{"id":1841334,"date":"2023-02-09T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841334"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:05:28","slug":"disney-gets-mixed-reactions-after-announcing-new-toy-story-frozen-and-zootopia-sequels-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-gets-mixed-reactions-after-announcing-new-toy-story-frozen-and-zootopia-sequels-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Gets Mixed Reactions After Announcing New \u2018Toy Story,\u2019 \u2018Frozen,\u2019 And \u2018Zootopia\u2019 Sequels Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-gets-mixed-reactions-after-announcing-new-toy-story-frozen-and-zootopia-sequels-coming-soon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disney\">Disney<\/a> Just announced that it would be publishing sequels for three popular titles. This split opinion left fans questioning whether to keep legacy content or come up with new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>After Bob Iger, Disney&#8217;s CEO recently reinstated, shared plans to update three hugely popular products, the debate continued. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Movies<\/a> \u2014 \u201cToy Story,\u201d \u201cFrozen,\u201d And \u201cZootopia\u201d\u2013 during an earnings call. An exec said that he would have more information on the projects \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrozen\u201d remains one of Disney Animation\u2019s most successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">franchises<\/a>, with \u201cFrozen 2\u201d raking in more than $1.4 billion worldwide, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/toy-story-frozen-and-zootopia-sequels-are-in-the-works\">IGN<\/a>. \u201cZootopia\u201d delivered a strong $1.02 billion in earnings and will be getting a second installment after years of speculation. Meanwhile, \u201cToy Story 4\u201d also earned $1.07 billion, making it a good candidate for a fifth film from a financial standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth mentioning that much of Disney\u2019s newer original content hasn\u2019t been performing as well, with their 2022 release \u201cStrange World\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/disney-strange-world-lose-100-million-box-office-1235442714\/\">set to lose $100 million<\/a> following lackluster ticket sales. This was blamed on ongoing COVID concerns, but some critics pointed out certain Disney fans were turned off by the leftist content emphasizing environmentalism and LGBTQ inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>News of the three upcoming Disney movies sparked mixed reactions on social media. Tim Allen, who voiced Buzz Lightyear in the original \u201cToy Story\u201d franchise but not in the spinoff \u201cLightyear,\u201d indicated that he\u2019d be back for the new installment and was excited about it.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">See ya soon Woody, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity. And off we go to a number 5! To infinity and beyond! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bwRzE487Vi\">pic.twitter.com\/bwRzE487Vi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ofctimallen\/status\/1623479040295456768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee ya soon Woody, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity. And off we go to a number 5! To infinity and beyond!\u201d he tweeted just after the news broke.<\/p>\n<p>Some Disney fans attributed the company\u2019s focus on legacy content to Iger\u2019s recent return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Bob Iger is back\u2026Disney is great again,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlancoTarantino\/status\/1623457902672617472\">shared<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others expressed boredom with the nonstop sequels, which are often seen as nothing more than cash grabs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginal stories would be nice for a change rather than cashing in on a franchise you already know you can sell. Grow a pair, Disney,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCupitals\/status\/1623554459648376832\">wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToy Story 4 was mediocre and Lightyear was just bad. Let Toy Story go,\u201d someone else complained.<\/p>\n<p>These three big projects were announced just days after Disney made headlines for laying off 7,000 employees worldwide, representing about 4% of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">announced plans<\/a> for kids entertainment content.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney just announced it would be coming out with sequels to three popular titles, leaving fans divided over the merit of keeping legacy content alive versus coming up with original ideas. The debate raged on after recently reinstated Disney CEO Bob Iger shared plans for updates to three massively popular movies \u2014 \u201cToy Story,\u201d \u201cFrozen,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1841337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18185,9248,4726,6344,6786,18186,17730,11187,4178,7651],"class_list":["post-1841334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-zootopia","tag-announcing","tag-coming","tag-disney","tag-frozen","tag-mixed","tag-reactions","tag-sequels","tag-story","tag-toy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}