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Originally Posted By TDLFAN A video of this has already been posted in the HKDL section. Seems a bit out of place in the WDW section.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> Seems a bit out of place in the WDW section. << Perhaps. But the castle they built is a clear copy of WDW/MK's -- unless they decided just to send somebody over to photograph TDL's castle instead. Save even more. It would just be a daytrip. Disney lawyers have got to be all twisted up about this. I mean, stealing software and copying DVD's is one thing. Stealing characters is another. But going as far as to build a copy of the park, holy cow. I must confess. I'd love to visit this place, at least once. It would be like going to another planet, to visit my favorite characters and places -- in the Twilight Zone. But any money I would spend I would send to Disney in the states instead.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> Pay for everything in Disney dollars there << What a great idea. I wonder if my CM Maingate Pass would work?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> I wonder if my CM Maingate Pass would work? << Come to think of it, it probably would. And they'd make a copy of it.....
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Wow. A cat with large ears. How do they explain the other characters? and why is this "cat" wearing minnie's dress? They are going to get in trouble with Disney. I point and laugh because there is no way that that park is going to continue operating after Disney finds out.
Originally Posted By RangerPooh I'm appalled that someone would so blatently copy Disney. I mean right down to the characters images and clothing, come on. It's one thing if you base yourself on Disney Parks but it's another to copy them. Couldn't they have come up with their own original park?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >> It's one thing if you base yourself on Disney Parks but it's another to copy them. Couldn't they have come up with their own original park?<< Pandaland does have a ring to it... But in regards to ripping off Disney, it's one thing to be living in a lawsuit-friendly republican-run country where corporations are assured by the feds they will succeed by not sharing their profits with the middle class they employ to help bring the dough, and it's quite another to live in a communist country where the economy thrives due to the American business it receives, and where lawsuits are probably non-existant. The Chinese know they own the World's markets. They can do as they please, and their goverment won't move a finger and stop such franchise infrindgements until we Americans, pull the plug on importing from China. Pure and Simple. Plus, you also have to add the other shameful equation to the mix... which is the many Americans who go to China to buy knockoff merchandise (clothing/dvds/jewelry etc etc) for much cheaper prices.. effectively sending the wrong message to the Chinese...that is is "ok" for them to continue such questionable practices.
Originally Posted By Roger55 ^^Bravo! While we b@$#* and complain about these things, wd go and buy counterfeit goods from China. We shop at the massive discount chains who get most of their products from China just so we can get the lowest prices. We pirate and illegally download music, movies and sofrware. Also consider what might transpire if the rest of the world started to sanction China so much that thier huge population began to suffer even more? A nation of that size starving and suffering could be forced into taking drastic measures in order to survive. They do have the largest military in the world. I'm not saying that what China is doing is OK, but this is a much deeper issue than just "This is wrong! Why doesn't Disney/US government do something about it?".
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>But in regards to ripping off Disney, it's one thing to be living in a lawsuit-friendly republican-run country<< If anything, big business and Republicans have been pushing for tort reform for years. They hate having to pay out when you burn yourself with Mc Donalds hot coffee. I seem to recall the Dems being the protectors of the status quo, claiming that the current tort system protects consumers (and makes trial lawyers very rich).
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <(and makes trial lawyers very rich). like of of the Dem presidential candidates ? Mr Edwards - White courtesy phone
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Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<If anything, big business and Republicans have been pushing for tort reform for years. They hate having to pay out when you burn yourself with Mc Donalds hot coffee.>> No. They actually love cases like that. Because they use the absurd judgments and pay days to push for limits where there should be none (like $250,000 for malpractice in some states ... we're so sorry your child died because our surgeon was intoxicated but we can't pay you $50 million ...) ... if you pick the most crazy cases anyone would agree refor is needed. The sick thing is how it is being used to warp the system further and take idividuals' rights to sue away or limit them to tiny amounts.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Why? you can always go to the MK. << What a snappy come back. >> The sick thing is how it is being used to warp the system further and take idividuals' rights to sue away or limit them to tiny amounts. << That is the sad thing about tort reform, and how once again the government has shafted the middle, and lower class.
