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by **LOLtron** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:23 am

Potential PR Disaster as Marvel Superheroes Take Over Disney's Club Penguin

Disney invites creepy, aging comic book geeks to play online games with young children.

Disney, what are you thinking?! Club Penguin is touted by Disney as a fun and safe environment for children to interact online. The service allows kids to create Penguin characters in a virtual world and interact and play games and stuff. Safety is one of the prime directives of the service, providing a place where parents can be sure that their children are interacting with other children, and not, you know, sexual predators. So we are wondering if Disney has really thought this through, as comic book fandom is nothing if not a breeding ground for sexual predators. I mean, have you seen some of the threads on this very forum, where grown men regularly oogle drawings of cartoon teenagers? Couple that with the fact that comic book fans will engage in any activity, no matter how inappropriate, if you slap some superhero branding on it. Yeah, this isn't going to end well.

The Marvel superhero takeover of Club Penguin starts June 14th.

Source: Club Penguin
Written or Contributed by: Jude Terror

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/entertainment-news/19799-potential-pr-disaster-as-marvel-superheroes-take-over-disneys-club-penguin.html/

by **Chesscub** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:29 am

I love that we're blaming DC for Marvel's actions. :lol:

by **Lord Ice** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:37 am

I wouldn't imagine it being any more dangerous than Monkey Quest or Petpet Park. I play those and never see anything bad. :smt102

by **Chesscub** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:39 am

Lord Ice wrote:I wouldn't imagine it being any more dangerous than Monkey Quest or Petpet Park. I play those and never see anything bad.

If you're not seeing any perverts, you are the pervert.

by **Stephen Day** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:18 pm

Jude, you're trying WAY to hard with this one.

by **DMM** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:21 pm

Penguins are hooligans.

by **e_galston** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:31 pm

you realize they've been doing this for the last like 2 years with Super Hero Squad online right?? and City of Heroes, and WoW and pretty much any other MMORPG

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:40 pm

Sitebreaker wrote:you realize they've been doing this for the last like 2 years with Super Hero Squad online right?? and City of Heroes, and WoW and pretty much any other MMORPG

And the children are the ones who suffer.