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I had a wonderful childhood and Disney was one small part of it.
Disney was fun, entertaining, educational and seemed harmless at the time. I must have been immune to the hidden agenda way back then in the before times.
The movies in the theater were fun and my mom would sit with me in the back row so I could move about without bothering anyone.
I knew immediately when they began to release the movies on video tape that it was all over. Once people could buy the movies the theater was not necessary.
Back then they would re-release each movie about every seven years. Smart marketing. But then the videos started and that was it.
Herbie The Love Bug at the drive-in was so fun, and now these things are gone.
I even saw a few at Radio City Music Hall.
I was a smarter kid because of some of the scary themes. I knew to avoid strangers offering shiny things and tales too good to be true. And I learned about liars, cheats and thieves.
I am a musician now and recognize how Disney gave that to us. Just watch Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke, or Fantasia. Amazing.
We learned about love, and starting a family, even if was set around a bunch of puppies.
And we learned that sometimes things we love die.
Sunday nights at home brought The Bugs Bunny, Road Runner Show and The Wonderful World of Disney. Good stuff when you're a happy child.
The parks were a blast. Running from ride to ride to try and fit as many as you could into a day.
I was at Disney World in 1971 when they first opened. And visited Disneyland several times too.
I am so glad now for earlier days of blissful ignorance.
Now we see clearly the no longer hidden agendas and the dumbasses that care only about themselves and manipulating the world around them.
It is sad to see what has happened, but it was fun, long ago.
Funny how things work out, The Hall of Presidents was always one of my favorites. Go figure.
Thanks for reading.
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No question they've played a positive role and planted many awesome memories the minds of those who attended their parks.
It's the underbelly of the beast that's the problem.
Ever since Chyna took over disney. They play all the gay pedo LGBTQ shit here but ban it in China.
Elon should take back Disney next.
Mickey Mouse prowling around the neighborhood in an ice cream truck.
I don't really disagree with this. The Lion King and Jungle Book are two of my favorite childhood movies. Same with the Rescuers and Hercules. The problem, in my opinion, isn't so much the movies themselves. It's REALLY easy to clean them up of any subtle suggestive propaganda so that we can continue to share them in the future.
My problem is mainly with the freaks trying to pervert every, little, freaking, thing that we know and love. I'm so sick of it. They want to talk about culture vultures. THIS. THIS is being a culture vulture. These evil parasites HAVE NO culture beyond being evil, lust/greed fueled perverts. So they have to latch onto every WE hold dear and pervert and twist it to fit their unholy world view.
Oh? You like country music? Here clap for this gay devil worshipping "cowboy". You like videogames? We're going to force a propagandistic political narrative into it. Like movies? No more fun movies for you. You're only allowed to watch feminazi woke horse crap where everything fun is replaced by a bunch limp wristed queers being "sassy". And if you speak out against it, YOU'RE the bad guy.
It's just one of many things that needs to change.
Yes - a million times this!!
"Whattya want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?!" Omg Timon started all this, didn't he?!🐸
No downvote from me - I am torn also with the Disney situation. My sons loved Disney movies and we watched them together.
My young granddaughter LOVES Minnie Mouse! She would be crushed if I took away her "anything" Minnie (which I won't do).
I agree! My child grew up watching Disney movies and going to the park. However if I had a young child in my life I would watch movies and shows first with out the child. There’s to much sexual agenda being forced on everyone! Even the shows for young children are pushing an agenda of some kind.
The Democrats used to have people like JFK.
When things go to hell you have to stop supporting them.
Disney is total crap now.
I know many here want Disney to shut down completely. I just think Disney needs an amputation. Keep what is still good.
Exactly! I’ll admit I love going to WDW. If I had the money to go I’d go back if mask mandates were totally gone. However Disney has priced the working class out of vacations. The entire system will have to be overhauled! Yeah I love the former Disney. I won’t forget Disney was one of the companies Biden mentioned in his vaccine mandate speech. I believe one of the top people at Disney (female) worked for the Clinton’s and Obama. (Posted here recently.)
Yes. I'm all in favor of this.
Big difference from what was to what is.
The original run of Chip 'n' Dale cartoons were my favorite. And what's better than Lady and the Tramp?
Twice a year my parents would take us on Disneyland trips. As an adult I lived in Newport Beach and I bought a locally discounted Disneyland Annual Pass. Unlimited days and free parking. I had friends that did the same. We'd go every Wednesday evening. Catch a buzz at the House of Blues and hit all the good adult rides we could until closing.
