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My core memories are less little glass orbs, than bowls of rainbow pudding made up of "the last unicorn" "rainbow brite", "my little pony: the movie", "little nemo", and anything don bluth. Disney is fine I guess, but man if there wasn't better animation even back then. :)

This is a main reason I can't get into Kingdom Hearts. I'm a Nintendo child through and through and I still don't get Disney hype. At all.

Kingdom Hearts recruited me for life I’m afraid…

I think it's a Boomer holdover - for like 40 years after The War there no other major animation studios in the US making features.

I watched Batman & Mr. Freeze SubZero a bunch and whatever else was in the kids rent free section.

Yeah, I was one of the kids who watched Aladdin a million times (born 1988), but the point someone made that it didn't have the fandom / fixation element seems spot-on. Even as someone who watched a lot of Disney, we were pretending to be Pokémon trainers at recess, the CORNERSTONES weren't Disney.

I do have legit nostalgia for two Disney properties, Gargoyles and Atlantis. I don't think Disney is ever going to touch those ones again, lol!

GenX, but my younger sibs are millennials, & the VHS tapes on hardcore repeat in our house when they were little were Brave Little Toaster, An American Tail & Unico and the Island of Magic. Also, Saludos Amigos/Three Caballeros & a couple 6 hour tapes of Donald Duck shorts, bc my dad loved'em. 😅

I think most parents who had access to those VHS tapes were probably pretty sick of The Little Mermaid by the 10th time they had to hear it, but I also suspect they had fonder memories of it than the 10th time they had to hear Transformers or Land Before Time. Let alone, say, Rover Dangerfield.

Just this past week a coworker was claiming all Disney animated films had a shared universe. Thought he may have meant how Pixar movies put in easter eggs of other Pixar movies, but he listed off a few examples: Toy Story Frozen Snow White The Croods The expression i must've involuntarily made.

I was in that boat. Little Nemo, Thumbelina, and others of the Non-Disney movies were mainstays in our house growing up.

I definitely watched a fair bit of Disney as a child, but have little nostalgia for it. It never had the sway over me that it seems to have over other people.

omg thank you for putting words to it

i take it that's not including airfare to Japan

I think it would be fair to say that Don Bluth had a bigger impact than the Disney Rennisance. I mean, sure, everyone was happy that Disney was "back", but where did we get our movies? From whatever was on TV!

I'm gen X and to me Disney was always saccharine compared to Warner Brothers, who taught me about Life

I think as a kid my other main TV show was Art Attack, but a lot of TMNT and X-Men. Outlaw Star, DBZ, Cowboy Bebop, Animaniacs, Looney Toons. Disney stuff was always *available* but often it felt, even as a kid, a little twee and sanitized in comparison to what we were watching most of the time.

I only qualify as a Disney Kid because I watched a lot of Pixar movies, and Pixar wasn’t even a Disney company until like 2005 or something. The Lion King and Robin Hood are the only “Disney” Disney movies I can think of that left any impression on me as a child

'The last Unicorn', 'The brave little Toaster' 'The secret of Nimh' and in an effed up twist 'Plague Dogs' for me.

Classy.

Beast Wars, ReBoot, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Gundam Wing I loved my Disney movies but our film library was not chock full The movie version of The Hobbit had an incredible amount of influence on me. The depiction of Smaug was defining of fantasy dragons

The Disney property from my childhood I cared most about was Gargoyles.

Don bluth was fucking me up with every movie and Disney had... Atlantis.

Yeah for me it was the recorded episodes of dragon ball z I watched til the tape gave out.

Has a Disney Channel kid, I completely agree, my obsession with X-men was 10x stronger than with any other serie from Disney. But at school, for some reason, it was more Disney than X-men, I was kind of weirder, I would say

Same, my parents didn't care too much about TV time but at my age we got Saturday morning cartoons and that was it for most of the day, so it was Disney VHS, a WB Classic Cartoons VHS or whatever we could record.

I was born in 84. I find that my love of animation is defined by mostly 90s shows, along with disney films. I guess the middleman would be Disney's Gargoyles. But then again, it's so unique, Disney refuses to release it in its original form. "Not fitting the brand"

Honestly, that scans.

I think it was also the lore-ification that crept in over time. I remember discovering furries when I was 12, and found one person who was OBSESSED with "Meerbats" because one ep of the Lion King spin-off shows saw a meercat/bat hybrid fly off as a gag (after Timon had proved her WASN'T a vmapire)

We watched Rock-a-Doodle a thousand times more than we ever watched any Disney film growing up. That and Fievel Goes West.

Would "desperately wanted to be Iago getting railed by Jafar" count, because I know of someone that describes.

This! ^ growing up we only had terrestrial TV in Ireland, so shows like X-Men or Sailor Moon were often showed at different times and out of order. Getting to watch one was the highlight of my week!

trying to think if when i was a kid i ever went to someones house and they had prominent disney stuff? If anything Looney Tunes were more popular, you could pretty reliably find a Taz or Wile E. Coyote in the toy box. Then pokemon hit and everything changed

Some years ago (I'm 46), a friend of mine (about 7 years younger) asked me which one was my childhood favourite Disney movie. When I told him that I hadn't watch that many Disney... God, never saw a more confused person in my life...

I definitively watched fergully way more than any of my other Disney tapes as a kid once I learned how a very works.