Disney Announces "Ultimate Band"

Stavren

This looks familiar.

Disney Interactive Studios has announced Ultimate Band, a new music-based game for the Nintendo Wii and DS that will let players live the life of an aspiring rock star from the family garage to the world's biggest venues.

The game will combine current hits with all-time classics from some of the biggest names in rock, pop, alternative, emo and the indie scene. The game makes use of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to give players control of guitars, bass, drums or vocals, and will feature unlockable songs, venues and accessories that can be used to customize characters. The DS version of the game will also have a built-in recording studio, letting players create their own original tracks with the DS stylus, and DGamer support for secure multiplayer action.

"Ultimate Band invites kids, tweens and teens to join in the jam session," said Craig Relyea, Disney Interactive's senior vice president of global marketing. "And whether they choose guitar, drums, bass or front man, members don't need to buy costly, single-function peripherals to play their way through Ultimate Band's deep song list, dynamic venues and customizable characters. The Wii Remote and DS stylus are the only tools they'll need to reach rock stardom in Ultimate Band."

David Hill of music consultants Radial Music, which worked with Disney on the project, added, "Radial worked closely with Disney to compile the perfect song list for Ultimate Band. With iconic songs from every decade since the 60s, these games feature music for everyone."

Ultimate Band for the Wii and DS is being developed by Fall Line Studio and is currently set for a Christmas 2008 release.

So basically they're removing half of the things that make it fun. And almost certainly replacing them with

Charles Kinbote

did they seriously use the word "tweens" in a press release

Javen

what the fuck is a tween

Javen

seriously is that a food

Abracadaniel

i think it's the poop things that are between your asshole and your balls

November6

Javen

so


not a food?

Sheri

Hey shut up

Munkus Beaver

Tween is 10-12.

Songs for everyone? Where's my Iron Maiden?

sarukun

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

did they seriously use the word "tweens" in a press release

Pretty much everything Disney does is aimed at tweens.

They invented them. That has been their target demographic since Walt Disney was frozen in carbonite.

Abracadaniel

not a food, Javen

Munkus Beaver

Sheri wrote: »

Hey shut up

Little ms works at disney company as a satanist

Goatmon

What the fuck. I love my Wii, but shit like this is why I need a fucking 360.

Fiz

sarukun wrote: »

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

did they seriously use the word "tweens" in a press release

Pretty much everything Disney does is aimed at tweens.

They invented them. That has been their target demographic since Walt Disney was frozen in carbonite.

Until they can find a way to control the monster dwelling within him...

This is where I'd hold up a picture of the Hulk with a Hitler mustache but this is the internet so you can just gis

November6

deep song list

Yes I'm gonna love hearing the Kids Bop 16 selection

Meissnerd

hurrr I'm Sheri I'm going to tell you why this travesty is a good idea

Abracadaniel

The director of a Norwegian museum claimed yesterday to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.

William Hakvaag, the director of a war museum in northern Norway, said he found the drawings hidden in a painting signed "A. Hitler" that he bought at an auction in Germany.

He found coloured cartoons of the characters Bashful and Doc from the 1937 Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which were signed A.H., and an unsigned sketch of Pinocchio as he appeared in the 1940 Disney film.

Hitler tried to make a living as an artist before his rise to power. While there was no independent confirmation yesterday that the drawings were the work of the Nazi leader, Hitler is known to have owned a copy of Snow White, the classic animated adaptation of a German fairy tale, and to have viewed it in his private cinema.

Mr Hakvaag, who said he had performed tests on the paintings which suggested that they dated from 1940, said: "I am 100 per cent sure that these are drawings by Hitler. If one wanted to make a forgery, one would never hide it in the back of a picture, where it might never be discovered."

The initials on the sketches, and the signature on the painting, matched other copies of Hitler's handwriting, he claimed.

"Hitler had a copy of Snow White," he said. "He thought this was one of the best movies ever made."

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Discoveries of Nazi-era memorabilia have repeatedly turned out to be mistaken or the result of a hoax. However, art attributed to Hitler continues to sell at auction, even if its provenance is far from complete.

Nineteen watercolours and two sketches said to be by Hitler were sold in Britain two years ago for a total of £118,000.

The auction firm Jefferys said the seller did everything possible to authenticate the works.

The pictures of cottages and rural scenes were found in a farmhouse in Belgium and were believed to have been painted while Hitler was a young soldier in the country during the First World War.

Sheri

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Hey shut up

Little ms works at disney company as a satanist

I don't work there anymore.

