WI: Walt Disney Convicted of Inappropriate Contact With Minors

Greenville

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What would be the fate and legacy of one of the world's largest media corporations if in the 1960s Walt Disney had and was convicted of inappropriate relations with children working at his studio, theme park, or elsewhere?

He is convicted of a crime like child molestation and imprisoned. What becomes of his company and the brand as a whole?
 
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Depends...

If it is true, the taint would remain for a long time. A possible company name change would be done.

If it is not true, it would more like that whole thing about Disney being a Nazi and/or anti-Semite (which isn't true) - a joke that would be beaten into the ground in popular culture like with Family Guy and Saturday Night Live.
 
What would be the fate and legacy of one of the world's largest media corporations if in the 1960s Walt Disney had and was convicted of inappropriate relations with children working at his studio, theme park, or elsewhere?

He is convicted of a crime like child molestation and imprisoned. What becomes of his company and the brand as a whole?

If that had actually happened you can kiss The Walt Disney Company (Ends up getting liquidated), Everything with the Disney name and maybe Mickey Mouse goodbye.
 
What becomes of his company and the brand as a whole?

Disney gets hit with a devastating blow from which it will never recovers and is forced to close it's doors by the end of the decade. Walt's conviction would forever be remembered as the death of America's innocence, and is considered one of the darkest events of the already traumatic 60's. The movies are forever tainted, and the world today is a more cynical and depressing place.
 
Disney gets hit with a devastating blow from which it will never recovers and is forced to close it's doors by the end of the decade. Walt's conviction would forever be remembered as the death of America's innocence, and is considered one of the darkest events of the already traumatic 60's. The movies are forever tainted, and the world today is a more cynical and depressing place.

Like I said in my last post The Walt Disney Company goes under in the event that Walt Disney was convicted of such crimes against minors and here's what also happens.

1. Disneyland gets demolished after the property is sold.
2. All the Movies and Cartoons produced by Disney likely disappear from circulation (Even redistributing them with the Disney logos and all references to Disney completely removed will be controversial) as they will be tainted.
3. The Disney name becomes permanently tainted.
4. Mickey Mouse and all the Cartoon Characters created by Disney would never be seen again in any medium or form.

The long term effects this has on the world would be difficult to figure out (But the world today will not be the same in general and there will be negative long term effects).
 

Greenville

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Since this happens in the early 1960s the Disney media empire generally becomes smaller. Walt Disney spends the remainder of his life in California state prison until his death in 1966 of lung cancer. Stock prices in the Walt Disney Company plummet forcing a total rebrand.

Harbor Entertainment is what it is called is still run by his brother Roy. All films and television specials will be rereleased in the future under this namesake. Disneyland is renamed and becomes simply the Magical Kingdom theme park in California.

There are no further Disney theme parks anywhere else in the world including Florida without Walt at the helm leading the call to purchase land there.

Harbor Entertainment still likely increases its holdings in television and radio as a studio. This doesn't change.
 

Loghain

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There would be positive effect.

Disney is one of The Biggest pushers for continually extending copyright.
 
Since this happens in the early 1960s the Disney media empire generally becomes smaller. Walt Disney spends the remainder of his life in California state prison until his death in 1966 of lung cancer. Stock prices in the Walt Disney Company plummet forcing a total rebrand.

Harbor Entertainment is what it is called is still run by his brother Roy. All films and television specials will be rereleased in the future under this namesake. Disneyland is renamed and becomes simply the Magical Kingdom theme park in California.

There are no further Disney theme parks anywhere else in the world including Florida without Walt at the helm leading the call to purchase land there.

Harbor Entertainment still likely increases its holdings in television and radio as a studio. This doesn't change.

That would be impossible even if The Walt Disney Company survived under a different name everyone connected to Walt Disney including Roy quickly bail out or get quickly forced out the company due to the shareholder revolt. For Disneyland to survive under a different name the whole park likely gets rebuilt from the ground up. There no being no further Disney theme parks will be true. The re-branded company if it survives will face a uphill battle to stay afloat likely running into roadblocks for several years (With the company hoping that the stigma from Disney eventually fades away). As for Walt Disney he ends up living out the rest of his days in San Quentin never seeing freedom again only leaving the prison in a bodybag when he dies.
 
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