Originality is dead.

Don’t look at me like that. You know I’m right.

When writing about Disney, you can’t take the fanboy side. Cause then its not an article. Its a fanboy article. Written by a fanboy. So it technically takes a point and defends it, no matter if it is wrong or right. So I can’t take the fanboy side on this article here boyos. Let’s get this show on the road.

Let’s look at the movie market. What kind of movies make more money? Original movies or sequels? The answer can be both or sequels. Original movies like UP get millions not only of cash, but of awards. Sequels like Toy Story 3 are awaited since the first movies made their childhood. But why are people making more remakes or new versions of older movies or even sequels instead of new, original IP’s?

This applies to other markets too. Books. Video Games. Theme Parks. All of them are no more created from nowhere. They take things from other movies, animations, or even usual stories (remember the Top 10 Attractions with a Story? Remember the over 15 attractions with the prop or character is missing and guests must find it with or without a character’s help).

So what happened to originality? Did it flew away? Disappeared? Lots of things disappeared from the Disney Theme Parks thanks to this loss of originality. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was replaced by Winnie the Pooh. Why is that? Maybe because people love animated characters more than underwater fish?

Well, that didn’t make sense. Right, Nemo?

But we can’t really throw all the blame on the Imagineer’s back, can we?

We can, though, throw the blame for originality being destroyed in the guests back.

Lets suppose you are a new guest. Never read a Disney Blog. First visit. In which attraction would you go? An attraction that features underwater creatures or an attraction that feature familiar underwater creatures? Of course, you would pick the latter.

So who’s fault is that the originality was destroyed? Well, everyone! If guests were more interessed in new things and decided to give it a try before deciding that it isn’t the right thing for them, we could have a lot of original attractions back. But if the Imagineers decided to dig a little deeper and do something different, something un-usual, they would get a LOT more guests.

That’s my opnion.