In Walt Disney World it is already the most wonderful time of the year and has been for a couple of weeks. The entire resort is decked out with boughs of holly, gingerbread houses, and thousands of colored lights. There is Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, the Candlelight Processional, and the Osborn Lights. The entire resort is in the middle of looking a lot like Christmas.
While Walt Disney World is only a day’s drive from where I live at this point it might as well be on another planet. With no plans or means to go back any time soon, I’ll only be visiting Orlando vicariously through Disney World podcasts and websites. For the first time in a long time I find myself with only a peripheral interest in Disney.
Now that The Muppets movie has been released there’s not anything else to look forward to from Disney this holiday season. Disney Pictures has a pair of December releases scheduled. The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn, a Steven Spielberg film, gets released on December 21 and War Horse opens on Christmas Day. I’m not very interested in either of them.
For the first in a few years there will not be a major Disney or Pixar animated release in theaters for the Holidays. Disney is putting all its eggs in “The Muppets” basket.
Of course that should come as no surprise. The Muppets and their co-stars, Jason Segal and Amy Adams, were all over the place for these past few months. I have already seen the movie but I plan on seeing it again before I review it.
But with no Disney animated feature this Christmas season, unless there’s another movie we really want to see, Paula and I will have to find something different to do on Christmas Eve.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that, for me, there’s nothing really very interesting going on in the world of Disney right now. Perhaps that’s because there are other things in my life that require more attention and are more exciting than anything I’m getting from Disney.
But then again, by focusing on those other things I’m following my dreams. That’s the number one Walt Disney’s philosophy. So I guess I really am still under the influence of Disney even though I’m pursuing “other dreams”.
I’ll be back again soon with my review of “The Muppets”
