Disney+ Day One content confirmed. : p#2 “Maclunkey”

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**Deadshot**

I plan to subscribe just to watch Spider-Man 1994 series. Plus, all the MCU films and shows and Star Wars. Holy GAK that's an impressive lineup. The mouse flexes its muscles again.

**Alpharius**

If they do the 'all episodes available at launch' thing, I'll just sign up, watch all that I want in that month, and then drop out until there's another batch of stuff worth watching.

At $7 (to start), should be the way to go.

**Hulksmash**

I did the deal for 3 years for an average of around 4 dollars a month. It'll be well worth it.

I'm not going to go out and pirate and run around to find things I'm going to watch. Not for less than 2 hours pay for 3 years. No judgement on those that do. Just not worth it.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I’m mainly signing up for the MCU and Star Wars content.

Spidey cartoons are added bonus. And being able to give me details to God Sprog is another bonus.

**Alpharius**

LOLWUT MDG?

**Azreal13**

Allow me to translate into legible English..

"Being able to let my god child have my login details is another bonus."

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Although of course, assuming the UK will ever be able to sign up is pure speculation at this point.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Confirmed launch window of 2020 for us, date to be confirmed,

**Lance845**

I think the big thing with the initial launch is that it's all Disney owned. Netflix, on launch, had product they paid to use for a period of time. It wasn't for YEARS that they began to produce their own content. And their own content in it's entirety is still NOTHING compared to Disney's day 1 launch.

Where Netflix still pays many for the right to distribute on their service, Disney stands to never pay anyone a single red cent and all of their product will be available all the time if they so choose it.

**Azreal13**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Confirmed launch window of 2020 for us, date to be confirmed,

That's not a window, it's a fething hanger door.

There are some potentially very sticky licence issues with Sky in the UK, which is why we aren't getting it with the rest of Europe, and while that content's fate remains in the hands of another broadcaster with their own opinions on what constitutes what's best for them (ie a gakload of money to relinquish it) I'll expect it when I see it.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

We now have a date.

31 March 2020. Which I do look forward to!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/8/20954804/disney-uk-germany-france-italy-spain-release-date-march-31-2020

**H.B.M.C.**

Damn that's a while away. We get it in a few weeks.

But on the bright side, Inhumans will be available at launch.

*throws up*

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

That’s not a bright side you nitwit!

Advantage as I see it is at least I can then binge The Mandalorian in one sitting. Like a 10 hour Star Wars movie!

**Alpharius**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s not a bright side you nitwit!

That's the joke?

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Advantage as I see it is at least I can then binge The Mandalorian in one sitting. Like a 10 hour Star Wars movie!

Isn't all of the content available at launch in the USA Nov (x) anyway?

Ala the 'Netflix' model?

Or is Disney+ parsing it out like 'network TV'?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Episodic from what I’ve read.

**Alpharius**

I hadn't heard that...

I suppose it would cynically make sense so as to avoid the "one and done" bingers but..that really wouldn't make much sense once the series was released?

Odd that they're not releasing all episodes at once. We'll see if they stick to that model...

**H.B.M.C.**

Yeah they don't want everyone binging their stuff.

It's coming out week to week. If that means they keep the week to week for the places getting it later, well, that'll just drive up piracy.

**Alpharius**

Yeah, I just researched it - ALL of their new 'series' will be 'week to week'.

Curious to see if they do indeed keep it 'week to week' for those areas that are getting in months later - that would be madness.

But not too surprising!

**LunarSol**

I've been appreciating the episodic release schedule a bit more as of late. There's a bit more conversation around shows released that way. I feel like the binge drops just hit this weird "spoiler suppression" since most people can't hope to watch a show that fast and by the time the general public has caught up, people have just kind of flushed the thing from their minds. Netflix has a pretty happy medium going with Voltron. It binge dropped seasons but the seasons were really short with multiple released over the year.

**Azreal13**

The really big caveat, which seems to have been missed, is the * that says "not all content will be available in all territories."

Which could mean that UK subscribers won't get access to stuff that Sky or Netflix have streaming/broadcast rights to, it might even mean that we will only get Ep1 of the new shows being aired episodically on day of release and have to wait every week to catch up like it was still the 1990s.

Which makes the assertion that The Mandalorian is about to break GoT "most pirated show" record look very likely.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

There is that. But then, I can still cope with episodic

**Galef**

IMO, it's very smart of Disney to release episodes in the traditional week-to-week manor. I got Netflix for like a month, binge watched Stranger Things and Dark Crystal and was done. Canceled my subscription afterward (though mainly because Disney+ is coming). I'll sign up again next year for there new season, then cancel

Disney+, however seems to have a strategy to keep people paying every month

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**H.B.M.C.**

Azreal13 wrote:
Which makes the assertion that The Mandalorian is about to break GoT "most pirated show" record look very likely.

That's my fear.

You weren't one of the few territories that had D+ when this show launched? Sucks to be you! Enjoy being months behind!

**Voss**

Galef wrote:
IMO, it's very smart of Disney to release episodes in the traditional week-to-week manor. I got Netflix for like a month, binge watched Stranger Things and Dark Crystal and was done. Canceled my subscription afterward (though mainly because Disney+ is coming). I'll sign up again next year for there new season, then cancel

Disney+, however seems to have a strategy to keep people paying every month

-

Nothing really stops anyone from waiting, going on a binge, and repeating.

You don't get there 'first' but... whatever.

