Veg
Randall's Friend (800-1999)
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Post by Veg on Aug 6, 2005 22:49:32 GMT -5
I read a very mean story today at Media Play. The book was called "365 Disney bedtime stories" or something like that, and I was flipping the pages searching for stories of Randall, and I found one, but it was so mean! The story starts when a Scare assistant was going to tear up a kid's door because the kid wasn't scared of the monster anymore. So Randall, who is jealous of Mike and Sulley, grabs Mike's paperwork and throws it in the shredder. But a week later, Mike gets his revenge. George Sanderson unknowingly had another kid sock on his back and so the C.D.A came to get rid of the sock. Mike then grabs the paperwork belonging to Randall and Fungus, and told the C.D.A that it was also toxic, so they burned the paperwork up! I was so mad, I wanted to find a ball that looked like Mike and kick it around!
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Post by pitbulllady on Aug 7, 2005 2:21:51 GMT -5
I saw that same book at one of my former school's book fairs. One of my students actually found it and pointed it out to me, and this kid was as angry as I was, since most of my students, being minority kids, sympathize with Randall. Everyone knows that Mike never even DOES his paperwork, so how CAN Randall shred it?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Aug 7, 2005 12:36:47 GMT -5
"You know personally I wouldn't mind doing that and Wazowski would NEVER even THINK of getting back me.....but in case....pitbullladys right....like Wazowski even starts it at all....would just be a waste of my time"
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Post by lizardgirl on Aug 8, 2005 6:15:27 GMT -5
Well, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. What a load of utter rubbish.
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Veg
Randall's Friend (800-1999)
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Post by Veg on Aug 8, 2005 10:12:52 GMT -5
I know. Who wrote that story? We should fire a complaint letter to him or her!
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Beboots
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a plague in Equatorial Guinea that I have to attend.
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Post by Beboots on Aug 8, 2005 12:02:30 GMT -5
So the story not only out of character, it also doesn't make sense in regards to the actual MI movie. I'd ask how the heck it got into the book in the first place, but seeing the word "Disney" in the title already answers my question, doesn't it?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Aug 8, 2005 13:00:15 GMT -5
"Well mainly this was not part of the...err....Sean..."
Right. It was not part of the movie because they wanted to keep what was in it...well...not really "secret"...but not spoil anything. They wanted to get the characters down for those who were interested and they really thought they could go with a comic of M.I.
....Of course....ahem....I'm the one who continued the work ahem...
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ScrewyOldDame
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The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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Post by ScrewyOldDame on Aug 8, 2005 18:12:22 GMT -5
You wouldn't want to make us angry! Humph. I hate it when people writing for Disney merchandising and Jr. Novels etc etc don't put in the slightest effort into putting substance or correct information into their books. If I had the honour of writing for such a large industry, with a good chance of getting hired again, and with a fun plot, I certainly wouldn't write it at 10:30 pm the day before the deadline. Hmph.
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Post by pitbulllady on Aug 8, 2005 20:29:28 GMT -5
All of the Disney storybooks nowadays are written my Katherine Hapka, who also wrote the "Monsters, Inc." storybook. Just how much "artistic license" she has, and how much she is told to write by Disney, I don't know. The only "pro-Randall" book I've seen is that little joke book inside my Randall tagalong, and it was published in Great Britain and written by Annie Auerbach.
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Post by lizardgirl on Aug 9, 2005 8:05:34 GMT -5
*shakes head* Bet this Katherine Hapka hasn't even watched the movie properly.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Aug 9, 2005 10:49:52 GMT -5
Well....you can't always believe what's in a book...the again some things may be true.
Not that this story is true of course...
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Post by Ranger Parsec on Aug 9, 2005 16:40:29 GMT -5
I've seen that book also and it's immensely appalling. You wanna whack that writer over the head, y'know? I mean, just get out there and see the movie you're writing about before you start putting those characters into your own "steriotypical boxes", publishing it, and calling it a day. Talk about brainwashing a bunch of impressionable youngsters.
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ScrewyOldDame
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The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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Post by ScrewyOldDame on Aug 9, 2005 21:43:43 GMT -5
I know! Just because you're writing a spinnoff book doesn't mean it can't have substance.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Aug 10, 2005 11:19:16 GMT -5
Well.... There WAS an adventure comic that DID put Randall in a good light. He wasn't scowling....more of a bit of a trouble-maker-proven type. It was about Sullivan and Wazowski losing a can of "Monster-Cola" in a child's room....and...well...they needed to get it back. Sounds stupid right? But believe me...it's not...even if it is those two... It was one of those that made you switch between pages with a choice of door. Randall came in either "coming upon" the missing can, being bothered by the two (Randall surprises them naturally ^_^), or seemingly "holding" the can throughout the whole thing. Well eventually the two get introuble and Randall seems to get a semi-good rap from it.
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Veg
Randall's Friend (800-1999)
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Post by Veg on Aug 10, 2005 11:49:22 GMT -5
Hmm, sounds a lot better than that story I read. What's it called?
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