*ON* Topic: the Barbie Versus Bratz Cat Fight [message #169282] |
Sun, 07 December 2008 07:54 |
Frank J. Lhota
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In a court battle over intellectual property rights, Mattel, the maker
of the Barbie dolls, have forced MGA, the makers of the popular Bratz
dolls, to withdraw Bratz products from the market:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article5295296.ece
BTW I'm sure many a little girl is glad that the toy ban is not going
into effect until after Christmas.
That raises a serious question for bad movie fans: what will be the fate
of the following Bratz tie-in?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804452/
Moreover, when will Barbie and Ken star in their own live active, crummy
feature film?
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Let everything be as it should be;
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Re: *ON* Topic: the Barbie Versus Bratz Cat Fight [message #169285 is a reply to message #169282] |
Sun, 07 December 2008 23:42 |
nebusj-
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"Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOSPAM@rcn.com> writes:
> In a court battle over intellectual property rights, Mattel, the maker
> of the Barbie dolls, have forced MGA, the makers of the popular Bratz
> dolls, to withdraw Bratz products from the market:
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article5295296.ece
> BTW I'm sure many a little girl is glad that the toy ban is not going
> into effect until after Christmas.
Huh. I can't tell what I'm honestly more irritated by: the
existence of Bratz dolls at all, or Mattel pulling the Conglomerate
``Everything You Think Belongs To Us'' scam to swipe it away from
the guy.
> That raises a serious question for bad movie fans: what will be the fate
> of the following Bratz tie-in?
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804452/
> Moreover, when will Barbie and Ken star in their own live active, crummy
> feature film?
Hm. They didn't already? I suppose it'd be more natural to
have them get a bad cartoon, maybe as a series, maybe as a one-shot
movie, in the 60s when they were new and exciting-ish, or in the early
80s when you could make any toy into a cartoon even when it was Go-Bots,
but were the awful computer-animated things actually Barbie's first
cartoons, never mind lousy live-action movies?
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Joseph Nebus
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Re: *ON* Topic: the Barbie Versus Bratz Cat Fight [message #169395 is a reply to message #169285] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 17:05 |
Doug Elrod
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On Dec 7, 11:42 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> "Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOS...@rcn.com> writes:
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>> In a court battle over intellectual property rights, Mattel, the maker
>> of the Barbie dolls, have forced MGA, the makers of the popular Bratz
>> dolls, to withdraw Bratz products from the market:
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article52...
>> BTW I'm sure many a little girl is glad that the toy ban is not going
>> into effect until after Christmas.
>
> Huh. I can't tell what I'm honestly more irritated by: the
> existence of Bratz dolls at all, or Mattel pulling the Conglomerate
> ``Everything You Think Belongs To Us'' scam to swipe it away from
> the guy.
Even if you think of the STEVEOMETER??? (There has to be a way to
leverage that so that Steve Allen RULES THE WORLD, if posthumously!)
>
>> That raises a serious question for bad movie fans: what will be the fate
>> of the following Bratz tie-in?
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804452/
>> Moreover, when will Barbie and Ken star in their own live active, crummy
>> feature film?
>
> Hm. They didn't already? I suppose it'd be more natural to
> have them get a bad cartoon, maybe as a series, maybe as a one-shot
> movie, in the 60s when they were new and exciting-ish, or in the early
> 80s when you could make any toy into a cartoon even when it was Go-Bots,
> but were the awful computer-animated things actually Barbie's first
> cartoons, never mind lousy live-action movies?
Oh, it's just another one of those BRATZ PACK movies!
-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
wondering if they were "dames" interrupting the goings-on in the Rat
Pack before they were Bratz....
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Re: *ON* Topic: the Barbie Versus Bratz Cat Fight [message #169404 is a reply to message #169395] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 10:54 |
nebusj-
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Doug Elrod <dre1@cornell.edu> writes:
> On Dec 7, 11:42=A0pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Huh. =A0I can't tell what I'm honestly more irritated by:=
> the
>> existence of Bratz dolls at all, or Mattel pulling the Conglomerate
>> ``Everything You Think Belongs To Us'' scam to swipe it away from
>> the guy.
> Even if you think of the STEVEOMETER??? (There has to be a way to
> leverage that so that Steve Allen RULES THE WORLD, if posthumously!)
Ah, Steve Allen may rule the world, but Pat Weaver rules the
Steve Allen. Or did. Or would. Whatever way it works out, anyway.
> Oh, it's just another one of those BRATZ PACK movies!
> -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
> wondering if they were "dames" interrupting the goings-on in the Rat
> Pack before they were Bratz....
Oh, now you've just got those awful dolls mixed into my
thoughts about ``Maudlin's Eleven''. I've got to get them out again.
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Joseph Nebus
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