So much to be annoyed at by the Disney company… so so so much, BUT, this was great. No annoying influencers, no crazy fast ADHD style edits, no syrupy and artificially cheery voice over. Just good ol’ BTS content. More of this please!

Amazing to watch Iger absolutely cook his legacy. Bro was legendary prior to 2020 (with a few notable missteps), and every decision since then seems to be not only stupid, but antithetical to the Disney brand as a whole.

I know this video will rub some the wrong way, but I largely agree with all of the central points made. Particularly that blind/uncritical support for Disney, both vocally & financially, leaves us with continually diminished and vision from the company that essentially created the industry.

Saving this for Christmas Day, since the modern ones are horrendous promotional slop

I agree. It’s a movie that takes place during Christmas time. Christmas isn’t a central plot point.

An all-star team of 80s McDonald's holiday ornaments: An American Tail, Oliver & Company, Rescuers Down Under and Little Mermaid!

Learned over Thanksgiving that my parents got hit with the Netflix password sharing. I was paying for the top tier version. Now they have the lowest tier by choice and after I finish stranger things, I’m cancelling. Only reason I’ve kept Netflix was because of my parents lol. Good job!

Disney appears to have met demand for the TRON 4K UHD Steelbook. It has been available for a couple weeks now. Amazon: amzn.to/4iwAWO3 Walmart (via Please Rewind) buff.ly/FKHkgLT #ad The TRON: Legacy 4K UHD Steelbook is another matter. The recent restock completely sold through. More are needed.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Post your favorite Transformers character. Wrong answers only

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This parade couldn’t have been this obvious of a stream of advertisements when we were kids, right? I feel like there was a better mix of entertainment to shilling, but idk if that’s just nostalgia fog. This feels egregious.

me after "Mr. Fantasy" performs in the parade

Best part of the parade tbh

As always, immense respect to musicians playing in cold weather, especially pianists and stringed instruments. Y’all have no idea how painful it is to play busy parts on those instruments with very cold hands lol

I agree. Especially because the marching bands are *actually* performing live and all the celebrities artists are basically pantomiming lol

As a lover of history, so far the (brief) Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade segment from Sean Evans of Hot Ones about the history of the parade has been my favorite so far.

Include me on the chorus of folks who really enjoyed Zootopia 2.

When you see this, post an image from your galley to describe your mental health

me, a mere Anaheim Disneyland local looking at what Disneyland Paris AP prices are and what you get for the top pass there

Star Tours StarSpeeder 1000 is down to $262.50 (25% off) with code MAGIC at the Disney Store (free shipping). buff.ly/3qGXJcI #ad Designed for 3.75" figures, it plays the entire ride footage on its view screen.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

😨😨😨 @progresscityusa.com would you look at this.

WDI dropping a 35+ min YouTube video after @defunctland.bsky.social dropped a whopping 4hr documentary on the failed living character initiative is my kind of Disney humor.

Tech: Went to Disney Interactive to play test a mobile game. Liked the campus so much, I applied for an entry level position. 12 years in the Software QA field. Music: Mom sang in the choir, always wanted me to pursue music since she never did. Played a bunch of instruments but Bass is what stuck!

I’m this old

::sigh::

Four Christmas movies to know me by

Really something to watch them completely murder the Disney Brand between pricing out the middle class, pushing AI content, making nothing but remakes, and refusing to build any attractions that aren’t tied to smaller and smaller numbers of new successful IP…

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Hmmm, I can see why, since ChatGPT gives you an overview and that’s usually enough for most people, but also, Google results now are HORRENDOUS. Between wading through their AI and promoted results and the cluttered UI, it’s just not worth it anymore.

My mom worked in pediatrics at Kaiser, so she’d bring home the older magazines. My favs were highlights, Nickelodeon, EGM, and Disney Adventures.

Saw Bugonia last night and it was great. The less you know about it going in, the better.

It all makes sense when you realize the “conservative group” is selling the shirts lol. I think by next year, I’ll abandon all my ethics and just start grifting the right too. It’s insanely easy and quite profitable!

How much of this year's holiday budget was cut at Disneylad? The Christmas tree has a visual representation 📉

the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad

Today we interviewed character/production designer Mike Giaimo (Frozen, Pocahontas) in his impeccable mid-century home. This was all for the Mary Blair documentary Joe Campana and I are currently producing.

I am so tired of the “content creator” era. It’s like filming the fireworks on your phone. All these videos look the same and somebody already did it better.

This is exactly what I was getting at yesterday. Nobody who really enjoys making AI Slop will want to use this because most slop is entertaining BECAUSE it is inappropriate or wouldn’t be sanctioned by the IP holder.

Based.

Added this to my girlfriend and I’s 2 person book club.

“Hey we could put all the OOP Disney Treasures DVDs on streaming” “Nah, let’s let our users generate AI slop”

The majority of AI slop I see seems to exist primarily because the content is otherwise too taboo to exist, whether that be racist, sexually explicit, hyper violent, or just plain misinformation/lying. I would imagine Disney will try and safeguard against that, so who is the market for this?

::sigh:: Will this regime ever end?!?

Saw Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” for the first time here over a decade ago. Need to go back!

One of my favorite Film YouTube channels, Cineflix, did a great video outlining how all the James Bond movies are the same Bond 4 years ago. I thought I was out of the loop since that was news to me, but apparently it’s news to almost all of us lol

Brilliant storytelling is when the Incredibles shout plot at you through the speakers on a roller coaster.

This era cannot end soon enough. Although I’m not very excited about the rumored succession…

Never heard of this YouTuber before, and I don’t watch Disney influencer content, but it got recommended and I watched. I agree with much of it. Complaints generally boil down to guest culture and the need for everyone to make the parks their personal revenue source and Disney being too expensive