Questions tagged [disney]
The Walt Disney Company is a major US media company best known for its in-house animation, most notably the iconic Mickey Mouse. Disney also owns several media properties, including Marvel, Pixar Studios, and Star Wars
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What's the title of this Disney comic about an emerald iceberg?
I'm looking for a Disney comic, in which the characters (pretty sure it's about Uncle $crooge and his nephews, but it could also be Mickey Mouse), go after an Iceberg which becomes green when the ...
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What is this Disney comic with hooded figures wearing golden masks?
It was a Disney comics. I read it (in French) about 20-25 years ago.
I'm not even sure if it was featuring Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse (I think Donald and his nephews), but it was about golden masks (...
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Is there any mention in the entire Peter Pan franchise of a cyclical history?
The first line of the 1953 Peter Pan movie is:
All this happened before, and it will happen again. But this time it happened in London.
Within the Peter Pan Disney franchise is there any other ...
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Old Disney cartoon featuring cavepeople
I saw this a real long time ago- I'd say early-mid 80's though I suspect the cartoon itself was much older. An anthropomorphic duck dressed up like a scientist (complete with nerd glasses) was ...
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What factors led to Disney retconning Star Wars Legends in favor of the new Disney Canon?
The Star Wars Expanded Universe is the culmination of decades of work with thousands of new characters and a multitude of plotlines, cultures and worlds, and which has been approved by LucasFilm via ...
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Short story where Walt Disney is thawed from cryo-storage to rule over Earth
I read a tongue-in-cheek short story in the 1970s / 1980s with an anniversary setting for the Disney Corporation, thawing the frozen corpse of Walt Disney to return as CEO and ruler of Earth … after ...
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Tryin to find this cartoon show in cafeteria where school students battle in flat screen with monsters or other students
I think it was on a Nickelodeon variant channel or Disney (/maybe XD).
Here's a BIG CLUE I remember, they made toys for the show that uses Barcodes to collect monsters to battle with each other!
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When did Ursula live at the palace, and why was she exiled?
In her introductory scene in The Little Mermaid, Ursula speaks of having once lived in Triton's palace before being exiled from it. Is there any material that details her time there and the reason for ...
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Sci-fi show marketed towards teens about a blonde girl living on some kind of space station
Years ago, in the middle of the night, I woke up and a strange show I’d never seen before was being aired on Disney. It was about a blonde girl, and she lived on some kind of space station with ...
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Was "Is this a pigeon?" from The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird, inspired by Bambi?
Is what has now become a famous meme, Yutaro Katori, a human android asks:
Is this a pigeon?
When seeing a butterfly, as they're still learning to recognise the difference.
On watching the much ...
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Live action movie on the Disney channel about a boy, shown around 2008-2010
This is a movie i used to watch when I was a kid. The movie is around 90 minutes, is live-action, and was shown on the Disney Channel. Important context is that I watched this on the Indonesian ...
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McDuck Frankenstein Movie
I'm trying to identify a Disney movie that involves Donald Duck or the Scrooge McDuck family of characters.
They rent a castle, and end up awakening Frankenstein. There's also a story involving a blob ...
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Is Temiri Blagg (from the last scene of The Last Jedi) an allusion to Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice?
At the end of The Last Jedi, a boy named Temiri Blagg (AKA "Broom Boy") uses the force to grab a sweeping broom.
Instantly, it came to my mind that this scene was an homage to Mickey's ...
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How old are the members of La Familia Madrigal at the time of the movie?
I find it hard to judge the age of each family member of La Familia Madrigal from the Disney movie "Encanto". For example, if I understand this correctly, Bruno, who looks like in his 30s, ...
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What are the authoritative criteria for being a Disney Princess? [duplicate]
The official Disney Princess website currently lists fourteen princesses, expanding from the long-set twelve with the most recent addition of Anna & Elsa:
Tiana
Moana
Ariel
Mulan
Belle
Pocahontas
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In Disney’s The Watcher in the Woods film, what was supposed to happen in the final ritual?
In The Watcher in the Woods (1980) second 1981 theatrical release with reshot ending, we get to the film’s climax.
