Psycho Fox
02-15-2002, 12:24 PM
After reading the tread In defense of Disney Animation I though I should rant a bit about what is wrong with AOL-Time Warner. Opportunity always seems to knock on their door but rarely anyone is home.
Go back to the 50s TV is slowly comming of age. Small animation houses are poping up to meet the sudden demand for animated commericals close to all don't make it past a few years since they didn't have the backings to keep the place running till the profit could roll in. WB could have bought some of them up for peanuts and took on their clints it would have given their animation deparment money plus a safty net thus they could have easly made cartoons into the 70s thus WB would have kept a presents in the animation industry industry.
Fast foward to the 80's Warner Communications could have softened the blow of the crash by not releasing the ET game (well not without making it not suck as much) and not making the Pacman port not suck as much. Then if they held onto Atari for one more year all they had to do was say yes when Nintendo knocked on their door asking Atari to distribute and market the NES in North America (why Atari said no is beyond me) that would have keept their foot in the door plus gave them tons and tons of money. Plus back in 84 Jay Miner demonstrated the Lorraine prototype which at the time was revolutionary and was offering to sell his whole company (Amiga corp) to the highest bidder Warner Corp could have bought it and since they had much more resorces then Commadore and would have had a good chance of giving the Amiga a good foot hold. Plus back in 82 Jay Miner worked for Atari and wanted permission to start work on the a 16 bit computer system but Atari and Warner Communications thought 8-bit would live forever if they said yes they wouldn't even had to buy Jay Miner's compay.
Fast forward into the 90's TTA did great, A! did great and so did P&tB but the momentum was lost they should have given F!, Road Rovers and the rest as much of a chance as they gave TTA and A!. Without WBA there would be no KWB yet upper management in the late 90's just Ignored WBA. Then there is their complete lack of marketing for movies like Cat's Don't Dance and to a lesser extent Iron Giant
Basicly they are not tycoons you can hardly call them business men if they were in charge of a small company they would be on the street right now and the only reason they are not now is that Time Warner is so huge it is hard to make it fail over night but give them time and the mighty Time Warner empire might meet Enron, Eatons and other huge empires that are no more.
Go back to the 50s TV is slowly comming of age. Small animation houses are poping up to meet the sudden demand for animated commericals close to all don't make it past a few years since they didn't have the backings to keep the place running till the profit could roll in. WB could have bought some of them up for peanuts and took on their clints it would have given their animation deparment money plus a safty net thus they could have easly made cartoons into the 70s thus WB would have kept a presents in the animation industry industry.
Fast foward to the 80's Warner Communications could have softened the blow of the crash by not releasing the ET game (well not without making it not suck as much) and not making the Pacman port not suck as much. Then if they held onto Atari for one more year all they had to do was say yes when Nintendo knocked on their door asking Atari to distribute and market the NES in North America (why Atari said no is beyond me) that would have keept their foot in the door plus gave them tons and tons of money. Plus back in 84 Jay Miner demonstrated the Lorraine prototype which at the time was revolutionary and was offering to sell his whole company (Amiga corp) to the highest bidder Warner Corp could have bought it and since they had much more resorces then Commadore and would have had a good chance of giving the Amiga a good foot hold. Plus back in 82 Jay Miner worked for Atari and wanted permission to start work on the a 16 bit computer system but Atari and Warner Communications thought 8-bit would live forever if they said yes they wouldn't even had to buy Jay Miner's compay.
Fast forward into the 90's TTA did great, A! did great and so did P&tB but the momentum was lost they should have given F!, Road Rovers and the rest as much of a chance as they gave TTA and A!. Without WBA there would be no KWB yet upper management in the late 90's just Ignored WBA. Then there is their complete lack of marketing for movies like Cat's Don't Dance and to a lesser extent Iron Giant
Basicly they are not tycoons you can hardly call them business men if they were in charge of a small company they would be on the street right now and the only reason they are not now is that Time Warner is so huge it is hard to make it fail over night but give them time and the mighty Time Warner empire might meet Enron, Eatons and other huge empires that are no more.