In my mind Disney kind of stole Winnie the Pooh and made it into a comercial product of their own.
Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956) born in Scotland, but raised in London is the author of the story.
I am absolutely appalled that you think so lowly of me Edna. Mother Teresa would be jealous of my kind and caring, nurturing board etiquette. Now excuse me while I watch tele!
And I don't believe that anyone within the Disney corporation would have it any other way. Disney are very respectful of the origins of that "silly old bear" and his friends.
How many do actually know that Winnie the pooh is not an original Disney character? I have never seen any thing about
A A Milne on the Winnie The Pooh products.
That isn't quite true. The original designs for Pooh Bear were not by Disney. Disney's version is the one with the Red jerkin and the pink bodysuited Piglet.
The earlier, original, Pooh Bear and friends were illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1879 - 1976) between 1924 & 1928.
Anyhow, the real Winnie was actually and American Black Bear that resided at the London Zoo in Regents park from 1914 - 1934.
How do you figure that? Transformers are still being produced as Toys (Beast Machines), and as cartoons. A new Transformers graphic novel is being released next months (Actually a rehash of an old comic story)
Also, Classic Transformers are set for a re-release this Christmas.
Hasbro are soon to launch a brand new Transformers website as well.
Part of the transformation process for Soundwave, Megatron, Blaster and a number of others was to shrink their size, using a complicated mass compression algorithm. It's quite simple really...