Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
#1
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Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
First heard of this on another site, and posted about it in a Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray thread. A quick search shows a post in a thread in Otter as well:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/10442898-post628.html
GM Toons, a Thailand studio, has made cheap CGI knock-offs of several Disney films, being almost shot-for-shot remakes. The most notable that's been circulating the net is the Beauty and the Beast knock-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIhE7e5-YOI
However, they've also ripped off Snow White:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaebmwLbE0A
And more recently, Dumbo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYS6LBmfPnI
Not content with just ripping off Disney, they also made a knock-off of Don Bluth's The Land Before Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdQw3WfvDUs
And here in the US, we thought Asylum Studios made rip-offs....
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/10442898-post628.html
GM Toons, a Thailand studio, has made cheap CGI knock-offs of several Disney films, being almost shot-for-shot remakes. The most notable that's been circulating the net is the Beauty and the Beast knock-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIhE7e5-YOI
However, they've also ripped off Snow White:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaebmwLbE0A
And more recently, Dumbo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYS6LBmfPnI
Not content with just ripping off Disney, they also made a knock-off of Don Bluth's The Land Before Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdQw3WfvDUs
And here in the US, we thought Asylum Studios made rip-offs....
#2
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
What's funny is, not only are these shot-for-shot ripoffs with identical character designs, but they even ripped off the Disney Logo!
#3
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
There's always money in the banana stand.
#4
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
Since they obviously aren't worried about copyright, wouldn't it just be easier to dub over the original film?
#5
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
Thought the same thing.
Wouldn't it be funny if some Thai kid grows up with these and later sees the original & thinks those are rip-offs.
Wouldn't it be funny if some Thai kid grows up with these and later sees the original & thinks those are rip-offs.
#6
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
http://www.ethaicd.com/show.php?pid=55989
Almost all Disney films are released with a local dub in the respective country.
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
According to this page, they may have already done a CGI rip-off of UP:
http://www.pantip.com/cafe/chalermth.../A9832133.html
Edit: "What's UP" is by Brazilian studio Vídeo Brinquedo, not GM Toons.
Also, they've apparently ripped of a Doremon movie, have a Winnie-the-Pooh knock-off called "Bearie and the Poo Cheetah Village", and ripped off a fellow Thai studio's original cartoon known as "The Blue Elephant" in the US:
http://www.pantip.com/cafe/chalermth.../A9832133.html
Edit: "What's UP" is by Brazilian studio Vídeo Brinquedo, not GM Toons.
Also, they've apparently ripped of a Doremon movie, have a Winnie-the-Pooh knock-off called "Bearie and the Poo Cheetah Village", and ripped off a fellow Thai studio's original cartoon known as "The Blue Elephant" in the US:
Last edited by Jay G.; 10-23-10 at 11:02 PM. Reason: What's UP is done by someone else.
#12
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
But hasn't Disney been doing this too, at least with the Lion King being almost a direct copy of Kimba the White Lion.
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
#13
Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
This thread reminds me of this old story. A Disneyland rip off theme park in China.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/05/02...land-in-china/
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/05/02...land-in-china/
#14
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
I remember years ago I was in Bahrain and there was a video store called Disney Video. Their logo was Mickey as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. The place was full of bootleg current theatrical movies.
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Re: Thailand studio rips off Disney and Don Bluth
But hasn't Disney been doing this too, at least with the Lion King being almost a direct copy of Kimba the White Lion.
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
In the case of Kimba, while there's some strong visual similarities in certain instances, and maybe certain sequences, the story itself is different, and there are many differences.
That's from the Brazilian studio Vídeo Brinquedo, who are also apparently responsible for the movie "What's UP" that I mentioned before. They've done a number of other films that are strikingly similar to other Disney/Pixar films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vídeo_Brinquedo
However, at least the actual stories for those films are different, and aren't shot-for-shot remakes. They're more similar to Asylum, where it seems they rely on the similarities in titles and basic setting/characters to dupe unsuspecting customers to buy them.