Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Problems with Disney

I grew up loving Disney. At an early age, I was privileged to have the Disney Channel. They showed the old cartoons often, saw many of their classic movies, and got a general idea about how Imagineering worked. Disney was all about the creation of new ideas. It also became one of our primary delivery outlets for fairy tales in both live action and animation.

Disney... sadly... is not worth anything anymore. They have become a sequel and remake machine. Even though they have plenty of other great fairy tales they could be working on, they are ignoring them. They are only fiddling around with their old stories. Everything at Disney has pretty much come to a halt.

The sad thing is that most people have gotten used to this culture of sequels and remakes. They aren't really looking for anything new but wondering what else can get a redo. They've embraced this because nobody has really bothered trying to do any better. Disney is making everybody cynical. And maybe that was the plan all along.

Disney gets such a massive flow of money from the zombie-like masses. People are actually loyal to them as a company. It isn't even about the stories anymore. It's just Disney. The brand is what people follow. They see "Disney" and flock to it because they think they have to. It's almost like watching a cult in motion.

Yes, the movies can still be judged on their own merits, but I'm not doing that right now. I'm just pointing out the overarching problem. Disney does not care anything about Imagineering (a wonderful word, by the way) anymore. They are only interested in siphoning as much money from its loyal followers as they can before they die. We've officially lost one of the great story-making companies we've ever had in this world, and what we got in place of it is, by the same ratio, absolutely terrifying.

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