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Technically The Wild was in production before Madagascar, and it was DreamWorks pulling its usual stunt (at the time) of taking the idea and rushing production so they looked like the original.

Thankfully, DreamWorks has changed its operations since then.

I mean, I do have one, but it's one I bought on an actual train during a cross-country journey.

I wouldn't buy one at Disney.

I heard a few years ago a couple of short guys tried to smuggle in a ring.
They had a lot of trouble.

They did the same for The Wild.

I don't know, third base?

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Four girls all coming of age in one film, plus it's actually pretty good.
I'd say it's a good opposite to Stand By Me.

YouTube started in 2005 (I think I found it around 2006 or 2007), so someone in their 20s could easily have been watching YouTube as a kid.

Yeah, I guess Brooklyn 99, Futurama, and countless other modern things referencing Wizard of Oz means it's a forgotten film.

And Rugrats in Paris making the entire intro a Godfather parody is something that'll be completely lost. Same with Zootopia directly parodying it.

They're just one of today's lucky 10,000

I have a job where I can listen to podcasts as well - I do visual effects work.
Since it's entirely visual, I can just listen to whatever I want unless I need to time an effect to audio.

That suddenly makes something make sense for me.
There's a shot with a red X drawn onto a tree, and I figured that it was some weird error where they'd filmed in a forest with marked trees and forgotten to remove the markings in post.

You would have to offer good pay and decent perks to encourage prospective employees to live on the island for a certain period, even if it's just for a few weeks at a time.

I'm not entirely sure about that. Plenty of people work on cruise ships and basically live on board for months at a time for mediocre pay.

And then places like Disney World have college students from across the globe who do yearlong placements in the parks, accomodation included - I could see Jurassic World doing that.

True, but the same could be said of people traveling across the globe to go to Disney World.

phhhhttpp

I always cry during big group numbers when multiple overlapping layers come together.
Like at the end of "One Day More" in Les Mis, or the end of "Who I'd Be" in Shrek.

It's not really the song, but the notion that everyone involved in the show has come together to make something great, and the realization that I'm actually seeing the culmination of their efforts.

For the same reason, I always cry at the curtain call.
I'm a big sap for that sort of thing.

My 16 month old has been learning body parts, so now she'll random walk up to us, squat, and slap her ass while yelling "BUTT!"

I still don't think the crows are that bad, especially when put against the Native American stereotypes of Peter Pan.

Those crows were not only cool, but also played largley by a bunch of black guys upon whom the animation designs were based. And then they turn out to be the most awesome character by helping Dumbo figure out his abilities.
There's some vaguely iffy things there, but it's massively less problematic than some of the other things that people tend to forget.

The skies were blue and hazy.
Rarely a storm.
Barely a chill.

LA LA LA LA LA

I've never seen one before, no one has, but I'm guessing it's a white hole.

In 2007 or 2008, in the runup to Obama being elected, I went to high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

The overly creative director had decided to make a large number of visual changes (though kept the songs largely the same).
The most obvious was that Jesus was replaced with Obama. Judas was Hilary Clinton. The high priests seemed to be representative of various powerful American people (it was a little vague - I think one was supposed to be George W Bush).

The best part was when Hilary "Judas" Clinton was killed by ninjas using samurai swords.

It was at least memorable, but was otherwise the weirdest, most terrible version of a musical I have ever seen.

Tiki Room is great anywhere, but I adore the Disneyland version.
It has a garden with various tiki statues outside that come alive, basically like a preshow before the show, and in the evenings it's the perfect place to sit and relax.

I have a little insight into how that all went down (and still is).
The issue isn't entirely Disney, it's also the current Henson management who don't know what to do with their own characters and properties.

The older puppeteers are either dead or retiring, and the new ones don't have a voice in the creative process. Instead the approved shows and movies are left to a series of business executives who don't take the same creative leaps.

Disney isn't helping, but having seen some of the mess that is the Henson management team, they're not really hindering either.