You know this right now, Walt disney’s corspe putting this country in a cuckhold forcing a new sexless superhero movie on us every week, isnt even the worse part of the supehero era. Its gonna be 2 decades after it dies when everybody gonna have some friggin nostaglia about it. Somebody’s gonna say to me “oh man remember the avengers. That shit was lit man" and I’m gonna be like “I ought to bust ur fucking kneecaps for speaking like that to me”
are you implying a cuckhold is some kind of wrestling maneuver
Yeah that’s shitty. So like, unrepentent sexual predators can take some of the highest offices in the land but people who apologize and learn from the wrong they did will be summarily fired?
James Gunn once hosted a “pedophile party” where he dressed up as a priest and women wore little girls’ school outfits and nightgowns. He also traded sexual jokes about children with a man later found to be hoarding child porn. That’s the main reason I’m glad to see him go.
Eeeeewwwwww what
@jaculvaserinelozor I think
it’s way different from, say, being too outspoken against Kavanaw.
The sheer volume and intensity of these jokes are uncomfortable and I
can understand why the Mouse doesn’t want to be associated with him
anymore. It’s fine if he’s a different person, he can be a different person elsewhere. And if he truly is sorry then he wouldn’t be adverse to being held accountable by being fired, would he? It’s not like his career is over, it looks like another major studio snapped him up already.
I’m kinda happy about that because I don’t like Wendig or his writing a whole lot, but on the other hand I’m wondering if he’s been targeted by right-wing trolls like Gunn was.
I really feel like Disney needs to stop doing this though. Like I get it, they have the right to fire anyone but I really think they should at least talk to these people beforehand or something. Because a lot of the people who work under them are extremely vocal about their opinions. I am really surprised Sarah Silverman hasn’t been fired yet.
I have my issues with Wendig (idk very much about Gunn other than the story of his firing) but I also don’t like this recent trend of Disney evidently wanting everyone who works with them to be completely inoffensive and milquetoast…? Writers tend to be a passionate and political bunch, and if you’re going to be all nicey-nice and “can we all get along” about the current political climate then I don’t even want to know you, much less read your stuff. Silence in the face of the utter shit that’s going down today is a political stance of itself, a statement of compliance and agreement. We need more than ever for creators to speak up, and it’s frightening that big corporations are muzzling them and effectively silencing prominent voices of opposition to the rise of fascism.
And that’s the problem.
I haven’t read any of Chuck’s stuff but even with that being sad, firing people because they’re being political and not perfect human beings is a terrible way to run a business. Disney is trying so hard to hold onto their family-friendly image yet they can’t really do that since they just bought Fox. They now own Family Guy and Deadpool, two franchises which are not family friendly. Like this is going to make it so great writers won’t want to work with them and it could be a problem down the road.
And the real issue here is that Disney is increasingly becoming an unchecked monopoly. It would be less shitty if it were just one of many media companies and creators have plenty of outlets to turn to, but Disney is turning into THE media company and being blacklisted from Disney also means you’re being locked out of a whole lot of opportunities.
So far there are alternatives–Gunn is evidently doing a DC movie, which, like, talk about going to the competition lol–but with how big Disney is getting and how lax monopoly regulation has been, Disney’s policies could have a real chilling effect on people who create for a living.
I’m kinda happy about that because I don’t like Wendig or his writing a whole lot, but on the other hand I’m wondering if he’s been targeted by right-wing trolls like Gunn was.
I really feel like Disney needs to stop doing this though. Like I get it, they have the right to fire anyone but I really think they should at least talk to these people beforehand or something. Because a lot of the people who work under them are extremely vocal about their opinions. I am really surprised Sarah Silverman hasn’t been fired yet.
I have my issues with Wendig (idk very much about Gunn other than the story of his firing) but I also don’t like this recent trend of Disney evidently wanting everyone who works with them to be completely inoffensive and milquetoast…? Writers tend to be a passionate and political bunch, and if you’re going to be all nicey-nice and “can we all get along” about the current political climate then I don’t even want to know you, much less read your stuff. Silence in the face of the utter shit that’s going down today is a political stance of itself, a statement of compliance and agreement. We need more than ever for creators to speak up, and it’s frightening that big corporations are muzzling them and effectively silencing prominent voices of opposition to the rise of fascism.
Is there rly any softer scene than when o’malley sees duchess and falls in love with her at first sight in the aristocats, complimenting her at every turn and climbing into a cherry blossom tree to make the flower petals snow gracefully down on her? How dreamy 🥀💕
This Is Love 😍😍
Not to mention when he found she had kids, he was thrown for a second, then proceeded to not only still help her, but dote on them too.
“Not all men” you’re right, Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley would never.
Ok so I have a story. I worked Fantasyland (Dumbo) at Magic Kingdom. We had a girl transfer from Pirates of the Caribbean. And she told me the most amazing story.
So Pirates is down (shocking) And this particular boat is stopped at the first big scene, Where Barbosa is on the ship yelling for Jack Sparrow.
Anyway the boat has been stopped for about 15 minutes at this point, and there’s a couple sitting alone in the back. So the guy decides that nothing gets him in a better mood than the smell of water that hasn’t been changed in roughly 50 years, and convinces his girlfriend to blow him.
Now this girl is in the booth, along with the coordinator, watching this go down. Literally. There’s not much they can do to stop it at this point, other than notify security. Then another problem arises. The guy finishes, and the girl makes the motion to spit.
