The Disney Revolution is a movement that a bunch of true Disney fans decided to start shortly after the company’s threat to replace the Song of the South characters in Splash Mountain with ones from The Princess and the Frog. When the company made the announcement on June 25th, 2020, that was the last straw for most true Disney fans. This was the one that not only broke the camel’s back but shattered it, making it impossible to deny any longer that The Walt Disney Company has had its magic systematically taken away from it piece by piece over the last 3 decades!
The company has largely stopped caring about its true fans and what they want and decided to ignore concerns and feedback from their guests. To make matters worse, they have given in to political correctness and woke society-destroying agendas such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter every single time. And they’re not even good at it! Disney’s attempts at virtue-signaling just come off as hollow and insincere, not actually giving people what they want and doing nothing to solve real-world problems. The Chinese have a word for this: baizuo, to describe such insincere public declarations of social consciousness. These uninformed decisions have not only caused the company to become a mockery and result in fans abandoning them, but they have helped put the company in a financially vulnerable position at a time when it can ill afford it.
The company has clearly forgotten that it was true fans like us, flocking to Disney parks from every corner of the globe, who made The Walt Disney Company as successful as it had been. Had they actually listened to them and gave them what they actually ask for, they would realize that’s what helped the company become one of the largest in the world. But that success has come at a cost. Not only have far too many executives and managers whom The Walt Disney Company has put in such positions since at least the early 1990s abandoned all of us—they have actively turned their backs on the company’s roots, history and the golden standards that Walt Disney himself created and that the company strove to uphold for a while after his death.
One of the most important things is their standards of maintenance, something that should never be ignored if for no other reason than consideration of the safety of guests. But even that has been in decline lately. Among the many missteps that Disney has made over the past 3 decades include:
—Cutting corners wherever possible on maintenance, upkeep, repairs and cleanliness throughout the Disney parks and resorts, resulting in things from a sinking boat on Jungle Cruise to a sinking log on Splash Mountain!
—New and promising projects getting compromised or cut altogether as a result of constant budget-cutting, penny-pinching and promise-breaking in addition to outright lies.
—Eliminating Live Entertainment in the parks, even though Social Distancing is NOT involved in most of those cuts!
—The variety of meet-and-greet characters throughout the parks has been all-too-greatly reduced.
—Cast members being very poorly trained, including in terms of learning how to handle and recognize people with neurological disorders such as Autism! (How to handle a meltdown!)
—The Parks and their offerings have become way too focused on children, giving adults the shaft, even though the parks are supposed to be “family-friendly”.
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—Cast members’ and characters’ interactions have become too rigid and discriminatory with too many policies put in place, and they have become less outgoing and less willing to be very affectionate and interactive (giving kisses on the cheek, partner dancing, etc., without question or saying stupid mean-spirited out-of-character things like “my significant other will get jealous”) with adults and not just the kids, like they used to be.
—The quality of the parades and live shows has gone down. A lot of the newer shows and parades are not as lively, lavish, exciting, high-energy or use as many variety of characters as the older ones, lack actual dancing/choreography, costumes worn by the dancers have become way too modest and less sexy (for lack of a better term), etc.
—Everything has become way too sanitized, watered-down and made politically correct. This manifests itself in the neutering of classic attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean, such as changing the auction scene.
—Removing popular, highly beloved attractions that never should’ve been removed such as The Great Movie Ride, the original Journey Into Imagination (which even Michael Eisner called a 'disaster of a change'), World of Motion, Horizons, Kitchen Kabaret, Universe of Energy, the Walt Disney World version of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, the Disneyland versions of Country Bear Jamboree and the Peoplemover and the Disney California Adventure version of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, to name a few examples.
—Replacing attractions instead of ADDING!
—Announcing a re-theme of the highly popular Splash Mountain, as covered in my previous article.
—Refusing to stand up to the outrage industry and becoming spineless and cowardly by giving in to groups of constant complainers, moral guardians, social justice warriors, etc., who will NEVER EVER be happy no matter what the company does!
—Taking away popular seasonal holiday offerings in the parks, such as Walt Disney World getting rid of the Country Bear Vacation Hoedown, Country Bear Christmas Special, the Lights Of Winter, The Osborne Family Spectacle Of Dancing Lights, etc., and refusing to add more seasonal offerings such as bringing Haunted Mansion Holiday and It’s a Small World Holiday to the East coast, eliminating the full version of the Magic Kingdom’s Easter Parade, etc.
—Discontinuing the celebration of other ethnic events, such as Chanukah and Kwanza, which were celebrated during Michael Eisner’s tenure!
—The quality of certain seasonal events like Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party has greatly diminished.
—Keeping Song of the South, a fantastic classic movie that is not racist in any way, locked away in the studio vault, while offering only a bare minimum of Walt-era and pre-1990s classic catalog titles on Disney+ or on DVD and Blu-ray when some of the few titles they do offer are edited despite the majority of audiences preferring to see them all uncut and uncensored.
—Allowing the parks and resorts to get way too overcrowded, making for much less magical and enjoyable experiences at them.
—Constantly raising prices and taking away free perks.
—Being too hell-bent on their “popular” franchises such as the Disney Princesses and Star Wars and not doing more with equally-beloved franchises that have TONS of untapped potential such as the Muppets and Roger Rabbit.
—Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy not following George Lucas’s original plans for the Star Wars sequel trilogy and ruining the character of Luke Skywalker and the Star Wars franchise as a whole.
—Attempting to inject politics and political agendas into the Disney parks and other Disney media, even though such entertainment is supposed to be a source of escapism and a way for people to get away from all that nonsense for a while, not have even more of it forced down their throats! Politics are not allowed in entertainment!
—Not accepting ideas or suggestions from fans and other people outside the company, especially if they are ideas that could help make things even better.
—Killing traditional hand-drawn animated features, making Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios almost indistinguishable from each other and taking away what made each of them special.
—Not doing a good enough job of reaffirming what is or isn’t canon (such as reaffirming that the direct-to-video sequels and TV shows based on Disney animated canon features are non-canonical), causing lots of confusion.
—Doing business with communist countries such as China.
And that is only the beginning.
Among the many goals we are looking to achieve as part of The Disney Revolution is reversing all these mistakes and more and bringing the company back to its former glory and bringing things they never should’ve taken away!
Here is the link to The Disney Revolution Facebook page.
And please join my Help
Save Splash Mountain Facebook group as well—help it reach 1,000
members by June 30!
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