Allegedly, the game was largely finished and Margera was not going to be in the cast. Tony Hawk then called the publisher Activision to have him brought back.
Seems like a pretty nice gesture, on top of the whole thing of retaining original content (though it sounds like they're newly scanning the bodies of the skaters?).
Was it an issue of royalties regarding Bam's likeness in the game? I'm not sure why Bam got removed at all if it's apparently so trivial a phone call from Tony would turn it around.
Cancel culture was the reason, sounds like. Bam Margera is a bit of a...Jackass.
It is weird though. Sounds like others have done worse; I didn't follow any of this, but not sure why they went after him specifically. Maybe he's just in the wrong profession. This would be normal if he was a fighter, and really tame if he was a football player.
Bam's a huge fuckup and is only just skating by not being in jail constantly. Its well beyond cancelling and into legitimate legal and safety problems. They literally cut him from the Jackass reunion thing a few years ago because of it, and those were his closest "friends."
So I'm sure to most of the suits in charge he was bad optics and controversy they didn't want, but Tony is a shockingly nice guy and probably doesn't care about any of that. This series wouldn't be where it was without both of them, skating as a whole might not be, so to Tony he deserved his place.
Its one of those situations where both sides are probably in the right depending on your beliefs.
Allegedly, the game was largely finished and Margera was not going to be in the cast. Tony Hawk then called the publisher Activision to have him brought back.
Seems like a pretty nice gesture, on top of the whole thing of retaining original content (though it sounds like they're newly scanning the bodies of the skaters?).
Was it an issue of royalties regarding Bam's likeness in the game? I'm not sure why Bam got removed at all if it's apparently so trivial a phone call from Tony would turn it around.
Cancel culture was the reason, sounds like. Bam Margera is a bit of a...Jackass.
It is weird though. Sounds like others have done worse; I didn't follow any of this, but not sure why they went after him specifically. Maybe he's just in the wrong profession. This would be normal if he was a fighter, and really tame if he was a football player.
Bam's a huge fuckup and is only just skating by not being in jail constantly. Its well beyond cancelling and into legitimate legal and safety problems. They literally cut him from the Jackass reunion thing a few years ago because of it, and those were his closest "friends."
So I'm sure to most of the suits in charge he was bad optics and controversy they didn't want, but Tony is a shockingly nice guy and probably doesn't care about any of that. This series wouldn't be where it was without both of them, skating as a whole might not be, so to Tony he deserved his place.
Its one of those situations where both sides are probably in the right depending on your beliefs.
Wasn't he also in a mental institution for a good portion of the jackass reunion?