The Far Side

hitler drew disney fanart

this is the best thing ever

Lucky Cynic

November6 wrote: »

deep song list

Yes I'm gonna love hearing the Kids Bop 16 selection

Aw come on guys, it's going to have decent music.

Spoiler:

Who let the dogs out!:whistle:

Kazhiim

man I would love to own a Hitler piece

just hang it up on my wall

sarukun

Man, Doc's eyeballs are super fucked up.

Fiz

I'm an imagineer of sorts. Through marriage.

This is a great idea and you are all just bitter because you all felt so cool playing rock band even though you had no real musical talent and now little kids are going to learn about rhythm and when they are your age they might actually take up an instrument and make something of themselves.

Stavren

I expect them to use a Beach Boys song. But not late '60s Beach Boys.


Early '60s Beach Boys.

Raneados

fucking disney

sarukun

Fiz wrote: »

I'm an imagineer of sorts. Through marriage.

This is a great idea and you are all just bitter because you all felt so cool playing rock band even though you had no real musical talent and now little kids are going to learn about rhythm and when they are your age they might actually take up an instrument and make something of themselves.

I hope a bear assaults you with its penis.

The Far Side

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE DREW FANART?!

HITLER.

that's not even hyperbole anymore and i love it

Centipede Damascus

If they include songs from Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, I will have some soul searching to do.

Campion

That's pretty cute.
It doesn't look like he was a fan of drawing feet though.

Sheri

Always with the Hitler.

Munkus Beaver

Campion wrote: »

That's pretty cute.
It doesn't look like he was a fan of drawing feet though.

So, you're saying that Hitler was a Liefield prototype?

November6

Fiz wrote: »

I'm an imagineer of sorts. Through marriage.

This is a great idea and you are all just bitter because you all felt so cool playing rock band even though you had no real musical talent and now little kids are going to learn about rhythm and when they are your age they might actually take up an instrument and make something of themselves.

God I hope so I want to get thru this really REALLY shitty period in music to something that won't make me put my head in a blender. Anyway, white boys need to learn this shit at an early age to have a chance at getting that better booty.

Goatmon

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

If they include songs from Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, I will have some soul searching to do.

Hey! Clear the way in the old Bazaar
Hey you!
Let us through!
It's a bright new star!
Oh Come!
Be the first on your block to meet his eye!

Make way!
Here he comes!
Ring bells! Bang the drums!
Are you gonna love this guy!

Prince Ali! Fabulous he!
Ali Ababwa
Genuflect, show some respect
Down on one knee!
Now, try your best to stay calm
Brush up your sunday salaam
The come and meet his spectacular coterie

Lucky Cynic

Sheri wrote: »

Always with the Hitler.

Okay, I laughed too hard at this.

:^:

The Far Side

November6 wrote: »

Fiz wrote: »

I'm an imagineer of sorts. Through marriage.

This is a great idea and you are all just bitter because you all felt so cool playing rock band even though you had no real musical talent and now little kids are going to learn about rhythm and when they are your age they might actually take up an instrument and make something of themselves.

God I hope so I want to get thru this really REALLY shitty period in music to something that won't make me put my head in a blender. Anyway, white boys need to learn this shit at an early age to have a chance at getting that better booty.

Are you seriously saying there isn't any good new music

Sheri

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Always with the Hitler.

Okay, I laughed too hard at this.

:^:

:o

Campion

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

Campion wrote: »

That's pretty cute.
It doesn't look like he was a fan of drawing feet though.

So, you're saying that Hitler was a Liefield prototype?

1900 - Cloning research begins
1932 - Hitler is born from an egg
1967 - First successful cloned Hitler is created. Codenamed Liefeld-R.

The Far Side

Do you think Hitler's family had to stave off droves of time travellers attempting to kill him

November6

The Far Side wrote: »

November6 wrote: »

Fiz wrote: »

I'm an imagineer of sorts. Through marriage.

This is a great idea and you are all just bitter because you all felt so cool playing rock band even though you had no real musical talent and now little kids are going to learn about rhythm and when they are your age they might actually take up an instrument and make something of themselves.

God I hope so I want to get thru this really REALLY shitty period in music to something that won't make me put my head in a blender. Anyway, white boys need to learn this shit at an early age to have a chance at getting that better booty.

Are you seriously saying there isn't any good new music

Yes I am an old fart now and anything made past 2000 is shit.

Get off my lawn.

EDIT: Damn guess I won't like it if kids these days did get the rhythm.

Raneados

obviously time travel will never work because hitler was alive

Centipede Damascus

The Far Side wrote: »

Do you think Hitler's family had to stave off droves of time travellers attempting to kill him

Wasn't there a Twilight Zone episode about this?