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[disney-universes]

Sonny Eclipse during installation

https://twitter.com/GoAwayGreen/status/727346783970537472

[disney-universes]

Unpainted Food Rocks figures with 9-Eye just kinda hanging out in the background just highlighting Food Rocks’s lack of a budget.

[deckervsdracula]

Heartbroken that theyre closing the aerosmith rollercoaster at disney world, keep me in your thoughts in this hard time

[relaxxattack]

i know this is just one post on tumblr but i am BEGGING people who can to be loud about strange world.

it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!

please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!

let the idiots at the top know we WANT better representation in movies!

[starfieldcanvas]

it's transparently obvious that they did zero promotion on this movie. my entire twitter timeline was people going "I've never heard of this until today?" plus a movie theater employee confirming they never saw any attempt to promote the movie:

After drowning in Encanto and Turning Red and Lightyear promos, and getting a decent amount of Raya promos - all films with prominent characters of color, including black women in Lightyear's case - it kind of seems like a specific slight to the one movie featuring an unmissable black/white interracial marriage and a biracial queer lead who, spoilers! actually gets an (also interracial!) romance on-screen.

I'm sure tumblr will be quick to attribute Disney's mistreatment of the film to the cute teen m/m subplot, but don't sleep on the interracial relationship aspect - it's not a fluke that the Respect for Marriage Act had to insist on protections for both same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. It's both! It's both.

Even looking to Disney's most famous interracial relationship that features a black person - namely Tiana and Naveen - they followed the same pattern as the movie Hitch famously did, by making the black character's love interest neither black nor white - black/black is seen as making the whole movie a "black movie," i.e. alienating white audiences, while black/white would be even more of a source of controversy than a black princess alone had been.

Now here we are, over a decade later, and Disney's still scared to promote a movie where one protagonist is in a black/white marriage and the other protagonist is that guy's biracial kid.

Radio ads, huh? You know... the one type of ad where you can't see what the characters look like.

[ethanrayne]

The only place I’ve seen trailers for this was Youtube- a place where there’s still a “skip ads” button that I assume most people use- and those trailers very much did not give any information about the movie, when I actually let the ad play through. They seemed like just... clips of funny quips with no hint of what the plot was beyond what can be gleaned from the title, and not even a hint about who or what the characters’ relationships are or... any of the things that might tell me why I would want to watch the movie. I think I might’ve seen ONE trailer, months ago, that actually explained anything about the story at all?? And I watch a lot of stuff on Youtube, and get a lot of Disney ads on Youtube, and still only saw a very few ads for the movie. I saw ads for Lightyear approximately every three videos and yet have only seen ads for Strange Worlds... a dozen times since I saw the first one, which was the longer trailer that I only remembered seeing once I heard the movie was doing badly- I hadn’t seen the trailer enough times for it to be memorable, or to associate it with being the same movie as the weird clip show trailers I’d seen recently.

Essentially, even in the places they did actually promote the film visually, they did so very poorly, and they seem to have only promoted it visually in a place almost no one would actually watch the ad.

[disney-universes]

A Buzzy field guide by Twitter’s resident Buzzy scholar Bunny Wars.

https://twitter.com/bunny_wars/status/1582956660548456448

[giveageeksomelove-deactivated20]

This is a pretty awesome thing. EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration, aired in 1982. 

You get to really see Epcot when it was in it’s infancy, even before the Norway pavilion was put in. They talk about World Showcase pavilions that never were, like Equatorial Africa, Spain, and Israel. 

It’s full of rather cheesy musical numbers, but it’s great. 

[campyvillain]

…minnie is what

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

Back on my uquiz bullshit: which defunct disney world ride are you?

[tophthedaydreamer]

NOOOOOOO

[girl-sim-deactivated20230806-de]

I hope Disney and Florida kill eachother

[richardjager-deactivated2023010]

[capturingdisney]

Concept art by Mary Blair for Cinderella (1950)

[idreamofthemeparks]

I'm sure that Disney will have no ulterior motives, political or otherwise, from having people live on property like this. I'm also sure that it will remain affordable forever and that only the most normal and well-adjusted members of the public will choose to live here!

[a-land-of-shadow-and-substance]

I recently thought of an issue with Galaxy’s Edge I’ve seldom seen discussed: how freaking empty it is between the marketplace and the Rise of the Resistance entrance.

I mean, I know it’s that way to accommodate the size of ROTR’s show building.  And, theoretically, a long stretch of greenery could be a “relaxation zone” between the hectic areas around both ride entrances.  However, there’s not any benches or picnic tables to facilitate such “relaxation”; everyone’s just expected to trek right through that area on their way from one end of the land to the other.

It’s a really weird and frustrating design choice, and it feels like a waste of space in a land (and, on the west coast, a park) that is already so low on that resource.

[a-land-of-shadow-and-substance]

Thematically, the tie-in novels provide a clue: The Resistance Outpost is supposed to be waaaaaay far out hidden in the woods, away from Black Spire city.  However, I’m not sure if the novels were written to explain the gap in the land, rather than the land reflecting existing canonical story (the books are specifically written as tie-ins, after all).

And even if they did commit to using valuable park space to reflect a canonical location… why can’t the woods at least have some benches or something?  With how crowded the park is becoming, quieter rest areas like the much-missed Court of Angels could be well appreciated.

[a-land-of-shadow-and-substance]

Okay, so looking in the notes I saw a tag that said “It’s fucking Project Stardust!”, so I decided to look that up.

So, Stardust was their initiative to make walkways more efficient and guest-friendly throughout the park. While in other areas, that was implemented as removing planters and changing stroller parking to make walkways more accessible, in Galaxy’s Edge they decided to implement it as… one giant empty walkway.  Which doesn’t even make sense for accessibility or guest flow.  Both overflow queues for the attractions go AWAY from the walkway in question, so it can’t even serve as overflow space.

I think the imagineers might legitimately not have known what to do with this space!  And didn’t even think to throw some benches along the side so at least it was *something*!  Given how money hungry Disney is, you think they’d have thrown in another few souvenir carts or food stands even!

My other alternate theory: this would have been the space for the canceled 3rd attraction planned for the land.

[disneylanddilettante]

Management doesn’t want guests sitting down and resting their feet during their downtime; they want them in the shops spending money.

[mysticraven17]

Heres some fanart of everyones favorite submechanophobia-fuel animatronic, the sea serpent from an old Disneyland ride called Submarine voyage

[adventurelandia]

Horizons at Disney World.

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

Do you have any Snow White or tiana graphics?

here you go 😊

[asherisimmortal-archive]

I know I’m not a Disney Parks blog in any capacity but 80s Epcot was a vibe

[lunangels-moved]

No thoughts, just the Disney princesses being physically affectionate with one other 💖