Wreck-it Ralph Really Wrecks a Donkey Kong!

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The first cabinet looked like a Galaga cabinet with DK style artwork, this new version looks like they converted and beat up a real Donkey Kong cabinet!

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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/06/disney-wreck-it-ralph-e3/
LOS ANGELES — Disney's upcoming animated feature Wreck-It Ralph is a love letter to retro videogames, the story of an '80s arcade bad guy looking to redeem himself. Disney released the first trailer during (when else?) Electronic Entertainment Expo last week, and it shows the movie to be basically the Who Framed Roger Rabbit? of classic videogames, packed with characters from Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Pac-Man and more.


Disney's respect and admiration for the source material was also plainly evident in its small but impactful E3 display for the movie, which featured screens showing the trailer, but also this fantastic prop: a non-working arcade cabinet clearly modeled on Nintendo's design for Donkey Kong, recreating the fictional game Fix-It Felix Jr. featured in the movie.

The design was impressive down to the tiniest details: the Miyamoto-esque cartoon renditions of the characters, the instructions printed on the joystick panel, the years of "distress." A sign on the monitor asked "arcade collectors" to help Disney hunt down a working model of the non-existent game.

Wreck-It Ralph will be released on Nov. 2. (We've included the trailer as the last item in the gallery above.)
 
Their distressing is all wrong. ALL wrong. Some parts are ridiculous, like all the white paint on the control panels, and then other parts are ignored like the fully intact base still nice and black.

What it boils down to is they made the cabinet dirty, but didn't damage anything. It should have artwork ripped off, cigarette burns melting things, scratches in the bezel, chunks missing out of the t-molding, dents in the door, etc.
 
Their distressing is all wrong. ALL wrong. Some parts are ridiculous, like all the white paint on the control panels, and then other parts are ignored like the fully intact base still nice and black.

What it boils down to is they made the cabinet dirty, but didn't damage anything. It should have artwork ripped off, cigarette burns melting things, scratches in the bezel, chunks missing out of the t-molding, dents in the door, etc.

You got that right, looks like they used that clay that they used on Uniforms in Star Trek that would just brush off so they didn't have to have them cleaned.

It looks nothing like any beat up cabinet I have ever seen.
 
See what happens when a room full of suits gets to make decisions about things they know nothing about?
 
There was nothing about this movie that I wasn't excited about ... until just now.

They could easily have had these cabinets reproduced by our very own DPTwiz ...

Steve
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I think:

*The graphics and homage to Donkey Kong are great
*The concept of distressing the cabinet is great
*The effort is great
*The result is great

It's essentially a love letter to classic gaming. And the result is...complaints? Not from me. :cool:
 
i think:

*the graphics and homage to donkey kong are great
*the concept of distressing the cabinet is great
*the effort is great
*the result is great

it's essentially a love letter to classic gaming. And the result is...complaints? Not from me. :cool:

+ 1,000,000!
 
You guys do realize that 99% of the audience they are targeting would not know any of this, or that not a single f*ck would be given...
 
You guys do realize that 99% of the audience they are targeting would not know any of this, or that not a single f*ck would be given...

Movie companies spend millions of dollars trying to get authentic props that 99% of the audience doesn't care about. But yeah, I agree with you, fuck this forum! Burn it down!!!!
 
I actually think it's really cool. Exposing kids to the hobby and old games through this movie and its publicity can only be a good thing
 
You guys do realize that 99% of the audience they are targeting would not know any of this, or that not a single f*ck would be given...

True. All the movie goers (minus the handful here) will not care about those details. And "how" a cabinet is worn over the years? Gimme a break. WE know it's not realistic, but Disney probably just told someone on their building/design team... "Make it look old, worn and played." This was also for a 3 day event...E3. I guarantee nobody cared about the details of how the cabinet was worn.

The fact that this movie is even being made and that they are getting A LOT of it right is a miracle in itself. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime and I'm glad it is.
 
I actually think it's really cool. Exposing kids to the hobby and old games through this movie and its publicity can only be a good thing

It would have been cooler if they used a real game, as they got all those other game characters to appear. Wouldn't it have been awesome if they worked out a deal with Nintendo to do this with Donkey Kong?
 
It would have been cooler if they used a real game, as they got all those other game characters to appear. Wouldn't it have been awesome if they worked out a deal with Nintendo to do this with Donkey Kong?

Probably a ton more money involved. It's probably one thing to "cameo" something in a movie, and another to make it the focus/main character. Licensing for movie merchandise comes to mind. You'd have to split a lot of profits with the big "N" for that and a lot of other things.
 
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