#experimental era

[technicallymaximumkitty]

the experimental era of Disney really did went "what if we made all our protagonists neurodivergent"

[zipzapzopzoop]

When the Robinsons are attacking the time machine, there's a moment, and I'm talking a fraction of a second, where we can see Laszlo's eyes. I slowed it down to see it better.

I just thought it was a cool detail and wanted to share.

[artist-issues]

What do you enjoy and not enjoy about Chicken Little the movie?

Would you have preferred a girl chicken as originally intended?

I personally have trouble deciding because I like the one we got, he's silly, but the girl looked cute and I think she had potential too.

I love the Chicken Little movie! Probably because of my childhood nostalgia. It was on so often on the Disney Channel. But also because it's one of the Disney movies that can genuinely get a laugh out of me even after all these re-watches. (Another is Meet the Robinsons)

I love that Chicken Little's friends all have a specific type of media that they represent. Runt is music. Abby is literature. Fish (my favorite character) is movies. Because the point of the movie is communication and those things are how that group of misfits communicate.

I love that the whole story is so simple: it's just about a kid who feels like his dad doesn't "support him." But what he really is feeling is "I have to earn my dad's love."

And of course that's not true. But his dad makes him feel like that because Buck has the same feeling of inadequacy that Chicken Little has. Chicken Little spends every day compensating for how small and incapable he feels. Buck spends every day compensating for how bad of a dad he is.

He keeps saying "your mom was always good with stuff like this," and apologizing over and over before anything's even gone wrong, and he'd rather "lay low" than try harder, because he's given up before he even gets started. He doesn't believe he should even try because it doesn't come naturally to him, what to say or do, when his son is hurting.

But you know what, baseball doesn't come naturally to Chicken Little! Crossing the street doesn't come naturally to him! And he keeps trying anyway. The one thing Chicken Little won't try is clearly communicating what hurts.

Which is also a really good parallel to what's going on with the aliens. They freak out and panic because they think the earthlings have stolen their kid. The earthlings freak out and panic because they think the aliens are coming to wipe out their home. But nobody's actually communicating with each other. Just like Chicken Little's whole relationship with his dad is broken because they won't communicate with each other.

And speaking of insecurity, you know why Chicken Little's and his friends don't immediately think the aliens are just there to harvest acorns? (Because why would they guess that--but I mean, on a meta-narrative level) Because the whole TOWN has the same insecurity problem Chicken Little and his dad suffer from! They're a town centered around acorns. They have great acorns. Why wouldn't they assume the aliens are there for their acorns? Because the acorns aren't "mighty." They lose all their baseball games to neighboring towns. Their mayor is inept. They rush into a panic the moment anyone sounds the alarm.

It's a stretch but not really

I love that Chicken Little's motto is "today is a new day." I love that. It's very Disney. And speaking of being very Disney, despite the Experimental Era:

Our buddy The Wishing Star is in this movie.

sighhhh

I wish they made honest simple little movies with heart like this, still.

[disneylover-101]

[the-rum-tum-hatter]

idk if theres any home on the range fans out there but here's some humanizations I made

[1mnott0ne]

I was feeling experimental 

This is for you @champmorado

[cosmicsponge2004]

Clearing Up Sonic Info: SHIRO MAEKAWA

As we know, Shiro Maekawa was a Writer, Game Designer, and Storyboarder for Sonic Games in the 2000's. However, many seem to no know just WHAT he wrote. So I shall provide a list.

Now, I have some notes to provide about the situations for 3 of these games (half.)

In Sonic 06, he was only a script writer. Dialouge only. Story was done by Kiyoko Yoshimura. Who wrote for Sonic X and would later go on to be the writer for Unleashed (Sonic World Adventure)

In Secret Rings, Maekawa was scenario Writer BUT the story editor and director "Yojiro Ogawa" rewrote 50% Of it. Thus, Ogawa is also the writer for secret rings. Not just Maekawa

In Riders Zero Gravity, He was only the story plotter (basically an organizer before the main scenario Writer starts writing) with the Main Scenario Writer being Masahiko Shiraishi (also from Sonic X). With help from "Hiroshi Miyamoto", The Writer from the original Sonic Riders, as Story Plotter with Mr. Maekawa. Triple Threat

There's rumors that he was also plotter on the Original Writers (with Miyamoto as Scenario Writer) including Windii saying he DM'd someone saying it but it hasn't been proven. Only the Scenario Writer (Miyamoto) was credited in the credits but Maekawa also went uncredited in the Storybook Games, but those Excluded all writers. Riders still credits a scenario writer. So it's UNCONFIRMED

Despite what many say, Shiro Maekawa didn't write for Sonic X. He was just a supervisor and occasionally gave ideas. Mainly during The Materex Saga (Season 3).

Source (Storybook Games & Sonic X):

[disneylover-101]