Is Disney Company conflicted over its identity?

I’m starting to wonder for reasons if the Disney company is conflicted over its identity due to shoe-horning in both their  own  (new) Intellectual Properties (IPs) or ones brought from other companies (Piar, or Lucas Films) into the Disney Parks,  but on the other hand, adding both to a park event and also on a new Cruise ship- adding older Intellectual Properities

For years now that Disney company have replaced more popular atrractions with something sort of more “newer”.. like the most recent attraction currently reciving a “replacement” is what the Disney company considers to be an embarrassment (well the movie Song of the South is) the Splash Mountain in Disney Land’s Critter Country-its going to be replaced with 2009’s “Princess and the Frog” ride (still a log-flume) called “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” -A Walkabout Tiana had recently been seen in Disney land in a Bayou outfit.

But lets us head off to Florida to talk about some more recent updates that have happened in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. The most recent replacement that I am aware of in Flordia was the replacment of the Great Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios with a more kiddish (boring?) ride of “Mickey and Minnie Runaway Railway” and another part of the Hollywood Studios in Disney World is Toy Story land or you can meat Pixar characters like Mike and Sulley from Monsters, Inc movie in Pixar Building. Now let’s us go over to EPCOT

In EPOCT in the WorldShowcase in the Norway Pavillion they replaced some time ago the Maelstrom ride with a “”IP” water ride of Frozen: Ever After. And its not just replacing rides due to the popularity apperently of the Trackless Ratatouille ride over in France- that in the France Pavailion at Disney Worl’s EPOCT they added the same ride.

In the Magic Kingdom at WDW they replaced the “Snow White’s Scary Adventures” with the more kid-friendly/boring “The Seven Dwarves’ Mine Train” ride. And well we’re on that subject lets us head back off to California.

They also replaced at Disneyland the opening-day attraction of Snow White’s Scary Adventures with “Snow White’s Enchanted Wish” And of couse what was Paradise Pier in Calforinia Adventure has been replaced with “Pixar Pier” so its obvious what that means-that there’s a lot of Pixar-related content there like you can find Woody, Flik, Nemo, on what is now called “Pixar Pal-A-round” aka the Ferris Wheel. Or you can take a ride on something related to The Incredibles. Somewhere else in .Calrofinia Adventure what had been Tower of Terror ride been replaced with a simliar drop-tower designed but with “Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout” Now let us head over to France for a bit.

Over in Euro Disney in the Walt Disney Studios Park what had been a Tram Studio Tour-like one you used to find in Hollywood-MGM have been replaced with a very stagnant and boring experience of a suppose “road trip” with a bunch of boring (and not-moving) billboards and characters like McQueen, etc.. from the CARS franchise Now our final stop in Euro-Disney that i’m aware of is Discoveryland-particular what was a very interesting concept for the “Space Mountain” ride in that park. What was Discoveryland’s Space Mountain was based upon Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” in English in 2015 to people’s disappointment its “refurbishment” was Star Wars themed ride called “Star Wars: Hyperspace” I just decided to stop here because of something outside this partiuclar ride at Discoverland the walk-through the Nautilus- which ties into the next part.

The Euro-Disney Nautilus walkthrough in Discoveryland park at Euro Disney was the last time there was a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction at a Disney Park until now. The Disney Company recently unveiled its newest Cruise ship- The Disney Treasure and a pub aboard the ship- called the Periscope Pub makes you feel like you’re on the Nautilus (and supposedly if you stay long enough in the pub you could have a visit with the giant squid) so that 29 years since there been any reference in Disney related ventures to the Disney company’s 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie. People my age would only know of the movie if they hadn’t seen the movie growing up themselves with the promos on our 90s and early 2000s disney movie video casettees of the “Family Film Collection” or other simliar promos

Well we’re on the topic of the older IPs- you can find Judge Doom, the villian from 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit? movie at Disneyland’s Oggie Boogie’s Halloween Bash on Immersive Treats Trail. This is the first time in awhile that there’s been any accknowledgment of the movie since 2003 when there’s a statue of THE Roger Robbit himself at Disney World’s Pop Century Resort that opened Dec 14, 2003. Judge Doom is even “dipping” toon socks into the famous “Dip” from the movie. Of course this is the 2nd year in a row they include an older IP character for Oggie Boogie’s Halloween Bash last year apperenty it was Madame Mim from the 1963’s Sword in the Stone movie. And of course for both this party and “Mickey’s Not so Scary Halloween” is the only time that the Headless Horsemen ever comes out in the Disney parks and when you consider how old The Adventures of Mr. Toad and Ichbhod Crane movie is that Disney World start having Halloween parties in 1995 and Disneyland did the same thing but only retitled it with the last century to its currently title of Oggie Boogie’s Bash.

In Conclusion, as I have stated in this post the Disney company doesn’t seem to know which direction to go in. On one hand they’re shoe-horing in new IPs into Disney parks but with other ventures like cruise ships or hoilday events they’re trying to incorperate some of their older movie IPs.

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