New disney (arcade/video game themed) movie 'Wreck-it-Ralph'

[gavkiwi]

screen cap

looks pretty cool, some nice homages to 30+ year old video games 

e.g. Qbert, Pac-Man, Street Fighter

trailer link

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34196

[Hoopz]

Definitely taking the kids to see that.  Thanks for posting it!

 

[Well Fed Games]

I generally hate disney... but this looks great.... so confused...

it has Q bert in it.... Q bert in modern popular culture... brain hurts... so awesome...

[saint]

Woot!

[Vigo]

Word on the street (I don't know if this is confirmed) is that Disney will be making and releasing for sale an actual classic style arcade machine based using the game in the movie. Pretty much the same thing they did with the original Tron.

[Vigo]

Word on the street (I don't know if this is confirmed) is that Disney will be making and releasing for sale an actual classic style arcade machine based using the game in the movie. Pretty much the same thing they did with the original Tron.

That sounds like something you made up.

Nope. Found a linky.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/06/05/more-wreck-it-ralph-images-real-life-arcade-machine-tie-in-revealed/

Of course, there will video-game tie-ins with the film. "There better be," says Moore. "On top of a Wreck-It Ralph game, there will be an arcade version of Fix-It Felix, Jr. that will pop up around the country, including your favorite pizza parlor."

[drventure]

Awesome.

[DaveMMR]

Wow, the first Disney movie I actually want to go see (not counting Pixar or Tron). That looks pretty cool.

[Zero_Hour]

Wow, the first Disney movie I actually want to go see (not counting Pixar or Tron). That looks pretty cool.

It's probably because John Lasseter, the number one guy at Pixar, now runs the creative side of Disney Animation too.

[Malenko]

Zangief is bad guy?

[ChadTower]

I generally hate disney... but this looks great.... so confused...

it has Q bert in it.... Q bert in modern popular culture... brain hurts... so awesome...

Q Bert has to be one of the more popular games to reference in pop culture.  That pyramid, and a little orange dude swearing, pop up more often than almost anything not DK or Pac or Space Invaders.  I just saw a reference to Q Bert the other day on Phineas and Ferb.

[Vigo]

I gotta say, I am digging the obvious references in the Fix It Felix Arcade machine.

[gavkiwi]

The game is playable on the official website for the movie

certainly has that classic 80s 8bit arcade vibe 

[Howard_Casto]

Zangief is bad guy?

I'm out in the real world atm but popped in to make sure somebody mentioned this film.  It looks pretty interesting.  They've also got Kano and a few other MK characters in the movie as well as paperboy.  That's just who I saw in the trailer. 

Answereing your question, originally at least, Zagnief was a bad guy because his birthplace was the U.S.S.R.  And of course all Soviet Russians are bad guys.   

I think the Fix It cab is interesting.... looks like a Ms. Pacman body, but it's artwork is blatently Donkey Kong.  The "TobiKomi" name cracks me up as well.  It screams "make it something Japanese sounding!"

[Malenko]

I thought he was the bad guy because he was homosexual 


Tobikomi means jump in japanese, so I think they are referencing "jump man" aka Mario.  This can now be "the word on the street"

[opt2not]

OMG OMG OMG I want to see this so bad!

In fact, I wish I could have worked on this!!

For years now I've been tryin to come up with an animated short-film story incorporating arcade characters.
The premise for this is perfect!!

Darn, wish I knew Disney was working on this.

[wp34]

I generally hate disney... but this looks great.... so confused...

it has Q bert in it.... Q bert in modern popular culture... brain hurts... so awesome...

Q Bert has to be one of the more popular games to reference in pop culture.  That pyramid, and a little orange dude swearing, pop up more often than almost anything not DK or Pac or Space Invaders.  I just saw a reference to Q Bert the other day on Phineas and Ferb.

I used to think this but I'm restoring a Q*Bert and nearly every civilian I've talked to about it hasn't a clue who Q*Bert is.  Maybe the character himself is more recognizable than the name?

Either way I'm really looking forward to this movie.  Showed the trailer to my kids last night and even they are pumped.  This could be a good one for the whole family.

[lilshawn]

looks like Disney dug deep in their pockets to get some use of likeness licences for a buttload of game characters.

[Malenko]

I'm out in the real world atm but popped in to make sure somebody mentioned this film.  It looks pretty interesting.  They've also got Kano and a few other MK characters in the movie as well as paperboy.  That's just who I saw in the trailer. 

