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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

Disney Analyst

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I looked it up, and the offices occupy a space that was "previously occupied by Motion Picture Company (MPC), a major global visual effects, CGI, and animation studio that produced popular films including Watchmen, Life of Pi, The Lion King, Dumbo, Blade Runner 2049, Sully, Maleficent, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."


(TBH, I have job alerts set... been trying to get hired there for some sort of non-technical civilian job, haha)
 

TP2000

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(TBH, I have job alerts set... been trying to get hired there for some sort of non-technical civilian job, haha)

I think you should start hanging out at Yaletown Distillery just off their lobby. I'm sure the animators and staff hang out there after work on a Friday evening!

Lana Turner was discovered at the soda counter at Schwab's, remember! But you could be enjoying gin instead of a malted.
 

Disney Analyst

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I think you should start hanging out at Yaletown Distillery just off their lobby. I'm sure the animators and staff hang out there after work on a Friday evening!

Lana Turner was discovered at the soda counter at Schwab's, remember! But you could be enjoying gin instead of a malted.

I would hope they are hanging out somewhere a bit nicer, lots of amazing spots nearby! Great foodie / drink area.
 

LittleBuford

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I think you should start hanging out at Yaletown Distillery just off their lobby. I'm sure the animators and staff hang out there after work on a Friday evening!
It closed almost two years ago.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you're trying to undermine the legitimacy of the Vancouver studio because of its downtown location. Please note that the now-closed Paris studio, responsible for some of the animation in such esteemed films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was located in a somewhat dangerous suburb of the city. As long as the work they produce is good, who cares whether the Vancouver team's location is swanky or not?
 

celluloid

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It closed almost two years ago.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you're trying to undermine the legitimacy of the Vancouver studio because of its downtown location. Please note that the now-closed Paris studio, responsible for some of the animation in such esteemed films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was located in a somewhat dangerous suburb of the city. As long as the work they produce is good, who cares whether the Vancouver team's location is swanky or not?

The employees and their families?
 

LittleBuford

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The employees and their families?
Is there anything to suggest that they're unhappy with their location? It's not like they were forced to move there from another site; it was a newly created branch of WDAS when it opened.

@Disney Analyst, who knows better than any of us, has indicated that it's a pleasant enough area. Yes, it may not be as glamorous (if that's the right word) as the Burbank headquarters, but the space had already been occupied by a company specialising in visual effects long before Disney took it over.
 

Disney Analyst

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It closed almost two years ago.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you're trying to undermine the legitimacy of the Vancouver studio because of its downtown location. Please note that the now-closed Paris studio, responsible for some of the animation in such esteemed films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was located in a somewhat dangerous suburb of the city. As long as the work they produce is good, who cares whether the Vancouver team's location is swanky or not?

Oh it's actually a nice area. Yaletown is fancy, expensive to live. Lots of fancy restaurants.
 

celluloid

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Is there anything to suggest that they're unhappy with their location? It's not like they were forced to move there from another site; it was a newly created branch of WDAS when it opened.
You said "who cares?"

I was giving an example of who might care. It is that simple. Don't look too much into it.
 

Ghost93

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It won't be long before Disney makes a successful animated movie with queer characters. Pixar already did it with Elemental. Anyone who thinks we are about to experience a longterm retreat from representation is kidding themselves or betraying their own ideological unease. The march of progress is unstoppable.
I don't think Elemental counts as that queer character was blink and you miss it.

Strange World had decent-ish gay representation, although because the movie as a whole was rather bad/bland, it unfortunately didn't have the impact it should have.

To date, I think Nimona on Netflix is the best queer representation I've seen in a family film. I can't see Disney making an animated movie like that with such prominent gay characters and LGBT themes in the current climate. Maybe in about six years, if the pendulum swings back in a more progressive direction, the company will once again consider taking a stab at significant representation.
 

LittleBuford

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I don't think Elemental counts as that queer character was blink and you miss it.
As was the offending kiss in Lightyear.

To date, I think Nimona on Netflix is the best queer representation I've seen in a family film. I can't see Disney making an animated movie like that with such prominent gay characters and LGBT themes in the current climate. Maybe in about six years, if the pendulum swings back in a more progressive direction, the company will once again consider taking a stab at significant representation.
I can't comment on Nimona, as I haven't seen it.

I'm not even talking about significant representation, just any representation at all. Some here are acting as if we'll never see a queer character again in a Disney family film, forgetting that the Beauty and the Beast remake already gave us one back in 2017. I think such characters will be the norm rather than the exception in the years ahead, paving the way for something more substantive that builds on what Strange World introduced (and even that was very mild by my estimation).
 

TP2000

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It closed almost two years ago.

Oh, really? I just did a 5 second Google search for the Disney studio there, and it offered that street view screenshot, with a place called Yaletown Distillery on the ground floor. It looked fun. And as of the July, 2024 passby of a Google Street View car, it looked like a going concern. What's in there now, I wonder?

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Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you're trying to undermine the legitimacy of the Vancouver studio because of its downtown location.

You are very wrong, unfortunately. I visited old friends in Vancouver regularly in the 70's and 80's, and skied Whistler with family regularly into the 00's. I know the city fairly well, at least in its late 20th century format. It can't have changed that much.

Over in the Disneyland forum for the past few years, @Disney Analyst and I have had several nice chats about Vancouver.

I had assumed that the Disney computer animation outpost there was in some dreary suburban office park, in Burnaby or somewhere. Across from a Tim Horton's drive-thru and a TGIFriday's.

I was surprised that it was in a downtown hipster neighborhood, as urban real estate is rather dear in Vancouver. I spent about 5 seconds Googling, and the image that popped up on Street View had a distillery off the lobby with "small batch gin" advertised, so you can imagine my excitement. 🤣

The rest is up to you, as that's about all I know on the Disney animation outfit in Vancouver. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a message board post is just a message board post. :)
 
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TP2000

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Oh it's actually a nice area. Yaletown is fancy, expensive to live. Lots of fancy restaurants.

That's exactly what it looked like as I panned around on the Google Street View. A trendy hipster neighborhood.

Disney must pay a pretty penny to be there. Which surprised me (see above post), as until I did that Google search earlier today, I had just assumed the Disney operation in Vancouver was in some cheap office park in the suburbs somewhere.
 

TP2000

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For those keeping score at home....

Earlier today I also Googled the word "pansexual", slightly against my will.

It seems my hunch was right, and it's just the 21st century version of a Bisexual. Except instead of playing hard to get at Last Call like in my day, they are actually fairly easy to get during all operating hours at any bar in town. Who knew?! 🤔
 

Disney Irish

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Oh, really? I just did a 5 second Google search for the Disney studio there, and it offered that street view screenshot, with a place called Yaletown Distillery on the ground floor. It looked fun. And as of the July, 2024 passby of a Google Street View car, it looked like a going concern. What's in there now, I wonder?

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Another 5 seconds of searching, I know a whole 10 seconds out of your day must be exhausting, would have shown you that a new Michelin restaurant was opening up in that location called Nightingale sometime this year, hopefully it has by now.

 

Animaniac93-98

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To date, I think Nimona on Netflix is the best queer representation I've seen in a family film.

It's also a really good movie as a whole. With its strong lead heroine, magical elements, touching moments and fantasy world building, it's a better "Disney" movie than a lot of actual Disney movies of late.
 

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