🍭 McDonald’s is scaring kids 🤡

Good morning!
The team showed up in Santa hats and vampire capes today.
So either we’re time-travelling or McDonald’s officially broke the holiday timeline.

I asked the team what holiday we’re prepping for and someone said “Yes.”

But let’s keep going 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Disney hands the keys to its character vault

• McDonald’s mixes up the holidays with a spooky Christmas ad

• A superhero suit prompt that goes way harder than it needs to

• AI toys are hitting shelves with a bit of Annabelle-level creep

• ToolBox™ delivers 5 fresh AI tools to speed-run your workflow

Steal This Prompt
⚡️Make some Futuristic Superhero Suits

This prompt turns a few telling details into slick, high-tech superhero concept art;
For comic covers, character sheets, or flexing your fan-film fantasies.

Use it to:

• Make a neon-armored antihero for a cyberpunk one-shot.

• Spin up a kid-friendly mech hero for sticker sets or merch mockups.

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Paste into your image model.

3. Replace the #’s with your character’s name, power, color palette, and pose.

4. Tweak a couple of style adjectives (e.g., “sleek,” “battle-worn,” “chrome accents”) and render.

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

OpenAI x Disney
🎬️ They’re Giving Fans the Keys to the Magic Kingdom

The Bite:
Disney just cut a three-year deal with OpenAI that lets Sora generate short videos using more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters.

That means everyday fans will soon be able to bring Mickey, Elsa, Baby Yoda, or Iron Man into their own AI-generated scenes.

It’s the first time Disney has opened its vault this wide, and Sora is the engine they’re betting on to unlock a new era of fan-made storytelling.

Snacks:

• Fans will be able to create videos using official Disney characters.

• Disney invested $1B into OpenAI as part of a broader collaboration.

• It says guardrails will prevent hateful or harmful character uses.

• Some projects will appear on Disney+ as “fan-inspired” shorts.

• Commercial use stays restricted… For now.

Why it Bites:
For creators, this is the closest thing to getting a VIP pass to the biggest IP library.

It turns every fan creation into something you can actually animate.

Yes, Disney will still keep tight control over what goes public;
But the ceiling just got a lot higher.

Fans aren’t just spectators anymore.
They’re about to become co-storytellers.

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_McDonald’s
🎄 AI Christmas Ad Lands in the Uncanny Valley

The Bite: 
McDonald’s pulled its AI-generated Christmas ad after viewers called it unsettling.

The spot was meant to show holiday stress melting into a warm family moment;
But the characters had that slightly-off look where faces smile before the eyes.

The backlash was quick, and the company took the ad offline…

Snacks:

• Viewers said the characters looked “creepy” and “not human enough”.

• McDonald’s removed it from YouTube after the response.

• The company said it wanted a relatable holiday story.

• No human animators or directors were credited.

Why it bites: 
AI can stitch scenes together, but it struggles with the details that make it human.

Brands keep testing generative tools because they’re fast and cheap;
but emotion doesn’t come from the render.

Most viewers don’t care about the tech behind an ad;
They just know when a smile feels two seconds late.

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🐭 Disney Strikes Deal With OpenAI 🤝
→ They signed a deal that lets Sora generate videos using:
Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.

📉 Oracle Shares Dive After Weak Results
→ Its latest earnings knocked about $70B off its value, raising new concerns about that so mentioned bubble.

🧸 AI Toys Trigger New Safety Warnings
→ AI toys may expose kids to unsafe content, privacy risks, or unpredictable behavior.

👻 McDonald’s Pulls ‘Creepy’ Ad
→ It was removed after viewers called the AI visuals “creepy.”

🏫 Schools Explore Remote Teachers and Deepfakes
→ AI deepfakes could help address teacher shortages.