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Tangentially related - it's a f#cking shame and tragedy that Disney pulled MI1 and MI2 from Apple Store. Those are fantastic remakes of the original.
by huhtenberg 9y ago
Tangentially related - it's a f#cking shame and tragedy that Disney pulled MI1 and MI2 from Apple Store. Those are fantastic remakes of the original.
- johansch 9y agoInstitutional incompetence or some stupid "Disney Vault"-like reason?
- bangonkeyboard 9y agoMaybe, like many others, the sales didn't justify the cost of constantly fixing the apps just to stay in the Red Queen's race of yearly iOS update breakage.
- DoctorNick 9y agoThere have been numerous articles pointing out the similarities between the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise and Monkey Island. Perhaps they felt they didn't benefit from the comparison.
- egypturnash 9y agoBoth PotC and Monkey Island draw heavy inspiration from Tim Powers' book "On Stranger Tides". If you loved either of those then maybe go read it. (I can't be arsed to find a citation for it but I've seen either Ron Gilbert or Tim Schaefer explicitly mention OST as an inspiration for Monkey Island, and Disney went so far as to loosely adapt it for the fourth PotC film.)
- molmalo 9y agoDisney will close the MI door and lose the key, to never look back. They don't want it to compete with their main pirate-themed franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean. But I would love if they called Ron, and in some future movie, they introduced a young pirate-wannabe, Guybrush. That would be great, and would put in good use their MI IP. And maybe then, we would get a new game.
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- rosege 9y agoUncharted 4 had a little nod to MI
- orionblastar 9y agoDisney made the same mistake with Avengers action figures. They didn't have a Black Widow action figure because they claimed it would interfere with their Frozen action figures that are female and that girls don't like comic book movies anyway. After some protesting, they made a Black Widow action figure. MI competes with their TPOTC (The Pirates of the Carribean) properties. It is really hard to figure out how Disney makes their decisions as they don't let the public know what they are doing. But if I was in charge of Disney I'd have a series of MI games, and a cartoon series based on it as well on DisneyXD. But that is why I am not in charge of Disney.