Merida, the boundary-breaking heroine of Pixar’s Brave, officially gains the title of Disney’s eleventh Princess today — one which, ironically, she would not give a crap about. But she appears to have stopped into a Sephora, a Weight Watchers, and a BCBG on the way to her coronation. And they took away her bow and arrows. Not cool.
Sadly, it seems to be gender bias day at Pop Tortes. Which occurs far too often.
always reblog because best crossover in history
This. Always.
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Lindsay, with the help of her “sassy gay friend,” examines the Walt Disney Company’s somewhat complicated relationship with the LGBT community. As always, the video is enlightening and funny, but there were times when I found myself leaning towards Nella’s straw man argument. The video makes very good points, but there are one or two that seem to border on reading too much into things. On the other hand, the point about Brave could have used some more elaboration as it was one of the video’s best.
If you grew up in the late 80s, Duck Tales is almost certainly an important cultural touchstone for you. The show was full of fun, adventure, and humor, and it has one of the best and catchiest theme songs in cartoon (possibly even television) history.
The A.V. Club looks at how the timing was exactly right in the late 80s for this wonderful show, and the many that followed it (notably Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, and Tale Spin, a show I have a huge soft spot for, due to its Art Deco design and 1930s technology). Todd VanDerWerff examines how Duck Tales seemed to lead a revolution in what children’s television could be, before changes at Disney took the show off the air and failed to utilize this beloved series.
Now, sing it with me:
Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg…
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A trailer for a new movie Disney is advertising as a video game version of Toy Story. It looks funny, but my first thought was “why would they spend all the money to get the rights to characters like Bowser when they could just create a pastiche character?” (Clearly there is something wrong with me.)
Alternative movie posters for classic Disney movies, found at the attached link.
Photos of women dressed as Disney Princesses (and Jessica Rabbit). The accuracy is, as io9. wrote, eerie.
