I Would Pay So Much Money To Ride Superstar Limo

it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!

please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!

After drowning in Encanto and Turning Red and Lightyear promos, and getting a decent amount of Raya promos - all films with prominent characters of color, including black women in Lightyear's case - it kind of seems like a specific slight to the one movie featuring an unmissable black/white interracial marriage and a biracial queer lead who, spoilers! actually gets an (also interracial!) romance on-screen.

I'm sure tumblr will be quick to attribute Disney's mistreatment of the film to the cute teen m/m subplot, but don't sleep on the interracial relationship aspect - it's not a fluke that the Respect for Marriage Act had to insist on protections for both same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. It's both! It's both.

Even looking to Disney's most famous interracial relationship that features a black person - namely Tiana and Naveen - they followed the same pattern as the movie Hitch famously did, by making the black character's love interest neither black nor white - black/black is seen as making the whole movie a "black movie," i.e. alienating white audiences, while black/white would be even more of a source of controversy than a black princess alone had been.

Now here we are, over a decade later, and Disney's still scared to promote a movie where one protagonist is in a black/white marriage and the other protagonist is that guy's biracial kid.

A Buzzy field guide by Twitter’s resident Buzzy scholar Bunny Wars.

This is a pretty awesome thing. EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration, aired in 1982. 

You get to really see Epcot when it was in it’s infancy, even before the Norway pavilion was put in. They talk about World Showcase pavilions that never were, like Equatorial Africa, Spain, and Israel. 

I mean, I know it’s that way to accommodate the size of ROTR’s show building.  And, theoretically, a long stretch of greenery could be a “relaxation zone” between the hectic areas around both ride entrances.  However, there’s not any benches or picnic tables to facilitate such “relaxation”; everyone’s just expected to trek right through that area on their way from one end of the land to the other.

So, Stardust was their initiative to make walkways more efficient and guest-friendly throughout the park. While in other areas, that was implemented as removing planters and changing stroller parking to make walkways more accessible, in Galaxy’s Edge they decided to implement it as… one giant empty walkway.  Which doesn’t even make sense for accessibility or guest flow.  Both overflow queues for the attractions go AWAY from the walkway in question, so it can’t even serve as overflow space.

I think the imagineers might legitimately not have known what to do with this space!  And didn’t even think to throw some benches along the side so at least it was *something*!  Given how money hungry Disney is, you think they’d have thrown in another few souvenir carts or food stands even!

here you go 😊