Kingdom Hearts: Will Lotso Get His Strawberries Sliced Off?

Kingdom Hearts is a series of video games featuring an unlikely mix of characters from Final Fantasy and Disney. The characters battle villains through a colorful atlas of Disney-themed lands in a universe developed exclusively for the game. My son loved the first several titles in the series until his tastes evolved (or perhaps devolved) into on-line multi-player games like Runescape and abominable indy music (the neighbors often hear the refrain: Turn It Down or Leave This House!).

Over at VGChartz, however, Stephen Kelly's tastes do not seem to have changed: in his new article he takes a look at the top ten Disney properties he wishes beat more brightly in Kingdom Hearts.

Even if you don't play the game, Stephen's list is an informative run-down of an eclectic set of Disney movies, TV shows, and characters.

For example: Darkwing Duck. Yes, Darkwing Duck, everyone's favorite super-powered crime-fighter in a fedora. Actually, I think the folks who watched Darkwing Duck back in the early 1990s have all been abducted by aliens, so maybe he's not such a good candidate for the next Kingdom Hearts.

Stephen sensibly wonders at the lack of Pixar characters in the games and suggests a 'Pixar World' inhabited by characters from all the studio's films. One hopes the evil bear Lotso would then appear in 'Toy Story Land' and get his strawberries sliced off by a cigar-chomping, sword-thrusting Donald Duck while banjo music from Deliverance plays in the background. (Yep, the Lotso hatin' never stops here at the Disney Dispatch.)

But the Stephen lovin' has just begun. His list will bring back many Disney B-movie memories. And it doesn't smell like strawberries.