Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[Lensherr]

Off topic.

I know I keep sperging about the idea of Marvel no longer being associated with Disney. But I want to know if this is a good idea or not. Would Marvel be better off without Disney? Like in Disney selling Marvel, who gets Marvel Studios back, off or Marvel getting Marvel Studios back and later spinning off from Disney
And the more important question, how would Bob honestly react to that idea? I think he would be pissy about it and say it’s the end of cinema and Disney.

Anyone want to put their two cents on this?

First of all, that’s not gonna happen in a million years unless Disney goes bankrupt (which probably will never happen).

Secondly, if it did, I doubt it would make Blob less of a Marvel sperg.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

First of all, that’s not gonna happen in a million years unless Disney goes bankrupt (which probably will never happen).

Secondly, if it did, I doubt it would make Blob less of a Marvel sperg.

I don't know about that. People thought Miramax was going to stay at Disney forever even after Harvey Weinstein left, but look how that turned out.

The only way I see this happening is if Bob Iger gets replaced by someone who doesn't see Marvel being a useful asset to Disney and wants them to break apart from them. A change in CEOs always leads to change of directions for a company.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

Here is an interesting fact that Bob likely overlooked: that was not an actual Toys R Us location. That is a photograph from the Dixie Square Mall (which is an interesting tale of urban decay in itself), which John Landis used as a location for filming the mall chase from The Blue Brothers and the Toys R Us was a facade. As for Dixie Square itself, the city of Harvey, Illinois left it to rot for over thirty years until they finally demolished the structure in 2012.

EDIT: Found a clip of the chase. For a cinephile, Bob knows jack shit about movies everything.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Holy crap, Bob's so melodramatic.
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Also, some jokes write themselves.
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He's actually
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Juxtapose that with this.

Superior intellectual indeed.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Bob sure sleeps and goes to the doctor a lot...

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Bob sure sleeps and goes to the doctor a lot...

Good. LEt nature take its course.
As for Toys R Us closing, wasn't that known since last year? I just don't get how someone can be this melodramatic about it. On one hand, I understand feeling some emotional attachement to a certain location. But this level of melodrama is ridiculous. It is a Toy Store. If you are a toy collector, of course it is inconvenient that it closed down, but otherwise?
Someone should just tell him that Toys R Us was shutting down, to make way for the superior future.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Good. LEt nature take its course.
As for Toys R Us closing, wasn't that known since last year? I just don't get how someone can be this melodramatic about it. On one hand, I understand feeling some emotional attachement to a certain location. But this level of melodrama is ridiculous. It is a Toy Store. If you are a toy collector, of course it is inconvenient that it closed down, but otherwise?
Someone should just tell him that Toys R Us was shutting down, to make way for the superior future.

Besides, aren't other stores like Wal Mart and Target that sell toys and a outperforming Toys R Us, thus a reason to why they went bankrupt?

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Besides, aren't other stores like Wal Mart and Target that sell toys and a outperforming Toys R Us, thus a reason to why they went bankrupt?

I can't really say, cause I am in one of the few countries were there are supposedly some toys r us still left. So none UK and US. All I can say is that there are still many alternatives to get some toy if you are for some reason still playing with some. Like lets face it: nowadays if you want an action figure, you go to freaking GameStop. And perhaps they will also have videogames there.

Also, how autistic were these Toys R Us kids in america?

 

[Pokemonquistador]

Bob is the only person I know who'd suffer an existential crisis after seeing a dead mall. You can't advocate for a superior "increased efficiency" future and expect your childhood world to remain forever, Bob. (Just think about how many Chinese peasant workers each generic Big Box Retailer with a toy section is supporting! And the vast majority of those Toy R Us workers who have to look for new jobs, - I bet they were mediocre white people! ) Bob should be crowing about this winning scenario, but because it just happens to hit him in the nostalgia feels, suddenly it's a bad thing that must be lamented over.

And wouldn't it just be a terrible thing if Bob had a heart attack while walking though a decaying mall which closed soon afterwards, and Bob's spirit was forced to haunt it until the day years later when it was liquidated and torn down?

 

[UglyOldJafar]

And wouldn't it just be a terrible thing if Bob had a heart attack while walking though a decaying mall which closed soon afterwards, and Bob's spirit was forced to haunt it until the day years later when it was liquidated and torn down?

Stop. I can only get so gleeful

 

[RockVolnutt]

Bob is the only person I know who'd suffer an existential crisis after seeing a dead mall. You can't advocate for a superior "increased efficiency" future and expect your childhood world to remain forever, Bob. (Just think about how many Chinese peasant workers each generic Big Box Retailer with a toy section is supporting! And the vast majority of those Toy R Us workers who have to look for new jobs, - I bet they were mediocre white people! ) Bob should be crowing about this winning scenario, but because it just happens to hit him in the nostalgia feels, suddenly it's a bad thing that must be lamented over.

I get the feeling that Bob sees corporations as "people" more than actual people.

 

[LordofCringe7206]

Stop. I can only get so gleeful

I would never wish harm on another person, but Bob is such a vile, mean-spirited and downright evil person that he isn't worthy of receiving empathy. I don't want to enter a-logging territory, but he really deserves nothing but suffering and misery in his life. He's just that unlikable and horrible of a human being.

 

[Gordon Cole]

Don't subscribe to these channels. They cover dead/abandoned stores, and their continued existence gives Bob the prickly wicklies.

 

[RockVolnutt]

 

[A Random]

Shiver Star 3 must terrify him. Just imagine, traipsing through an abandoned space mall.

And what about Dead Rising? A game where the mall was invaded by zombies and is going to be blown up. With zombies being already representative of consumerist obsessions, clearly this is more horrible than his father's death.

 

[NQ 952]

I'm having a hard time imagining just how much of an inhumane bastard you have to be to see an abandoned Toys R Us as "more dead" than your own fathers corpse.

 

[A Random]

Can someone look at what we know of his dealing with his father's funeral? I mean, we joke that he went buying another air conditioner, but what did he really do at the time?

 

[RockVolnutt]

Can someone explain what he's talking about at this point?

Someone who mocks you for being a consumerist zombie has nothing to do with that. It's mocking you thinking the Last Jedi and Black Panther will change society forever. It's about you thinking a mega-corp's first priority is society rather than profits and acting superior for buying plastic crap probably made in a sweat shop. Demanding nostalgic IPs be made into modern day minstrel shows and buying Funko Pops is in no way activism. Even if it was, that's no excuse for your uncalled for sense of superiority when we're talking about giant brands like that.

Can someone look at what we know of his dealing with his father's funeral? I mean, we joke that he went buying another air conditioner, but what did he really do at the time?

Talk about how hot Nazi Supergirl is and sperg on Twitter all day. He insulted people who said he didn't care but posting 24/7 kinda implies the rest of the family was actually dealing with it while he was getting erections and sperging about the Superior Future.

 

[Red Hood]

Toys R Us' slogan was "I don't wanna grow up" or something like that.

Seems relevant to a man child that lives in a literal basement with his man child toys.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Toys R Us' slogan was "I don't wanna grow up" or something like that.

Seems relevant to a man child that lives in a literal basement with his man child toys.

When growing up involves letting go of the past, something Bob is incapable of.

I get the feeling that Bob sees corporations as "people" more than actual people.

Only to corporations he likes though, mostly Disney and Nintendo.