The Lion King....a rip-off?

[RogueShadow]

I didn't know it was a rip-off. But it wasn't unexpected, I never liked disney anyway.

 

[Javert]

Humbug, Lion King didn't rip off that. It's clearly a rip-off of Hamlet.

 

[Shuzer]

Humbug, Lion King didn't rip off that. It's clearly a rip-off of Hamlet.

Direwolf beat you to it!

You know....its also technically a ripoff of Hamlet.

 

[Top Secret]

Disney is American right? Wouldn't exactly be the first time foreign ideas seemed to magically apear in the USA with the 'made in america' tag.

America may be a superpower, but when it comes to new ideas and inventions, they seem to be somewhere around the bottom of the list. Infact, think of something you think was invented in America, and I can probably prove it wasn't.

Telephone, Light Bulb, Telegraph, Modern Sewing Machine, Scotch Tape, The Air Bag, Air Breaks, Electric Chair, The First Flyable Airplane Damnit, Windshield Wipers, The first talking motion picture camera, THE TOMMY GUN, Typewriter, Fountain Pen, Modern Acoustic Guitar, Fire extinguisher, Automatic transmission, Subway, Band Aid, Hair Dryer, First automobile with combustion engine, The first liquid fueled (Modern day) rocket. The Lie detecter test, Bulldozer, Traffic light.

Dude, I just typed "Inventions by americans" and that's all the stuff I copied down in the first minute. Modern car? Plane? M2 machine gun, come on man. Don't talk out of your ass like that. And please, don't diss my country, our we'll bomb you.

*Edit*

That reminds me.

THE ATOM BOMB.

 

[Krynn72]

Im sure we came up with some form of weapon, being so obsessed with our military :sniper:

EDIT: To Top Secret, Im sure most of those werent ideas original to the US. I know for a fact that the atom bomb isnt. We only started developing it because we knew that the others were, and we wanted to beat them.

 

[Top Secret]

Im sure we came up with some form of weapon, being so obsessed with our military :sniper:

I believe we invented rifled barrels. (Causing the ball to spin) And even though we didn't invent the sniper (Originally Snyper), we are sure to be the first to put them to use. (Snyper was a term given to British hunters who could pick off the hard-to-hit bird called the Snyper. If you could kill them, you were given the title snyper. I believe it originated during the british imperialism of India.)

EDIT: To Top Secret, Im sure most of those werent ideas original to the US. I know for a fact that the atom bomb isnt. We only started developing it because we knew that the others were, and we wanted to beat them.

If you're going to think of it in that manner, then the world simply has to give credit for everything ever invented to the ancient Chinese. I'm talking stuff that was made, and worked, first.

 

[Kyorisu]

IS there anything Disney won't do?

 

[el Chi]

Nope. Disney even made porn, apparently.
Ages ago, some of the animators made a short film, for their own "amusement" natch, of various Disney characters having sex with one another. Reportedly, when Walt Disney saw it he said:
"This is the best thing we've ever done. You're all fired."
Not too good for one's next job interview: "...and your reason for leaving your last job?"

 

[Brian Damage]

On inventions: I think Aussies invented... um... lets see... The motorised lawnmower and... uh... the rotary clothesline?

I gotta look some of this stuff up...

 

[DizzyOne]

what americans invented?
http://totallyabsurd.com/nuclear.htm

the irony

 

[Gunner]

I think the most absurd inventions come from Japan.

 

[disruptioN_]

Did they rip off the Hakuna Matata song too? I love that song.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Did you guys know that the US stole a groundbreaking jetplane thingymabob idea from the british back in the early 1900's after competing in more than a decade? I saw that in a documentary, pretty interesting stuff.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I stole ur mum.

 

[lePobz]

yes crazyharij I know, they also stole our Harrier and made it look ugly, then slapped their flag all over it

Well, they did invent the nuke. And what a benefit to the world that is :|

 

[Top Secret]

yes crazyharij I know, they also stole our Harrier and made it look ugly, then slapped their flag all over it

Well, they did invent the nuke. And what a benefit to the world that is :|

Keeps the Ruskies in line. :naughty:

(Hey, if we didn't, they would have. :smoking: )

 

[Direwolf]

One of the strengths of Americans over the years has been their ingenuity and drive. I wouldn't ever underestimate them when it comes to making stuff.
That said I can hardly seem to get my ire up in light of a cartoon being ripped off.

