Disney unloads a barrage of tween-centric consumer electronics

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Aug 13th 2007 at 6:26PM

Worried your kids haven't been completely indoctrinated with the Disney universe and its philosophy of watch, buy, and buy? Well fear not, parents, because the cartoon-kingpin has got your back (and your pocketbook). If your tweens have been looking for something to do, and playing stickball just ain't cuttin' the mustard, maybe they need the $99.99 Disney Flix Video Camera (pictured), a tween-targeted digital video camera that comes bundled with Disney Director software, which lets the little rapscallions star in their own Disney movies. The company is also offering LCD TVs, such as the $299.99, 15-inch High School Musical model, which resembles a locker and sports 1024 x 768 resolution (the displays also come in Disney Princess, Hannah Montana, and Pirates of the Caribbean motifs). Additionally, the cartoon-factory is offering docks for use with your iPod, selling for $69.99, which feature alarm clocks and AM/FM tuners, though the Hannah Montana version does double duty as a guitar amp -- presumably to use with your Disney guitar. All the products will be available sometime this Fall, but good luck getting your kids to wait patiently.

[Via StockHouse]

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio

Tags: disney, disney princess, DisneyPrincess, flix video camer, FlixVideoCamer, hannah montana, HannahMontana, high school musical, HighSchoolMusical, ipod dock, IpodDock, lcd tvs, LcdTvs, pirates of the caribbean, PiratesOfTheCaribbean

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Johan S @ Aug 13th 2007 6:48PM

A good move for disney from a financial standpoint.

But I fear wacky kid productions flooding youtube.

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Revrant2394 @ Aug 13th 2007 7:24PM

It hasn't already?

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good PR @ Aug 13th 2007 11:32PM

I just threw up a little in my mouth

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Eric @ Aug 13th 2007 11:45PM

And they introduce the seed of their own destruction.

In 10 years, all those tween kids will have been making bad movies for 9.5 years and they will learn to get good. Suddenly you'll see a lot of very good production from plenty of new young directors who will have no interest in distribution deals with Disney. All that video, some good, some not so much, but it will still make the Disney owned catalog irrelevant, at which point they will disappear. Years later, some major filmmaker will be interviewed and they will talk about this funny little video camera his parents bought him when he was in middle school.

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