Those were the days. Recently I killed all my Disney related accounts. Such a shame our world is going to shit.
How many of you spent Saturday mornings watching cartoons on the TV? My brothers and I would build a tent with our blankets and eat dry cereal out of the box while watching Sat. cartoons!
I watched cartoons growing up in the 70s. I never remember watching any Disney content other than Sunday night Disney show & going to a movie. In the mornings during the week Captain Kangaroo was on. I had three channels & they were off air at midnight. Back then parents didn’t have to worry about “agendas” pushed on kids by TV. Heck Saturday morning was the only time shows were dedicated to kids. Of course PBS had shows. I never liked any of those shows. I had to trick my brother in the afternoons so I could watch TV that wasn’t Sesame Street. I still despise those muppets.
Remember Romper Room, Sky King, Hop Along Cassidy? LOL I was just a youngster and followed what my older brothers did.
🎶He's a tramp❤And I love him🎶
I even kinda liked the new Lady and the Tramp on Disney+. The new Dumbo is an abomination. Togo on Disney+ is one of my top five favorite movies.
Ahh thanks for mentioning Togo! I looked it up & will check it out sometime. You know the part of Lady & the Tramp when they do their paw prints inside a heart in wet concrete? When you first walk into Disney World, there's a building on the right & that heart with paws is in the concrete near the entrance❤
Togo was the shit!
When I was a little boy my mother called me dumbo. Not because I had big ears because I loved how dumbo’ mommy tried to kill every elephant that fucked with her boy. That was my mom. And my dad. They protected me.
That's awesome🐸Man, when she's rocking him in her trunk & the Baby Mine song plays...that & Jessie's song in Toy Story 2... Oh geez & Fox in the Hound... so many tearjerkers.
I can’t watch that scene without breaking down. Walt Disney gave us great art and so much joy. Look what these fuckers have done today.
I remember those innocent enjoyments too. The whole scenario unfolding is very sad on so many levels. Anyone who does not believe the devil has been working very hard through evil people is living in la-la land.
Pretty reasonable post. Things basically just don't stay the same and I think we're way past the golden age for media and entertainment, it can always return, but not for a while... as far as I'm concerned you're totally correct about how once they made these things available at home it zapped all the magic and fun away from it. There's no point to be wasting any money into these creeps that don't have any real imagination or stories to tell and are up to nefarious things. There always has been evil parts to all these things too, but there were at least lots of good people involved to make the magic happen - these days it's a ton of evil and slaves being told what to do and doing it...
I'll still let my kids watch the classics and enjoy what they can, but I'm not going to be taking them to the insanity that Disney world has turned into or even giving them any money for any of it. We live in an age where I can easily get pretty much any piece of media for basically free, so that's what it'll be and I'm fine about it. Guess I'll have to take my kids to the boardwalk and six flags for amusement park experiences.
There was the Disney above ground in broad sunlight and the Disney underground in the darkness. People are learning about the dark side now.
Great, well written post. Nothing in there worth down voting. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure most of us have similar memories and experiences. Everything makes so much more sense now. If I wanted to groom children, there's no better way to do it than to use a gigantic corporation that primarily creates children's entertainment.
I get what you are saying. Is Disney the only entertainment industry or company that’s guilty? I’m not being a smart A. I truly want to know. Universal Studios isn’t a small company. Don’t they have kids movies? I’m not trying to say Disney is innocent. If other companies are guilty why isn’t it talked about like Disney?
Because Disney took a very public retarded stance on a hot button political issue. Comcast keeps its mouth shut on political issues for the most part.
I as well am torn over Disney...mourning its path...not for me but for my granddaughters and those who have the Disney of 2022. As a matter of fact they are on a plane right now heading to Disneyworld! I stayed behind to watch their dog... How do you explain what is happening to a wide eyed 4 year old her slightly older sister, who loves Mickey, and just wants to go to Mickey's house that these people running it are pieces of shit? You Can't.....I can't....some day they will know but the destruction of innocence isn't my mission or our mission, the destruction of evil is.
Blessings frens....
Right On!
This is very true. We can educate the parents. For example if you stay in the park you can hire a babysitter or let kids go to kids only events. Way before I knew about the dark side this wouldn’t happen with us. My child was only left with grandparents on each side. We never trusted strangers or even friends with our child. She’s almost thirty and I’d do it the same way again,
The things you loved still exist. They were just undermined and defiled by the worst sorts of individuals. Same thing that happened to the USA.
