100 years of wonder? I have only been wondering why people accept and buy into the cultural indoctrination for 30!
and true enough the oldest character design on this box is tinkey bell from 1953 and it isn’t even a cel from the peter pan movie. They don’t show Peter because this box is also trying to communicate “100 years of diversity,” rather than 85 years of conventional american sexism and whiteness + 15 years of selective rehabilitative marketing. And gosh Tiana the flagship Disney representation character spends most of her own movie as a flappindappin frog and unlike Elsa front and center didn’t get a sequel. I was going to call elsa “the content creator and influencer of the disney canon,” irresponsible, selfish and impervious to criticism, rewarded just for existing and given a second movie just to exist some more but i have mercifully not been exposed to it and I will take that.
Mickey mouse is an older character than Tinkler, but this isn’t the 1923 design, because that is now public domain! And would have been sooner if the us government didn’t contort itself and the country with it to put disney above the law while disney was upholding conventional american heteronormative sexism and whiteness. Disney CAN still use the design but since I also can use it disney has disowned it in effect. Anything that disney does not have exclusive rights to isn’t good enough for it. I think this is the design used for the fairly recent meme-styled digitally animated cartoons which 1920s audiences absolutely would not have tolerated.
to be “fair” dumbo and alice of wonderland are on the side of the box. as is the guy from Soul– I don’t know his name but I presume it is Sammy Soul–, the [horrid] red car from [horrid] cars and for some reason another character from Toy Story because i guess that is more marketable than the bug life, inside doubt or up characters that disney also owns and tried just as hard to convince me I cared about.
also I don’t HAVE to be fair to the side panel because when I saw this box in a store the other day only the front side was visible and apart from that cereal boxes have rarely been fair to me.
also right in front, my least favorite cowboy, and I hate most cowboys, even before i knew its face to have been enlarged for the horrifying facade of this whatever this is (and longer still before irritating voice actor Tom Hanks came out in favor of having computers put his irritating self apart from his voice into movies at the expense of everyone except his progeny once he dies, meaning we could have a forrest gump sequel that is 100% manipulated archive footage.) All this is good for is proof for anyone who wants to correct me and say “uh those are PIXAR movies, not disney movies.” disney considers them disney movies. And I don’t trust anyone who begins arguments with “uh” apart from that.
by the same token-ism I noticed in my rubbish bin this disney-branded princess-head cannibal-in-training snack cracker package, with the very white cinder ella beside the non-white moana and non-white jasmine even though jasmine and her fingernailless escort have been ambiguously caucasian in official imagery, products and vhs box covers in the past.
And I don’t mind if they want to make the character seem definitively brown now, but if you’re celebrating the legacy of the disney company, this is part of that. Because contrary to the image it gets to present by appearing relatively benign beside the mascot for the more outwardly evil men in Florida, willfully elected by residents of Florida to govern it, an overwhelming majority of disney’s existence was spent run by, catering to the desires of and being protected by people like him, and still very much is.
yeah ha ha get em disney. this Connecticut place of business is literally putting a for-profit corporation over a state in the union and gloating about it. Not over the state’s governor, not the governor’s political party, not the state’s contingent of proudly aggressive proudlier ignorant voters, but Florida itself. Dumb trash scumbags. This is also the place that in 2012 charged me $24 to put a crummy piece of foam board over a[n admittedly scrappy] painting when i went in there and couldn’t justafford $112 to have it framed and they would probably want to charge three times that now. of course they support glorification of money makers of dubious merit. Ironically if they had printed out and displayed a newer version of mick e mouse on their store or their house without consulting a lawyer first and paying for proper rights and arranging for proper legal disclaimers to be shown they would probably get sued for this act.
how many kids request “disney brands” for their birthday presents but are disappointed when they cannot hold the brands in their hands?
i can hardly process how transparently capitalist and worthless and targeting people raised to think that is noble this is. “60 minis.” mini WHAT? Mini BRANDS! to COLLECT. not to play with, just to buy and have. except you don’t actually get told which you get, so you actually have to buy more than 60. disney is profiting from legalized gambling aimed at children. Disney did not invent this but disney hasn’t really “invent”ed anything in decades. it just identifies trashy stuff other people do without being criticized that it can appropriate and exploit for maximum profit.
