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Disney has slashed the prices of its Wish (2023) merchandise – suggesting that the studio has well and truly given up on its latest box office flop.

While Wish was intended to act as a celebration of Disney’s centenary, its performance at the box office has been nothing short of a disappointment. Focused on Asha (Ariana DeBose) as she makes a wish upon a star, the film was packed with references to 100 years of Walt Disney Animation history – something that only put the film’s flaws into focus for some critics.

Just like all of its films, Disney has released a full line of merchandise to support Wish, with items such as a Wishing Star backpack, Asha blanket, and a Wish Spirit Jersey currently available at Disney Parks across the globe.

Now, this line is cheaper than ever at Disneyland Paris as the resort has discounted its Wish merchandise by 30% this week.

On a recent visit to Disneyland Paris, Inside the Magic spotted Wish merchandise discounted in stores across both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park.

That includes Animation Boutique, the Walt Disney Studios Park currently nearly totally dedicated to Wish. The store typically focuses on Disney’s latest releases.

A lot of the #Wish merchandise is on sale, 30% off in various shops.

Yesterday (December 21), Disney also offered a limited-time discount on Wishmerchandise on shopDisney.

It’s been a month since Wish first hit theaters. Slashing prices so quickly doesn’t suggest that Disney has found it easy to shift merchandise for the film – nor does it suggest that it has faith it’ll be able to do so any time soon. Even The Marvels (2023), which became Marvel’s biggest flop to date in November, is yet to meet the same heavily-promoted, discounted fate.

Yesterday (December 21), Disney also offered a limited-time discount on Wishmerchandise on shopDisney.

It’s been a month since Wish first hit theaters. Slashing prices so quickly doesn’t suggest that Disney has found it easy to shift merchandise for the film – nor does it suggest that it has faith it’ll be able to do so any time soon. Even The Marvels (2023), which became Marvel’s biggest flop to date in November, is yet to meet the same heavily-promoted, discounted fate.

 

[tehpope]

Eat shit Disney.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

When you Wish upon a star
Your profits get hit by a car
Or maybe an 18 wheeled truck
(Like that one?) OH FUCK

 

[The Last Stand]

Does this mean that the Wish merch will be worth something since nobody wants it? Oh well.

 

[The Hardest R]

Does this mean that the Wish merch will be worth something since nobody wants it? Oh well.

Yes. Eventually this pile of shit will be retconned as something that is better than what it is and the only reason why it didn’t do well is because of turbogiganazis and its ackchually a classic film. In a few years, these retards will pay top dollar for any Wish merchandise. The downside is you have that shit around in your house for a few years.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

ya think they'll learn why this flopped or are they gonna just put hands over their ears and cry about how fans are racist or something.

 

[The Last Stand]

Yes. Eventually this pile of shit will be retconned at something that is better than what it is and the only reason why it didn’t do well is because of turbogiganazis and its ackchually a classic film. In a few years, these retards will pay top dollar for any Wish merchandise. The downside is you have that shit around in your house for a few years.

Well, that sounds like a personal problem. If you want to resell it, buy it and wait for the right time to potentially make a profit from gullible people or collectors.

 

[The Nothingness]

Does this mean that the Wish merch will be worth something since nobody wants it? Oh well.

Or the merch will end up in the same landfill as the E.T. video game cartridges.

 

[Still Exceptional]

Remember the days when Disney still made traditional animated movies and none of them were ever truly a flop? Even the ones that didn't succeed commercially were widely praised for their story, style, and artistic merit.

 

[Father Fornicatio]

Child slaves in China factories most affected.

 

[Would]

Yes. Eventually this pile of shit will be retconned as something that is better than what it is and the only reason why it didn’t do well is because of turbogiganazis and its ackchually a classic film.

So, early-mid 00s Disney?

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Remember the days when Disney still made traditional animated movies and none of them were ever truly a flop? Even the ones that didn't succeed commercially were widely praised for their story, style, and artistic merit.

The closest thing to a traditional 2D Disney movie that flopped back in the day was Treasure Planet, and that movie was pretty much sabotaged by Iger of whoever the faggot in charge at the time was and their people because of some corporate politics and anger at the fact the dude making it wanted to stick with the "expensive" ways of making movies instead of jumping into the emerging 3D Pixar style animations that were getting cheaper and easier.

 

[Chongqing]

When does AliExpress come out, Disney?

 

[TyrasGuard]

I can't wait for YouTubers to make their 3 hour"Wish is better than you think and here is why!" video essay.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Couple of children of friends saw it recently, they enjoyed it. They couldn't tell me a thing about it but they did not hate the time they were there. One even said it was was the best film they had seen. Of course they immediately added the qualifying word "then" and gave me a list of 3 more films they had seen since they liked more.

When a Disney film gets to that point it all but guarantees low merchandise sales.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Focused on Asha (Ariana DeBose) as she makes a wish upon a star, the film was packed with references to 100 years of Walt Disney Animation history

They didn't advertise it like that at all, but apparently all the references are really dumb and not even worth mocking. A real celebration of Disney's history might have been interesting. Something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. As a kid I got most of the references because the Western animation canon was much smaller and you saw those characters in reruns. There's so much more animation now, it would be extremely difficult to pull the same thing off--but it would have been interesting.

 

[Quijibo69]

Couple of children of friends saw it recently, they enjoyed it.

Kids like anything. I remember playing ET on an old Atari 2600 in the early 1990's and thinking it was better than Jesus.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

ya think they'll learn why this flopped or are they gonna just put hands over their ears and cry about how fans are racist or something.

They would have to purge a lot of general employees and upper management before anything can change and that is going to mean revolt and lawsuits.

 

[Still Exceptional]

The closest thing to a traditional 2D Disney movie that flopped back in the day was Treasure Planet, and that movie was pretty much sabotaged by Iger of whoever the faggot in charge at the time was and their people because of some corporate politics and anger at the fact the dude making it wanted to stick with the "expensive" ways of making movies instead of jumping into the emerging 3D Pixar style animations that were getting cheaper and easier.

Even that was praised and received well by both critics and audiences. And it took the studio sabotaging it to fuck it over.

Hell, the worst received Disney animated movie I can remember was Brother Bear which critics kinda panned but audiences still rated rather highly. And that still ended up making 250.4 million at the box office.

 

[XANA]

Is it me, or is Disney getting shittier at advertising their latest movies? I didn't hear anything about Wish until the movie released.

I'm not saying that their lack of advertising is the cause, not when the movie plot is so thin and retarded that a 5-year old can point out why everyone getting their wish granted is not a good idea. Hell, even WW84 fell into the same plot problem.

There's really nothing distinctive or memorable about the Wish movie, visually or otherwise.