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Disney AU where everyone’s gay

Bonus : Sith Ursula 

whyyyyyy do people insist on drawing skinny ursula come on

I didn’t even think of this the first time

MA PORCO SANTO SI CAZZO

Yes! The lack of the Unnecessary Yet Mandatory love story is one of the reasons why I love Merida (whose goal in the film is to *not* get married). Now we’ll have Moana too (and I guess Elsa also counts, but the movie itself doesn’t)

AHHH!

This song is gorgeous! 

The ladies of Disney.

IT’S BY HAIR COLOR

^ glad to know i wasn’t the only one

June is gay pride month, so to commemorate the occasion my friends at Cosmopolitan asked me to illustrate a set of Disney Princesses in love with…each other! Because who needs a man when you have princesses and a queen?! ‪#‎LoveIsLove‬ ❤️💛💚💙💜

I ship it all SO HARD

Why have a ship when you can have an armada?!

Whew! Tiana and Elsa 😩

aurora skull drags inferior disney men

Why Aurora is my favorite

Someone stop this meme its slowly killing me.

My childhood in 3 minutes ❤

I AM SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW. DAMN IT

From the Art of Zootopia Book, easily available online or in stores like Barnes & Noble. This book is amazing. It has so much world building and ideas from the team in it, all the research and enthusiasm practically overflows from it. There’s a ton of stuff for anyone that needs artistic references or ideas for stories. (I know I have a ton now, I even have the name of the fast food joint Nick and Finnick would be working in in one version.) It’s totally worth the buy.

For anyone curious as to what predators eat, as you can see in one of the pictures, Misty’s is only one place that sells insects and fish as well as herbivore options in the Rainforest District. Bats exist. Foxes are even more sexualized other than sexy Nick. You can even see a crocodile and monkey in the first, though they removed primates completely from existence in the end. 

There’s just so much setting in this book where the movie was unable to focus on in order to keep a good pace. So go buy it. You won’t regret it.

i love how they just chose a photo of steve and bucky

We see you, Vanity Fair. 

Animation errors from Brave {x}

I cant fucking breathe the EYEBALLS

IT LOOKS LIKE MERIDA IS TRYING SO HARD TO GET RID OF CLOTHES

After seeing that post about Rey Figures, out of curiosity I went to see if they were available at the Disney Store Online.

Then I decided to slake my curiosity by adding up how many times each character is prominently featured on merchandise, just for fun. What I found was surprising, and not surprising, all at once.

So while you can get a talking Chewie, Boba Fett (who isn’t even in the film), as well as just some random Stormtrooper, they never manufactured a 14″ talking Rey figure. I even went onto their customer chat and asked if it would be available in the future and just got non-answers and told to go ask other people; if they had ever sold/made one, they would have told me she was just sold out and coming back in stock soon. She doesn’t exist.

I left out items like books, speeders and equipment, so these tallies only include actual physical representation of the character as a toy or on an object.

So basically, in spite of being the main character, Rey is featured 21 fewer times in merchandise- and I noticed a large disparity in the type of merchandise as well. Rey was much more likely to be featured on static objects; several t-shirts, not nearly as many action figured or playable toys. 

I was just talking to Roommate about this last night… and while I want to see way more Rey, I am not really surprised by the extreme amount of Kylo and generic Storm Troopers… and I don’t chalk it up to the fact that Rey’s a girl because it follows the pattern of the previous trilogies.  Namely, the bad guys and droids are iconic, recognizable, and extremely toyetic and therefore there is a ridiculous amount of merch.

I would argue that Disney isn’t selling the white maleness of Kylo Ren or even his character… they’re selling his visual, which easily converts to toys and costumes while sponging off of the popular and iconic Vader.  My chief argument is that there is very little unmasked Kylo Ren merch out there; to my knowledge, from the top-end Hot Toys Kylo 1:6th to the cheapest 3.75″ figure, there is only one figure that comes without his mask (the Disney Elite 6″ die cast, which is in more of a collector price point than a playline toy).  Anyway, with Kylo they have a character who when masked is recognizable even when poorly drawn or sculpted…

Which brings in another issue, maybe the bigger issue, which is rights.  Whenever you use the actors image, you have to pay them.  When you use a mask, a puppet, a robot, a CGI made up person, those images belong to Disney/Lucasfilm and are effectively royalty free for them…. so yeah, flood the shelves with stuff with a lower cost to produce.

