Comments on: Two things that would thaw Walt Disney with the heat of his own rage

By: Brendan Pimper

Brendan Pimper — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Wow, I think that Disney is actually using the “too controversial” design on clothing and pins right now at Disneyland, though they made it Minnie instead of Mickey. Go search for “Minnie Mouse Paris fashion glamour.” http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=90812

By: Philip Moscovitch

Philip Moscovitch — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:14:00 +0000

I loved this Ward Kimball book when I was a kid:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Afterpieces-Ward-Kimball/dp/B000HNBZ9A

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:33:00 +0000

I’d say the ghost of Disney was too busy being pissed off at Steve Jobs for stealing his schtick.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:56:00 +0000

The DPRK is a signatory of the Berne Convention(and there was that wacky incident not so long ago when WIPO was shipping them computers in violation of an embargo to Preserve Intellectual Property!, very embarassing…); but I don’t think that it’s exactly a hotbed of MPAA litigation efforts…

By: flickerKuu

flickerKuu — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:55:00 +0000

At first the new Imperial leader looks a little happy, like a joking schoolboy. Then someone yells, get serious man, and he starts waving his arms around real serious like he’s telling everyone how the spaceship needs to be built.

By: David Weintraub

David Weintraub — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:01:00 +0000

The next week, the North Koreans were entertained by the Rock A-File Explosion!

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:42:00 +0000

Why do batshit crazy dictators so often dress like colorblind hedgehogs? I think it is because no one is willing to say no to them. They take no advice from anyone, and their decisions are unquestionable. This theory also explains Donald Trump’s hair.

By: Tchoutoye

Tchoutoye — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:31:00 +0000

I prefer the Palestinian Mickey Mouse with his anti-Zionist quips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0zE64thJ4

By: Sasha@librtee

Sasha@librtee — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:40:00 +0000

Well, copyright enforcement caused our government to bravely venture to New Zealand and capture Kim Dotcom, maybe the same team will bravely venture to NK and capture this other Kim?

I know he is not nearly as bad, vicious, or harmful to human progress as the worse-than-Hitler Dotcom..but maybe they can be convinced anyway.

By: billstreeter

billstreeter — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Possibly, but Walt probably didn’t know about it. He wasn’t exactly open to parodies of his work. Thus the “heat of his own rage” comment. It’s not about what you think is so bad about it but what Walt would have thought.

By: Tony_Moore

Tony_Moore — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:19:00 +0000

i thought maybe this involved someone giving Ub Iwerks credit. Now THAT would send ol’ Walt rocketing from his grave with flaming rage.

-T

By: thezarray

thezarray — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Hell he probably cuts it himself because a barber could have an ‘accident’.

Is it paranoia when it could well be true?

By: Palomino

Palomino — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:10:00 +0000

Render his ass.

By: Pickleschlitz

Pickleschlitz — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:50:00 +0000

They’re playing a Tom and Jerry cartoon on the screen behind Mickey conducting. All cartoon characters must be the same to them.

By: Bruce Evans

Bruce Evans — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Apparently even an absolute dictator can’t get a decent haircut in North Korea.

By: Felloslav

Felloslav — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:19:00 +0000

i didn’t know they make new monty python sketches in north korea now.

By: EvilTerran

EvilTerran — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:34:00 +0000

I interpreted the “so bad” part to be a dig at the way that Disney tend to be incredibly controlling about unauthorised use of their character designs, particularly when it’s not very flattering — to the point where they’re a significant force behind ever-extending copyright terms, demand volunteer-painted murals at nurseries painted over, etc etc.

In that context, an ex high-ranking Disney illustrator spoofing their designs is pretty… well, I guess “naughty” would be a suitable synonym of “bad”.

By: bec

bec — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:28:00 +0000

isn’t anyone gonna comment on how hilarious the announcer’s lilting voice is?! i was in a trance at the end, waiting for all sentences to end on a warble

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Looks! It’s Dear Leader Jr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFWrQUtx018&feature=related

By: jwkrk

jwkrk — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:47:00 +0000

Looks to me like he was saying that Mickey is too congenial.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:42:00 +0000

If you’ve ever worked in a cartoon studio, you’d know that model sheets and drawings such as these (and much, much worse) are regularly produced by the artists for their, and their colleagues’, amusement. The barely-concealed bile being spilled over the model sheet is really juvenile. Mickey wasn’t something sacred to the Disney artists.

By: dgeos

dgeos — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Now he’s crossed the line! Starving your citizens, threatening you neighbors and stockpiling nuclear weapons are nothing compared with this outrage!

Just wait ’til he feels the full righteous wrath of the Disney Copyright and Trademark Enforcement Division.

By: Matt Popke

Matt Popke — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Mechanical applause for a leader no one really selected, but who they believe represents some kind of greater purpose. Disappointing music performances. Insincere speeches. The unnerving feeling that all of the infrastructure behind it dates back to the 70s.

Why do I feel like this is just a preview of the Republican National Convention?

By: Taylor Jessen

Taylor Jessen — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:15:00 +0000

Kimball didn’t start that “frozen” rumor, the tabloids did – he just liked spreading it around. This is because Kimball was an antiauthoritarian nutball. For which we will forever love him. I see that we as a society are in dire need of consciousness-raising regarding Ward…good thing Amid Amidi wrote a book about him! (Coming November 21.)

Here’s Ward’s 1970 TV special “Dad, Can I Borrow The Car?”, and if you don’t laugh at this you are just a damp sock on a flat rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT9ezrplrM8

By: kmoser

kmoser — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:11:00 +0000

Even if they are, since Disney publicly claims they didn’t authorize the use of their characters then it’s clearly a parody and thus fair use.

By: JoshP

JoshP — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:10:00 +0000

The video reminds me of the old stories during the Cold War about people who were sent to the gulag because they stopped clapping before an important member of the party did. Seems as though you had to stop clapping ‘just right’ and everyone doesn’t want to be caught, so you run into rounds of applause lasting thirty minutes because noone want to stop and look like an ‘unenthusiastic’ party member.
Those poor bastards.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

I have to admit to being a little confused as to the tone in this piece.

So, why are these so bad?

They’re not.

Because they were drawn in 1985

Yeah. I think the ET pastiche gave that away.

People still revere Walt Disney? Who knew?

By: Jer_00

Jer_00 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Is this just here because the other day someone said that if it was a Disney post they knew it was from Cory, so you had to come up with something Disney related to post about?

By: sethgodin

sethgodin — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:41:00 +0000

I agree with the crowd, Jamie–not only aren’t they bad, I think these are fabulous.

By: autark

autark — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Reno 911 already did this plot.