The Disney thread

"Ooh, look, honey! Do you think this is real water or is it just some kind of special effect?"

Jungle Cruise boat at Disney World takes on water with passengers on board

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/us/di...rnd/index.html

With a majority of the nation's movie theaters closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, many studios are putting new releases online. Disney-Pixar's Onward is now available on Movies Anywhere, Amazon and iTunes for $19.99 and will be added to the Disney+ streaming service April 3.

Onward coming to Disney+ weeks after being released in theaters

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/enter...ney/index.html

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the closure of Disney's theme parks but it hasn't hurt Disney's streaming service any. Quite the opposite.

Disney+ surpasses 50 million subscribers in just 5 months
Disney targeted 60 to 90 million by 2024 but that now looks like a low bar.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...just-5-months/

Disney's proposed "Secure Circuit" protocol has been leaked, presumably by a Disney employee. Some highlights: The Disney theme parks will reopen with limits on the number of guests. At the entrance, security personnel will perform health checks and take everyone's temperature. Visitors will be required to sign a form absolving Disney of any liability for potential exposure to the coronavirus. There will be no parades, no live shows, no theater shows and no fireworks and the monorail will remain closed. Maybe Professor Ludwig Von Drake can come up with a better idea.

Report: Disney Parks would open with a 'secure circuit' protocol. Here’s what that means.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainmen...virus-covid-19

Chip 'n' Dale will have to sleep in separate trees and Elsa will have to start wearing gloves again.

Walt Disney World adds coronavirus safety measures, accepting reservations for July
An official reopen date hasn’t been set but Disney is preparing to get back in business with COVID-19 measures.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/di...ervations-july

Here is one of the mostest amazingest singers ever. At Walt Disney World, a seven-year-old girl sings the signature song of every Disney princess from Snow White to Moana. I love her Ariel and her Elsa. And those cute costumes! (Sorry, no Merida. That was Pixar.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZHOh77F3Q

I love this medley of Disney songs sung by 23 kids ages 7 to 16. Yes, I want to build a snowman. "Jinx!" "Jinx again!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-e_0FWD3E

Shanghai Disneyland reopened May 11. Attendance is being limited to 30% of capacity and visitors have to wear face masks, have their temperature checked and maintain "social distancing." Don'tcha love the way Disney refers to theme park visitors as "guests"? If they were really guests, they wouldn't have to pay to get in.

Are more Disney park reopenings on the happy horizon? CEO Bob Chapek weighs in.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/d...rnd/index.html

No word yet on when Walt Disney World will reopen but Disney is obviously ecstatic at the thought of visitors once again spending huge sums of money. And they will, if the partial opening of Disney Springs is any indication.

Walt Disney World's Disney Springs shopping and dining area reopens to lines
Days ago, the company issued a blunt warning that would-be guests assume all risk visiting amid the pandemic.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-lines-1295280

Walt Disney World's four theme parks will reopen in July. Visitors will have their temperature checked and will have to wear a face mask. Attendance will be limited and "social distancing" will be enforced. The parks "will provide masks to people who do not bring their own." Yeah, right, "provide." Last week, Disney announced there will be 59 different Disney-themed face masks available when the parks reopen. Prices start at $19. Leave it to Disney to make money off a pandemic.

Walt Disney World sets July 11 reopening date for Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...om/5262558002/

"Hey! You! With the face covering!" "They all have face coverings." "Well, I made them all look. Now they know who's in charge." The Galactic Empire's shock troops have been reduced to enforcing social distancing by performing silly skits.

Star Wars Stormtroopers encourage social distancing at reopened Disney Springs
Their aim may be off but their message is on point.

Video: https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wa...disney-springs

CEO Bob Chapek said in a statement, "The killing of George Floyd has forced our nation to once again confront the long history of injustice that black people in America have suffered. It is critical that we stand together, speak out and do everything in our power to ensure that acts of racism and violence are never tolerated." Okay – but can any amount of money end racism and violence? I don't think so.

Disney pledges $5 million to support nonprofits advancing social justice

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/di...ice-2020-06-03

Georgia Merry, born in 1995 in England, has been singing and performing since she was six. At age seven, she starred in a production of Anastasia. She has her own YouTube channel filled with multiple-screen videos of her impersonating Disney characters and singing their songs (and providing harmony for herself). Here is her medley of songs from Moana – and yes, she even impersonates Maui, Tamatoa, Pua and Hei Hei. Hurry and watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkuVORzOqg

And here is her medley from Frozen 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUIWFwu4VI

Splash Mountain, a popular attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, features Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox, characters from the 1946 Disney movie Song Of The South. James Bascomb, Hattie McDaniel and many others who appeared in the film said it is not racist – but Disney refuses to release the movie on DVD or Blu-ray or make it available on Disney+. Following the death of George Floyd, many Disney fans now want to see Splash Mountain re-themed to feature Tiana, Disney's first African American princess. What a fine idea. Maybe Disney can also have a black Donald Duck, a black Olaf and seven black dwarfs.

Disney fans petition to re-theme Splash Mountain to The Princess & The Frog

https://insidethemagic.net/2020/06/s...-the-frog-kc1/

Shanghai Disneyland reopened in May. Disney plans to reopen its 11 other theme parks in July. More than 7,000 Walt Disney World employees – pardon me, "cast members" – want Disney to reconsider reopening the Florida park. The COVID-19 virus has killed 3,285 people in the state. In Orange County, home of Walt Disney World, there have been 6,056 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 53 deaths.

Walt Disney World workers petition to delay reopening as Florida coronavirus cases surge

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/media...rnd/index.html

Disneyland opened July 17, 1955. Disneyland closed March 14, 2020 in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Disneyland was planning to reopen July 17, 2020. Was – but not now.

Disney is postponing the reopening of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/media...ned/index.html

Br'er Rabbit is not in his "Laughing Place" today. He's in his Crying Place, lamenting how political correctness has led to the demise of another classic theme park attraction.

Disneyland and Disney World to remake Splash Mountain with Princess & The Frog theme

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/06/2...he-frog-theme/

Those "savages" and "headhunters" may soon follow Br'er Brer, Br'er Fox and Br'er Rabbit to the Disney character graveyard.

Following Splash Mountain ride redesign, some call for Disney to change Jungle Cruise next

https://www.ign.com/articles/jungle-...tain-criticism

A virus that originated in China has forced another delay in the release of the live-action Mulan movie. Oh, the irony!

Disney delays Star Wars and Avatar films and takes Mulan off the calendar

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/media...ays/index.html

The Walt Disney Company lost nearly $5 billion in the last quarter. They can recoup that money if 167,000,000 people pay $29.99 to see Mulan. 他们能做到吗?

Mulan is finally heading to Disney+...for $29.99
CNN, Aug 4 2020 6:10 PM ET

Disney's Mulan has been delayed multiple times this year because of the coronavirus outbreak but audiences will finally be able to see the blockbuster soon. It just may not be in the theaters. Disney announced today that the remake of the 1998 animated classic will be heading to Disney+, the company's new streaming service, for an additional fee of $29.99. The film will be available on September 4. Mulan will be released simultaneously in theaters in markets where Disney+ is not available and, of course, where theaters are open.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/media...rus/index.html