Are they really going to be making other star wars movies?
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Most users of the Internet are dependent on Google to find anything on the Internet.
Nevertheless, you could flip the switch and turn Google off, and people would be able to find things on the internet just fine.
You? Me? Yes we could find things. However it would have a massive influence on how the internet works.
It's like Bear Grylls or some other "survivalist" who knows how to pick berries in the woods and make a shelter laughing at the idea that a breakdown in modern argiculture would have an effect on the world.
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Kids don't give a shit.
Well, I did learn not to hide in discarded refrigerators from Punky Brewster.
Some people learn from the Bible and associated interpretations that if they pray hard enough, dead people can walk again, but more people learn that gays are evil. People are able to analogize from fiction, or did you think the moral of the Sour Grapes fable was not to taunt foxes?
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#204It means they bought LucasArts too. Not that LucasArts were great in the last decade or so but Disney sucks as a "parent" for game dev companies (RIP Blackrock).
LucasArts hasn't existed in any real capacity for the last five years or so anyway, they've just been a licensing house. At least under Disney there is the possibility of finding some talent (unlikely, but possible).
Maybe. The problem is that Disney has so many parts of the company that are highly profitable (Marvel cinematic, Pixar, Disney proper, their many other movie studios, and now Lucasfilm) that it can be comparatively difficult to direct resources at smaller efforts. This is a problem at big companies like Microsoft and Google as well. Something that might flourish if it were let loose as an independent startup can easily languish at a company that has bigger fish to fry.
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#205This now means that Princess Leia is a Disney Princess.
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#206It's hard to understand body language without knowing the person well but on all pictures I've seen it looks like Lucas's left hand is trying to stop his right hand from signing the contract. It would seem he might have been hesitant about the deal.
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I recently visited the Disney Hollywood Studios in Florida. There they have a Indiana Jones live action show as well as a Star Wars exhibit of some kind, I saw little kids dressed in Padawan outfits and getting to fight Darth Vader with a lightsaber (yes, looked pretty cool). I was surprised at seeing Lucasfilm licensing these valuable properties to Disney for use in a theme park. I guess the two companies have been…
They also do the Jedi Training Academy show at Disneyland in California. It's a great production and just fits perfectly with the rest of the feel of Disneyland.
I agree. After we visited Disneyland this year with my kids, I looked up the profit to Disney from movies vs theme parks, and they make a lot more profit on theme parks than movies. So, you could consider that the media arm is just an advertisement to get people to visit Disneyland/World parks.
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Let's not forget they paid that 7 billion in 2006. I can almost see this as Disney trying to replace the eye for talent and negotiating power they lost in Steve Jobs' passing, along with an amazing IP acquisition. Edit: Thought of better terms than "creative force".
Steve Jobs wasn't ever really a "creative force" at Disney.
So true, but somehow a lot of people don't know it. He was just a facilitator at Pixar. A damn good facilitator, one who made it all happen, but still he wasn't Pixar's visionary (like he was Apple's). Lasseter deserves all the credit for that part.
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Grim was amazing. Currently replaying, but Full Throttle was where it was at.
I was thinking of replaying Grim Fandango and was sad that I couldn't find it on Steam or GOG. Does the original version work well with Modern Windows flavors?
The game works pretty well with ResidualVM (http://residualvm.org/) on modern operating systems.