Comments for Warren Spector's blog http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com Ramblings about games, life...and more about games Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Disney Favorites by mudron http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-825 mudron Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:15 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-825 Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar? I need to hit up Disneyland sometime soon (I haven't visited any of the parks since a family vacation to Disney World almost 20 years ago) - the Imagineering stuff *always* knocks my socks off. Any news on trying to get some Epic Mickey comics and whatnot made? I suppose with Disney owning Marvel now, you won't have any shortage of cartooning talent to draw from (to say nothing of the list of the established Disney artists you've listed in the post above), but if you ever find yourself looking for some fresh Epic Mickey cartoonists/illustrators, toss me an email sometime -mudron(at)gmail.com. Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar? I need to hit up Disneyland sometime soon (I haven’t visited any of the parks since a family vacation to Disney World almost 20 years ago) – the Imagineering stuff *always* knocks my socks off.

Any news on trying to get some Epic Mickey comics and whatnot made? I suppose with Disney owning Marvel now, you won’t have any shortage of cartooning talent to draw from (to say nothing of the list of the established Disney artists you’ve listed in the post above), but if you ever find yourself looking for some fresh Epic Mickey cartoonists/illustrators, toss me an email sometime -mudron(at)gmail.com.

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by Warren Spector’s Favorite Disney Rides, Comic Books And Characters | Gamingaisle http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-822 Warren Spector’s Favorite Disney Rides, Comic Books And Characters | Gamingaisle Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:46:55 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-822 [...] Epic Mickey saw its debut in the pages of Game Informer magazine, but he’s slowly emerging. On his personal blog, Spector responded to a barrage of requests about his preferences for Disney material by listing [...] [...] Epic Mickey saw its debut in the pages of Game Informer magazine, but he’s slowly emerging. On his personal blog, Spector responded to a barrage of requests about his preferences for Disney material by listing [...]

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by Greenyz http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-821 Greenyz Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:33:27 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-821 Wow that Stitch comment seems kind of rude thinking back. I'm just so surprised someone with such a caliber as yourself would have a wordpress blog. Anyway what I meant to say was it's nice that Disney was able to have made a character worth your Disney standards. -.-, better Wow that Stitch comment seems kind of rude thinking back. I’m just so surprised someone with such a caliber as yourself would have a wordpress blog.

Anyway what I meant to say was it’s nice that Disney was able to have made a character worth your Disney standards.

-.-, better

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by Daily Best Articles » Warren Spector’s Favorite Disney Rides, Comic Books And Characters http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-820 Daily Best Articles » Warren Spector’s Favorite Disney Rides, Comic Books And Characters Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:30:32 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-820 [...] Epic Mickey saw its debut in the pages of Game Informer magazine, but he’s slowly emerging. On his personal blog, Spector responded to a barrage of requests about his preferences for Disney material by listing [...] [...] Epic Mickey saw its debut in the pages of Game Informer magazine, but he’s slowly emerging. On his personal blog, Spector responded to a barrage of requests about his preferences for Disney material by listing [...]

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by Greenyz http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-819 Greenyz Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:16:44 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-819 I've never been a fan of Space Mountain. I don't think it's a bad ride I'm just so afraid that I can't see what's going on ahead of me. I was basically in the fetal position the first time I rode it and I've been on much more intense rides. Also it's nice to see a more recent character (Stitch) being loved by you. :D Looking forward to your game, Francis Basco Southern California I’ve never been a fan of Space Mountain. I don’t think it’s a bad ride I’m just so afraid that I can’t see what’s going on ahead of me. I was basically in the fetal position the first time I rode it and I’ve been on much more intense rides.

