viktor-the-leshen:

rottingelysium-deactivated20240:

Rule

“Woah… what is this place?”

*Demons by Imagine Dragons starts playing*

“This… is Cum City!”

THIS IS MY KINGDOM COME, THIS IS MY KINGDOM COME

adobe-outdesign:

Muppet fact of the day: One of the Muppet show’s pilot episodes was called “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence”, but the Muppets are owned by Disney now and Disney really doesn’t like the word “sex” so they insist on just calling it “the Muppet Show Pilot”

anyway reblog this forbidden image of Jim Henson in front of the Sex and Violence title card to make Disney mad

Cruise commercials making clear how much of the value proposition is “a vacation that keeps your 5-11yo kids entertained but you don’t have to do Disney shit”

“Disney World is the only chance most people get to experience a walkable community” voice: Disney World is the only chance most people get to experience a dollar-pegged currency

marisatomay:

cannot truly describe the feeling that just came over me upon seeing this but the best estimation is a simultaneous need to laugh hysterically and also fucking die

probablybadrpgideas:

probablybadrpgideas:

probablybadrpgideas:

Disney is secretly run by a True Fae because the two elements of Arcadia are stories and contracts so by using complex contracts to get control of all stories it can become the the most powerful being in Faerie send tweet

Ok this was a while ago but I just remembered how many early disney movies have the moral “Faeries are cute and harmless and if you meet one, take anything it offers and follow it wherever it wants to go.”

I’ve connected the dots.

Horror RPGs, smugly: You know, Fae aren’t nearly as friendly as Disney portrays them.

Me, nervously grabbing an iron horseshoe: Wait, why is Disney so invested in convincing people the Fae are friendly?

You know I’m not sure I really grokked like, the incorporation of Charlton Comics into DC until I saw Disney absorb Pixar and act like Toy Story was a Disney classic when I remembered it at the time as a challenge

kontextmaschine:

I mean everywhere I get calls them Pennsylvania Dutch, consider that part of the reason carnival and fair rides often have Alpine theming (and honestly even smaller indie amusement parks have pretty German-ass fairy tale theming, and why even Six Flags parks will have Oktoberfest-ass beer hall band shells) is that a lot of American amusement fair culture is honestly pretty German-tinted, and a lot of it specifically comes out of German-settled Pennsylvania and Ohio

You ever think about how the Disneyland logo

is in a Blackletter font, underneath a banner-flying castle representing the central feature of the park, modeled on Neuschwanstein Castle in Disney’s Brothers Grimm period?

argumate:

trydianth:

argumate:

argumate:

weird coincidence where Walt Disney and Ray Kroc were both born in Illinois in 1901 and 1902 respectively, both lied about their age to enlist in the ambulance service in WWI, both got assigned to the same unit and shipped out to France, both moved to Southern California after returning to the US.

Kroc wanted to open a McDonald’s in Disneyland and it didn’t go ahead and he harboured a grudge for the rest of his life to the point of planning to open his own competing theme park next door (!)

The most that McDonalds ever set foot in Disneyland was a French fry stand in Frontier land that looked like a covered wagon. As far as I know that is.

that’s hilarious, we salute the brave McDonald’s pioneers / colonisers

theriu:

thecottageinthedark:

mooncustafer:

shorthistorian:

theriu:

theriu:

It has just occurred to me that of all the characters in Winnie the Pooh, the only ones that lack both fingerless stuffing hands and faint seam lines (the indications that someone is a stuffed animal) are Rabbit and Owl. Which carries the possible implication that Rabbit and Owl are just a normal rabbit and owl living with a bunch of sentient stuffed animals.

And somehow this makes Rabbit’s constant consternation with all of his neighbors even funnier to me.

Theyre also the only ones with bushy eyebrows and chest and chin floof, and I dont know if thats relevant but it FEELS relevant!

Also someone mentioned Gopher too and OF COURSE, there is absolutely no argument that this whistling little man isn’t just an average (talking) gopher.

The more I examine this the more it feels just so OBVIOUS

You are exactly right! Most of the characters in the stories are based on the real Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed toys except for Rabbit and Owl who were added for the books and Gopher who is exclusive to the Disney adaptations.

