Chi84
Premium Member
I’m adding what I said in another thread to more fully explain what I mean.Trying to “reinvent” the fanbase has caused financial damage to it on a huge scale now twice…
Think the third time is a charm?
Because what made it work originally was it wasn’t for 5 year olds…even with Ewoks…in many ways it was the secondary market. Which it why it made enough money to fill scrooges money bin. And it’s those same movies that sell still to this day…not the Daisy Ridley crap (look, ask around)
I agree with much of that except I think it’s more about aging out than Disney killing the nostalgia.
I noted previously that only a few generations could “grow up alongside” or “along with” Disney. The millennials are probably the last of those generations.
Keeping nostalgia alive may increase attendance for the last of the baby boomers and Gen X people but it won’t help Disney going forward.
The children of the millennials may like Disney characters and enjoy the parks, but I doubt there would be any nostalgic connection of the sort experienced by the generations that saw Disney’s creation and initial growth.