Also it’s nice to see a more recent character (Stitch) being loved by you. :D

Looking forward to your game,

Francis Basco
Southern California

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by spridley http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-818 spridley Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:18:43 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-818 Dear Mr. Spector Thanks for trying so hard to make an amazing game about Mickey and Disney. Reading what you said in the interview made me very happy as you dream with this project and treat it as an amazing and important thing. I hope they let you make, or help making a Wasteland ride and and a short or movie about Oswald and Mickey, who knows, maybe a short at the beggining of the 50th Disney animated movie Ranpunzel about Oswald and Mickey being mischevious as in Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie. ;) Maybe this is the start of making good animation in tv again thaks to you, hoping Mickey's new design and the return of Oswald are going to be as big as it seems. Cheers from a Spanish fan! Borja R Dear Mr. Spector
Thanks for trying so hard to make an amazing game about Mickey and Disney. Reading what you said in the interview made me very happy as you dream with this project and treat it as an amazing and important thing.
I hope they let you make, or help making a Wasteland ride and and a short or movie about Oswald and Mickey, who knows, maybe a short at the beggining of the 50th Disney animated movie Ranpunzel about Oswald and Mickey being mischevious as in Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie. ;)
Maybe this is the start of making good animation in tv again thaks to you, hoping Mickey’s new design and the return of Oswald are going to be as big as it seems.

Cheers from a Spanish fan!
Borja R

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by walkoutbasements http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-817 walkoutbasements Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:59:30 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-817 Dear Mr. Spector, I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank you on making both Mickey and Oswald relevant again (especially Oswald, since the Disney company has had a hard time trying to re-introduce him back into the limelight in a clever way). I am sure Walt would be proud. I am one of many looking forward to Epic Mickey and I hope for it to be successful. Dear Mr. Spector,
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank you on making both Mickey and Oswald relevant again (especially Oswald, since the Disney company has had a hard time trying to re-introduce him back into the limelight in a clever way). I am sure Walt would be proud. I am one of many looking forward to Epic Mickey and I hope for it to be successful.

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by bmb13 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-816 bmb13 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:37:06 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-816 As an addendum, I wanted to say that on their own Spectrum Associates as an author didn't really seem to produce anything noteworthy. Nor did Bancells excel without the crazed storylines of the former. For some reason only the collaboration would produce something enjoyable. I guess sometimes it's like that and you need two halves to make one whole genius. Compare movies. I've never really seen Roland Emmerich of Day after Tomorrow fame produce something I entirely liked without the help of Dean Devlin, nor have I heard of anything Devlin did that interested me that didn't also involve Emmerich. Yet the two produced Stargate and Independence Day and Godzilla '98 together, all of which I immensely enjoy. :/ As an addendum, I wanted to say that on their own Spectrum Associates as an author didn’t really seem to produce anything noteworthy. Nor did Bancells excel without the crazed storylines of the former. For some reason only the collaboration would produce something enjoyable.

I guess sometimes it’s like that and you need two halves to make one whole genius. Compare movies. I’ve never really seen Roland Emmerich of Day after Tomorrow fame produce something I entirely liked without the help of Dean Devlin, nor have I heard of anything Devlin did that interested me that didn’t also involve Emmerich. Yet the two produced Stargate and Independence Day and Godzilla ‘98 together, all of which I immensely enjoy.
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]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by bmb13 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-815 bmb13 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:29:47 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-815 Very interesting on the comic authors there. I can't say about the rides as I've never been to Disneyland. Personally I don't really enjoy the 'Van Horn style too much. It's too loose. And I've never really read a story by either of them that made the slightest bit of sense. The rest I've either not heard of (Osten). Or your sentiments are spot on. Even if the overzealous attention to detail and overarching continuity is exactly why I love Don Rosa's work. As I feel it brings something more to the comics that make them interesting even today. One of my own favorites is the combination of, I don't actually know who the writer is, as it is only ever credited as "Spectrum Associates", but the combination of that and Antoni Bancells as an artist. The result was usually a hilarious adventure with Donald Duck as the sole star of the show and otherwise completely new characters in every one. It would be completely mad. And Bancells style only served to underline that. He has a very special way of making the villian look completely crazed. And the face Donald made whenever he panicked cracked me up every time. It seems to be mostly a european thing though, and on INDUCKS the only american publication I can see any of the stories featuring in is "Mickey Mouse Adventures (Gemstone)" Here's the search results on INDUCKS where you can see some pictures and exactly which issues they appear in: http://coa.inducks.org/simp.php?d1=Donald+Duck&creat=Antoni+Bancells+Pujadas%2C+Spectrum+Associates Very interesting on the comic authors there. I can’t say about the rides as I’ve never been to Disneyland.
Personally I don’t really enjoy the ‘Van Horn style too much. It’s too loose. And I’ve never really read a story by either of them that made the slightest bit of sense.
The rest I’ve either not heard of (Osten). Or your sentiments are spot on. Even if the overzealous attention to detail and overarching continuity is exactly why I love Don Rosa’s work. As I feel it brings something more to the comics that make them interesting even today.

