MsGeek's Journal: It's official: Disney sucks...

Remember this article from my journal? Anyway, if you don't want to click the link, the executive summary of the article is that this Summer, Michael Eisner basically made the decision to close down Disney's traditional drawn animation studio in favor of a new emphasis on 3D.

Well, the chickens are coming home to roost for Eisner. The last Disney relative on the board of The Walt Disney Company, Walt's nephew Roy, has told Eisner to take his job and shove it. Here's the article from the LA Times (free but invasive registration required, sorry...) which includes a text version of Roy Disney's FOAD message, and here's the Smoking Gun-stylee scan of the actual letter.

Interestingly enough, Eisner's decision to kill its traditional animation unit is not cited in Disney's resignation letter, very surprising considering that his main duties in the company were supervising the Feature Animation unit. He cites lots of problems that refugees from the sinking Disney ship have cited in the past: Eisner's penchant to micromanage, the corners that were cut when building Disney's California Adventure and Hong Kong Disneyland, and many others.

What's going to happen next? Who knows. The Walt Disney Company is not the company it was when Eisner took it over in 1984. It is bled dry, a shriveled husk of its former self. Perhaps it's time for some healthy company to buy the company and end the farce. Paging Bandai?