 

[Willber123]

erm, i swear the atom bomb was being developed by hitler, but then americans got hold of the scientists that were developing it and made them make it for america instead. well, atleast thats what i thought.

 

[Willber123]

ooo, look what i jsut found:

1. Powered flight
They say …

During 2003, Dayton, Ohio, and the Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers invention of the first powered airplane. The first successful flight occurred on December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills in Kittyhawk, North Carolina. But hang on … the Wrights may have made “The first successful flight” but they could not claim “the invention of the first powered airplane” because …

Brits say …

Brit Percy Pilcher designed a powered triplane and built it in 1899. By the last day of September 1899, Pilcher's powered triplane was very nearly ready for flight (save, apparently, for mounting the engine), but on that day Pilcher was gliding in his "Hawk." His previously reliable "Hawk" suffered a structural failure, fell, and Pilcher died two days later. Pilcher's powered triplane was never flown. But the “invention” beat the Americans by 4 years.

Or maybe it was Bill Frost a Welsh carpenter who patented the aeroplane in 1894 and took to the skies in a powered flying machine the following year (8 years before the Wright brothers)

Or maybe the world's first powered flight took place not in America in 1903, but at Chard in Somerset 55 years earlier, and the man who made it happen was John Stringfellow

hmm, interesting.... and then theres this

3 Electric Light Bulb
They say …

Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb. He began his experiments in 1878 and by 21 October 1879 he made a working electric light bulb. Fine, but …

Brits say …

Sir Joseph Swan of Newcastle announced that he had made a working light bulb on 18 December 1878 and on 18 January 1879 he gave a public demonstration in Sunderland – 10 months before Edison. The Americans say it was just a working model and not a commercial reality … but then they would say that, wouldn’t they?

hmm, very interesting

4 Telephone
They say …

The first telephone message was made at 5 Exeter Place, Boston, Massachusetts on 10 March 1876. Alexander Graham Bell called to his assistant, “Come here, Watson, I want you.” In June that year it was demonstrated at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and may have passed unnoticed if the Emperor of Brazil hadn’t caused a sensation by crying out, “My God … it talks!” The rest, is history. But …

Brits say …

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Canada when he was 23 and only then migrated to the USA. He was British so Brits can rightly claim the telephone is a British invention.

hmm, this is getting very interesting isnt it

7 Motor car
They say …

Karl Benz created the first motor car in Germany in 1889. It covered just over half a mile at nine miles per hour. People have been driving Mercedes Benz cars ever since – usually slower than nine miles an hour in rush hour traffic. But …

Brits say …

180 years before, in 1711, Christopher Holtum demonstrated a horseless carriage. It gave demonstrations under the piazzas at Covent Garden and travelled at five or six miles an hour.

and then.....

8 Jet propulsion
They say …

In 1796 the American, James Rumsey, drove a steam-powered boat that worked by pushing out a jet of water. It travelled at 4 mph. It became a popular motor for model boats and the US claimed the first jet-propelled vehicle. But …

Brits say …

The great Sir Isaac Newton invented the jet-powered car. He forecast that one day people would travel at 50 miles an hour. In 1680 a man called Gravesande designed a car that would be powered by Newton’s third law of motion – “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A boiler sent out a jet of steam that pushed the car along. Of course everyone on the road behind the jet engine would have been scalded, but that’s a small price to pay for progress.

and yet another.....

9 Photography
They say …

Louis Daguerre produced the Daguerrotype camera in France. He was actually carrying on the work of a colleague Called Niepce. But Niepce made the clumsy error of dying in 1833 before it was perfected and he is forgotten. In 1838 Daguerre demonstrated a working method of producing photographs. But …

Brits say …

Niepce was basing his work on the experiments of Thomas Wedgewood – son of the famous potter Josiah. He used silver nitrate and made images of insect wings and leaves on pieces of sensitised leather. His friend Humphrey Davey was doing similar work and they published their findings in 1802 – 36 years before Daguerre.

hmm, this did make an interesting read
ill let you make your own decisions.

p.s source

 

[Direwolf]

Some of those are a little stupid (like the telephone one), but most of them are just kind of debating who they think should get the credit. I'm sorry, but if you die or pass on your invention to others then you're likely not gonna get credit it for it. Thats just kinda how this stuff works.
There are also many, many instances of different people in different parts of the world inventing something at the almost same time, totally independently.