These same arguments can be made for BB8, Phasma, and Chewie. BB8 is also universally adorable.  (Not gonna lie, I have been tempted by every single BB8 item I have seen because damn that is a cute droid.)

Lots of good thoughts. Also the best place we see all the characters are Lego and possibly they may not have to pay rights as they’re.. well, Lego and so all sort of look the same and so don’t use the actor image exactly.

Chris Evans stated in an interview that he doesn’t get any cut of merchandising, (even with his face on it) none of the actors do, not even RDJ, the real money is made with the toys, (they learned this after George Lucas managed to keep the rights with Star Wars and his fortune was made thereby) No Studio Gives Actors Rights To Merch. the movies are simply long commercials for them. (in Disney’s mind)

^^^This. It’s much more likely, as I saw on another post today, that Disney thought that the big hit of the movie would be NOT the female star/main character, but the male villain, so they made a CRAP TON of merch with Kylo Ren and then were shocked and caught completely off guard and unprepared for demand when the opposite turned out to be true--something that would be common sense if not for Sexism. 

Arthur and Hazel.

Noooooo Please stop, This is beautiful, I loved this film as a kid. I’m literally tearing up. 

FUUUUUUUCK

That scene broke little me’s heart. I forever wanted her to have her cuddly romance with Arthur.

Whomever made this, you have healed a very old, jagged wound. 

Ditto

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaa

Someones just took one of the saddest scenes in Disney history and made it awesome…

“As disappointing as it was to see Rey left out of the Target six-pack of The Force Awakens figures, it came as an even bigger shock when fans discovered Hasbro’s popular Star Wars: The Force Awakens Battle Action Millennium Falcon set  comes with a light-up Millennium Falcon, a BB-8, a Finn, a Chewbacca…and no Rey. [Hey, she’s only the PILOT - PF]

“Command the Millennium Falcon and strike against the formidable power of the First Order,” reads the Hasbro product description, accompanied by the image of a young boy playing with the set. “Imagine its amazing stealth as it dodges asteroids and blasts enemies. Its movie-accurate decoration helps capture the excitement of the latest saga.”

The omission of Rey from the Millennium Falcon—the ship that she flies in several key Force Awakens scenes—drew sharp criticism from fans. It reminded them too well of how Star Wars studio Disney similarly treated Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow this year in its male-centric rollout of Avengers toys. Despite playing a crucial role in the Avengers team of superheroes, Black Widow was included in only a fraction of Disney and Marvel’s official merchandising.

More problematically, like Rey, Black Widow was rewritten out of her out of her own scene in Age of Ultron products depicting her motorcycle-flying sequence, replaced by Captain America and Iron Man. Toy partner Hasbro did the same to Gamora, the lone female hero of Guardians of the Galaxy, who could only be found on a handful of officially licensed items despite the fact that 44 percent of the Marvel ensemble’s opening weekend audience were female.

“It’s frustrating and stuff, and it bums me out,” added Guardians director James Gunn of the Gamora toy snafu. “I had a big conversation about this yesterday with one of my producers at Marvel about trying to make sure, especially, that Gamora is represented more in [merchandise] and all the Guardians toys.”

But the difference between Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Force Awakens is that in the Star Wars sequel Rey isn’t just one member of an ensemble of heroes: She’s literally the lead character.”

Read the full piece here

HEY HASBRO!!!

IM SO FUCKING MAD

This is why my son has his own Monster High and Rapunzel stuff. If “boy toy” lines keep neglecting female characters, I will keep giving him mine.

*screaming* She’s the main character! And why is there a Stormtrooper commander but no goddamn Phasma?

Disney Girls Aesthetic