Here are the real Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, and Eeyore. They currently live at the New York Public Library.

It’s fairly clear in the book illustrations too:

‘Owl,’ said Rabbit shortly, ‘you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest – and when I say thinking I mean thinking – you and I must do it.’

Milne, A. A.; E. H. Shepard. The House at Pooh Corner (pp. 78-79). Egmont UK Ltd. Kindle Edition.

This post has been getting a surge of attention and let me tell you that 1) I am really pleased at how kind most of the people who KNEW all this have been in explaining it, and 2) I feel a lot better seeing just how many other people didn’t have any more clue of this than I did XD It’s kinda nice being part of a post thats spreading some fun knowledge in a nice way!

Also thank you to the gracious @roofermadness in the tags for complimenting my astuteness on figuring this out from the animation character designs, you are so nice to say so and I appreciate you 🥰

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

arahir:

arahir:

i am literally offering $50 to any person who can find a definitive answer to this question: why was the famous movie the name of the rose (1986), starring sean connery, banned in the united states as of november 2020?

EDIT: SOLVED. disney did it.

so it turns out this isn’t the only movie this has happened to. see this article:

and then you can see this spreadsheet (go to missing movies) to find others.

thank you to people in the replies for telling me about 20th century fox properties being acquired and shuttered by disney and for the cocoon reference which lead me down the rabbit hole to a definitive answer. disney is really here to fuck us over.

Anyway, what I mean is artificial shortages and market manipulation like this are exactly why pirating from Disney is a moral good. Fuck their media monopoly, fuck their Disney Vault, it’s a pirate’s life for me.

Prior to the home video market era Disney regularly re-released their Golden Age films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in theaters on a cycle such that they would each be “in season” once per childhood. The Gremlins in the theater in Gremlins (1984) are watching such a re-release, I saw Bambi in Cooperstown, NY as a kindergartner or so. With the rise of VHS and then the late 80s–90s “Disney Renaissance” of new “classics” Disney carried over these limited windows of availability, even if the “once in a childhood” reasoning no longer applied.

smuganimebitch:

smuganimebitch:

smuganimebitch:

imo all movies being some kind of superhero shit paid for by disney is kind of like when every painting and sculpture was some jesus shit comissioned by the catholic church

marvel movies

• enormous collaborative projects that involve hundreds of people
• beloved by the masses
• functions as propaganda for US foreign policy

cathedrals

• enormous collaborative projects that involve hundreds of people
• beloved by the masses
• functions as propaganda for the catholic church

i’ll be honest this was less an attempt to make a serious point and more of an attempt to upset marvel fans and catholics with one post

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

argumate:

and it might just be my imagination, but Disney treats this hybrid Polynesian culture with an awkward delicacy that keeps them at a remove from the viewer, especially in the triumphant final scenes, which actually came across as slightly tragic to me; “this is us, the people, these are our ways, this is what we do” – modernity looks at this and simply smiles.

oh shit was Moana a backdoor Polynesian Village adaptation, like POTC or Tomorrowland?

shit man you’re the Disney Americana history specialist you tell me

I don’t have kids, the last Disney-not-Pixar movie I noticed was Lilo & Stitch, which was the previous attempt at a Polynesian princess

>tfw your one mutual reblogs something about how a Disney movie made her realize in her 20s that feudalism requires inequality

>while your other mutual reblogs some Disney shit about how neoliberalism is the guarantor of equality

>I’m doing these wrong, right?

hey has anyone done the take that the “cultural appropriation” thing is Disney’s fault for enclosing so much public domain and denying the creation of new cultural commons and thus inspiring an economy of scarcity?

mapsontheweb:

Walt Disney World’s Utilidors: the hidden service tunnels that run below the Magic Kingdom.

coolyo294:

mickey mouse advocates for the violent overthrow of governmental institutions this december 

shkreli-for-president:

tomasnau:

libertarian–princess:

libertarian–princess:

Okay real talk: I can’t be the only one who finds it incredibly creepy when furries interact with children, right? Like, going to parks in their fursuits and shit just to talk to kids, that’s super creepy, right???

SERIOUSLY THIS IS NOT OKAY

fire up the ovens, folks