Disney General - The saddest fandom on Earth

[Betonhaus]

Well I'll add it to my server, it sounds like it isn't completely ruined, and maybe Disney will get the message that people enjoy stuff that isn't woke.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

I'm just glad it turned out to be decent. I had next to no faith in current Pixar delivering a sequel that even approaches the quality of the original, but reading reviews I guess they did it. Toy Story 2 remains the best Pixar sequel though.

Toy Story 2 is my favorite Pixar movie period, even more than the first one!

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I'm wondering if Pete Docter had a final say in Inside Out 2 or something. Like you just know they were considering turning Riley gay or even trans but because she's literally based off of his own daughter, he might've stepped in and supervised them to make sure none of that shit made its way in. Hell, he might've threatened to walk away from Pixar and since he's like the last of the original founders (unless Andrew Stanton's still there), his departure would be the heat death of Pixar instead of the slow, quiet death-spiral it's in.

I dunno. Still not interested in seeing it, I'm just relieved to hear they didn't fuck with this movie like they were the previous titles.

Well Andrew Stanton is involved with Toy Story 5 if I remember correctly.

 

[mlanguishi]

Toy Story 2 is my favorite Pixar movie period, even more than the first one!

It's the only Disney animation movie since the classics like the ending of Pinocchio or parts of Bambi that really has an emotional punch. Jessie's song.. I can just think of it and it chokes me up. TS1 is almost as good. TS2, 1, and then Wall-E are my top 3. Ratatouiie would be#4, and all the rest are quite a bit off of those. Up has a great beginning but even that didn't hit me that hard, and overall it was probably the 5th best for me. Then TS3.

After those I really can't even say I liked any of the others, even the Nemo ones.

 

[cactus]

A family member might go out later this year to California to help out our elderly and sick family members. They thought about going to Disney for a day, but a one day ticket costs $185. They saw that and said they think they won't be going to Disney ever again if that's how the prices are now. I remember 20-25 years ago tickets were $20 to $35. That's also when they had rides that actually worked and were made by competent imagineers

They were closer to $60 20 years ago.

 

[Kit Marz]

They were closer to $60 20 years ago.

I guess I'm still not at terms the 90s were 30 years ago. In the 90s kid tickets were around $25 and adult tickets were around $35. It wasn't uncommon to bring a friend to the park. That definitely won't happen again

 

[GenociderSyo]

California Disney I find to be more of a rip off then Florida Disney. It is more expensive for less parks even with a park hopper.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I guess I'm still not at terms the 90s were 30 years ago. In the 90s kid tickets were around $25 and adult tickets were around $35. It wasn't uncommon to bring a friend to the park. That definitely won't happen again

Ah yes, the simpler times before Disney had their heads up their asses and marketing took over their parks which made things worse

 

[Seventh Star]

After those I really can't even say I liked any of the others, even the Nemo ones.

Finding Nemo is the most obnoxious movie I had to watch as a kid, and I hated every single character in it. Especially the fish at the dentist's aquarium, I just wanted them to shut up.

 

[Kit Marz]

Disney autist Poseidon Entertainment released a video on the new Princess and the Frog ride. He starts off the video by saying that the Uncle Remus ride, movie, and stories are racist and problematic and he will "ban" people who try to argue the contrary.

The thing is they aren't racist. In the movie, Uncle Remus is a free man who can come and go as he pleases. And actually does leave to find new employment. The family had to apologize to him in order for him to come back. If you still think the character of Uncle Remus is racist, the ride doesn't feature him, but features actual African American folk-lore. The stories were publish because Harris grew to love the slaves we worked with and thought their stories were worth preserving. We hear all the time that voices and stories matter, but the stories of actual slaves don't count and are actually racist.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Disney autist Poseidon Entertainment released a video on the new Princess and the Frog ride. He starts off the video by saying that the Uncle Remus ride, movie, and stories are racist and problematic and he will "ban" people who try to argue the contrary.

The thing is they aren't racist. In the movie, Uncle Remus is a free man who can come and go as he pleases. And actually does leave to find new employment. The family had to apologize to him in order for him to come back. If you still think the character of Uncle Remus is racist, the ride doesn't feature him, but features actual African American folk-lore. The stories were publish because Harris grew to love the slaves we worked with and thought they're stories were worth preserving. We hear all the time that voices and stories matter, but the stories of actual slaves don't count and are actually racist.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUBSjcXrCUY

There is some delicious irony that historical black folklore made by slaves is considered racist and shameful, but a scifi alternate history made by a white guy is symbolic and praise worthy.

