News Round Up 2019

[rteetz]

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New Small World Tsum Tsum Set

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/photos-its-a-small-world-tsum-tsum-set-released/

 

[mollmoll4]

New short "Purl" released as a promotion for Disney+

 

[rteetz]

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Fun Orange Bird wallpaper

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...llpaper/?CMP=SOC-DPFY19Q2wo01311902060190023C

 

[TheMaxRebo]

New short "Purl" released as a promotion for Disney+

interesting - seems not the most family friendly to be one of the first promotions for the new service (e.g., the prick joke)

 

[mollmoll4]

interesting - seems not the most family friendly to be one of the first promotions for the new service (e.g., the prick joke)

Yah, I was kind of surprised there wasn’t at least a little warning that this is not as kid-friendly as most Disney/Pixar content. I wonder if it’s an attempt to set the streaming service apart a little?

 

[tlmadden73]

interesting - seems not the most family friendly to be one of the first promotions for the new service (e.g., the prick joke)

Right -- who is that geared towards? I mean animation doesn't have to be for kids -- but you see the snapshot of the cute, pink ball of yarn and you think -- how cute.

But, this is the first Pixar short i just didn't like (with Bao a close second)

Adult content (and language) .. it wasn't particularly funny (or sentimental) and was just a 8 minute animated political statement about women breaking into the male-dominated workforce.

It doesn't really do much to sell the Disney+ service.

(So Pixar is getting in on this political train now? I am not enthused about seeing politically charged shorts -- I get that enough already in my Star Wars. ).

 

[Brett Wyman]

interesting - seems not the most family friendly to be one of the first promotions for the new service (e.g., the prick joke)

https://www.pixar.com/sparkshorts/

Sparkshorts itself is supposed to be an "experimental" project within Pixar. So it makes sense that work it produces aren't quite what you'd expect from regular Pixar output. What's weird is that this was used as a promotion for Disney+. I mean there will be plenty of more mature offerings on Disney+ I assume, but leading with Purl is indeed an odd marketing decision.

 

[nkmorgan87]

So, I guess the way to get around the age restrictions of Jedi Training is to win the Super Bowl

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Brady and Edleman don't need Jedi Training

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

https://www.pixar.com/sparkshorts/

Sparkshorts itself is supposed to be an "experimental" project within Pixar. So it makes sense that work it produces aren't quite what you'd expect from regular Pixar output. What's weird is that this was used as a promotion for Disney+. I mean there will be plenty of more mature offerings on Disney+ I assume, but leading with Purl is indeed an odd marketing decision.

Thanks for linking that.

I watched the short and I do agree it's a bit odd. Maybe because it's such an in your face type thing with certain aspects of the short catching people off guard.

I looked over the other shorts from that link and I am intrigued about them.

I can't say that it's necessarily political in nature (though it def. could be) but I would say is it's taking current as well as a more classic theme in at least one short. I've put this next part in a spoiler just in case people don't want to know what some of their other shorts are which can be found in the link:

Spoiler: Other Spark Shorts listed on the website

you've got autism in one short, a pitbull (on a chain too) in another interacting with a stray cat, a child with differences (in this case floating) and the parental and public reactions to that difference, a grandmother and grandson in another maybe hinting on family bonds (which is one I could see is a classic theme). The robot one I'm not quite certain from the description what it may be touching on.

All just my thoughts and I could for sure be wrong on some of the things related to future spark shorts listed in the spoiler.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

https://www.pixar.com/sparkshorts/

Sparkshorts itself is supposed to be an "experimental" project within Pixar. So it makes sense that work it produces aren't quite what you'd expect from regular Pixar output. What's weird is that this was used as a promotion for Disney+. I mean there will be plenty of more mature offerings on Disney+ I assume, but leading with Purl is indeed an odd marketing decision.

yeah, I don't have an issue with Pixar doing this sort of thing, but with Disney+ it seemed like an odd choice to sort of lead with. Didn't Disney come out and say they won't have any R rated material on Disney+? Not saying this short was R Rated or anything, but clearly Disney is trying to position Disney+ as more family friendly than other streaming services, so you'd think they would focus on examples of that

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Brady and Edleman don't need Jedi Training

well, maybe a refresher couldn't hurt, considering Edelman already had a turn to the dark side of PED use

 

[The Pho]

yeah, I don't have an issue with Pixar doing this sort of thing, but with Disney+ it seemed like an odd choice to sort of lead with. Didn't Disney come out and say they won't have any R rated material on Disney+? Not saying this short was R Rated or anything, but clearly Disney is trying to position Disney+ as more family friendly than other streaming services, so you'd think they would focus on examples of that

Iger flat out stated that Disney+ will be family friendly and Hulu will be for mature content.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Iger flat out stated that Disney+ will be family friendly and Hulu will be for mature content.

right, so seems odd to have one of the first things out there that they state will be available on Disney+ to be very much not Family Friendly

 

[rteetz]

right, so seems odd to have one of the first things out there that they state will be available on Disney+ to be very much not Family Friendly

I find it subjective. Obviously that's not a short for toddlers (not everything Disney makes needs to be) but I do think the vast majority will be family friendly for all. Disney is developing marvel content which I imagine won't be rated G either. There will be a wide variety of content for this service.

 

[The Pho]

right, so seems odd to have one of the first things out there that they state will be available on Disney+ to be very much not Family Friendly

I don’t really see this as being any less friendly than the Star Wars or Marvel content they’ve released so far, and we know more of that is coming to Disney+. I’ll assume that the line is PG-13 content being okay, but beyond that being Hulu stuff.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I find it subjective. Obviously that's not a short for toddlers (not everything Disney makes needs to be) but I do think the vast majority will be family friendly for all. Disney is developing marvel content which I imagine won't be rated G either. There will be a wide variety of content for this service.

well, I might be more on the prudish side but I would let any of my kids watch this (oldest will be 10 this month)

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I don’t really see this as being any less friendly than the Star Wars or Marvel content they’ve released so far, and we know more of that is coming to Disney+. I’ll assume that the line is PG-13 content being okay, but beyond that being Hulu stuff.

Obviously everyone is different but I let me kids watch Star Wars but I wouldn't let them watch this - with the use of the A-word and the prick joke

 

[rteetz]

Obviously everyone is different but I let me kids watch Star Wars but I wouldn't let them watch this - with the use of the A-word and the prick joke

That's why I said its subjective. I can't remember everything I watched when I was 10 but I probably did see some things once in a while that had some things other people wouldn't let 10 year olds watch.

Like I said though there will be a wide variety of content and this is just one short in the grand scheme of things.

 

[The Pho]

Obviously everyone is different but I let me kids watch Star Wars but I wouldn't let them watch this - with the use of the A-word and the prick joke

Difference in judgement I guess. But I also don’t have kids and grew up watching things like Goodfellas, Godfather, and Rambo younger than your kids are now. You probably have a better gauge on that than I.

 

[rteetz]

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