I almost whole heartedly agree with you on this one.

Very much agreed. The Disney Channel doesn't even look Disney anymore. IT's all about kindergarden in the mornings and middle school in the afternoons. Barely any cartoons or anything.

and the few cartoons it does have doesn't look like anything by Disney even though it is. That Fish Hooks thing looks like a fail Spongebob wannabe.

And the only movies they show are the ones made specifically for the channel itself. No more movies that were show in the theaters and on DVD. That's why I stopped watching The Disney Channel a couple years ago. Because there's nothing worth watching. I didn't mind at first because they were still showing a few, but when they stopped it all together and show something else. I just stopped.

That's not entirely true. While they do play an awful lot of their gosh-awful original movies, they do play some movies that were made for the theaters or DVD like Aladdin, Ratatouille and they just played a couple of Pixie Hollow movies yesterday. But that's the only thing going for them anymore. The rest of the time, it's a waste of time to tune in to that channel. It's the Preschool/Tween Channel the rest of the time.

Yeah. It's rare that they play those movies, but most of the time is the stupid once a month channel movies. It's just ugh. And High School Musical for some unknown reason is so goddamn popular. I have no idea why. I watched all three movies and all of the songs are just corny and bad. ANd the movie plot had no flow. And their sitcoms are unfunny. I hate how the Disney Channel looks right now. God I miss the days of the 80s and 90s. The Disney Channel we all grew up with.

They just churned out another one called Avalon High and they showed it three times in the same week including when they premiered it. wtf. No movie is good enough to show that much especially a Disney Channel movie.

I guess they think musical movies are making a comeback and they're trying to make more profit from their so called "success" from High School Musical. What has this generation came down to?

Mickey will have his revenge at the end of this month on the Wii, just wait and be patient

Oh yeah. Epic Mickey is coming out. Makes me wish we still had a Wii and that they were releasing it for the Xbox too.

Wii exclusive, sorry

I know.

This is why Disney paid Warren Spector to knock some sense into them in the form of Epic Mickey.

I was surprised how the game really defines Disney as a whole, including the cartoons and theme parks. It's pretty damn sweet to play if you've been to Disney World.

yeah, after he stung their pride about how much they tore children up with him over the years. Spector let Disney have it, then Disney came back and wanted him to "revamp" everyone's lovable mouse.

now... if only someone will do that for Mario... oh wait, I'm in the process of that.

Actually I think it represents the new Disney, since they seem desperate for any idea.
Disney was far better in the 90's.

agreed

also agreed. I still have two tapes my grandmother taped for me from The Disney Channel in 1993. Wish it was still the way it was back then without the specially having to subscribe to it thing.

Walt Disney would slit his wrists due to what has become of Disney.

Down the road, not across it either.

Suicidemouse!

nope, he's just sad. not suicidal.

What I mean is that it reminds me of the suicidemouse meme

oh okay. hadn't heard of it before

A-FUCKING-MEN

I think you know already that I like this. *L*
I agree with you, and I actually really love your take on Mickey Mouse. He looks on-model, but in your style, too. Very nice :)

Yep I do and thank you so much.^^

More agree-ance.

100% agreed :(

when disney was out in the 80's it was all about the mouse now adays it's about "any one has any ideas on new shows for money????"

i miss old cartoons :/

me too

Amen to that. I remember they did try to do a new Muppets Show on the Disney Channel a couple years ago or so but all the celebrities on there were Disney Channel stars and they and the Muppets were all BFFs. It was awful. D:

I loved all the Muppet bits, but I paid no attention when a Disney star was on screen. I focused on the frog.

i strongly agree with you on that.

it's not really that kid friendly anymore it's more teen friendly.

*hugs Mickey* There, there. You still have lot's of fans that adore you. Including me.

Very beautiful picture; you tapped in very well a lot of emotion and gloom from the murky and depressing use of black and white. It perhaps sums up what a lot of people feel about the grand Di$ney anti-magic empire these days.


I've never watched the Disney channel, but I do agree how moronic and awful Di$ney has become over the past 13 years. One of the many problems I have with the current Disney studio is how it runs its animation output these days. I was a fan of classic, pencil-and-paper style animation Disney used to perform (as well as that of Don Bluth and Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes, and so on) and it got me upset how the Di$ney studio stopped dead any more new old-fashioned drawing based movies and forced their animation stuidio do CGI animated flicks in the same style of Pixar and Dreamworks. This despite that Disney already has a CGI-making studio with Pixar, and that past Disney hand-drawn movies in the 20th century were good and successful, due in part of having good characters and writing. Even when they boted Michael Eisner out and made Pixar's John Lassetter had a seat in Disney's animation, and made two new hand-drawn features, It still continues to chug it's greedy, stubborn course to give up classic animated to be in the mad 3D CGI race with Sony, Pixar, Dreamworks, Universal. The hand drawing animated films were so wonderful and special in ways the CGI fvrom Pixar and its copycats cannot, in my opinion.

Thank you very much and I agree with you. I think DreamWorks has been losing it too. I haven't been remotely interested in seeing their last couple of animated films. They had breathtaking traditionally animated films like Spirit and Prince of Egypt. These studios sure are shooting themselves in the foot by totally doing away with traditional animation.

I have not seen "Spirit" yet, though I have a DVD copy of the movie somewhere in my home. But from what I've seen from clips from TV ads (as I remember whent he film was theatrically released) as well as still photos and articles and reviews on it, it seems like a beautiful and rousing animated movie.

I've seen a few of Dreamworks CGI stuff which includes the "Kung Fu Panda" movies and "Over The Hedge", They're good, with their animation being a little better than the CGI movies from Disney and Pixar, in my opinion. But, yeah, not even they cannot be as high great as the hand-drawn movies.Hand drawing animation tends to be more meaningful, moe expressive strong to convey drama, jokes/humor, horror and the like that the cold and steril CG images. It mostly has to do with how an animator with analog hand drawing has more freedom with how many frames a character can more, how realistic or exaggerated the animation moves to get some sort of stylised non-verbal expresion, how well the animator can act through the character or thing he is animating, and so forth. Animation is not only the magic of making an artifical image or object appear to move, but to give the image a life of its own in many more artistcally examples. I also tend to feel that many comedy based hand-drawn cartoons, lie Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse show from the late 1980s, are better at humor than the modern CGI stuff.

I am not much of a fan of Pixar and CGI-Di$ney, due to how plastic their characters annoyingly look. I rememeber when Pixar's "Toy Story" -- the film that started this whole all-CG movie craze to begin with -- first came out in theaters. I never was interested in the movie or how it looked, so I never went to the theater to see it. I would instead get to see Disney hand drawn movies like "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" in wild participation, due to how vivid they were and how well told and presented the stories were. I also have had a great time discovering some wonderful drawing based films on video or DVD, both Disney and non-Disney alike.

Mickey is grieved and Jean-Luc Picard is not amused.

Sorry for the silly comment above, and yes I miss that old school Disney atmosphere. Disney should just stop trying to buy everyone out (Marvel, Lucas Entertainment, ect.) *maybe they're trying to keep a competitive hand in the movie industry, but the shit that everyone says the channel has on the air sounds lame* and just back to making cartoons again. Or at least make shows that are actually worth a damn to watch besides High School Musical.