Disney's Corporate Alzheimer's

[lampbane]

Since coming back from Walt Disney World, I've been thinking about the Walt Disney Company as whole, about how all the properties fit into this general "canon" of the Disney brand, and how certain things are expanded and how others work together. And it occurs to me that Disney has a very selective, and somewhat inconsistent memory when it comes to

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[grysar]

A Disney Afternoon park could be awesome. I wonder if they've ever tried to open a Louie's outside of the park to cater to adults who grew up on Tailspin. I'd check it out.

[pseudohistorian]

You really have a knack for thinking about stuff at the same time I do. :) I was just having a long conversation about direct-to-video sequels (with a heavy emphasis on Disney titles) the other day with a friend of mine...

Disney clearly has some mysterious marketing algorithm for how they decide what brands to promote and what to discard--that's the only way to explain how some of those sequels were made despite not making much sense in context with the continuity and/or themes of the original movie, while other movies with more open-ended resolutions never got the sequel treatment.

Our own audience sense of prominence or obscurity also seems to have no bearing on it, since I still have no idea what the logic is behind their policies towards TV series. (The weird 65-episode rule comes to mind.) Excellent shows like TaleSpin, Gargoyles, or Kim Possible can be treated extremely well whilst they're being made, then completely forgotten afterward, without so much as a Complete Series DVD set to satisfy fans of those series. :/