One of my own favorites is the combination of, I don’t actually know who the writer is, as it is only ever credited as “Spectrum Associates”, but the combination of that and Antoni Bancells as an artist. The result was usually a hilarious adventure with Donald Duck as the sole star of the show and otherwise completely new characters in every one. It would be completely mad. And Bancells style only served to underline that. He has a very special way of making the villian look completely crazed. And the face Donald made whenever he panicked cracked me up every time.

It seems to be mostly a european thing though, and on INDUCKS the only american publication I can see any of the stories featuring in is “Mickey Mouse Adventures (Gemstone)”
Here’s the search results on INDUCKS where you can see some pictures and exactly which issues they appear in:
http://coa.inducks.org/simp.php?d1=Donald+Duck&creat=Antoni+Bancells+Pujadas%2C+Spectrum+Associates

]]> Comment on Disney Favorites by miklcraw4d http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/disney-favorites/#comment-812 miklcraw4d Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:41:48 +0000 http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/?p=193#comment-812 Hiya Warren, First I should say how incredibly pleased I am that you're working on this game. As a slightly over-the-top fan of both Disney and your previous work, the announcement of this project made the "chocolate meets peanut butter" moment in history look completely insignificant. I'm slightly shocked that you thought people would razz you about this one - I think for those of us who have experienced your work would not gripe because you were making a Mickey game, but rather be excited about a Mickey game because you're making it. I can understand your reticence in being asked to do a Mickey project, though, because many of us fans have been disappointed in the way he's been turned into a bland corporate figure, devoid of any interesting characteristics. If you go back and watch "Plane Crazy", it really makes one mad that the Chaplin-meets-Fairbanks version of Mickey has been unexploited for 60 years or so. Many of us have long hoped for a revitalization of the character, so needless to say this game is exciting. As to my Disney favorites, they're much the same. Pirates and Mansion, of course, but I also grew up obsessed with the EPCOT of the 1980s so my list includes Horizons, World of Motion, Spaceship Earth, Journey into Imagination, etc... And I just enjoy a simple ride on the Peoplemover. Your list of characters and comic artists is also spookily similar to mine... Finding out that you are a Carl Barks/Duck comic fan is like discovering that the Beatles like Firefly - just weird synergy. Rosa and the Van Horns are great, too. I always hope that Barks and his work will get more of a spotlight. Maybe more animated adaptations, a ride or... a game? Anyway, we're really looking forward to the game. Thanks for taking the project, for all your years of excellent entertainment, and good luck with Epic Mickey! cheers Michael Progress City, U.S.A. Hiya Warren,

First I should say how incredibly pleased I am that you’re working on this game. As a slightly over-the-top fan of both Disney and your previous work, the announcement of this project made the “chocolate meets peanut butter” moment in history look completely insignificant. I’m slightly shocked that you thought people would razz you about this one – I think for those of us who have experienced your work would not gripe because you were making a Mickey game, but rather be excited about a Mickey game because you’re making it.

I can understand your reticence in being asked to do a Mickey project, though, because many of us fans have been disappointed in the way he’s been turned into a bland corporate figure, devoid of any interesting characteristics. If you go back and watch “Plane Crazy”, it really makes one mad that the Chaplin-meets-Fairbanks version of Mickey has been unexploited for 60 years or so. Many of us have long hoped for a revitalization of the character, so needless to say this game is exciting.

As to my Disney favorites, they’re much the same. Pirates and Mansion, of course, but I also grew up obsessed with the EPCOT of the 1980s so my list includes Horizons, World of Motion, Spaceship Earth, Journey into Imagination, etc… And I just enjoy a simple ride on the Peoplemover.

Your list of characters and comic artists is also spookily similar to mine… Finding out that you are a Carl Barks/Duck comic fan is like discovering that the Beatles like Firefly – just weird synergy. Rosa and the Van Horns are great, too. I always hope that Barks and his work will get more of a spotlight. Maybe more animated adaptations, a ride or… a game?

Anyway, we’re really looking forward to the game. Thanks for taking the project, for all your years of excellent entertainment, and good luck with Epic Mickey!

cheers
Michael
Progress City, U.S.A.

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