**Baragash**

Hollow wrote:
^This. The problem Disney has is its super family-friendly image and reluctance to go for more adult themes. This is where Netflix will dominate. So where are we at in terms of existing streaming and new streaming services?

We currently have

Netflix
Amazon
Hulu

With

Disney
Apple
Peacock
HBO Max

on the way...

And BritBox. BBC and ITV have been withdrawing all their content as the agreements expire and all their stuff will be launching through a joint venture next year. So no more British stuff for me. That's mainly going to harm Netflix and Amazon.

Disney+ launching may harm Stan here in Oz, I only got that to have the Disney stuff for my kids (Marvel a bonus lol), so that'll be switched out for Disney+, and it's hardly a loss (Black Sails, Last Ship, Stargate and a bunch of moderate Aussie series, plus I think they'll take a hit from BritBox too).

**H.B.M.C.**

Galef wrote:
IMO, it's very smart of Disney to release episodes in the traditional week-to-week manor. I got Netflix for like a month, binge watched Stranger Things and Dark Crystal and was done. Canceled my subscription afterward (though mainly because Disney+ is coming). I'll sign up again next year for there new season, then cancel

Disney+, however seems to have a strategy to keep people paying every month

I wouldn't say it's about people paying every month. They're banking on people taking the (stupidly discounted) yearly subscriptions anyway.

Week-to-week releases keep people talking. After the release of a Stranger Things season are people still talking about it a fortnight later? Compare that to something like Game of Thrones, where the buzz could last up to 10+ weeks at a time.

Disney's doing traditional releases because they want people talking about their new service over months of time, not a few weeks of time.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I’m probably gonna sign up for the year. Saving is nice, and ‘just getting it out of the way’ is also nice.

Is anyone else looking forward to the Kurt Russell College films too?

**Yodhrin**

Voss wrote:
Galef wrote:
IMO, it's very smart of Disney to release episodes in the traditional week-to-week manor. I got Netflix for like a month, binge watched Stranger Things and Dark Crystal and was done. Canceled my subscription afterward (though mainly because Disney+ is coming). I'll sign up again next year for there new season, then cancel

Disney+, however seems to have a strategy to keep people paying every month

-

Nothing really stops anyone from waiting, going on a binge, and repeating.

You don't get there 'first' but... whatever.

Or, you know, watching it weekly as released and paying Disney nothing at all.

Episodic TV as a sales strategy stopped making sense when most people's home internet became capable of downloading a show in a fraction of the time it takes to watch it.

**reds8n**

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/11/12/disney-has-chance-to-fix-star-wars-han-greedo-scene-for-disney-makes-it-worse-instead/

The technical difficulties plaguing the launch day of Disney’s new Disney+ streaming service aren’t the biggest controversy of the day, and neither is the fact that the service does not feature the original Muppet Babies cartoon (even though that should be all people are talking about). Instead, the biggest and probably strangest decision Disney made for the service was to once again edit the Star Wars scene between Han Solo and bounty hunter Greedo at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

In the original cut of the film, Han clearly fires his blaster first at Greedo, killing him before Greedo can get off a single shot. In George Lucas’s 1997 Special Edition version, which features many questionable changes and additions to the Star Wars films, Greedo fires at Han first, with Han CGIed to dodge the shot before firing back at Greedo and killing him. This was changed for the film’s 2004 DVD release to show both characters firing at roughly the same time, and though this one is thematically superior to Greedo shooting first, it may be the jankiest-looking of all the edits. The scene was further altered for the Blu-Ray release in 2011, though both characters still fire at the same time.

The changes have been widely decried by fandom because, unlike arbitrarily adding in unnecessary CGI objects as most of the other edits consisted of, this one fundamentally changes Han’s character from morally ambiguous to heroic. The “Han Shot First” meme is one of the most well-known in Star Wars fandom and pop culture in general. Every time a new version of the film is released, it’s an opportunity to set things back to the way they originally were and the way fans seem to prefer it, and another opportunity was presented with Disney+’s version of the film. Alas, it’s an opportunity Disney failed to capitalize on, though they couldn’t resist putting their own touch on the scene.

In the new version, Han and Greedo still shoot at the same time, but this time, for some reason, we @#$% you not, Greedo appears to shout “Maclunkey!” while doing it. No, seriously.

see : https://twitter.com/ericfell/status/1194180485129199619

Why? And also, why? And furthermore, @#$%ing why? We may never know, just as we may never know what exactly “Maclunkey” means in Rodian since no subtitles are included for this exclamation. Our best guess is that the phrase translates roughly to “Disney, you had the chance to fix this bizarre mistake that’s been plaguing Star Wars for decades, but instead you chose to make it worse by adding an unnecessary line of dialog that opens the edit up to even more ridicule. For shame, for shame. To make matters worse, you did not include Muppet Babies in the Disney+ streaming lineup, even though you own Fox now so there should be no issues with all those scenes from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Truly, this is a missed opportunity that you should attempt to rectify at your earliest convenience.” It does sound more elegant in the native tongue though.

Disney+ is available now if their servers are working for you, but personally, we’re not signing up until they add Muppet Babies to the lineup.

what. a. time.to.be.alive.

**LunarSol**

And I thought I needed popcorn to watch all the movies....

**Lance845**

Lmao. Thats great.

I am enjoying disney + and i am still waiting for a blu ray with the theatrical cuts of 4 5 and 6 before i buy any of them.