Do you really think that never happens within various companies? Disney’s not the only one that does this sort of thing with otherwise popular things otherwise. Lowball something all the sudden until they eventually have an excuse to rid them altogether. It absolutely happens
That's just a fancy way to say "it might happen". Which is pretty much worthless if you have no proof and are just reading tea leaves.
“Might happen”, there’s absolutely evidence of it happening. Journey Into Imagination’s lowballing and retheme to a Honey I Shrunk theme is a perfect example of it. If you need me to link all the evidence of it happening, I can. It’s shocking. All clearly visible for us all to see.
What the guest flow & outside to the Journey Into Imagination attraction & Magic Eye Theater looked like during the earlier days pre-Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (source: http://www.jefflangedvd.com/news/archives/2007/06/entry_83.html)
I honestly believe that guests would like pretty much anything Disney makes, IP or not, as long as Disney marketed it well. The Haunted Mansion gets more new merch every year than most IP attractions because Disney knows how to market it as something exciting to guests. Same for Figment, even with his ride being awful. If they treated all original attractions the same way, I’m sure some (not all) would be more popular. The Country Bears definitely have merchandising potential.
The attraction has to be a good attraction, IP or not. I agree.
This is what a lack of Country Bear content does to a fandom, lmao
I think it is nice for the bears to be more on the exclusive side of merch. Similar to tiki room. Makes park collectors like myself not feel like there is a oversaturation of merch for it.
Since IP is being used as a draw for the bears… let’s sell some plush while we’re at it! The lack of Big Al teddy bears is shocking to me lolThe attraction has to be a good attraction, IP or not. I agree.
But IP gets people interested. And if the attraction is good, people think more highly of the IP
And IP provides synergy with merch and video content.
Now, how about those Country Bears?
Exclusive is one thing, nonexistent is another. We’ve gotten a T-shirt and Lincoln Logs (which are already out of stock) for the new show. No plush, no pins, nothing. I’d love just a few plushes of the bears (ideally giving bears who’ve never gotten plushes like Ernest and Gomer a chance) and maybe a pin or two. I don’t need water bottles and Loungeflys and popcorn buckets, just two more items to go with the T-shirt.
A big al popcorn bucket would go hard tho.
Maybe its a subtle way of hinting next refurb one of the bears will sing Imagination? My money would be on Big Al
It seems some people for some baffling reason don’t understand nuance and relating topics. Which shocks me considering others were able to straight away understand other posts & arguments about Non-IP vs IP. The reason I brought up what happened to Journey Into Imagination (for 1-2 posts I might add) was to illustrate, constantly making my way back to CBJ and how unfitting Winnie the Pooh shops & meet n greets screwed ‘that’ attraction at DL mind you, was that Disney indeed sabotages things the ‘executives’ don’t like to replace with a mixed-up IP based attraction that makes no sense). One of the biggest cases in point of nearly the ‘very’ same thing happening, is when they used Honey, I Shrunk the Audience to make Journey Into Imagination, a mixed up Honey I Shrunk themed Institute attraction, deceivingly called the same thing as the original ride which wasn’t based on Film IP (calling it Journey Into Imagination, when it isn’t that anymore). I’m not sure how some ‘completely’ missed that.
Wow..
Talk about my point ‘completely’ being lost. I explained ‘exactly’ what I meant and folks here still ‘completely’ missed it.