More about That Very Bad Idea........
Dec. 10th, 2005 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundFrom BBC News
New-look Pooh 'has girl friend'
"After 80 years in Hundred Acre Wood Winnie the Pooh is to get a female friend, replacing Christopher Robin, according to reports.
The Walt Disney Company has decided to pair Pooh up with a red-haired six-year-old tomboy for its 2007 series, newspaper USA Today reported.
Disney said My Friends Tigger and Pooh will keep the "trust, friendship and happiness" of AA Milne's stories.
Pooh is being re-branded as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations."
Pooh doesn't NEED to be "rebranded" Pooh just IS!!
This part is great:
"We got raised eyebrows even in-house at first, but the feeling was these timeless characters really needed a breath of fresh air that only the introduction of someone new could provide," Nancy Kanter of the Disney Channel told USA Today."
If they're "timeless characters", then they don't NEED a breath of fresh air. I read this more as "We're too unimaginative to do anything new, and we desperately need to leech the franchise for everything we can."
New-look Pooh 'has girl friend'
"After 80 years in Hundred Acre Wood Winnie the Pooh is to get a female friend, replacing Christopher Robin, according to reports.
The Walt Disney Company has decided to pair Pooh up with a red-haired six-year-old tomboy for its 2007 series, newspaper USA Today reported.
Disney said My Friends Tigger and Pooh will keep the "trust, friendship and happiness" of AA Milne's stories.
Pooh is being re-branded as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations."
Pooh doesn't NEED to be "rebranded" Pooh just IS!!
This part is great:
"We got raised eyebrows even in-house at first, but the feeling was these timeless characters really needed a breath of fresh air that only the introduction of someone new could provide," Nancy Kanter of the Disney Channel told USA Today."
If they're "timeless characters", then they don't NEED a breath of fresh air. I read this more as "We're too unimaginative to do anything new, and we desperately need to leech the franchise for everything we can."
