lol the hard facts are the wdw resort property sells a lot of bubble wands and this is all silly.
bubble wands are a cheap commodity that drive up a lot of profit. The language is slightly different but no goal posts were ever moved.
That's my issue with Indy. AK is about appreciating animals and learning to live with them and conserve. Every animal in Indiana Jones is seen as an icky obstacle to be overcome. Snakes in Raiders (lit on fire), tarantulas in Raiders, bugs and bats in Temple of Doom, rats in Last Crusade (lit on fire), ants in Crystal Skull, and eels in Dial.
I have never seen Indy admiring an animal. I mean, he's not afraid of the horses or elephant he rides, but other than that, the animals are typically an obstacle to be overcome. And sometimes set on fire.
Is he really? It’s not like they did anything really overt like give him a job and doctorate in a human-focused field of study.
Robin Hood and Great Mouse Detective are just human stories with anthropomorphic animals overlaid. The characters never act like animals and humans essentially do not exist. The world they inhabit is, again, completely divorced of any genuine human-animal dynamic and any believable animal behavior. In Rescuers, there are at least prominent human characters the animals have to contend with, and in Rescuers Down Under in particular, there could actually be a lot of material to work with.
Mickey and friends are explicitly named as exceptions because their only real purpose is to meet and greet, not to further the mission of the park or anchor attractions in a fully-featured land.
In this scenario encanto would have gone to magic kingdom like originally planned.
I broke kayfabe. It won't happen again.
Yeah, I accidentally deleted while I was editing it..No biggie
Great Mouse Detective does exist within our human world. It's kind of Mr. Toad-esque with animals being animals, but acting as tiny people in a world where humans also exist.
Right, but, while I admit my memory is hazy, my recollection is that there are essentially no named human characters aside from Sherlock Holmes, who is only ever silhouetted and really just named as a parallel to Basil. Humans are otherwise fairly irrelevant aside from being architects of the larger city around their smaller one, and all narrative focus is given to human-like intrigue. That's in contrast to, say, Rescuers Down Under where there is a larger naturalistic story about Marahute where genuine concerns of the animal world, the environment, and human-animal relations are explored.
that's...not far off from the impression I'm getting. I don't think I've ever seen anyone (here or elsewhere) who's peddled the narrative that the parks were always just a business peddle it with such self-centered arrogance
@TrainsOfDisney, and serveral others who see how this fits, if you think theater-building bugs fit.
You've almost got it!
These are nothing more than Highlights for Kids factoids, and also, again, do not constitute a unique thought as to how the franchise could be bent to sort of fit as long as it is relegated to a single inconspicuous attraction and not an entire land or large part of a land (as it mercifully has been). It is what I have been suggesting all along as a mitigating strategy. It doesn't mean that I still don't think there were way better options that fit with park more seamlessly. It's pretty clear that there's just a push from management to get the franchise represented due to international popularity.
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