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No, that's not kosher, and what the hell is up with that page? Since when did we become a bibliographical reference source?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I don't think I can answer those questions, since I didn't create the Creator.Walt Disney Home Video page, nor its subpages.
Should the WMG page be cutlisted? If Creator pages can't have WMG subpages, then it should be cutlisted.
It doesn't have a WMG page, I just noticed someone add what sounded like a WMG entry to one of the already-existent, non-WMG subpages.
Well, it turns out whoever cooked up this theory posted it in more pages than just that one. I also found it on Trivia.Pinocchio, and NightmareFuel.Avengers Age Of Ultron. May I have permission to remove it from wherever I find it (I already deleted it from Trivia.Pinocchio) , or does that sound extreme?
I think that deleting it wherever you find it is perfectly reasonable. After all, it's a big, rambly Wall of Text.
"Come on! Let's get this show on the road."
It didn't look as long when I found it on those two pages, but I would agree about "rambly". Although, that might just be because I really don't think Disney would have allowed Marvel to use Pinocchio music in a manner they doubted would've convinced more people to watch it.
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It appears, though I am not certain, that Jameygamer is the troper who added that text.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Well, I can confirm that he added it to NightmareFuel.Pinocchio.
EDIT: Looks like he also added it to the AoU Nightmare Fuel page, before I deleted it.
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I decided to find all the pages with this speculation by running a search consisting of "Ultron", "signature", and "I've Got No Strings" in quotes. Discounting the results I already edited, I also found it on Trivia.Aladdin, courtesy again of jameygamer. On a side note, this doesn't mark the first time I saw him/her post dubious information about Walt Disney Home Video on multiple pages (though the other times concerned "information" that proved easy for me to disprove).
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Here's another question as to the release order - why does each decade subpage start with a year ending in 9 instead of a year ending in 0?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
I suspended that troper. They have a lot of explaining to do.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Most of the other information I called dubious just consisted of Critical Research Failures on his/her part.note Obnoxious, but probably less heinous than this.
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WaltDisneyHomeVideo.Releases2009to 2018 has a note providing the following possibility for Pinocchio's omission from the Diamond Collection, right after admitting that Disney hasn't provided an official explanation:
there are a handful of possible Wild Mass Guessing ideas, but one of the likely scenarios was Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron using "I've Got No Strings", possibly the second-most recognizable song from Pinocchio after "When You Wish Upon A Star", as the theme of Big Bad and The Avengers's nemesis Ultron; this character is Nightmare Fuel incarnate and uses a Dark Reprise of "I've Got No Strings", which may have twisted the joyous song into something that would likely scare children even if they heard the original (which IS attached to an already dark film and concerns the Coachman, who is also Nightmare Fuel). This is the likely reason among other possibilities that convinced Disney to pull the plug on the Diamond Edition reissue of Pinocchio, which would also have been its debut on online platforms such as iTunes and Disney Movies Anywhere. Since Aladdin was the only other Platinum Edition left to be converted into the Diamond Edition series when Age of Ultron hit theaters, and since Disney had abandoned any plans of making the Diamond Editions the Walt Disney Classics reincarnate, the line concluded with Aladdin and Disney created the Walt Disney Signature Collection to distribute the next release of Snow White to start Phase 6 of their animated classics release schedule.
Personally speaking, it sounds like a pretty crazy theory, one that I never heard before, and one that would fall apart for readers who think Ultron's singing sounds Nightmare Retardant. (In fact, it contradicts a theory I used to have, that Ultron sang that darn song in the first place as early Subliminal Advertising for the Pinocchio Diamond Edition.note ) Does wild speculation like this deserve a place on a creator's subpage?
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