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Re: Disney stealing ideas again?
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Date: 
Fri, 18 May 2001 15:25:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Stembel writes:
Also, while the characters are stylistically different, they share
characteristics, such as the hero's large glasses (supposedly inspired by a
silent movie star's on-screen glasses, but those glasses were small with
thick rims) and the heroine's dark skin, fiery temper, and blue crystal
pendant, among others.  A couple of these could be coincidence, but all of
them?  I don't believe so.

  I don't know.  Recently we had the discussion of Larry Potter vs. Harry
Potter, and the general (though not absolute) consensus that the peculiar
overlaps were indeed coincidental, and they were much more specific than
dark-skin-blue-pendant.

     Dave!



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  Re: Disney stealing ideas again?
 
(...) I must've missed part of that thread then, because I thought it was stated that the similarities were just the names (HP being a main character and LP being a minor character) and two entirely different creatures having the same name. Also, (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Disney stealing ideas again?
 
(...) True, and I am not debating that the most *basic* part of the story, i.e. finding Atlantis (I forgot to mention that this wasn't one of the "stealing of ideas" I was talking about), is unique to these two shows, the execution, down to specific (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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