Michael Jackson’s Estate Needs to Lighten Up Over “Plants Vs. Zombies”
on July 30, 2010 at 4:55 am
The Dancing Zombie from Popcap Game’s “Plants Vs. Zombies” is going to be removed from the game due to Michael Jackson’s estate being Humorless dicks.
The Estate of Michael Jackson objected to our use of the ‘dancing zombie’ in PLANTS vs. ZOMBIES based on its view that the zombie too closely resembled Michael Jackson. After receiving this objection, PopCap made a business decision to retire the original ‘dancing zombie’ and replace it with a different ‘dancing zombie’ character for future builds of PLANTS vs.ZOMBIES on all platforms. The phase-out and replacement process is underway.
I’m not sure if the people behind Michael Jackson’s estate are aware of this (Sarcasm), but MJ was kind of a freak towards the end of his life.
Do they think that this funny dancing zombie is going damage Michael Jackson’s reputation further? If anything I’d consider it a tribute to MJ’s life BEFORE he turned into a crazy white woman.
Jeez, Lighten up, you dorks.
I so agree with you on this. I loved Thriller and the Dancing Zombie is one of the more difficult zombies in the game to beat.
-sigh- Well at least I already have my game so I don’t need to see the change, fun as it may be. What do you think they will change it to? Ballet? Breakdancing Zombie? Usher? Wonder if those people will get offended to?
I just think it’s a dumb move. Wouldn’t it be better for them to have people remember Michael Jackson for cool things like Thriller rather than shall we say “Naughty Time” behavior?
People get offended all the time for the most trivial reasons. I annoy people all the time… I admit I am very annoying though.
I think our whole species needs to lighten up and get a thicker skin. (I’m sure I just offended a tonne of people by saying that just now.)
Thriller was my first intro to zombies. Parents traumatizing a 7 year old letting him watch something like that….Found zombie fiction thrilling ever since.
Total douches for getting the Mikey zombie out of the game. glad I got my copy already too.
Some people just can’t live happily unless they’re being a total kill-joy to everyone else around them.
I’m not a copyright lawyer by any means so I don’t understand how they have a legal right to force PopCap to change it. Seams to me they shouldn’t be able to, what with Michael Jackson being dead and all.