Jan Curtis hatches the plan to recreate the original ceremony during the upcoming ...
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Why did the Evil Queen in 'Snow White' give Snow White the poisonous apple in person?
The Preamble:
Something which never made any sense to me is that the objectively beautiful Evil Queen would drink a frightening magical potion which turns her into an old hag, presumably temporarily (...
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Gyro Gearloose and Artificial Grass
I'm looking for a classic Disney book or comic in which Gyro Gearloose replaces all of Uncle Scrooge's (or perhaps Donald's) annoyances with synthetic substitutes — including replacing the grass of ...
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Is this kingdom from the Sleeping Beauty alternate opening meant to be Ulstead?
In an alternate opening to Sleeping Beauty, we are shown King Hubert’s kingdom, which is home to him and his son, Prince Phillip.
In Maleficent Mistress of Evil, Prince Phillip’s kingdom is called ...
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As well as the Devil’s Mirror, is Hans from Frozen based on the Prince from the fairytale the Snow Queen?
We know that Hans is based on the Devil’s Mirror from the Snow Queen fairytale, and it shows, because he mimics others perfectly.
However, his Disney Wiki says that Hans is also based on the PRINCE ...
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Is Aurora from Once Upon A Time an allusion to Belle from Beauty and the Beast?
In Once Upon A Time, Prince Phillip is an allusion to the Beast from Beauty and the Beast because he has a a curse that turns him into a Yaoguai.
Maleficent in said TV series is an allusion to the ...
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What clued Sleepy in on the Evil Queen's presence toward the end of Disney's "Snow White"?
Near the end of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Evil Queen visits Snow White in the dwarfs' house while they have just gone to work in the mine, disguised as the old hag, with the ...
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Was King Stefan romantically linked with Maleficent in the animated Sleeping Beauty?
In the 1959 Sleeping Beauty, we jump straight in to Aurora being born and her christening. No backstory of how Maleficent became evil is established.
However, in Maleficent, Maleficent was once ...
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Why didn't the other dragons come back the first time the spell was cast?
In Raya and the Last Dragon
Why didn't this happen the first time the spell was cast?
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Why do the Don Rosa comics frequently have a "story code" containing a date that is one year prior to the "date"?
I found this today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_comics_by_Don_Rosa
Observe the "Date" and "Story code" columns. For example, the one in the very bottom says "...
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Why does Donald Duck say this strange line on page three of Don Rosa's "The Dream of a Lifetime", part two (2002)?
On page three, panel four (first panel of second row), in the second part of The Dream of a Lifetime, English original, Donald shouts toward Bombie the Zombie, but addressing Scrooge:
HALP! HE'S ...
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Is Simba a politician? [closed]
I ask because he is the King of Pride Rock.
But I do not know if Simba is a monarch, or a dictator, or a tribal chief, or two of the three, or all of the three.
Also, I do not know if it would be more ...
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Why did Don Rosa show Scrooge being so greedy and heartless just before striking it rich?
In "The King of the Klondike" (1993), chapter 8/12 of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", there is half a page which frankly disturbs me, and it has bothered me since I first ...
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Why did Scrooge accept the $10,000 deal for the Anaconda Copper Mine in Don Rosa's 1993 comic "The Raider of the Copper Hill"?
In the comic, Scrooge discovers that, due to a weird law, he legally owns a big copper ore mining operation just as the price of copper skyrockets.
The "owners" say that Scrooge knows that ...
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Over how long a period of time does Enchanted take place?
Over how long a period of time does Enchanted (2007) take place?
Giselle's transformation from 'lovey dovey' princess to normal member of society took way too quick for me, as it seemed to be in only ...
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What is this animated French short film that looked like a Disney film with a little touch of anime?
It is about a couple like Romeo and Juliet being chased by robots and/or similar to "Mars Express" and/or "Fantastic Planet" (I think).
Cyberpunk and/or Steampunk sort of.
I saw it ...
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How did Alice return from Wonderland the very first time?
Warning, many spoilers of Alice in Wonderland and sequel.
In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Alice has nightmares that are actually memories of her first visit to Wonderland when she was a child. She ...
