Disney is definitely at risk of becoming irrelevant with their stale IP.
[0] "Simple and clean is the way it should be..."
surprisingly one of the simpler questions to answer. The Keyblade is the key that can open (or close) any door. And that was the theme of the first Kingdom Hearts: doors. the big villians plan is to destroy all worlds by opening the door to the Dark World and flooding the existing Light dimension with hoards of monsters. you also spend a lot of time closing off the doors to the heart of the world to protect their cores (monsters destroy core = destroyed world).
In addition to bashing enemies and being a large narrative hook, it's a nifty explanation for why you are able to simply tap on a chest and open anything you want. Or break and enter into a bunch of buildings (although the game forgets constantly that it can do that).
IP don’t make the game. The game makes the game.
There's a ton of people who apparently really liked Kingdom Hearts.
It's pretty elitist to consider some IP too sacred to remix.
I was amazed.
Heh, not sure if pun intended but this made me giggle
If you're a teenager that may be much easier... or much harder, in cases such as yours.
Funny enough Disney also recently launched their own TCG: Lorcana. A whole new way to leverage that IP!
As if all the Disney Adults in the world are just going to snap out of it. As if all the children who love Disney stuff currently are going to grow out of it. In what world is this considered an informative and knowledgable take?
Even at its lowest point financially, Disney IP has never been irrelevant at any point.
KH3 also made me realize that they can start to target child and adult fans via recently popular titles (e.g. Frozen) and ~30 years ago popular titles (e.g. Toy Story), respectively.
Presumably not adjusted for inflation, but still impressive.
are we really gonna make up things that are easily disprovable?
It was supposed to kick off a Marvell-style universe of infinite blockbusters. It didn’t.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone singing that one song from Encanto I'd be able to buy Disney.
I'm sick of them being allowed to increase their entertainment monopoly on children instead of being told to just create new original works. It's not like they have a shortage of talented people...
When you create a new work based off a public domain work, you own what you added to that work. If your adaptation happens to be extremely successful, that effectively recopyrights the character, because the version people care about is the one you own. If someone else wants to use the public domain character, they have to aggressively distance their use of that character from yours.
Disney spent decades re-imagining Europe's folk tales[0] through his lens. Their movies are the ones people think about when you mention Snow White, Cinderella, Pinocchio, etc. Notably, the visual designs are unique enough to get independent copyright protection. So independent uses of those characters don't look like themselves.
This, BTW, is why anyone who wants to renounce copyright over their creative work should opt for CC-BY-SA and not a public domain dedication. Share-alike clauses prevent this sort of gradual appropriation.
[0] as filtered/censored thru the Brothers Grimm
I doubt that Disney would take this kindly or lightly.
That's the entire point of the post that you are responding to.
Outside of their reimaginings/reboots, I can't think of a single recent movie that isn't an original work.
And that doesn't include things like LucasFilm, Marvel and Pixar which are, obviously, original and still part of Disney.
The most recent movie Wish - is just callbacks to other Disney movies, so does it count as original IP?
And this excludes their reboots - but also excludes Pixar which has done some original albeit lacklustre stuff recently.
