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[Taochan]

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Parents spend 35 dollars on one Disney movie and they spend about 70 dollars on those Skylander starter sets.

If Skylanders can get away with it, Disney will definitely be able to.

 

[kupo1121]

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I see your point, but the way the economy is going now I don't see any middle-income parent spending $75 for just one game and $34 for a character pack. Which is why I don't see this doing well in the market unless there is some sort of price cut.

Well, a normal game is $60 so if $75 is the basic for the game and some figures, that isn't that bad to start. It is once you get to the $35 that it gets pricey. I could go and buy a 3DS game with that $35 so unless that $35 nets me A LOT of new features with each figure...it's an "eh" for me.

If Skylanders can get away with it, Disney will definitely be able to.

Yup, this is exactly what I was thinking of, Skylanders does it and they aren't even Disney...

 

[ajmrowland]

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When I first heard of this I thought it was awesome but theeeen came the ridiculous prices. But the strange thing is I still have an urge to buy it

I hope this isn't a success and they realize that $75+ is too much to spend for the average consumer.

Disney is like parents. They make a bad business decision(
d releases of batb, fn, and mi with LK expectations when they were still available on DVD and blu) and blame the market. Little mermaid thwatrical release was cancelled as a result.

 

[Taochan]

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Disney is like parents. They make a bad business decision(
d releases of batb, fn, and mi with LK expectations when they were still available on DVD and blu) and blame the market. Little mermaid thwatrical release was cancelled as a result.

I assume you mean that they made bad decisions with the theatrical releases of these films? Finding Nemo may have earned half of what the Lion King did that's still a shit load of profit for Disney.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

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I don't know why the cancelled it, though. The rest of the movies were pretty damn successful for being rereleases.

 

[ajmrowland]

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I assume you mean that they made bad decisions with the theatrical releases of these films? Finding Nemo may have earned half of what the Lion King did that's still a shit load of profit for Disney.

I don't know why the cancelled it, though. The rest of the movies were pretty damn successful for being rereleases.

Yeah, but it was the expectations on the 3D rereleases that killed it. I was using my phone earlier and didnt bother to clarify that.

Nemo did turn something of a profit and so does Monsters, but BatB fell pretty flat in its january US release and all are seen by Disney as disappointments because they didnt make as much as the Lion King's rerelease and Disney didnt take them off the DVD market for several years prior.


The Little Mermaid 3D was cancelled and it would've made a shitload more than the pixar films because it's going on 7 years since the last DVD release.

 

[Taochan]

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Beauty and the Beast made a little more than Finding Nemo.

 

[ajmrowland]

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really......well the main point still stands.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

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Well they are still releasing the Little Mermaid on DVD/bluray in 3D so not all is lost.

 

[ajmrowland]

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Yeah but myself and others wanted to see it in cinemas again/for the first time. Theres just no replacement for that unless your home theater is off the charts.

 

[kupo1121]

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I assume you mean that they made bad decisions with the theatrical releases of these films? Finding Nemo may have earned half of what the Lion King did that's still a shit load of profit for Disney.

Yeah, to remaster each film in 3D only costed Disney a few million dollars, each movie made well more than a few million (I don't know the exact costs of the movie, but it was said to be a few million) so each movie definitely made Disney tons of profit. I just think it was extremely dumb on their part to assume that because they didn't make as much as Lion King that they were failures.

I don't know why the cancelled it, though. The rest of the movies were pretty damn successful for being rereleases.

Not only that but I find it unfair to compare Little Mermaid to Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. I can understand Disney being disappointed with Beauty and the Beast, but Little Mermaid not only came out ages before both Pixar films but LM's fanbase is probably bigger than both Pixar movie's fanbases. I think what was more stupid was how silently Disney cancelled LM3D. They didn't even give it a chance. What they should have done was announced it publicly and gauged the interest by how big the disappointment was. At this rate, I doubt many people even know it existed.

Yeah but myself and others wanted to see it in cinemas again/for the first time. Theres just no replacement for that unless your home theater is off the charts.

I have heard from people in CA that there is a very high chance they will show it at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood since Disney owns that theatre and only shows different Disney movies there. If you aren't all the way over there though (like myself), I'm in the same position you are. Since they are already going to convert it to 3D I don't see why they just don't make it a limited release -__-

 

[Alpha Baymax]

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Well, now that we have the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster in the game, we can finally have Pixar characters in Kingdom Hearts III.