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[quote=Anonymous]I think it has to do to with the capitalist overconsumption pushed by Disney.  It magnified dramatically in my lifetime.

I first visited Disney when I was about 3 and I had a mouse ear hat.  My favorite experience was the Tiki Room show.  As far as I know it only had a kid's record of the show songs as merchandise.  As a kid I had a lot of Disney records.

Back then, Disney just made movies and was a vacation place.  There were no mall stores, no concept of buying a full set of "Disney princess" dolls since many of them hadn't been created yet, no attempt to acquire and monetize a comparable male-appealing set of properties.  Then with the movies that came out in my older years, they started adding really tacky elements.  Like wisecracking comedic sidekick like Mooshu in Mulan and the genie in Aladdin.

It's the assumption that every one should just love this pumped out garbage that really gets me.  Like when a family member gifted our newborn a 2.5 ft tall Mickey and a 2.5 ft tall Donald stuffie.

Disney attracts the vitriol because it is a single entity pushing purchases of proprietary IP-themed merchandise and experiences.  A visit to a single geography such as Vegas is still more varied and less explicitly captured by a single for-profit entity.

Also I get kind of mad that they created a lot of their princess IP on top of copyright-free fairy tales.  [/quote]

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