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Once upon a time, your favorite characters lived in theme parks, comic books, and on VHS tapes shoved beneath your parents’ couch.
Now they live in your videos.

Walt Disney Company just announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI — and no, this is not a plot twist in a superhero movie. It’s real. What it means is that users will soon be able to generate short, prompt-based videos using over 200 iconic characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars through OpenAI’s Sora tool.

Imagine asking for Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader to collaborate on a cooking show.
Or having Buzz Lightyear narrate your cat’s midnight zoomies.
Or Captain America explaining your Wi-Fi password struggling.
Yes. That can happen.

Now, here’s the twist worthy of any cinematic sequel: you cannot replicate actors’ real faces or voices — but you can include the characters themselves. That means your homemade AI video starring a wisecracking Toy Story alien and Groot explaining existential dread is technically sanctioned storytelling.

Do we love it?
We absolutely love it.

Because if you’re going to let machines play with your childhood icons, you might as well do it with humor, nostalgia, and a slight sense of delightful mischief.

Some have concerns about copyrights and creative ownership (yes, even Disney’s lawyers have opinions). But at its core this is liberation by imagination:
→ fandom meets generative play
→ creativity unbound by studio schedules
→ and potentially 17 different mash-ups starring Baby Yoda reciting Shakespeare

The future of storytelling isn’t behind studio gates anymore.
It’s wherever you type your prompts.

And if you ask us — we’re already planning the “Mickey Mouse Narrates Existentialism” cut.