In. The. Fucking. Water.
Now if that load is released into the water, thats an automatic biohazard, and the ride is shut down for weeks. The water is removed, the ride path is scrubbed, along with the ride vehicles, and then new water is brought in. Costing the company thousands of dollara and pissed off tourists. The worst combination on this earth.
Panicking at this predicament, the coordinator grabs the mic in the control booth and says:
“Spitting is for quitters.”
This echoes over the bitching of guests and 50 year old audio of pirates commiting various crimes.
The look on this woman’s face was priceless. She gazes up, as if Walt himself commanded her from the grave, and swallows.
I’m told the ride started 5 minutes later and the couple ran out from the exit queue as fast as they could.
And this is why you dont fuck at Disney. Because cast members will call you out and it will be the highlight of our day.
God, they’d better not be Sleepy Hollow-ing Finn. I mean I’m pretty positive they’re not killing him, but he could still be seriously sidelined.
This isn’t really new they have always had very little Finn merchandise. It’s the same old bull shit Disney has been pulling with there black characters for a very long time. It’s the same reason there’s very little princess Tiana merchandise, Falcon, Iron patriot, Ect.
Disney doesn’t care about there black characters except for the ones from black panther and that’s really an anomaly for them.
What’s the source for Finn being removed from new TFA merch? There is definitely merch that leaves him (but not Poe) off going back to 2015. I have pics to prove it. But I had a much harder time finding FN-2187 merch (blood streaked helmet) until the last year or so. SuperHeroStuff has several Finn shirts for sale, including an FN2187 and a “I’m kind of a big deal” tee I never saw when TFA came out. Not to mention WalMart sells multiple Finn and Rey figure sets and other Finn toys, well more than Poe toys, especially from TFA lines.
So what are they basing it on?
Yeah I’ve had the same experience as you, that Finn merch (and FN-2187 merch) is easier to find now than it has been so far. And no I’m not talking about shops where I’ve been asking about it. I mean just seeing it in the normal toy/figure/SW/whatever section of the shop along side all the rest.
I used to have to dig – or ask – about it, now I can often find it on the shelf. Or at least more often than I used to.
I’m not saying it doesn’t/hasn’t happened, but it conflicts very much with my own experience. So I too would like some actual examples of this.
Disney parks and there stores are a very different situation. They have very little if any Finn merchandise that’s not just an action figure. I know cause every time I go to Disney I ask what Finn merchandise do you have? Shit I was in Disneyland right after tlj came out. All Finn got was a couple figurines Rose didn’t get much either. Yet the porgs where fucking everywhere. They do this with all there non-white Star Wars characters. I made a post about it awhile back and seems nothing has changed.
You can go to Disney official website and see there dismally small supply of Finn merchandise. Meanwhile kylo, rey, luke, Han and Leia are easy to find. Do to the solo movie we did get more Lando merchandise but I see it falling off soon. I remember that campaign about where’s Rey and how she got all new toys and merchandise. Wish we could get that same energy for Finn the current male lead of the series.
But people are saying Finn has been “removed” from new TFA merchandise, not that Disney parks stock less Finn than WalMart, which has been true from the beginning. All that says is that people who shop at Disney are less interested in Finn merch than people who shop at WalMart, where there are a decent number of Finn items.
There’s a big difference between Finn merch not being on shelves vs Finn Merch not being made or removed. If anything, Finn merch sitting on the shelves is a bad thing. It means no one is buying it.
Yup and the only toys I’ve ever seen in the 80% off bargain bin are Kylo and Pretorian guards. The dollar store near me still has unsold $1 Kylo Ren items from three years ago, while the Finn versions are long gone (and I know they were there because I bought some of them). That’s all anecdotal, too – the business journal articles about Kylo items massively underselling aren’t, though. The business of merchandising is separate from the business of making the films (look at FoD, Finn has two episodes, Kylo has zero, yet there was Kylo doll). And in the case of LF, their merchandising Dept has always had tremendous bias in favor of white buyers who want white toys.
What are the business articles describing the underselling off kylo items?
The focus on Kylo merchandise over the heroes, especially Rey, was a scandal in early 2016 covered extensively in the media.
John Marcotte of Heroic Girls was widely quoted after he spoke with Disney execs about the lack of Rey merchandise when TFA was released. He said they were “blindsided” with the lack of interest in Kylo, who they expected to be the breakout character. He said, quote:
“Now they’re stuck with vast amounts of Kylo Ren product that is not moving and a tidal wave of complaints about a lack of Rey items.”
The miscalculation led to a TFA script rewrite to focus more on Finn, Poe and Rey. RJ had planned to focus on his own new characters, as well as Kylo, presumably.
TFA toy sales were huge despite of Disney’s miscalculation. Top TFA toys per Google research were the app enabled BB8, Millennium Falcon toys and Lego sets, Stormtrooper figures, and Rey items once they started rolling out.
It’s also been widely reported that TLJ’s toy sales fell by 47% compared to TFA sales. Hasbro CEO blamed releasing the toys in September, but later noted that Star Wars merchandise was picking up online (where fans have choices beyond leftover TLJ merch like the Pretorian guards that didn’t sell).
The cult of Kylo Ren in fandom and on social media has not translated into blockbuster sales of Kylo merchandise.
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