 

[cactus]

Disney autist Poseidon Entertainment released a video on the new Princess and the Frog ride. He starts off the video by saying that the Uncle Remus ride, movie, and stories are racist and problematic and he will "ban" people who try to argue the contrary.

The thing is they aren't racist. In the movie, Uncle Remus is a free man who can come and go as he pleases. And actually does leave to find new employment. The family had to apologize to him in order for him to come back. If you still think the character of Uncle Remus is racist, the ride doesn't feature him, but features actual African American folk-lore. The stories were publish because Harris grew to love the slaves we worked with and thought their stories were worth preserving. We hear all the time that voices and stories matter, but the stories of actual slaves don't count and are actually racist.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUBSjcXrCUY

Even better, the man who played Uncle Remus was the first black actor Disney ever hired.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Even better, the man who played Uncle Remus was the first black actor Disney ever hired.

AND he was the first black man to win an Academy Award for his performance. Uncle Walt himself personally lobbied for said Oscar win. And yet, what does the current CEO of Disney say about this legitimate black achievement?

Iger responded to an audience question about whether the full Disney library one day will appear on the service by affirming that particular movie is “not appropriate in today’s world” and won’t be rereleased.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

the Brer Rabbit stories are mostly allegories for blacks getting away from white oppressors
so it's understandable why libs are mad they exist

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

 

[Starscream's Loyalty]

They were closer to $60 20 years ago.

Can vouch. Went in 2006. Was a tall kid so I got to go on all the rides I wanted.

 

[Murder of Crows]

I guess I'm still not at terms the 90s were 30 years ago. In the 90s kid tickets were around $25 and adult tickets were around $35. It wasn't uncommon to bring a friend to the park. That definitely won't happen again

A trip to Disneyland used to be so easy around 1998/9 my mother would pick me up after school and go down for the afternoon. Now its reservations, trying to figure out a stupid app and a set back of $300 for two people.

 

[Kit Marz]

A trip to Disneyland used to be so easy around 1998/9 my mother would pick me up after school and go down for the afternoon. Now its reservations, trying to figure out a stupid app and a set back of $300 for two people.

That's been my experience, too. People today think that I grew up in a rich household because we would go once a year in the 90s and sometimes would bring a friend. We were really poor, but we lived about three hours away and the cost for all 5 of us was only around $150. It was something that really almost anyone could afford before. I have no idea how families are able to go now, especially since from what I've heard the Genie plus is almost mandatory. That's another hundred or so per day for a family.

I was curious about the other Disney parks and the one in Japan costs around $50-$65 USD depending on the day. That one is supposed to be the superior park where everything actually works. I know it's owned by a different company, but it just shows how mismanaged Disney is.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Now its reservations

this is the biggest fucking thing for me

when I was a kid we were about three hours from Disney World so there was the back burner "well... we _could_ just dip up to Disney World for the rest of the day" with the Three/Four Season Salute passes, basically FL resident offer of what were usually the low-attendance periods

back in the 00s wife and me lived about a half hour from Disney World and had the "weekday only" passes and we'd regularly go have fun just heading over to the parks whenever we damn well felt like it since we worked heavily on the weekends

without the spontaneity of just going somewhere as you felt the parks became SUCH a fucking chore
hell, I was buttmad about food reservations become such a cunt after the dining pass happened

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

and the one in Japan costs around $50-$65 USD depending on the day.

to be fair before the Yen shit the bed this decade it would have technically cost $100-150

and we'd regularly go have fun just heading over to the parks whenever we damn well felt like

thats sort of hilarious in hindsight, a big reason Eisner tried shit like Disney Nightclubs or disney arcades for teens and young adults to flock to is because disney was so cheap for residents and so beloved people would just hang out there. By accident Disney accomplished what Starbucks spent billions to do and became a lot of people's "third place"

Now saying you and your friends would hang out at disney sounds like something for trust fund tiktokers to brag about instead of what punks who didn't want to sit at home would do.