I just discovered this hilarious ad collection, and now I think during the '96 Olympics he could be brought back, and potentially for a Disneytown in the south too.
Because he seems to be more Deep South then Texas proper,
Technically I believe that Henson was going for a
Kentucky Colonel here, hence the title. Note the resemblance to Colonel Sanders. So I think that he's supposed to be from Kentucky.
Of course it's legal, why wouldn't it be?
Because you're setting up a paper company designed to fail and go bankrupt in less than five years specifically as a way of diverting revenue streams to a select group of insiders and then using said paper company to negotiate contracts in bad faith as a way to deny creative artists their fair share of the revenues gained as a direct result of their hard work and intellectual property?
And to all the other responses:
On renewables: yes, 1990s are an interesting time in renewable energy. A lot of the groundwork for what was to come was lain, but on a practical level it was still very costly. Skeptics had very good reasons to be skeptical about renewable energy in the 1990s. There's not too much hope of good profits without serious government incentives at this point, but there's private money to make in developing innovative technologies and selling the IP to larger companies. Ironically, there's potential profit in developing advanced green tech and selling them to fossil fuel companies so they can bury them. As of the mid 1990s the primary growth area will be wind and solar, as others have stated, and "Breeder Reactors" are the subject of active US Government research (the Integral Fast Reactor in Ohio comes to mind), but yea, not a profitable venture for private industry yet. Clinton and Gore killed the IFR in 1994 iOTL, which is ironic in hindsight given that Gore is pushing for exactly that type of tech right now to provide the base loading and surge power needed for a mostly renewable grid.
On Aladdin, they're following the Ashman Plan, so yes, "Proud of your Boy" is the big show-stopper. You'll also get such gems as "High Adventure" and "Princesses Get their Way", the latter of which is pretty much sure to get covered by every Pop and Hip-Hop Diva of the 2000s. "A Whole New World" on the other hand will never exist, alas. You win some, you lose some.
Oh, and other Disney animation plans to be revealed this weekend!