I think we can save both, and I think we should.
We are paying the price for our joy and innocence. While we were trying to be good people and live happy, productive lives, an army of demons was hard at work in the shadows plotting and deploying all of what we see today. We needed to monitor it, patrol it, and eradicate it; but instead we neglected it. We were naive. We were irresponsible. We were greedy. We were children for too long.
Speaking as a lifelong fan of classic Disney, I think it doesn't need to die. Woke Disney needs to die so the rest can get back on track with what Walt Disney wanted.
exactamundo.
Disney was also a part of my childhood (born early 60’s) - but I do remember Fantasia scared me as a child and I’ve never re-watched it. I never had deep emotional ties to Disney, so if it all implodes, I won’t miss it.
However, my daughter (born in ‘95), is going to be ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED when all the truth comes out.
I am a 92 baby and the Disney of my generation is monumental in my brain. I memorized all of my favorite Disney movies. People my age are obsessed - weddings based off Disney, tattoos of Disney, spending thousands of dollars going to Disney parks… my cousin is one of these fanatics. I easily could have been. I have a hard time letting go, especially since there isn’t a lot of non cabal childrens media out there and I have 2 young children. I am ready for this nightmare to end
87 same here. It's truly heartbreaking to see it go so evil with how much those movies meant/mean to me. Especially the parks.
Nice write up. I miss what Disney used to stand for. Maybe it will be that way again- once the White Hats purge the scum out of the company.
Thank you.
That’s the sad part about grooming. The innocent victims don’t realize it until much later. I’m sorry you have to realize this, OP. You shouldn’t blame your parents—they probably didn’t know any better.
My parents were terrific. Happy, normal, active and involved. I could not have asked for better. I was one of the lucky ones.
For some of us raised in the 60s and 70s Disney was the best of life. So many memories of Sunday nights. I went to Disney land when a young child and Disney world as a late teen. I took my oldest daughter when she was 5. But by the time my youngest was born and Eisner was in charge the magic was gone. We kept up the tradition but by the late 90s it was unmistakably changed for the worse, never to recover. Many thing have changed. Childhood now lasts 5 years if you are very careful. Schools, fairs even libraries. Santa, the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy. All gone. There is no place left to be a child.
Americans keep their children children too long. 29 year Olds in the basement
You know that's different. Although I agree that is babying kids. The truth is they rush little kids and baby older kids the reason for doing so is the same. Parents such these days. Too caught in their selves.
I don't know that they were always like this... I suspect it creeped up over the years, as the company became more and more corporate and more profit oriented, making it easier for activists to insinuate themselves into positions of influence with board members and the CEO(s)...
You can find subliminal sexual stuff in the old Disney films. It’s been there all along. There is no “new Disney” vs “old Disney”. It’s just “really obvious” grooming vs “subtle grooming”.
We were all fooled.
To be fair some of it was the original stories... have you ever looked at the original sleeping beauty? christ on a bicycle...
It’s not the hand you see that’s the problem. It’s the hidden one you dont.
Just want to point out that Bugs Bunny and Road Runner are both Warner Brothers animations, not Disney.
Thst was the sunday night line up.
I identify. I have watched some of the new stuff. It is not the same. When innocence is gone, it's gone. Pedophiles are the most evil thing in the world. It's literally stealing someone's soul.
Fun because you didn't get snatched up. Not so fun for the kids that did. No down vote just a sobering thought. We were all duped.
I know how you feel. There's a lot of good Disney music out there.
What instrument do you play?
Hi, thanks for reading. 12 string Guild guitar. Write a lot of songs too.
Beautiful guitar. I played for years. My hands got injured so at 55 I took up drums. Love them too. Vibration on my hands feels good too.
Oh nice! I own a 12 string myself. It's a cheap Chinese 12 string Stratocaster knockoff, but it's definitely a cool experiment (and wild to tune! Lol)
Louis Armstrong in WALL°E.
Funny that the two main characters are distinctly male & female.
It's a good movie.
I wish there was a way for all the GAW musicians to talk.
For now, I just know who is who in my head.
