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[Jinxed]

Was always surprised Disney never became a giant video game maker. On paper, you'd think with all the legacy franchises they got they'd be able to release top notch games skewing to younger gamers. Then have a department that makes games for older people.

If they got giant money for animation, TV, movies, theme parks, it doesn't sound impossible to spend money to build a giant gaming department. Instead, it seems they prefer licensing out an IP to a game studio and ride the wave of royalty fees instead controlling the content's quality.

They got so many big budget products, their commitment to marketing (like Elio as there is no way they spent tons of money on this as many people have said they never heard of it) is hit and miss. If this was Toy Story, everyone on Earth would know about it. Elio is a huge budget movie and marketing seems muted unless just by luck all of us (me included) who thinks there's been limited marketing are all wrong and just missed all the promotions on TV and the net or cereal boxes.

Same, with the money they have and all the franchises available to them, some would think it's only logical.

My son has been saving his vbucks in fortnite ever since Lightning McQueen was rumored to be coming as a collab months ago, they'd make a fortune just putting out decent/good games of their franchises out there.

 

[jason10mm]

Same, with the money they have and all the franchises available to them, some would think it's only logical.

My son has been saving his vbucks in fortnite ever since Lightning McQueen was rumored to be coming as a collab months ago, they'd make a fortune just putting out decent/good games of their franchises out there.

Thats why they stay in their lane. Success with theme parks and movies doesn't translate to making good video games. Far better for them to let others take all the risk, then license their IP, just like all the merch they already know, than to take on billions in a software company.

And really, up till the past few decades when apparently the US just erased the word "monopoly" from their lexicon, companies were actively encouraged to stay focused into smaller entities rather than the gargantuan behemoths we see today.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

I didn't even know this existed. Pixar is basically irrelevant in our household now. It's honestly kind of sad, we went from watching Cars non-stop me and my son and treating every new Pixar release as a family event to this...

I do remember the days when we were the same, and a Pixar release was a big deal.

Well, or Star Wars for that matter. This is what Disney does to everything, runs it into the ground with bad content until you can't remember why it was special in the first place.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I do remember the days when we were the same, and a Pixar release was a big deal.

Well, or Star Wars for that matter. This is what Disney does to everything, runs it into the ground with bad content until you can't remember why it was special in the first place.

Marvel too.

I'm not even a superhero buff, but I know who all the big name IPs are due to old cartoons and my bro used to collect comics as a kid. But then got to a point there just seemed to be a million movies and TV series it's like there's always something superhero related going on every week. Then I'd read it's a big linked universe thing like a soap opera where to get the most out of it, you need to watch a lot of content to fully understand whats going on.

Who has time for all that shit? Why would anyone want to watch 9 episodes of She Hulk? Is she a comic character a normie like me would never understand is actually popular among fans?

And the movies would dump down to weird shit like Morbias or Madame Web etc.... Again, I'm no comic expert so I wouldnt know about these characters at all or ever stand incline to see them. But even comic book fans are like WTF? Thats' really fishing the bottom of the barrel for more movies.

And the dumbest thing I read. That the failed Morbias movie got brought back to theatres based off trolling memes saying it was actually good and fans wanted it back. Then it tanked again a second go around. And Disney execs believed the memes? lol

 

[Doom85]

Who has time for all that shit? Why would anyone want to watch 9 episodes of She Hulk? Is she a comic character a normie like me would never understand is actually popular among fans?

And the movies would dump down to weird shit like Morbias or Madame Web etc.... Again, I'm no comic expert so I wouldnt know about these characters at all or ever stand incline to see them. But even comic book fans are like WTF? Thats' really fishing the bottom of the barrel for more movies.

And the dumbest thing I read. That the failed Morbias movie got brought back to theatres based off trolling memes saying it was actually good and fans wanted it back. Then it tanked again a second go around. And Disney execs believed the memes? lol

She-Hulk has been a character since the 80's, so I don't see why she shouldn't be allowed to be adapted especially given how well-liked some of her runs are (your brother should have at least heard of her if he was collecting Marvel comics). I mean, the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was adapting an at-the-time obscure IP to non-readers, and was based off the 2008 run, meaning at the time it was adapting a version of the team that had only existed for six years.

Why are you blaming Disney for something Sony did? Sony owns the rights to Morbius and Madame Webb, all that was purely in their ballpark.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Elio is flopping on an almost unbelivable scale. Worst Pixar opening ever.

In OPs article, it was projected to get 35 million in its opening weekend and be a massive flop.

It did far worse, grossing only 21 million.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

She-Hulk has been a character since the 80's, so I don't see why she shouldn't be allowed to be adapted especially given how well-liked some of her runs are (your brother should have at least heard of her if he was collecting Marvel comics). I mean, the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was adapting an at-the-time obscure IP to non-readers, and was based off the 2008 run, meaning at the time it was adapting a version of the team that had only existed for six years.

Why are you blaming Disney for something Sony did? Sony owns the rights to Morbius and Madame Webb, all that was purely in their ballpark.

Doubt my bro had She Hulk comics or else I would had knew about it. Or maybe he did but I dont remember it. He stopped buying them in probably about 1985 or so. He focused on the core Marvel IPs everyone knows like Avengers and West Coast Avengers, Spidey, Cap America, F4 etc... Dont think he ever bought DC comics. I think his last or one of his last comics was the first Punisher set which had a typo on the cover..... something about saying it was 4 issues but was really 5. Or it said 5 issues but was really 4. Something like that.

Googling it, it doesn't seem like She Hulk was very popular at all though. https://screenrant.com/she-hulk-marvel-comics-popularity-problem/

As for Morbius and Madame Web youre right. Those werent Disney. There's so many superhero movies hard to keep track. But googling it now, the Phase 5 movies in this list are all Disney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films#Release

And similar to Pixar movies they are trending down in money and review scores.

As for GOTG being popular despite being a new comic, who knows. Maybe they took a chance on a motley crew new to people, instead of characters that werent very popular to begin with despite being around (similar to Sonys Morbius and Madame Web, or whomever made Kraven). If they arent popular known characters for comic fans, why bother making a big TV or movie out of it.