I was happy when he killed that elton john project about some prince...
Disney CORPORATE is savy enough to know that family friendly means Mommy and Daddy and baby makes three. This is why the deny having anything to do with the early june homosexual days at the park. They know homosexuals are bad for the family business.
Eisner is no longer running Disney. There is no doubt in my mind that Eisner was THE catalyst behind the company openly promoting not only a gay agenda, but adopting anti-family tones in many of its products.
The first thing that happened when Eisner was ousted is the company (at least publicly) dumped the pc stuff and got back to its core buisness: producing family entertainment. The current people in charge understand that Disney makes its money from famalies, and they have gone out of their way not to offend famalies (at least with any product that actually has the Disney name on it, some of the Touchstone picture products are iffy.)
Hence the reason the Disney boycott has ended.
This seems like a solid aqusition for Disney. It allows them to appeal to a segment they were missing in their current offerings (boys, of all ages really.) How many boys watch the Disney channel? Look for some new shows based on the Marvel characters (does this give them enough to start a new animated channel?)
The end of the Iron Man and recent Hulk movies hinted at a new movie containing several Marvel characters. No doubt it will be a blockbuster that will produce huge secondary sales in toys, etc...
That’s something they arrived at later. Can’t remember the guy before Iger, but he was a big time gay activist, and started really hammering that culture home throughout the organization. I know the CEO of a games company that worked at Disney back then, and he told me about some of the meetings. If heteros tried some of that stuff, they’d have to have brand new careers in some other place in the world.
It’s true though - gay couples don’t have kids, and kids drive the profits, hence you better be hetero friendly, or the kids stay away.