I agree with you. I’m not denying Disney isn’t the Disney I once knew. My first visit was also 71, I think. I’ve been to WDW so much I’ve lost count. I live in North Carolina & we always drove down for a week. Some of my best memories are going with my grandparents, cousins, family, Uncle & Aunt. Later as an adult I’ve been many times with my child, husband & my immediate family. I’ll get down voted & that’s ok. I hope the parks & entertainment of Disney can get back to its former family atmosphere. Sometimes the trash has to be taken out to clean up a place. I won’t argue about this. We all are entitled to our opinions. I’m not saying children haven’t been trafficked or sexually abused at Disney. I’d truly like for all the truth and evidence to come out.
The videos were also limited run and you had to pay out the nose to get them.
OP, I am in agreement with you about some of this. As a child (and my own children), we saw nothing nafarious in Disney products at the time. Most of the sexual theme stuff goes over small children's heads anyway. Looking now at Disney with adult eyes, presents a whole new problem. Sadly, it seems that Disney has "robbed" us of some fond childhood memories.
Nothing goes over a child's head. Imagery is what disney deals in and by virtue of their ability to evoke emotion through imagery and music as well as spoken word so successfully, I'd venture they also know how impressionable a child is. Likely they are the experts. Even your own memories are so imbued with the emotion of your childhood experiences thatbits hard to let it go. Disney has likely never been anything but what it is. We have seen their ability to influence progress through its history. Eisner is when I first recognized it.. to me its on us to remove a cancer.
Disney is toast
I admit, I have some fond memories of Disney.
But I realize NOW that they have ALWAYS been satanic and into pedophilia from the start. They're just not hiding it anymore.
Walt Disney was a Pedophile, an Occultist and a Freemason. The foundation of Disney is homosexuality and pedophilia.
He studied the penis so he could insert it into the cartoons he made. It could be disguised as a hat, etc.
He molested Disney child star Bobby Driscoll. As Bobby matured, Disney dropped him when he got too old for his taste. Driscoll went on to have a miserable life, became a drug addict and died in middle age, homeless and alone. He was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave on Hart Island, where he remains. https://www.ocweekly.com/new-book-alleges-walt-disney-was-a-gay-pedophile-6465882/
Don't believe everything you read.
Likewise.
Here's a history of its logo: https://blog.logomyway.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/disney-logo-evolution.jpg
666 within since 1937: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/525f821fe4b09ea702ac88f7/1443124483758-APKFNVEHPOEIOS0T7MF1/image-asset.png?format=1500w
I learned how to draw a Mickey Mouse face when I was in fifth grade… It’s the only thing I can draw… every time I see a dry erase board, it gets a Mickey face doodle… Been doing that for years
yeah. you're right.
I know…the DS has the opposite effect of the Midas touch. It stinks that the supposed wholesomeness was all a lie.
I agree with you that Disney movies, or really any animated movies, played a huge role in who I am today. They inspired my art, helped me learn about the animation process, how movies are made through collaborative work, how stories are structured, etc.
More than likely the teams who made the actual movies, the actual animation, the music, etc, had nothing to do with what was going on in the upper levels of Disney, and probably most never even knew. They were just there because they had a passion to draw frame-by-frame a whole animated film. It takes extreme dedication to do that and it is a painstaking process.
Glen Keane for example is one of the greats of film animation. Seeing his rough sketch animations for movies like Beauty and the Beast or Pocahontas or Little Mermaid absolutely blew my mind. AND, he made a short 2D animated film in recent years which shows the life progression of a boy and girl, and the film begins with showing where all human life begins: a single cell dividing into many. He didn't have to animate that, but he did, which makes me believe he's pro-life, or at the very least not an anti-real-science pro-choicer.
Disney World is so awesome, well, used to be. Prices are increasing exponentially every year and they’ve announced plans to tear down Splash Mountain, a classic and treasured attraction that’s been there for decades, because it’s “racist”. It’s a damn shame. I’d like to take my little brother and sister (who have never been) one last time before it becomes WokeWorld.
Btw, if any of you have a guilty pleasure keeping up with some of the new Marvel and Star Wars movies, but don’t want to support Disney, then I recommend just buying a Firestick and installing some piracy video apps on it like CinemaHD or Syncler. I don’t give them my money anymore.
I'd say for most individuals the pros outweigh the cons. Children had more important things to worry about influencing them back when I was a child, like Playboy magazine suddenly showing up on magazine racks that any child could glance at through the open door of a nickel and dime store, but don't get me started, subliminal persuasion? Yeah. How about just persuasion.