I don’t understand how you can tout the rarity of something that you 100% control the rarity of and not get called out for it unless it’s disney who could market sweatshop produced hand grenades shaped like epcot center and sell them at walmart and the only controversy would be that the grenades were gay or not white enough somehow and disney would get extra media points for that despite not actually having made the grenades gay and them being very very white as if they are actually funneling money into dipwit far-right groups to toss out and publicize asinine accusations that actually make them look better.
I suppose I should be glad this eminently suspicious box doesn’t mean “brand” in the cattle marking sense. Not until morons on the tik-tok website take it upon themselves to take that upon themselves. And then disney appropriates and sells and gets congratulated for that too. Because ultimately both disney and the republican party are surrogate religious cults for and by rich privileged boneheads who only look out for themselves.
The heart of their disagreement is whose out of control unneutered dogma gets to bark loudest, and I don’t want to be in the house with either of them.
if you tell me to then I probably do not want to!
a commission drawing for a person called relaxingdragon1 in which some subway graffiti comes to life and seems interested in why a relatively small raccoon person is not interested in it. This was complicated to draw and I do not totally understand its appeal but more people seem to like it than usual. I presume most of them did not notice the nemitz.
a creature previously identified as zipe or eemp that i want to be able to jump, like the fyip now can, but also jump kick despite those requiring different animations because i am never efficient where it counts.
i like the idea of fyips flopping over if they try and jump down from too high a point. obviously i haven’t made any frames for that yet! but zipes being glop-formed (similar to dopes) simply splotch on the ground slightly. i have not planned nearly well enough to have their glop characteristics matter more deeply than that.
also now seeing these against this dark background I realize how inconsistently colored they are, a likely consequence of the regular jump frames being totally new while the kicking frames I initially drew in 2019 before I introduced shadow colors and simply altered this week. Of course the jump pose uses a walk frame as a base, BUT both the walk and kick attack were based on 2003/4 era sprites, with the kicking motion made after I amended the game palette to have two extra dark browns, which I guess carried over into the remade sprites to some degree even though those were all made with the same number of browns available, so in fact they didn’t match before either, but it wasn’t as glaring as this since the shadows weren’t colored then. Does that make sense? It shouldn’t. I will need to see which looks less out of place once I implement the new set of motions. The creature being colored isn’t nearly as tough as it thinks it is whatever the case.
today is this website’s twenty first or twenty second anniversary. I do not talk about my birth-day but i mention its. However I named myself “bimshwel” after it and retroactively renamed it to just be this/the/that website so I owe it at least this courtesy. It will continue to be malnourished on update quality.
as someone who watched the manda lorian show when it was new and managed to enjoy it at the time despite the hype and my disapproval for the streaming platform being paid for by someone in my home, my immediate mental interpretation of the illustration on this object was “gremlin hiding in grimy toilet.” I don’t know what a tub tread is but it probably isn’t meant to be used in this location relative to the tub’s.
counter-intuitively, encanto being reduced to flat colors and simple shapes deprives it of a substantial quantity of disingenuous murderability, though certainly not being able to hear it also helps.
I don’t know what this is for either, but if a scent’s origin is a factory sealed package then it definitely isn’t natural. Maybe this is for scaring animals off your property.
an important rule for using currency portraits to advertise your business: make sure that if you’re going to crop within the existing dark backdrop so that it risks looking like hair and push the contrast so that the shadow under the nose risks looking like a mustache that these don’t combine to read as Hitler when seen from a distance.
yeah
also a good idea: don’t put a cartoon hitler in your official corporate logo. the “stars and stripes” 19th century bed attire isn’t fooling anyone (It also doesn’t makes sense since the stripes are inconsistently oriented between the sleeves and the middle part). even if you later remove the mustache and change the name of your company to “mattress firm” a few years later some creep on the internet is always going to remember.
I think it is telling that Sleepy teams up with two veterans of the Avengers but NOT Captain America. I understand it was mutual; Captain America objected to Sleepy ripping off his aesthetic
