I seem to remember you are a Muppets fan. They starred in The Disney Product Placement Video (marketed to a general audience as Muppets 2011). That had some of the most shameless cross-promotion going on with the midway Cars 2 commercial. Apart from all the other overt product placement that makes so many Disney movies a tv commercial with better writing. (Muppets 2011: Red Bull, The Economist, Subway, and everything else they managed to cram in between the Eisner-eraesque celeb cameos)
One Disney acquisition (Muppets), promoting an another (Pixar). It feels like that Duffy Bear with R2-D2 hat that has Mickey Ears. Yes, sold in the parks.
There is also more subtle stuff. Disney movies are now more openly set in the parks universe. Just like the parks are now being converted into movie universes. It was fun when the pirates in Pirates I mimicked the three jailed convicts trying to lure that doge with key. Now it is everywhere.
Animation too. TPatF set itself quite deliberately in a New Orleans environment that reflected DL. Some scenes echoed a DL commercial, with the RoA and the steamboat. Tangled's lantern imagery deliberately evokes a fireworks show over a castle. And vice versa - the castle projection shows in DLP and MK project it in turn.
It may not be all bad. A certain unity of imagery between different media, and with the parks, is part of what makes Disney fun. Walt mastered it already. But it works better when the balance tilts to being more artistically driven, rather than bearing a constant suspicion that the commercial dictates and overwhelms the artististry.
