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Disney purchases the film rights to A.A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh books
Disney was licensed rights in exchange for royalties in the first of two agreements between Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and Disney.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree released
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Music from Honey Tree Album released
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Read-Along Storybook Record released
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Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
First Winnie the Pooh opening credits
Disney's second Winnie the Pooh Featurette is released. This film debuts both Tigger and Piglet -
Featurette Picture Books
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Blustery Day Read-Along Record released
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Winnie-the-Pooh Great Honey Crunchers cereal by Nabisco
Honey Crunch Commercial
The cereal was available in Canada and was only around until 1973 -
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Full length featture combining all three featurettes and included an added fourth chapter - The House at Pooh Corner -
Walt Disney presents Pooh comics
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Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eyore
Disney's fourth Winnie the Pooh featurette -
Welcome to Pooh Corner Series
Pooh Corner Promo
The live action/puppet series began airing on the Disney Channel. The show ran until May 30 1986 -
Slesinger signs over all rights to Disney
Slesinger "assigns, grants, and sets over unto Disney the sole and exclusive right in the United States and Canada to project, exhibit, and broadcast visually and audibly any motion pictures . . . as well as various further rights in and to said work, which include merchandise . . . television, radio, and analogous processes."
Assignment = An assignment of copyright is a transfer of ownership. It must always be in writing and signed by the copyright owner. -
Walt Disney Classics Video Collection Begins
All the Winnie the Pooh Featurettes released onto VHS -
First Disney Store Opened
Opened in California -
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Produced by Walt Disney Television, 'The new Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' was part of Saturday morning / Disney Afternoon lineup. The Show aired originally on the Disney Channel, but moved to the ABC.
In Aus - Aired on Channel 7's Disney Afternoon from 1989 - 1992 and repeats from 1993 - 1999
Moved to the Disney channel, and then Disneys childrens channel, Playhouse Disney where it ran until 2010 -
Disney Now Have 50 Stores
And a ton of Pooh merchandise to fill them with -
The Disney Adventures Magazine begins
Any Winnie The Pooh news could be found in one of these mags -
Slesinger sues Disney over Winne thePooh royalties
In 1991, Slesinger sued Disney in California state court, claiming it breached the 1983 agreement by not accurately calculating revenue from Winnie-the-Pooh products, and underpaying royalties. The California state court dismissed Slesinger's claim and the California Court of Appeals affirmed. -
Disney Now have 126 Stores open
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Disney Consumer Products creates three lines for Pooh
- Disney Pooh, based on the disney red-shirted Pooh Bear cartoons
- The 100 Acre Collection, a more upscale toy collection sold in department stores
- Classic pooh, a line based on the characters in the AA Milne books
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The Classics video line is replaced by the Masterpiece Collection
And another lot of Winnie the Pooh videos are released -
Classic Pooh
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100 Acre Wood Collection
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Disney and McDonalds 10 year cross-promotional agreement begins
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Copyright infringment over "Pooh-grams"
The Vermont Teddy Bear Co. filed a copyright infringement suit against Disney over "Pooh-Grams" being similar to its mail-order "Bear-Gram" trademark and logo. -
Disney's home video division releases its first DVD's
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Winnie the Pooh Merchandise out-sells Mickey Mouse for the first time
Pooh outsold Mickey Mouse $316 million to $114 million through November of that year in just-licensed-toy sales with over 100 licensees including Mattel, Hallmark, Timex, Tupperware and Royal Daulton, Disney Consumer Products has since increased Pooh product lines from $390 million to $3.3 billion. -
First ride at Disney's Magic Kingdom
The ride then opened at Disneyland in April 2003
Hong Kong Disneyland September 2005
Currently under construction to open next year at Shanghai Disneyland Park -
Disney Learning - Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh and the gang get a set of interactive learning games -
Disney begins its Gold Classic DVD line
yet more Pooh DVD's -
Disney Consumer Products begin expanding licensing to food products
During the 2000's DCP started licensing to Kellogs in 2002, who created Disney Hunny B's, then in 2003 Well's Dairy launched a disney branded line, with Pooh and the gang featuring on yoghurt and ice-creams -
The Tigger Movie released
The movie has grossed $96,159,800 worldwide in its lifetime -
More video games begin to be released for Pooh
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The Book of Pooh launches
Book of Pooh Opening
The Disney chanel begins a new Winnie the Pooh show on Playhouse Disney. This is now the third adapted Pooh series.
The series ran until July 8 2003 - recieved 4 Emmys and had three series -
Disney Now have 700 stores open
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Kingdom Hearts released
Winnie the Pooh characters feature in all the Kingdom hearts games -
Piglet's Big Movie is released
the movie has grossed $62,870,546 worldwide in its lifetime -
Disney Live gives Pooh a Stage Show
As well as this show, Winnie the Pooh characters have been appearing in Disney on Ice shows sine 1984, as well as smaller stage shows around America -
Poohs Heffalump Movie released
the movie has grossed $52,858,433 worldwide during its lifetime -
Disney is first to license episodes for Apples iTunes music store
You can now purchase music, audio books, stories, apps, episodes, movies and more -
Pooh is awarded a star on the Hollywood walk of fame
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Slesinger again takes Disney to court over Pooh
claiming that Disney's exploitation of the Winnie-the-Pooh characters infringed Slesinger's trademarks and copyrights. In response, Disney argued that Slesinger had admitted in the previous state court case that Disney's use of the Winnie-the-Pooh characters were authorized, and that the 1983 agreement had granted all Slesinger's rights to Disney and retained none that Disney could infringe. The district court ruled in favor of Disney, concluding that given the parties' conduct and the clear ter -
My Friends Tigger and Pooh airs on Playhouse Disney
An interactive childrens Television series.
Christopher Robin was semi replaced by a young girl named Darby and her dog Buster.
The show aired on and off until Feb 14, 2011
The show had a bunch of straight to DVD movies, a stage show, and learning games and apps -
Winnie the Pooh Movie
Trailer
This film was the fifth theatrical feature release, based on the original AA Milne books, produced by pixar, narrated by John Clease, and the theme was performed by Zooey Deschanel. It was to 'transcend generations' - The trailer Disney released was supposed to reach an older audience with a sense of nostalgia.
The movie has grossed $33,152,846 worldwide during its lifetime -
Winnie the Pooh movie Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released to accompany the movie -
Winnie the Pooh gets a spot on Disney's YouTube
Disney's YouTube channel created ten short 'Winnie the Pooh Smakerals' which are all made with what looks like the new range of plush toys. So it is basically an advertising gimmik
