Kizuna and Chitose (Now with NSFW!)

[victoriavictrix]

Well here I am going to go with what I *think* is the thinking at Mouse Corp.

They don't want kids who are going to buy expensive Princess dolls to come across the XXX Agents. More importantly, they do not want the PARENTS of those kids--you know, the ones with the credit cards, the ones who take the expensive vacations to MouseLand, the ones who buy all the movies--to see those XXX agents.

The XXX Agents are, rightly or wrongly, overwhelmingly portrayed as being primarily the interest of a certain type of otaku that you wouldn't want within a hundred nautical miles of a kid. And MouseCorp DEFINITELY does not want their products associated with that type of otaku. The designer and owner of DollyCorp was perfectly willing to take that kind of otaku's money when money at DollyCorp was tight. It all spends perfectly well, and that kind of otaku is *mostly* harmless. But now MouseCorp is supplying the funding...and what his personal feelings are on that subject, only he knows.

[Kirahfaye]

Doing what you believe is best for your own company isn't having serious issues - it's protecting the business you built - and love more than any of us could possibly understand. It's like "Han shot first". We might strongly disagree with what the Flanneled One did, but it's his right to do it.

[davidd]

Doing what you believe is best for your own company isn't having serious issues - it's protecting the business you built - and love more than any of us could possibly understand. It's like "Han shot first". We might strongly disagree with what the Flanneled One did, but it's his right to do it.

"The Flanneled One," I like that!

[K2!]

Smart Doll has signed some sort of licensing deal with DC. They have shown prototypes of a Super Girl doll on their site. DC is ultimately owned by AT&T. This is why the entity mentioned in the crawl is the Galactic Telecom, not some sort of magical kingdom. I don't know of the status of any agreements between Smart Doll and any magical kingdoms or rodents.

[Kirahfaye]

Okay, thanks K2 - I had gotten confused about that since I didn't see any evidence of that either. But I tend to gloss over Danny's more techy/legal (boring) posts anyway.

[victoriavictrix]

Smart Doll has signed some sort of licensing deal with DC. They have shown prototypes of a Super Girl doll on their site. DC is ultimately owned by AT&T. This is why the entity mentioned in the crawl is the Galactic Telecom, not some sort of magical kingdom. I don't know of the status of any agreements between Smart Doll and any magical kingdoms or rodents.

I thought there was an agreement in the works with Disney to produce extra-large size Princess dolls.

Well, what I said about Mousecorp almost certainly goes for DC as well.

[K2!]

I thought there was an agreement in the works with Disney to produce extra-large size Princess dolls.

That could certainly be true. I know Danny had made a trip to the Mouse Kingdom.

[K2!]

[maywong]

I wonder what kind of mission they are going to give these two?

[davidd]

Love all this secret agent action!

And the idea of Finn and Cheeto helping out! That... will be good! Whatever transpires, it will be good!

Or at least amusing.