Despite what this Web site would have you believe, tales of Winnie the Pooh meeting up with the alien from Alien are completely epocriphal apoohcrafil false. Creating this hybrid “entertainment” is clearly a violation of copious copyrights, and we have no more time for it than we had for Beauty and the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Fantasia 2001, or Snow White and the 12 Angry Men.
Here’s another one found by our fabulous readers, a cake shop in some far-off foreign land that specializes in creating photorealistic reproductions of licensed characters. It looks gorgeous, but right off you know there’s something wrong. Sure Tigger’s color and general shape and proportions are approximately correct, but where is the “© Disney” that always lovingly adorns this precious symbol of youth? Nowhere to be found, that’s where!
Adding to the insult, I hate to think of the horrible use to which this (probably delicious) product will be put. Can you just imagine the party when this creation is unboxed? There would be a gaggle of children cheering at the appearance of their beloved friend from the Hundred Acre Woods, but their cheers would turn to horrified screams when it was revealed that Tigger was there not to frolic and play, but to be grotesquely carved into chunks and served upon paper plates with ice cream and a side of callous disregard for all that is decent!
One of our loyal readers passed along to us this logo being used by an online newspaper. I don’t know what bothers me more about this — the blatant use of Disney’s precious font in the word “daily” or the callous intermingling of Toy Story and Wizard of Oz copyright and trademarked imagery.
If we allow such things to go on, what next? Bug’s Life mixed with The Ten Commandments? The Incredibles and Gone with the Wind? Casablanca and Tron? The possibilities are just too horrible to imagine.
NOOOOOOH! Please, please, tell me that the other side of the car doesn’t have Piglet with a bazooka.
(Found on the You Drive What? blog)
The Daily Show showcased this MSNBC violation of our beloved Woodie! Not only is the poor cowboy forced to perform in a demonstration of political bias (when we all know that he is strongly apolitical), but his signature hat has been removed, and — adding the ultimate insult — he has clearly been duplicated using illegal cloning technology!