To start I like the rendering of a Pacman and a Galaga on each side of the Fit it Felix Jr. Cab.

Ok so *REALLY* paying attention to the trailer I see Horned Reaper, Smoke (or random generic black/grey ninja), Bowser, Zangief, Dr.Robotnik /Dr.Eggman, Bison, Pokey aka Clyde, Kano?( he has a robot arm and zig zags shaved in his head *shrug*), and a generic zombie.

The blue elf lady looks like a WoW character, I dunno the yellow robot, purple rhino,  or green alien (Shuma Gorath doesn thave that many eyeballs). I think thats the mad hatter from Alice. I didnt see paperboy but he listed on the imdb along with Kano

[smalltownguy]

Fix It Felix Jr is playable on Disney's website here:

http://disney.go.com/games/play3/?content=2006061#/games/play3/&content=2006061

Is there someone here that is smart enough to extract the flash game from the site and set it up so it could be a stand alone playable game?

I'd LOVE to build a reproduction cabinet based on the one from the movie and place it at our local movie theater this Nov for kids to play. It'd be cool. 

Can anyone do this?

[Howard_Casto]

I'm out in the real world atm but popped in to make sure somebody mentioned this film.  It looks pretty interesting.  They've also got Kano and a few other MK characters in the movie as well as paperboy.  That's just who I saw in the trailer. 

To start I like the rendering of a Pacman and a Galaga on each side of the Fit it Felix Jr. Cab.

Ok so *REALLY* paying attention to the trailer I see Horned Reaper, Smoke (or random generic black/grey ninja), Bowser, Zangief, Dr.Robotnik /Dr.Eggman, Bison, Pokey aka Clyde, Kano?( he has a robot arm and zig zags shaved in his head *shrug*), and a generic zombie.

The blue elf lady looks like a WoW character, I dunno the yellow robot, purple rhino,  or green alien (Shuma Gorath doesn thave that many eyeballs). I think thats the mad hatter from Alice. I didnt see paperboy but he listed on the imdb along with Kano

The generic zombie is actually a Zombie from HOTD.... note the blue skin and dual hatchets.  Yeah, that's Kano.  Not sure about Smoke though.  It wasn't in the clip, but rumor is at least two more MK characters will be in the game... most likely Scorpion and Shao Khan.  In one of the scenes where Ralph is walking you see something doing a backflip behind him.  Pause it and it's  (a very blurry) paperboy.  I think Disney got a lot of walk on characters with their "main" character package, similar to how they did on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.  If you see a game character from one company they most likey have access to that company's entire catalog for walk ons.  I *think* the robot is from ratchet and clank or one of those Sony games that I don't play.  Strangely enough there are purple rhino's in a ton of games.  It's a staple for Nintendo and Hudson Soft.    I've seen the green alien in another fighting game, but I can't put my finger on it.  I think your right, it's not Shuma. 

I think it's interesting that modern characters are not featured, but rather they are parodied.

[Howard_Casto]

Fix It Felix Jr is playable on Disney's website here:

http://disney.go.com/games/play3/?content=2006061#/games/play3/&content=2006061

Is there someone here that is smart enough to extract the flash game from the site and set it up so it could be a stand alone playable game?

I'd LOVE to build a reproduction cabinet based on the one from the movie and place it at our local movie theater this Nov for kids to play. It'd be cool. 

Can anyone do this?

I played this last night.  The first level makes you think it's another lame flahs game, but further on the game REALLY gets challenging.  It's actually pretty fun. 

After saving the html page to my computer, there is a .js file called "swfaddress"  I'm not real good at javascript, but I think that somebody that knew what they were doing could use that code to get the actual flash address.  Then it's just a matter of saving it locally, IF Disney's servers will let you do so. 

[wp34]

My son was pumped that Jane Lynch's character was Samus.  We checked IMDB and her character has a different name.  Sure seems like they are trying to evoke Samus though.  Good stuff.

[lilshawn]

here this screen cap has been fixed 

[Malenko]

Not sure about Smoke though.  It wasn't in the clip, but rumor is at least two more MK characters will be in the game... most likely Scorpion and Shao Khan.

The guy I was talkin about was in the clip:


The only game I can think of with yellow robots with buzz saw hands was Cyborg Justice, on the sega genesis. Man that was an awesome game, I remember ripping arms and legs off of enemies and swapping them out with what my Cyborg had.

I'm SUPER hyped for this movie, and it comes out near my birthday, so that's instant grounds to make my GF go with me.

