DBWI: AHC prevent Lucasfilm from buying Disney

I would say that having Lucas not end up in a coma last year would go a long way towards preventing the takeover.
 
I think I remember seeing this in a the most recent "Reagan Lives" TL where the opposite happens -- don't remember all the details right now, sorry.

OOC: I've had a rough TL idea, where Hinckley kills Reagan, the Lucas is a lot less nasty, and the Disney Renaissance doesn't happen, among other things. Saw this, and thought it could plausibly happen later in it.
 
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One small part could be have Lucas sell off Pixar back when they were just a small firm in the mid-80's, and before he invested the funds necessary to make them into the giant of animated films they are today. The money from Pixar films is a nice chunk of Lucasfilms yearly revenue.
 

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It's a DWBI, albeit a bizzare one.

No, it's not. It just says "DBWI." That's when you pose a question from an alternate universe asking about OTL. So "What if Kennedy had been shot in Dallas?" is a DBWI, since you're asking about OTL events as if they hadn't happened. Since Lucasfilm buying Disney actually didn't happen, this is just roleplaying.
 
OOC: I'm also wondering how you'd switch the relative positions, make Lucasarts the big, new boom producer, and Disney the little animation company that just dawdles along, but that means getting rid of Disneyland and a lot of their more successful productions, which significantly alters the pre-Lucas entertainment industry.
 
Avoid Disney Dark Age, when in the 80's they made live action version of fairytales who were failure(except Tim Burton Beauty and the Beast, that movie is aclassic thank to Burton Gothic style, but was box-office mediocre performance) by bad directing and scripts(musicals only work in cartoon) and put in spirale the finance of disney.

But most Important... Avoid Lucasflims gold age, thanks to Pixar, Lucasarts and the prequel trilogy(who were amazing prequel, explain all now was the rise and fall of the Old Republic and know Anakin Skywaker become Vader but show that was the worse choice ever), Pixar is possible, avoid the prenupcial arrange when lucas manage to dropout her wife only paying a meagre sum, in other negotiation, Pixar would have become Marcia Lucas property. But rhe other two are difficult, Nintendo & Lucasarts alliance made videogames who have average of 90% in metacritic and sold millons of copies and the prequel trilogy was the most waiting movies for one of best selling movie franchise.

and if Lucasfilm gold age is butterfly away the Disney purcharse... how that would affect Sony adquisition of Marvel(and maybe butterfly away that horrible mangaverse, Sony if you want to kill the marvel comics simple don't make more)
 
Avoid Disney Dark Age, when in the 80's they made live action version of fairytales who were failure(except Tim Burton Beauty and the Beast, that movie is aclassic thank to Burton Gothic style, but was box-office mediocre performance) by bad directing and scripts(musicals only work in cartoon) and put in spirale the finance of disney.

That's an unusual summary of the Disney Dark Ages -- I always thought of the era as starting not so long after Walt's death, then going into overdrive with the hostile takeovers, "scorched earth" reaction, and eventual liquification. For me, the image of Disney in the 80's has to be (a) the decade only had three animated Disney films, and (b) they were all depressing, "adult", or both.
 
No, it's not. It just says "DBWI." That's when you pose a question from an alternate universe asking about OTL. So "What if Kennedy had been shot in Dallas?" is a DBWI, since you're asking about OTL events as if they hadn't happened. Since Lucasfilm buying Disney actually didn't happen, this is just roleplaying.

I know what it is. I just find the role reversal a little bizzare. Not to say it's BAD, just that it's a little atypical.
 
But most Important... Avoid Lucasflims gold age, thanks to Pixar, Lucasarts and the prequel trilogy(who were amazing prequel, explain all now was the rise and fall of the Old Republic and know Anakin Skywaker become Vader but show that was the worse choice ever), Pixar is possible, avoid the prenupcial arrange when lucas manage to dropout her wife only paying a meagre sum, in other negotiation, Pixar would have become Marcia Lucas property. But rhe other two are difficult, Nintendo & Lucasarts alliance made videogames who have average of 90% in metacritic and sold millons of copies and the prequel trilogy was the most waiting movies for one of best selling movie franchise.
Or you could have the prequels released later and go very badly? might that butterfly away the sequel triology?
 
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