Wall Street Journal Article

[Weewoo]

NEOPETS MOVIE?
Someone kill me now.
(Not really, but a neopets movie will ruin everything)

Jelly Blobs of Doom is the title. IT has been a game for a long time and now a movie. Shocked you didn't know, and others didnt know.

I'm sure that was just a joke.

[everconfused]

I don't know if that will actually be the title of the movie though that name is rumored to be the one. There was a poll about movies (IMAX in particular) awhile ago, don't know if it still shows up. I pay little attention to the polls. And I'd never be able to go see an IMAX movie with my disabilities.

Nani, a PG13 with words and references to stuff that would get you iced on the site would be .... ironic? Kinda like some of the stuff in the ads

I don't know if the whole Scientology thing has anything to do with anything as far as how business is done. Been there, been audited, took some courses (was in CA many years ago). I can tell you it gets quite expensive which I why I quit. That and I didn't feel any different or really get anything out of it, though I "passed" all the courses I took.

As long as they don't make a movie that in any way resembles that awful thing JT did from the Hubbard book

Disney now owns Neopets? That's a new one on me.

[bgryph]

Doug Dohring bought neopets?

I suppose that explains the ads. A former ad-effectiveness analysis man would love ads...

See, that's actually what surprises me so much about the banner ads. Neopets is a company which exists to sell advertising (and merchandise, of course) and it's run by people who have a lot of past experience in advertising.

So why does the banner ad compaign look like it was organized by a college webmaster who thought to himself, "Self, I need a few banner ads to defray my bandwidth costs" and slapped them up on his site?

Actually, that's not fair -- I've seen sites run by college students with much better ad campaigns than Neopets.

Let's ignore for a moment the pregnancy polls, birth control ads, and the like. What's with the "your child can click here and register with their personal information in hopes of winning a free Ipod, which they naturally won't get" ads, not to mention the, "your child can click here and download spyware on to your computer that will track their Internet usage" ads. Neopets is too high-profile a site for these things not to be noticed sooner or later and there's bound to be trouble when they are.

For a company which exists to sell ads -- and which lavished such attention on their immersive advertising campaigns -- the banner ad campaigns seem singularly badly thought out. Why aren't they going for ads that are more targeted, less obnoxious, and more suitable to a family-friendly site? Why are we getting the exact same generic ad mix you see everywhere else on Internet?

I realize I could be wrong... maybe a great deal of thought went into the banner ads and to the choice of what sorts of content went into the banners. Maybe there are reasons they haven't been more choosy about the sorts of banners that went on the site. But, I have no way of knowing what those reasons might be, and if a lot of thought went into the content of the banners it doesn't show on this end, the user end.

I mean, I block ads at home so I suppose it's really no skin off my back either way. It just seems strange to me that for an advertising-based site the banner ads seem so much like an afterthought.

[Nani]

Nani, a PG13 with words and references to stuff that would get you iced on the site would be .... ironic? Kinda like some of the stuff in the ads

Exactly.

Disney doesn't own Neopets, Dohring does. o_0 I wish Disney did; they'd do a better job. Seriously. As bad as corporate monsters are, Disney does things right. Anyone who's been to one of their theme parks can attest to that.

Edit- And yes, I believe JBoD was a joke.
Editedit- Post 700. Cool.

[Adam loves Hilary Duff]

Nani, a PG13 with words and references to stuff that would get you iced on the site would be .... ironic? Kinda like some of the stuff in the ads

Exactly.

Disney doesn't own Neopets, Dohring does. o_0 I wish Disney did; they'd do a better job. Seriously. As bad as corporate monsters are, Disney does things right. Anyone who's been to one of their theme parks can attest to that.

Edit- And yes, I believe JBoD was a joke.
Editedit- Post 700. Cool.

I wish Disney owned neopets aswell and not Doug Doorknob or whatever his name is.
(I just got back from Walt Disney World Florida)

[IcyBlue]

If Disney owned Neopets, then all the ads would be completely gone.

Instead, it'd be a 100% pay-to-play site. Disney does things right, but they're darn expensive if you've ever gone to Disney World/Land/Paris/Tokyo/wherever-else-a-park-is. When Walt Disney was alive, things were way cheaper, but once Eisner (current Disney CEO, equivalent of Doug Dohrig is to Neopets) came into power, prices of things just shot up. Though you'd also have to consider that Disney is very concerned with quality, so you'd always get what you pay for from them.

[o_0]

If Disney owned Neopets, then all the ads would be completely gone.

Instead, it'd be a 100% pay-to-play site. Disney does things right, but they're darn expensive if you've ever gone to Disney World/Land/Paris/Tokyo/wherever-else-a-park-is. When Walt Disney was alive, things were way cheaper, but once Eisner (current Disney CEO, equivalent of Doug Dohrig is to Neopets) came into power, prices of things just shot up. Though you'd also have to consider that Disney is very concerned with quality, so you'd always get what you pay for from them.

Think Toontown. xD

[Nani]

Nani, a PG13 with words and references to stuff that would get you iced on the site would be .... ironic? Kinda like some of the stuff in the ads

Exactly.

Disney doesn't own Neopets, Dohring does. o_0 I wish Disney did; they'd do a better job. Seriously. As bad as corporate monsters are, Disney does things right. Anyone who's been to one of their theme parks can attest to that.

Edit- And yes, I believe JBoD was a joke.
Editedit- Post 700. Cool.

I wish Disney owned neopets aswell and not Doug Doorknob or whatever his name is.
(I just got back from Walt Disney World Florida)

Hey, I'm going there in a couple weeks.

Yeah, maybe it'd be p2p. But if it wasn't, it would be one wicked cool site.

[jabond102]

Nani, a PG13 with words and references to stuff that would get you iced on the site would be .... ironic? Kinda like some of the stuff in the ads

Exactly.

Disney doesn't own Neopets, Dohring does. o_0 I wish Disney did; they'd do a better job. Seriously. As bad as corporate monsters are, Disney does things right. Anyone who's been to one of their theme parks can attest to that.

Edit- And yes, I believe JBoD was a joke.
Editedit- Post 700. Cool.

Disney probably would do a better job lol. Everything would be disney. A pet would then be Mickey Mouse!

[Adam loves Hilary Duff]

NEOPETS MOVIE?
Someone kill me now.
(Not really, but a neopets movie will ruin everything)

Jelly Blobs of Doom is the title. IT has been a game for a long time and now a movie. Shocked you didn't know, and others didnt know.

I'm sure that was just a joke.

Yes it was, making fun of the old movie "The Blob" from the 50's.

[ahoteinrun]

Well...

this thread is sufficiently off topic.