It's odd because Pixar's "brand" up until the 2010s is that they were known for high quality animated films.
Agreed. Pixar is really no different from Dreamworks or Illumination but just not as budget efficient or creative.
Illumination has made 6 minions movies with another on the way. How are they more creative than Pixar?
Pixar made 3 Cars, 5 Toy Story, 2 Monsters Inc, 2 Finding Nemo's, 2 Inside-Out, 2 Incredibles movies and soon 2 Cocos.
That’s a much smaller percentage of Pixar’s output than minions is illuminations. in addition to those illumination has also produced 2 sings 2 secret life of pets 2 adaptations of existing dr. Suess stories and is gearing up to make a bunch of Mario movies. currently the only movies not based on a preexisting story they’ve made that haven’t been made into a franchise are hop and migration.
So what's your point?
My point? Illumination is not more original than Pixar according to these metrics.
The International Disney Parks (especially Paris and Tokyo Disney Resort) does a much better job at handling different demographic for shows and entertainment compared to DL and WDW for years now.
Bluey will be her own thing elsewhere.
Bluey is a girl?
Telling me you’ve never seen Bluey by telling me you’ve never seen Bluey.
Yep. Never seen it. Heard of it though.
Only Tokyo is owned by a different company. Disneyland Paris is 100 percent owned by Disney as of 2017 and Hong Kong and Shanghai Disneyland are owned partly by the Chinese government and partly by Disney.It's almost as if the overseas parks are being run by an entirely different company.
The notable shift with Disneyland entertainment since Governor Newsom allowed Disneyland to reopen in April, 2021 is tragic; abandoning the 2,000 seat theater in DCA even though that park is still obviously short of capacity, only doing hokey rubberhead shows in Disneyland's two theaters with retreads worthy of a 1990's shopping mall tour, slashing and cutting in-park bands and streetmosphere, etc., etc.
There's clearly a purposeful desire to retreat massively from Disneyland's previous levels of park entertainment from the Modern Era of 1999-2019 to some sort of Value Engineered and Dumbed Down version of toddler bare minimum levels of offerings.
I'm not sure if it's the increasingly high labor costs of a highly-regulated California, or a TDA leadership team who aren't showmen and don't get how the park historically operated and hosted its "guests", or a combination of those two. But something has obviously changed.
In 2025 they don't want to be showmen, and they can't, or won't, put on a show.
Since DLP has been owned by Disney in 2017, they've produced some great shows, and now the mind behind some of their shows has moved to WDW and we're getting 2 new stage shows this year there now. Maybe now he's in the US, he can throw something Disneyland's wayIt's almost as if the overseas parks are being run by an entirely different company.
The notable shift with Disneyland entertainment since Governor Newsom allowed Disneyland to reopen in April, 2021 is tragic; abandoning the 2,000 seat theater in DCA even though that park is still obviously short of capacity, only doing hokey rubberhead shows in Disneyland's two theaters with retreads worthy of a 1990's shopping mall tour, slashing and cutting in-park bands and streetmosphere, etc., etc.
There's clearly a purposeful desire to retreat massively from Disneyland's previous levels of park entertainment from the Modern Era of 1999-2019 to some sort of Value Engineered and Dumbed Down version of toddler bare minimum levels of offerings.
I'm not sure if it's the increasingly high labor costs of a highly-regulated California, or a TDA leadership team who aren't showmen and don't get how the park historically operated and hosted its "guests", or a combination of those two. But something has obviously changed.
In 2025 they don't want to be showmen, and they can't, or won't, put on a show.
