Disney - An Empire In Collapse

Disney used to touch our hearts. Now they touch us inappropriately.

Disney turned me from a 40 year Star Wars fan into someone who didn't care anymore about that galaxy far far away. Good job.

"Disney built by geniuses, inherited by idiots" -The Critical Drinker Well said, mate. Sadly. Well said.

If Walt Disney saw what they did to his company he would probably wish he never started it.

"Despite all my joking around, I don't want them to fail." That's where we differ. Disney's manipulation of copyright law has been enough for me to want them to fail for years. The fact that we now live in a world where nearly every one of my favourite movie IPs has been absorbed by their amoeba like form is frightening.

Disney has recently done something that the ABBA group refused to do at the time Once a member and producer of the band ABBA Benny Andersson was asked in an interview , " You are a mega popular band , a very huge number of people listen to you - why don 't you raise important issues such as political and social in your texts ?" to which he directly replied , " As soon as we start singing about political and social topics , a huge part of our audience will stop listening to us - that 's why we sing only about good and love , and EVERYONE likes it "

As someone who has a 4 year old boy living in the Philippines I have purchased all the old Disney classics. Bambi. Dumbo. Peter Pan. Etc. because I want him to see the world the way Walt Disney wanted kids to see it. Is to bad Disney has lost its way for both the company and the audience.

It was awesome to have our kids during the Disney renaissance and go to the cinéma to see the new Disney movies. All of them had distinguishable artstyle and à good story to tell. My daughters liked Mulan and hercule the most and I had to bought the vhs twice because the cassettes were played so often that they gave up. When a new Disney movie came out in cinema, It was a very significant even that we wouldn't miss and even as adults, we loved the experiences. If you would have told me that Disney will became what it is today, I wouldn't have believed you but here we are. Edit: English isn't my language.

Seeing Disney, the company/creator of both our childhoods and adulthoods, destroy itself is both depressing and saddening but utterly satisfying at the same time.

"Puss in Boots: the Last Wish" was a movie Disney wished it made. That was incredible. Universal crushed it on the animated front in 2022.

The "go away now" was perfectly timed with the Scar kills Mufasa scene 👌

I read this quote the other day that I think sums up Disney perfectly - "When pushing an agenda takes priority over telling a story you have a problem."

Lucas buying back Lucasfilm at a discount and throwing everything Disney did in the trash is the first true happy thought I've had this week.

nuDisney’s 3 step strategy : 1)buy the Golden Goose for stupid amounts of money. 2) then immediately slaughter it. 3) be genuinely clueless as to why you’re not getting any golden eggs.

Disney, gold standard in animated storytelling. Miyazaki: And I took that personally!

The real issue is this. Disney has lost Walt’s vision for what Disney was supposed to be. They are suffering from a severe case of vision drift.

“I’m old enough to remember when Disney were the gold standard in animation” I feel that. Oh how time flies.

Disney is the embodiment of "Congratulations, you've played yourself!"

On the theme park front there is also something else to consider: Over the years disney has made the costs of their theme park packages more expensive while simultaneously cutting out what you paid for. For example in the past the shuttle service from a resort/hotel to disney would be part of your package but now has been cut out and you now have to pay for that like a fare fee, but your price for the entire package itself still has gone up for whatever reasons. So in essence you pay more money for less services. And in the current day and age when people don’t have money to swim in unless youre bezos that kind of price gouging makes more people decide to spend their money elsewhere

MSFT down 40k, AAPL down 35k, Draft Kings down 6k, DIS down 15K, AMZN down 8k, and my wife doesn’t know. I'm just hanging on to Jim Cramer's words about opportunities in volatile times so perhaps, I either wait for a recovery or pick profitable investments to substitute for my loss.