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