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Post by Myles » December 15th, 2005, 7:50 am

I have to say I don't like the look of the girl - she looks a little bit generic. Roll on 2026 when the copyrights to Winnie the Pooh will run out and someone can recapture the original essence of A A Milne's stories...
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Post by Dacey » December 15th, 2005, 12:26 pm

If the copyrights ever expire on Pooh, that would be all for the worse. The creators of shows like "South Park" would have a field day.
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Post by Meg » December 15th, 2005, 5:32 pm

GAGH! Don't give me nightmares!
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Post by Wonderlicious » December 15th, 2005, 5:55 pm

Meg wrote:GAGH! Don't give me nightmares!
I've already come up with some 20 second scripts for episodes of a wacky, somewhat adult orientated (yet not extremely explicit like South Park) little skits featuring Pooh and friends. They mock Disney's exploitation of the franchise more than the characters themselves, though.
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Post by Dacey » December 15th, 2005, 5:56 pm

The line about the girl's corpse is more likely to give me nightmares.
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Post by Ben » December 16th, 2005, 11:06 am

Disney will find a way to hold on to Pooh's rights.
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Post by Myles » December 19th, 2005, 9:23 am

It is quite possible they will maintain the trademarks in the names which can be renewed forever as far as I understand. However, once the copyright in the original stories has passed, anyone should be able to make versions of the original stories - since the stories will be public domain. It would certainly be a brave person to go up against Disney - or as they will be by then 'The AOL Time Warner Universal Dreamworks Paramount Sony Apple Microsoft Disney Corporation'. :?
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Post by Ben » December 19th, 2005, 7:39 pm

Don't you mean the 'The McAOL Time Warner Universal DreamWorks Paramount Sony Apple Microsoft Disney Corporation'?
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Post by Daniel » June 26th, 2007, 4:47 am

Has anyone seen this? I saw an episode the other day, and thought it was so-so. Cute, but not something I'll go out of way to watch.

John Fiedler is surely missed, though. :cry:
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Post by Randall » June 26th, 2007, 11:16 pm

An episode is on the recent Winnie DVD, review being posted tonight. It's kiddie fare, but OK.
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Post by Daniel » June 27th, 2007, 12:53 am

Cool. I'll be sure to give that a read, Rand!
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Post by Daniel » June 28th, 2007, 3:35 am

Just finished reading your review, Rand, great as always! :)

Very insightful, and brought back a lot memories. One of the things that stuck out to me, was the info about "Winnie The Pooh And A Day for Eeyore". I didn't know that! And to think, its one of my all time favorites. :(

I also liked this little tidbit.
Rand's review wrote:I don't normally care for the new renditions of classic Disney songs often on their DVDs, but with the Winnie The Pooh Theme Song Performed by By Carly Simon, you do get a pretty good performer.
Heck yes!

I only wished it was a new song, and not something we already heard before. (Piglet's Big Movie) Still, I'm a huge fan of Carly, so no biggie.
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