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Disney Lion King Ripped Off From Kimba
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Was it a mere coincidence that Disney’s Lion King bear so much resemblance to Kimba The White Lion by Osamu Tezuka? Even the names ‘Simba’ and ‘Kimba’ comes so near. Disney’s line goes like this ‘Our people never heard of Kimba before The Lion King was released’. Animation buffs believe that Disney ripped off Kimba to create The Lion King. |
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Check out the 10 pics of similarities between the two and judge for yourself after the jump.
Source: KimbaWLion
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April 28th, 2007 at 4:04 am
I would be more impressed if you found a Disney movie that didn’t completely rip off some prior art. “Imagineers” indeed!
April 29th, 2007 at 4:04 am
This shocks you? Let me guess: you’re one of those people who think The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bambi, and Beaty and the Beast are all Disney’s too, right? Look ‘em up. All Disney does is alter art for children.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Old news. Disney ripped off Atlantis too from Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, without giving proper credit.
That said, Lion King is still one of the best animated movies ever, regardless of whether they ripped off Kimba or not.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
[…] mal ein Beweis, daß du in der Comic-Industrie nur mit RipOffs wirklich weit kommst: Kimba, der weisse Löwenkönig. Nur zur Referenz: Kimba war zuerst. Offizielle Aussage von Disney (siehe auch Text auf der Site): […]
April 30th, 2007 at 1:20 am
This is nothing new. This link/copy/ripoff was exposed back when the Lion King came out like a decade+ ago. There are also many sites on the web that discuss the stolen idea and material. I think it’s fairly common knowledge that Disney ripped it off. The shitty part is their continued denial of any of it. It just makes them look even worse. Disney has sucked big time for years now anyways.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:20 am
the issue is not that disney did not create the story. the problem lies with their artwork. they can present the story in a million ways but they chose to copy someone elses idea. and that is hypocritical of disney since they are very protective of their “artwork”.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Welcome to 1994
April 30th, 2007 at 8:23 am
[…] As if we didn’t already know that there are no original ideas, comes proof. […]
April 30th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Disney is notorious for ripping off others’ ideas and then vehemently defending their own copyrights.
Sad thing is that they have the lawyers and money to keep this up indefinitely.
May 9th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Big F’ing deal-io, Come on, I would be more concerned about my paycheck, then this crap.
I mean, seriously: Get a job, invent something to help mankind, But please, stop whining about if a kiddy’s movie is ripped of, from another kiddy’s movie, or not.
People, This kind of thinkin “Killed” people back in the 70’s, ya know!
May 17th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Um, come on people. I was one who didn’t know about this, and so I found this interesting. Stop complaining.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Ok, guys i’de hate to break up the pitty party, but these are all really old movies, I think its time that all of you who are still in battle about this,whatever side you’re on, you definetly need to get over it. I mean come on! you ‘ve been fighting about it since 1994 when lion king came out! Five the F***ing thing a rest!
June 25th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Okay, enough, yes disney rips off other peoples stuff. But you know what, Disney rocks! There old style of artwork is amazing, cause the stuff they do now isn’t nearly as good. But Classics are still classics and so Lion King isn’t a classic and it was ripped off, but you know what, I still consider it to be on of the best Disney movies! Stop fussing over it…..disney rocks ^^ I will always fight on their behalf
-Peraru Peach 18
August 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
You need to stop hating on Disney, who ever gather this info are just mad that they didn’t come up with the idea first, Disney, and Dreamworks are the best movie producers in the world, you all are just a bunch of whinning pansies that try to start trouble, and if you have something you’d like to say to me please hit me up on myspace.com, I’d love to prove you wrong. Oh and it’s kinda low to be talking about a dead guy like that. KMA
December 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
well wat i found interesting is disney’s attitude of vehemently opposing the copying of stuff wat it has already copied. Suddenly they seem to be just as good (or bad) as thepiratebay and aXXo… but only richer
February 18th, 2008 at 9:31 am
You know what? I don’t care if Lion King did rip off Kimba anyway. I mean, the Lion King rules! Just because some cheesy Japanese or whatever comic or show or whatever dosn’t mean that Lion King isn’t better. Who’s ever even really heard about Kimba anyway until they stumbled across this?
March 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ha! i knew it from the start lion king is a ripoff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
You are just being stupid
Lion king was made b4 Kimba btw
and they dont look anything alike.
lioon king is better
March 19th, 2008 at 4:35 am
ummmm Shanikaaaa… u r really dumb…. kimba was made WAYYYYYYY before lion king….. to be exact kimba was created in the 1960’s and lion king was made in 1994….. even the most retarded person would be able to figure that one out
April 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I didn’t hear about this before because I was born in 1993. This is very surprising; I always knew Disney was rubbish because they use the same story plots for everything, but this really did shock me.
Despite all of this, I do love Lion King, but it is disgusting that Disney ripped someone off to make it.
I like to write stories and draw manga comics (although they are just mess around things) but now I, aswell as others I’m sure, am a bit concerned about wether to ever release something we’ve worked hard on without Disney stealing it.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Well… it is quite cheeky that they did copy it but i am so glad that they made Lion King! I love Lion King and always watch it, to see this is shocking but i think we all know which one is the best…
I don’t mind that they copied it; Lion King’s art is brilliant and look at that. Singers can copy other peoples songs if they ask and you never know if they have asked, so i think it’s fine, well done Lion King!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:38 am
I love lion king and disney rocks!! they have beautiful animations and great songs and very emotional.lion king is sad and funny and have great characters
May 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Some of these people sound like the Chris Crocker guy, “LEAVE DISNEY ALONE!” You guys suck. How would you like it if you published a movie, I came along and watched it, copied almost everything about it, put my version of your work out, said it was MY IDEA, and made more money? On top of that, people told you to stop bitching cause my version was awsome and better than yours? You people need to suck my dack.