Yeah, I do wonder if the goodwill the original Zootopia has is as strong as what Moana has. Disney was slower-than-expected to capitalize on both the way they did with Frozen and even Big Hero 6, and that just made people more excited for Moana 2 once it was finally announced as a movie, but Zootopia might not be the same case because it would be wading into much more fraught waters by bringing up the issue of prejudice again. I suppose they might try to simply center the narrative and expanded worldbuilding around other issues, but what would those be?
(I think back to my theorizing that the reason the more-interesting animatic-stage plot for Wish - when Magnifico and Amaya were equally wicked, straight-up preying upon the innocent residents of Rosas, while Asha's family and others were living as fugitives - might have been changed as much as it was because Corporate Disney didn't want a story about completely overthrowing a corrupt system because it was "too political", especially not for the big centennial project. The finished film pays lip-service to the idea of revolution and ordinary people banding together, but the plot is so defanged that Asha's only angry with Magnifico's system because it doesn't give her everything she wants and she doesn't appreciate how good she and others really have it in Rosas, and others only join her after they end up in trouble themselves because of what she started; as one YT video argued, everybody in the movie is just acting out of their own self-interest in the end. So I'm wondering if a Zootopia 2 will end up undergoing similar rethinks as to what it wants to say about prejudice...if it's even willing to say anything at all.)
