Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/24/baby-yoda-has-finally-jumped-t.html
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The only scenario where I’d like to see Disney go after “fans” for trademark infringement…
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Sad and disgusting. I have spoken.
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(Dropped as a baby)
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Anything to stop our troops from going around with skulls all over their gear in full-on “are-we-the-baddies” mode.
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Thanks for the link to the comic about militarization of police… very good stuff!
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The military has been putting Disney characters on their war machines for generations.
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Well, the franchise is called Star Wars.
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Yeah I’m not buying the “Yoda is a pacifist” claim now that the prequels have established he took an active leadership role in a war effort that bred and enslaved human beings for the sole purpose of using them as cannon fodder.
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I love it when Imperialism borrows from pop culture. Must be a new recruiting initiative.
Yeah, I feel like these guys really get it.
Nobody blinked when Disneyland opened a demilitarized zone full of space Nazis.
You know, for kids.
Why not take their messaging to it’s logical conclusion?
As a society we should reconsider sending children to fight and die for us.
Actually Disney put Disney characters on WWII equipment (not Walt himself).
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Our tank names back in the '90’s were fairly mundane. The first letter typically indicating which company in the battalion the tank belonged to ( so in Dco you would see names like Dopey, Droopy, Dingbat).
Sometime in the '00’s the culture turned a bit darker and associations with old warrior races (white of course) and crusader imagery crept in. So you started seeing names like Armageddon, Berserker, Destroyer. It wasnt a great time.
I view “Baby Yoda” as a welcome sign of a departure from the warrior cult.
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Both Disney and Warner Bros. made mascots FOR the military.
My grandma once gave me this silk screened print of Donald in a row boat with Pluto dressed as a GI with a Tokyo sign floating in the water. I thought it was just war time ephemera.
Later I noticed a p-156 on the rowboat. This was many years later and I now had the Internet. Did a search, and low and behold, the USS Aultman was AP-156, which was the boat my grandpa was on at one point. He was a career Coastie on a Navy ship. They were bringing equipment from the European theater to the Pacific one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_D._E.Aultman(AP-156)
And because the internet never forgets - a pic I took of it is still out there somewhere…
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M1A2 tank barrels are important disseminators of popular culture.
Its only by the efforts of these attuned American tankers that I learned about the “Cash Me Ouside” meme.
I think the only “infringement actions” will be by the initial M1A2 tanker crew going after a subsequent M1A2 tank crew when that second crew tries to make use of Baby Yoda.
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