My real thoughts on Disney buying 20th Century Fox

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Hey guys, GfourtxtheYoutubeGuy here. Remember when I did a rant on Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox? I got rid of that. Why? Because I wanna tell you what I REALLY think. Yes, I know I should've done this earlier, but I wanted to get my thoughts out of the way. One Day that 21st century fox is going to be defunct next year in 2019.

Now, I will say that I may be a little bit disappointed that Disney is buying 20th Century Fox, mostly because I can't stand the fact that Disney is always buying everything. However, there is something interesting about Disney buying 20th Century Fox. I have a feeling that this is gonna make Disney a lot more adult than ever. Well, aside from Lucasfilm and Marvel.

Allow me to explain the brief history of Disney's 20th Century Fox acquisition. It all began in the late 1990s, when Saban Entertainment was sold to News Corporation.

No! not THAT News Corp! The OTHER News Corp!

Ah.... THERE we go.

The studio Saban Entertainment later became a wholly owned division of the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, as it led to Fox Kids importing several MORE shows from different countries. Mostly, France. The three French cartoons that aired on Fox Kids in the late 1990s, that are NOT Carmen Sandiego are made by Gaumont Multimédia, which would later be renamed "Xilam", my favorite French animation studio.

These shows consist of Space Goofs, the Magician, and the ever so popular Oggy and the Cockroaches.

My favorite one of these shows is Space Goofs, because the show combines the humor of old Warner Bros. cartoons, INCLUDING Tom Ruegger's cartoons with Ren & Stimpy and the Simpsons.

Too bad PhantomStrider hates this AND Oggy and the Cockroaches. Then again, that WAS his opinion.

Anyways, in 1997, Fox Kids Worldwide acquired the rights to International Family Entertainment, which changed the Family Channel

into the FOX Family Channel. Did the channel do any good? Well....... no.

We now go into the BIGGEST reason why Disney bought Fox Kids in the first place:

The Fox Family Channel suffered a 35% audience decline. It's obvious, I know, but still. This decline was mostly caused by the shows that air on their channel. Weird-Ohs, Donkey Kong Country, Three Friends and Jerry, It's Itsy Bitsy Time!, Mega Babies, and THE most infamous of all.....

Yes, Angela Anaconda. In case you don't know, THIS was the show that DESTROYED Fox Kids' reputation in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As Disney wanted to get rid of the show, despite it sharing the same creator as Pepper Ann (which also was not very good), Disney in 2001, bought Fox Kids Worldwide from 20th Century Fox. This results in changing the name to ABC Family (now Freeform, since 2016). even Kablam releases in 1996 thru 2000.

But I'm sure where people remember Disney's acquisition of Fox coming from. Yeah, the Simpsons predicted it in 1998.

As a result, in 2002, Fox Kids moved to ABC Family as an action block, and it later became Jetix. It was all well and good until 2009, when Jetix and Toon Disney merged into Disney XD. I personally liked them better when they were separate. Yeah, I miss both Toon Disney and Jetix. Now, there is a reason why Disney gave up SOME Saban shows like Power Rangers and Digimon. Disney lost faith in both. Looking back on both shows now, I can see why. They weren't very good looking back on them. But it is quite possible that Space Goofs, the Magician, and Oggy and the Cockroaches are still owned by Disney through their Fox Kids library.

However, years later, Disney realized that Fox Kids wasn't enough to complete their acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Now, they want the GRAND majority of 21st Century Fox.

Originally, I was freaked out by that fact, until I learned WHY. Some say it's because of their streaming service, which may be true. It could also be because of Rupert Murdoch wanting to retire. But I believe the BIGGEST reason, other than being more adult, is because of Pandora: the World of Avatar at Walt Disney World. Because of that, Disney decided to buy 20th Century Fox in its entirety.
 * 20th Century Fox
 * 20th Century Fox Television
 * Fox 21 Television Studios
 * 20th Television
 * 20th Century Fox Animation
 * 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
 * Fox Searchlight Pictures
 * Fox 2000 Pictures
 * Fox Studios Australia
 * Zero Day Fox
 * Fox Music
 * Blue Sky Studios
 * Boom! Studios (minority stake)
 * Regency Enterprises (20%)
 * Fox Networks Group
 * FX Networks
 * FX
 * FXX
 * FXM
 * FXNOW (app)
 * FX (Canada) (33.36%)
 * FXX (Canada) (33.36%)
 * FX Productions
 * Fox Networks Group International
 * Fox Life
 * BabyTV
 * Fox Networks Group Europe
 * Fox Networks Group Portugal
 * Fox Networks Group Benelux
 * Fox Networks Group Latin America
 * LAPTV
 * Rede Telecine (Brazil) (20%)
 * Fox Networks Group Asia
 * Fox Filipino
 * FoxNext
 * FoxNext Destinations
 * 20th Century Fox World (Malaysia)
 * 20th Century Fox World (Dubai)
 * FoxNext Games
 * FoxNext VR Studio
 * National Geographic Partners (73%)
 * National Geographic Channels
 * Star TV
 * Star India
 * Tata Sky (30%)
 * Sky plc (39.14%)
 * Sky News (100%)
 * Hulu (United States) (30% – Disney currently owns 30%; after the merger, Disney will own 60%)
 * Endemol Shine Group (50%)
 * TrueX