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Disney live-action film involving a boy who invents a bicycle that can do super-jumps
I was reminded of this when reading 80s movie about a genius boy who invents a force field to deflect football balls. This was a Disney TV movie I watched, somewhere between the mid 80s to the late ...
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What do the three gems on the Calamity Box from Amphibia represent?
So I've heard about some rumors that the gems on the Calamity Box represent the three girls who had ended up on the frog world (Anne, Sasha, and Marcy), which are the blue, pink and green gems. Since ...
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Is Elastigirl's body shape her natural shape, or did she choose it?
Helen Parr aka. Elastigirl has the power to bend and change her shape, so is she choosing that shape or is that just the way she is?
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How does Sonic know what Wi-Fi and the Internet are?
When the Wi-Fi router is plugged into the Game Central Station near the beginning of Ralph Breaks the Internet, this scene occurs:
RALPH: "Whiffey"? Or "Wifey"? Well, it’s either ...
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TV show with sci-fi inventions of the family member and trouble it causes [duplicate]
SCENE-1: (face disappears)
A girl applies a cream for a pimple problem and the pimples will disappear and she is warned to not apply excess cream. In college she applies more cream and her body facial ...
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Are all horses in Corona intelligent?
In Tangled (2010), the horse Maximus displays clear signs of intelligence. Although he does not speak (in any language that humans can understand), he takes and executes complex orders from humans, ...
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In Shrek 2 when they drink the potion, we don't see Dragon... but why wasn't she invited with Donkey? [duplicate]
From the characters' point of view (in-universe) what is the justification for the decision to cut her out from the event? I mean, Donkey gets invited and on his invitation there is no 'with a +1'? ...
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1950s or 60s Disney(?) film showing car with concrete wheels bouncing along a rubber highway
In the 1960s I saw an animated film on American TV, I think on The Wonderful World of Disney, that showed the future of road-building. It may have dated to the 1950s. [Among other projected advances, ...
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Was there supposed to be a treehouse in Frozen II?
The toy company LEGO has released a playset, 41164 Enchanted Treehouse, based on Disney's Frozen II film. The set features a treehouse with a zipline and Arendelle-related insignia, possibly ...
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Did anyone else hear Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etude no 12 (Chasse-Neige) in Frozen II?
I was watching Frozen II at the cinemas today, and I was listening to some of the background music, and I'm pretty sure that I heard Franz Liszt's 12th Transcendental Etude in some of it. It was ...
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Why were Donna and Daisy Duck merged into the same character?
Whilst doing research for my answer to the question: Has Donald Duck ever had any love interest besides Daisy? I found out about Donna Duck. Donna appears a few times before eventually apparently ...
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Has Donald Duck ever had any love interest besides Daisy?
A common trope in the Duckverse is Daisy double-dating Gladstone Gander and Donald at the same time, never fully committing to either one.
During the times when he wasn't with Daisy, has Donald Duck ...
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Green lights and flames in Disney films
Several Disney films use green flames or lighting, usually paired with evil people or creatures. In Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent often has lots of green flames accompanying her and the creatures dance ...
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What do they use as money in the Tinker Bell films?
Does the Tinker Bell/Neverland universe shown in the Disney Fairies films have any currency?
Do they, for example, use pixie dust as a means of exchange?
I need to know for a DND campaign I am ...
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What explains the Genie's fate?
In Disney's Aladdin (2019), Aladdin wishes for
But why doesn't he just stay a Genie but without the shackles, like in the 1992 version?
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Where was it established that Super Goof's goobers were irradiated by a meteor?
In old comics from the 1960s and later, Goofy used to have a superhero alter ego, Super Goof. Toonopedia explains that Disney made a trial run in Donald Duck #102 (October 1965), where Gyro Gearloose ...
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Is there any significance to the prison numbers of the Beagle Boys starting with 176-?
One of the things which has puzzled me since my childhood are the prison numbers of the Beagle Boys:
(source: Wikipedia)
They all start with 176- followed by a permutation of those digits. The ...
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Where did Darkwing Duck make his money?
Maybe I missed something, but what does Drake do in ordinary life? Maybe S.H.U.S.H finance him?
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