Man, probably the most cynical take on all this. Disney gets zero credit for doing anything right, people only want to be mad about the past, like replacing an entire attraction isn’t acknowledgement enough. Also, Tiana has been meeting guests for years as a permanent attraction in Fantasy land and in all the parades. https://mastodon.social/@polygon/112728609886245686
@polygon LIberals can't ever take the win. We have to downplay everything with “oh they just did this for the publicity, they don't actually care". Then why change anything or do anything ever?
@monorailtimes @polygon such an utterly bizarre take. "Disney did what we want so let's now complain that they didn't do it sooner." PatF came out when Disney was hardly building any new major attractions based on animated films stateside. Despite that, Tiana has been extremely well represented in entertainment (parades, Fantasmic, meet & greets, fireworks) since her movie debuted. Now we're going to crap on Disney for giving her an E-ticket attraction?? Just screams "We can never be happy"
@monorailtimes @polygon also, excellent fact checking in that article. "Imagineer Tom Baxter" lol
@MarkWillard @polygon yeah truly no good deed goes unpunished