Assets to be spun-off to "New Fox"
Fox's broadcast, news and most of its sports businesses will not be included in the deal and will be spun off into a new independent company to be owned by current 21st Century Fox shareholders (tentatively known as "New Fox"). They include:

This is due to anti-trust laws, as it was considered illegal for Disney to own both ABC News and Fox News, as well as both the Fox Network and ABC. But I do have a feeling that New Fox isn't going to last very long, and all of New Fox's assets will shut down (at least we won't worry about Fox News years later, hopefully).
 * Fox Broadcasting Company
 * Fox Television Stations Group
 * Fox Television Stations Productions
 * MyNetworkTV
 * Movies! (50%)
 * Fox Digital Media
 * Fox News Group
 * Fox News Channel
 * Fox Business Network
 * Fox News Radio
 * Fox Nation
 * Fox Sports Media Group
 * Fox Sports 1
 * Fox Sports 2
 * Fox Deportes
 * Big Ten Network (51%)
 * Fox Soccer Plus
 * Fox College Sports
 * Fox Sports International
 * Fox Sports Digital Media
 * FoxSports.com
 * Fox Sports Go
 * The 20th Century Fox studio lot (although it will be leased by Disney)

Disney still owns a lot of the shows from the Fox Kids library, such as Bobby's World, the 1994 Tick animated series, Eek Stravaganza!, and of course Space Goofs, they just disown SOME of their shows. But now Disney owns more Fox stuff than just Fox Kids. Now they own 100% of Star Wars, as well as Marvel movies, like X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four. As for animation, Disney now owns animated movies such as Ralph Bakshi's Wizards and Fire and Ice, as well as Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs, Don Bluth movies, such as Anastasia and Titan A.E. (Titan After Earth), as people are now freaking out over the fact that Anastasia will FOR REAL become a Disney princess, and even the Book of Life. Also, Disney owns Blue Sky Studios, but I'm not sure if Disney will own Blue Sky for long. Maybe Disney COULD sell just Blue Sky Studios to Warner Bros., since Warner Bros. owns the Peanuts franchise, and Disney already has Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar.

As for the TV shows, I already mentioned examples of Fox Kids shows Disney still owns, but now they own all the adult animated shows from 20th Century Fox, such as any Seth MacFarlane cartoon, Mike Judge's King of the Hill, Archer, Bob's Burgers, and even Matt Groening cartoons such as the Simpsons and Futurama. My theory is that Disney could revive Animation Domination (block) and move all of Fox's prime-time animated shows, that are still running, to ABC.

Well, at least Disney isn't buying Fox News. While I may be still disappointed that Disney buys Fox, I realized that this could make Disney more adult. This explains the re-merger between CBS and Viacom. Also, I realized that Disney has done WORSE things than buying Lucasfilm, Marvel, and 20th Century Fox. Remember the day Disney bought DiC Entertainment? Or when Disney bought Baby Einstein? Those were worse!!! Thankfully, Disney doesn't have to buy those two companies anymore. Kids II inc already owns Baby Einstein (since 2013), and DiC isn't even active anymore, as it was bought out by Cookie Jar Entertainment, itself folded into DHX Media. Yes, Disney may not buy Sesame Workshop OR Saban Capital Group, but I still wish they also bought the Jim Henson Company. AS LONG as they do NOT buy HiT Entertainment, I'm okay with Disney buying 20th Century Fox. Yeah, looking back on Sesame Street now, it actually sucks. So, if they do not buy Sesame Workshop OR Saban Capital Group OR even HiT Entertainment, I'm okay with Disney buying 20th Century Fox, but I think the next thing Disney MIGHT buy after 20th Century Fox is the Jim Henson Company (well, that's probably my theory).

Remember when I said Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox should lead to Disney launching the channel XYZ as an experimental adult cable network? Well, it's time. Since Disney is now owning Fox, it is the time for Disney to launch XYZ as an experimental cable network for adult audiences. Also, my other theory is that, after buying 20th Century Fox, Disney won't allow any NON-Disney networks, such as Comedy Central, TBS, and [adult swim], to air anymore Fox animated shows, as reruns and syndicated airings will move to FXX. Years later, they'll even air on XYZ.

I'm sorry if I sounded hypocritical, I know you're all gonna think I'm a hypocrite when I said I don't want Disney to buy Fox, yet later WANTED them to buy Fox, but my days of me preventing Disney from buying Fox are dead permanently. I just had to accept the fact. But there is still ONE thing I didn't want Fox bought by: Comcast. Yeah, if Universal owned ALL of 20th Century Fox, then that would've made Fox's reputation worse, meaning that Disney won't be able to keep the spirit of [adult swim] alive.

In my opinion, I have a theory that New Fox's Fox News Channel will close down in 2021, and replaced by Disney's XYZ network. Well, let's just be glad this will kill the reputation of Fox News, honestly. So, if Disney wanted to buy 20th Century Fox, then nowadays, that's okay with me.

That's all I have to say about Disney buying 20th Century Fox nowadays. What are YOUR current thoughts? Let me know in the comments down below. This is me, GfourtxtheYoutubeGuy, and I'll see you guys next time. Good bye.