Disney bans grieving father from having Spider-Man on son’s grave

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A grieving father has been denied permission to put a picture of Spider-Man on his little boy’s grave because Disney wants to preserve the ‘magic’ of its characters.

Marvel superfan Ollie Jones, four, died from a rare genetic disorder last year and was given a Spider-Man themed funeral, featuring a horse-drawn carriage decorated in red and blue balloons. 

The little boy, of Maidenstone, Kent, had suffered with leukodystrophy for two years and his last holiday had been to Disneyland to meet his favourite superhero. His dad Lloyd Jones asked the council for permission to get an etching of Spider-Man on Ollie’s gravestone as he wanted the image to remind him of his son.

Council officials told Lloyd to contact the Walt Disney Company, which owns the Marvel franchise.

 

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6 thoughts on “Disney bans grieving father from having Spider-Man on son’s grave

  1. You simply cannot make this shit up. The family is not asking Disney for permission to market and sell tombstones with any of their characters on it. It’s one child’s tombstone who loved one of their characters. I fail to see how having Spiderman on a tombstone would ruin the ‘innocence’ and ‘magic’.

      1. AND LICK IT QUITE REGULARLY., TO GET IT JOO CLEAN…….(TO PREPARE FOR LICKING THE BLUE BELL ICE CREAM AT YOUR LOCAL GROCERS.)

  2. Disney is EVIL!!!!! Plain and simple.

    I’m sorry but why do you need their permission to put a picture of Spider-Man on there? That’s like drawing a picture of Spider-Man and giving it to your son, only to have Disney reps come into your house and rip it up and say “you aren’t allowed to draw this without our permission!”

    WTF??!!!!!

    This is the same company that wouldn’t allow a dying kid watch Star Wars the Force Awakens before it came out, as the kid was on his death bed and wouldn’t have been able to see it when the time came even though the movie was all done and ready to go.

    How’s that for magical!

    Kiss my ass, Disney! May you burn in Hell!

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