How Disney Plus is Damaging Disney's Brand

Maybe this is a bit of a simplistic take, but I feel like streaming only worked when it was one big hub that had a lot of stuff you’d like to view. When split up into their own services by each compony, their content is forced to comply with the structure and audience of that service instead of just being the best it can be. Disney’s no different.

Never forget that Disney replaced their own dedicated animation museum at Hollywood Studio into a Star Wars attraction.

Another thing I dislike about Disney+ is the fact Disney LITERALLY discontinued their channels in MANY countries to advertise the more expensive service that not everyone can get their hands on. Come on now! Those networks didn’t even get ceremonial finishes!

Another problem is the gap between theatrical and home release. Before, movies used to take 4-to-6 months to come out on home video, and in some cases, an entire year. If you didn't feel like dodging spoilers for half a year, that was your incentive to see the movie in theaters. Nowadays, movies take as early as a month to be released on home media, sometimes while the movie is still in theaters.

Stories are supposed to end. Corporations work towards achieving endless growth. Disney treats their stories like corporations, and it's ruining their legacy. EDIT: rip my notifications lol

How ironic that Disney went from too big to fail to too big to succeed.

Disney has become the perfect example of "Pride comes before the fall"

"I can't believe we're paying to see something we get on TV for free" -Homer Simpson from the Simpsons Movie (Now streaming on Disney+)

Baited us on Twitter into thinking it was the Mario Kart 8 video, guys he’s a genius.

Disney has become way too comfortable with themselves. The reason they thrived in the first place was because they strived to outdo their competitors. Now they simply just “buy” their competition whenever they feel like it. Someone once said ”without criticism or pressure from others, there can be no improvement.” And that really is true, Disney has become lazy and comfortable with themselves and everyone sees it. They may believe for now that they are invincible, but eventually they will find out they’re not and the cycle will start all over again. This is a season that will eventually pass and believe it or not I want Disney to succeed by making changes.

Key note. Movies that did poorly in theatres seem to be oriented towards kids. What parent wants to take their kids to a theatre to see a movie when it'll be streaming in a few months. Disney Plus means kids don't go to theatres for Disney kid movies

Just to raise another point about Avatar being an anomaly: the first Avatar was well known for being a film that you HAD to see in theatres. I think that legacy has had an effect on the box office numbers for that singular movie... Meanwhile numerous franchises that were known in the same way have been watered down with TV shows that were never intended for a theatrical release, which make the entire franchises (Marvel and Star Wars being good examples) feel less like experiences that you HAVE to see in a cinema, and more like "it could be fun to see it in a movie theatre, but it's not really necessary to get the full experience".

The practice of linking MCU movies to Disney+ shows is becoming extremely tiresome. I can vividly recall the time I took a friend of mine to see Multiverse of Madness in theaters and throughout the entire movie, he was confused because he didn't watch WandaVision on Disney+ that was intricately linked to the movie's plot. You shouldn't have to do homework to watch a movie.

Bless the editor for addressing how disney’s decisions are affecting the parks. As someone who had some fond memories of the park as a kid. It really sucks how a lack of creativity and innovation of the company has bled into the parks.

I think another huge issue is just how expensive going to the movies are nowadays. Usually it’s like $15 a ticket plus another $15 if you want food and a drink. I think this steers away a lot of people because they know pretty much any movie in theaters will be on a streaming service in a few months.

I’ve seen quite a few people saying they wished they had seen Elemental in theaters after they finally saw it on Disney+, because the animation was pretty and the surprisingly heartfelt storytelling deserved more credit. Disney needs to figure out how to make people realize these things BEFORE the fact. Give audiences clear reasons to see something *in theaters*, make it a must-see. I didn’t want to see it either because the trailers made it look like such a non-event. I caught it a few weeks after it opened and my low expectations were blown away. Went back and saw it again in 3D. I was actually mad that the marketing had bamboozled me so much.

I think a big problem with studios like Disney, Warner Bros, and Paramount having their own Netflix-like streaming platforms is that they tried to sink billions of dollars in trying to make those platforms the future of entertainment rather than just treating them as a side thing and letting them grow slowly.

There's no such thing as Disney Fatigue: people are sick and tired of shit product, and unwilling to go to the movies to pay for mediocrity.

Another big issue with Disney Plus is that it's not even worth paying it every month, you can simply purchase just one month and you can watch every single Disney-owned movie or series you had piled on your watchlist, cancel it after you finished watching all of it and just go back to another streaming platform until there's enough new content to purchase another month, so that also massively affects the company financially.

With Lightyear, I saw a lot of people upset with one or all of these three things that I think may have contributed to the lack of success: 1. No Tim Allen. 2. No relation to the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon. 3. The Zurg twist.