Friday, September 19, 2014

What Does Disney Have Against Kingdom Hearts?

One of my friends told me, after I expressed the thought that it would be funny to see what would happen if people dressed up like Kingdom Hearts characters and went to DisneyWorld, that that is not allowed and those people would be thrown out of the park. Turns out she was right. This morning I watched a couple of videos of four girls cosplaying Riku, Sora, Roxas, and Axel in Disneyland. By some miracle they were not recognized by staff and kicked out, but a few Kingdom Hearts fans waved at them because they thought they were staff, so the four of them quickly decided to leave before they were caught as a result of any further attention. This is bull***, IMO, but it gets worse. Apparently the KH manga is not being published as quickly here as in Japan, and some people say Disney is to blame for slowing production (then Tokyopop ended up going out of business in the US anyway, so the matter became moot). And with the recent action taken against online scanlations of all manga, we will be waiting much, much longer to read the next installments if they ever get here at all. They also compete against the titles with their own princess manga and the games Epic Mickey and Disney Infinity. Why all this passive-aggressive behavior? If they don't like it, why did they agree to have the games made in the first place? To make money, of course. However, it snowballed into something greater than the one game they imagined. They still make tons of money off the franchise, I would assume, but then why would they dig in their heels by stalling the manga and removing patrons who show up in cosplay outfits to their parks (when patrons are encouraged to dress up like Disney characters)? It seems to me that by doing so they are losing money, and Disney and other companies are usually all about the money, aren't they? I may be completely off-base here, but it just doesn't make sense to me. Granted that a lot of things in the KH universe don't make sense to me either, but I digress.

Ugh. Nick and Disney just have to own everything between them, now don't they?

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