"I'm not even going to start the rant about my intense hatred of the Disney illustrations compared to E.H. Shepard's elegant originals"
Ditto. And for a LONG time. As a kid I didn't even know there WERE different illustrations to the Disney fodder. I loved them when I found them a few years on. But it is the whole Pooh debacle that FIRMLY put me on an anti-Disney footing; no mercy, no compromise.
The dog in question is from the story a few years ago concerning when the Disney Stormtroopers in grey suits. Having finally got control of the property outright - already in the process of the ethnic cleansing of all imagery in marketing relating to the Shepard drawings as opposed to the Disney version - these filth turned up to claim the original toys the characters were based on, to take them to the Disney Museum in one of their two American coastal abominations. As they were being handed over a dog grabbed Roo and ran off. Into what's left of the Hundred Acre Wood.
No amount of searching, following the dog, bribing the dog analysing the dreams of the dog etc etc would result in the recovery of the original Roo.
So somewhere, there is small stuffed baby kangaroo toy, alone in a damp English wood, probably by now wholly decomposed - but forever beyond the vile satanic claws of the most nauseating superpower on the planet. Free.
I love that dog.
(I should make the admission here to still being very fond of, and being able to sing, the cartoon Tigger song.. I'm sorry.)
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Even though I'm a cat person, personally I love that dog...
Date: 2005-12-08 04:20 pm (UTC)Ditto. And for a LONG time. As a kid I didn't even know there WERE different illustrations to the Disney fodder. I loved them when I found them a few years on. But it is the whole Pooh debacle that FIRMLY put me on an anti-Disney footing; no mercy, no compromise.
The dog in question is from the story a few years ago concerning when the Disney Stormtroopers in grey suits. Having finally got control of the property outright - already in the process of the ethnic cleansing of all imagery in marketing relating to the Shepard drawings as opposed to the Disney version - these filth turned up to claim the original toys the characters were based on, to take them to the Disney Museum in one of their two American coastal abominations. As they were being handed over a dog grabbed Roo and ran off. Into what's left of the Hundred Acre Wood.
No amount of searching, following the dog, bribing the dog analysing the dreams of the dog etc etc would result in the recovery of the original Roo.
So somewhere, there is small stuffed baby kangaroo toy, alone in a damp English wood, probably by now wholly decomposed - but forever beyond the vile satanic claws of the most nauseating superpower on the planet. Free.
I love that dog.
(I should make the admission here to still being very fond of, and being able to sing, the cartoon Tigger song.. I'm sorry.)