Michael Moore, McDonalds and Disney

[MossMan]

I was looking around The Dis when I stumbled across this news story. It seems as if McDonalds is complaining about its merchandising agreement with Disney. The two companies made their deal back in the 90’s when Disney was still churning out popular films. As we all know the last few years have been disastrous for Disney – one flop after another. I suppose that McDonalds might just have a case if you think about.

This got me to thinking about how Disney let "Fahrenheit 9/11" get away from them. Here they actually had a blockbuster all ready to go, but instead of distributing it they sell it off for peanuts and let others reap all the benefits.

If I were McDonalds this would be last straw. Here they are stuck with toys from the flop "Around the World In 80 Days" when they could be including trinkets from Michael Moore's latest diatribe with their Happy Meals.

Instead of boring old Jackie Chan action figurines, McDonalds could be distributing little Hamburglers made up as if they were stealing the election for Bush back in 2000. If Disney had only shown a little forward thinking, McDonalds wouldn’t now be stuck with millions of worthless toy balloons from “Around the World’. In its place you would have millions of little chartered jets, each carrying a payload of Bin Laden relatives being whisked home to safety in the day immediately following 9/11.

The spin offs are endless. How about a windup Bush doll that stares dumbly into space and does nothing for seven minutes when faced with a national crisis. I have to admit, even I would eat some chicken McNuggets to own something like that.

 

[N.Bailey]

Look at it this way. Right now, the polls are hovering roughly 50/50 for Bush and Kerry. That means half of all the people will oppose any political move that's made. If this film makes $100,000,000 as a gross, how much of that do you think Disney would have ever seen? That's roughly 1/10 the amount Disney brought in for Finding Nemo. Not counting all the other sales Disney was able to make from Nemo. Would it have really been worth it for whatever % Disney would have gotten from this film to PO half of the population? How much would they have lost in other sales because some (I agree not all would) boycott their other merchandise, movies, and/or theme parks. Who'd be counting those loses and attribute them to backing Moore?

 

[LScot]

I'm sure Disney is all about making but maybe '9/11' was even too low for them to go.
Personally, I think Walt Disney would be happy that they passed on that movie.Movies like it are/were not what I believe his company was all about.