Static Live Magazine December 2020

The Disney Revolution is a movement that a
bunch of true Disney fans decided to start shortly
after the company’s threat to replace the Song
of the South characters in Splash Mountain
with ones from The Princess and the Frog.
When the company made the announcement
on June 25th, 2020, that was the last straw for
most true Disney fans. This was the one that
not only broke the camel’s back but shattered
it, making it impossible to deny any longer that
The Walt Disney Company has had its magic
systematically taken away from it piece by piece
over the last 3 decades.
The company has largely stopped caring about
its true fans and what they want and decided to
ignore concerns and feedback from their guests.
To make matters worse, they have given in to
political correctness and woke society-destroying
agendas such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter
every single time. And they’re not even good at
it! Disney’s attempts at virtue-signaling just come
off as hollow and insincere, not actually giving
people what they want and doing nothing to solve
real-world problems. These uninformed decisions
have not only caused the company to become a
mockery and result in fans abandoning them, but
they have helped put the company in a financially
vulnerable position at a time when it can ill afford
it.
The company has clearly forgotten that it was
true fans like us, flocking to Disney parks from
every corner of the globe, who made The Walt
Disney Company successful. Had they actually
listened to them and had given them what they
actually asked for, they would realize that’s what
helped the company become one of the largest
in the world. But that success has come at a
cost. Not only have far too many executives and
managers whom The Walt Disney Company
has put in such positions since at
least the early 1990s abandoned
all of us—they have actively turned their backs
on the company’s roots, history and the golden
standards that Walt Disney himself created and
that the company strove to uphold for a while
after his death.
One of the most important things is their
standards of maintenance, something that should
never be ignored if for no other reason than
consideration of the safety of guests. But even
that has been in decline lately. Among the many
missteps that Disney has made over the past 3
decades include:
—Cutting corners wherever possible on
maintenance, upkeep, repairs and cleanliness
throughout the Disney parks and resorts,
resulting in things from a sinking boat on Jungle
Cruise to a sinking log on Splash Mountain!
—New and promising projects getting
compromised or cut altogether.
—Eliminating Live Entertainment in the parks,
even though Social Distancing is NOT involved in
most of those cuts!
—The variety of meet-and-greet characters
throughout the parks has been all-too-greatly
reduced.
—Cast members being very poorly trained,
including in terms of learning how to handle and
recognize people with neurological disorders
such as Autism! (How to handle a meltdown!)
—The Parks and their offerings appear to have
become way too focused on children, giving
adults the shaft, even though the parks are
supposed to be “family-friendly”.
—Cast members’ and characters’ interactions
have become too rigid and discriminatory with
too many policies put in place, and they have
become less outgoing and less willing to be
affectionate and interactive (giving kisses on the
cheek, partner dancing, etc., without question
and without saying out-of-character things like
“my significant other will get jealous”) with adults
and not just the kids,