[Howard_Casto]

My son was pumped that Jane Lynch's character was Samus.  We checked IMDB and her character has a different name.  Sure seems like they are trying to evoke Samus though.  Good stuff.

No she plays a terrible Gears of War parody.  It's in the clip.  You know, the female blonde-headed girl in that game?  (Sorry I'm not a huge fan of GOW, so I don't know her name.)

[Howard_Casto]

Not sure about Smoke though.  It wasn't in the clip, but rumor is at least two more MK characters will be in the game... most likely Scorpion and Shao Khan.

The guy I was talkin about was in the clip:


The only game I can think of with yellow robots with buzz saw hands was Cyborg Justice, on the sega genesis. Man that was an awesome game, I remember ripping arms and legs off of enemies and swapping them out with what my Cyborg had.

I'm SUPER hyped for this movie, and it comes out near my birthday, so that's instant grounds to make my GF go with me.

Yeah I caught him in the clip, I'm just not sure if that's smoke.  There are so many gray ninjas from the early 90's.  It could be anyone from Ninja Gaiden's Ryu to the ninjas in Bad Dudes. 

[Howard_Casto]

Heh... somebody over at neogaf found the rhino.

It's from altered beast of all things:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=38609237

[Vigo]

I dunno the yellow robot, purple rhino,  or green alien (Shuma Gorath doesn thave that many eyeballs). I think thats the mad hatter from Alice. I didnt see paperboy but he listed on the imdb along with Kano

Could be a Malboro from Final Fantasy.

[Howard_Casto]

I doubt it. 

The only ones with crowns are the overkings, and they have sweet mustaches.  Honestly if you were a disney animator and some guy told you that you should put an old timey mustache on a Japanese tentacle monster, wouldn't you jump at the chance?

[AlienInferno]

Gonna have to watch this one.

[NiN^_^NiN]

I saw this last night and we were talking about all the characters and this is what we have down.

In the Bad Guys Meeting.



Going Clockwise from Ralph
1
2
3 Bowser (Mario Bros)
4 Zangief (Street Fighter)
5 Dr. Eggman (Sonic)
6 M. Bison (Street Fighter)
7 Clyde (Pacman)
8
9
10 Neff (Altered Beast)
11 The Beholder (Dungeons and Dragons)
12 Kano (Mortal Kombat)
13 Cyril (House of the Dead)

[RayB]

ill try to extract the flash files soon...

[Player 3]

If it weren't for the Disney logo, I would have thought this to be a Dreamworks movie, with how generic the plot is.

[Howard_Casto]

I saw this last night and we were talking about all the characters and this is what we have down.

In the Bad Guys Meeting.


...
11 The Beholder (Dungeons and Dragons)
...

I don't think it's a beholder.  Those are almost always brown and I've never seen one wearing a crown.  I find it extremely disturbing that their are so many wierd, multi-eyed tentacle monsters in games that don't have anything to do with porn.

[AlienInferno]

I find it extremely disturbing that their are so many wierd, multi-eyed tentacle monsters in games that don't have anything to do with porn.

LOL.  Reminds me of a VHS set one of my brother's friends used to own. 

[Howard_Casto]

Heh... vhs era... that's pretty hardcore. 

I think the Ninja might be from Shinobi....  you know the bad guy ninjas that jump at the screen when you use your throwing stars?

Still can't pin that guy down though.... damn there's almost as many ninjas in games as tentacle monsters. 

Same goes for the Elf lady.  She's most likely a dark elf from WOW due to the ears but damn... there are a lot of elves in games. 

[ark_ader]

Pixar is going to produce a lot of crap now that Jobs is gone.

[Ginsu Victim]

I find it extremely disturbing that their are so many wierd, multi-eyed tentacle monsters in games that don't have anything to do with porn.

LOL.  Reminds me of a VHS set one of my brother's friends used to own. 

La Blue Girl?

[vanrose72]

I find it extremely disturbing that their are so many wierd, multi-eyed tentacle monsters in games that don't have anything to do with porn.

LOL.  Reminds me of a VHS set one of my brother's friends used to own. 

La Blue Girl?

I read this at IGN:
"Finally, the villain support group contains a character we originally thought was the Beholder from the Dungeons & Dragons series. A reader also suggested to us that the creature might instead be the Marlboro King from the Final Fantasy series. As it turns out, neither theory is correct. Disney confirmed that the tentacled, crown-wearing monster is just a generic creature not tied to any particular game."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/09/the-familiar-faces-of-wreck-it-ralph