I only hear about it in passing in replies, is this news actually true? Are they trying to hide this fact from others?
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Yep. Some people will inevitably overlook that and try making content with newer iterations of those characters, and those people will get sued into the Seventh Circle of Hell, because Disney are still the most litigious motherfuckers on Earth.
"Better not put fingers and gloves on that fucking cartoon mouse, or I swear to god!.." - 12 Highly paid Disney lawyers.
I think that probably stems from Walt losing Oswald way back when.
A lot of the Disney critics like to lionize Walt and try to say he'd be spinning in his grave if he could see the state of things now, but I'm a lot more skeptical. Maybe he wouldn't be a fan of the woke content, but as far as the legal stuff goes, I think he was always at the root of that.
Yes, and that would be because of getting burnt when he was just first starting out. So the modern company inherited that DNA and amplified it.
That being said, I remember my grade school let an older kid paint a picture of Elliot on the wall in the basement next to the library when Pete's Dragon first came out. I wonder if it's still there?