Dragon’s Tale

I’ve added some artwork to my gallery, and there’s also a new picture of Flame up in the Princess Flame gallery.

When it comes to Disney, I’m a bit bi-polar. I love them for their classic animated movies (and their most recent 2D animated film), but I hate them for how they act and treat some of their properties.

Here, I couldn’t find any Princess and the Frog merchandise. No soundtrack, no books, no dolls or plushes, yet in the US, they were everywhere. All I managed to find was a $5 bookmark and a few coloring books. All the rest of my collection came from ebay or a friend in the US. My animation cel, which I got off ebay, was given out free to a single zip code in Nevada. The people that received it proceeded to stick them all on ebay and make money off something Disney gave them for free. Now sure, everyone wants to make money, that doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is Disney only made those cels available to a single zip code in the entire US. I can only say “thank goodness” that I bought mine before a majority of the fans found out about them, as they’re going for 4-5 times what I paid now.

I saw 1 TV ad leading up to the release of the movie. There was no fast food promotions.

For a large company like Disney, why did they feel the need to treat The Princess and the Frog in such a manner? Why didn’t it deserve the attention that most of their movies get (like those annoying live action movies, where the commercials are played every commercial break)? Will the DVD release be better, or will all their focus be placed on Alice and Wonderland?