Because 10 years ago I got Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Fox, and Lucas Arts all producing great content. These days it seems Disney will drop $200m in Star Wars, $100m in Marvel, and $1m in Disney animation.
I just look at all the money they are investing and get sad more isnt going to Pixar and the animation studios.
not sure I get the comment about the $, i mean, some of their biggest budget are the animated ones - or are you just thinking of
Disney+ original content? There I agree the big budget stuff is the live action Star Wars/Marvel stuff
Fingers crossed that its actually good family/kid content and there is more unannounced stuff.
I just need to not get down because I was expecting Disney Plus to be a huge disappointment. They are playing in to the group who consumers who they can steal money from. I think my bigger issue is that D23 has really all been D+ so far when it comes to official announcements. There is all the parks information still coming and nothing on theatre releases.
I think the "secret project" has set a largely negative mood to D23 in general for me. Its a cool idea but not anything I would even expect them to announce before it was just released.
If you are just looking for original Disney animation and thinking that is was the Disney fan wants, then I guess I get your point, but to me Disney is so much more than that - even when Walt was around. To me it is more about using technology to bring new forms of entertainment for the entire family - and I think Disney+ will do this. There are a lot of shows for the whole family - from The World According to Jeff Goldblum to the Imagineering project to Be Our Chef to Diary of a Female President to Stargirl to Shop Class to Noelle to Forky Asks a Question to Monsters at Work to Spark Shorts to Lamp Life to Phineas and Ferb (those last five are all animated), etc.
As to the "secret project", I am not sure what you were expecting, but the schedule slot for it was for neither of their largest stages/halls so to be honest, what we got was about the level of what I was expecting. If they were going to announce 5th park or something it would not be on a side stage
Last thing, you also have to keep in mind this is basically like a Comic Con and the people there, especially in the room, want to see the stars, and for Disney+ that means the Marvel and Star Wars shows that they can trot out the celebrities for and get all the screams in the room - heck, that is one of the main reasons they old D23 in California, to get the celebrities - so it is going to be tilted a bit in that direction
Hopefully the rest of the panels highlight more of what you want - I am cautiously optimistic even with just what they have announced for EPCOT - the redo to the Future World area is going to be sooooo much better than the rotting corpse of Inoventions (which smells like there are literal rotting corpses underneath it currently)
