History Recap / DisneyAnimatedCanon

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# ''WesternAnimation/{{Wish|2023}}'' -- Disney's [[MilestoneCelebration 100th anniversary]] film.
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??. ''Frozen IV'' (TBA)

* ''Franchise/TheJungleBook'' (est. 1967) -- Includes the Disney animated film and all of its related works, along with numerous non-Disney adaptations.

* ''Franchise/{{Mulan}}'' (est. 1998) -- Includes the Disney animated film, its [[VideoGame/DisneysAnimatedStorybook interactive storybook]], its direct-to-video sequel, its live-action remake, and also some non-Disney adaptations.

* ''Franchise/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' (est. 1996) -- Includes the Disney film, its direct-to-video sequel, its theatre adaptation, and a five-game computer game, along with numerous non-Disney adaptations.

* ''Franchise/SnowWhite'' (established in 1937) -- This page covers all adaptations of the fairy tale, but only two of them are actually Disney-related.

* ''Franchise/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (est. 1991) -- Includes the Disney animated film, both of its direct-to-video follow-ups, its live-action remake, along with numerous non-Disney adaptations.

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* ''DerivativeWorks/{{Cinderella}}'' (est. 1950) -- Includes the Disney animated film, both of its direct-to-video sequels, its live-action remake, along with numerous non-Disney adaptations.

# ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' (November 21, 2018) -- Vanellope's game is in jeopardy after her arcade cabinet breaks, so she and Ralph must explore [[{{Cyberspace}} the vast world of]] {{the Internet}} in hopes of finding the part needed to repair it. The first sequel within the animated canon since ''Winnie the Pooh'', and the longest single-story film at 112 minutes. Released after the end of Lasseter's tenure as CCO and less than two months before fully leaving The Walt Disney Company, while this is ''Frozen'' director Jennifer Lee's first film released as CCO of WDAS.

After the moderate successes of ''The Great Mouse Detective'' and ''Oliver & Company'', Disney Animation would later make its first big comeback with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Renaissance Disney Renaissance]], which marked the company's return to making animated blockbusters with a new age of quality animated features, even helping to establish [[WaxingLyrical a whole new wor]]-- um... ''[[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation age]]'' [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation of quality animation]].

# ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' (May 19, 2000) -- A live-action-CGI hybrid about an ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguanodon_bernissartensis Iguanodon]]'' who was found and adopted by lemurs. Their island home gets destroyed by meteors and they join a herd of other displaced animals to make their way to literally greener pastures. It's not considered part of the Canon in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, where ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' (2006) takes its place. It's the first film of the studio to not be an adaptation of older material or to center around pre-existing characters.

# ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' (May 19, 2000) -- A live-action-CGI hybrid about an ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguanodon_bernissartensis Iguanodon]]'' who was found and adopted by lemurs. Their island home gets destroyed by meteors and they join a herd of other displaced animals to make their way to literally greener pastures. It's not considered part of the Canon in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, where ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' (2006) takes its place.

# ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'' (September 27, 1947)[=*=] -- Two shorts, one feature-length film. In one short, a circus bear escapes into the forest. The other short is basically "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} as the stars of the story. The last time Creator/WaltDisney voiced Mickey.

All good things must come to an end as audiences tire of Disney's animated musicals by UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation, and Disney finds some new [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation stiff competition]] ahead. As AllCGICartoon films started to become the norm (thanks to said competition and [[Creator/{{Pixar}} an increasingly-celebrated studio Disney initially partnered up with and would later buy outright]]), Disney tried to get more creative with their storytelling, both by writing stories from scratch as opposed to adapting previously-existing works and shifting to CGI as traditionally animated films begin to lose relevance. Unfortunately, with little major critical and commercial success and a few major flops in the first half of [[TurnOfTheMillennium the decade]] -- which even led to some calling this period Disney's Second Dark Age -- film animation at Disney was almost killed off... until Walt's nephew and Roy Oliver Disney's son Roy Edward Disney managed to get CEO Michael Eisner ousted and former Creator/{{ABC}} head Bob Iger brought in to lead the company.

# ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' (November 21, 2008) -- A dog who is a {{superhero}} on UsefulNotes/{{television}} [[TrumanShowPlot -- and believes he is one in reality --]] ends up separated by his owner [[ThisIsReality in the world outside the stage where he doesn't have powers]]. He travels cross-country with an alley cat and a super-fan hamster in hopes of reuniting with them. The first entry distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures after Buena Vista was reorganized into that label. It has been debated whether this film is either the end of the Experimental Era or the beginning of the Disney Revival, but [[https://insidethemagic.net/2016/02/spring-2016-issue-of-disney-twenty-three-magazine-brings-the-magic-of-disney-animation-studios-to-your-doorstep/ this 2016 issue]] of ''Disney twenty-three'' (the magazine of Disney's official fan club D23) deems it to be the latter case, so it goes here.

* ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' (Disney couldn't get the adaptation rights, which were sold as one large package rather than individually)

* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' (est. 2002) -- Disney animation's one great success in the Experimental Era ([[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments what a coincidence with that era's name!]]) led to the rapid development of this franchise, which has continued to stay active through some [[Anime/{{Stitch}} various]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi spin]]-[[Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai offs]] and the [[WolverinePublicity continued popularity]] of the latter title character.

* ''The Gremlins'' (Based on Creator/RoaldDahl's book. Questions of whether plane sabotaging creatures could be made sympathetic and development running late into the war leading to a cancellation due to possibly becoming dated. Some Gremlins would later appear in the 2010 video game ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''.)

* ''My Peoples'', later retitled ''A Few Good Ghosts'' (Loose Appalachian-set adaptation of ''Literature/TheCantervilleGhost'', cancelled due to the closure of the Florida studio, which was the only one making the movie; the film would have used a combination of traditionally-animated and computer-animated characters)

* Sequels were planned for films such as ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''[[note]]titled ''More Jungle Book'' and original pitched via a Disney record story[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''[[note]]an adaptation of the second novel ''Bambi's Children''[[/note]] during earlier phases, though didn't get past early production stages (allegedly due to Walt not being a fan of sequels). Actual follow-ups were made much later on, though are not made part of Disney canon. A ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' sequel was also considered at one point. To date, the only Disney animated films that have received theatrically-released sequels are ''The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh'', ''The Rescuers'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', and ''Frozen'' (''Peter Pan'' and ''The Jungle Book'' also received theatrically-released sequels, but these were made by Disneytoon Studios, and thus are not considered part of the canon).
** In their line of DirectToVideo sequels, Disney had plans to make ''Dumbo 2'', ''Treasure Planet 2'', ''The Jungle Book 3'', ''The Aristocats 2'', ''Chicken Little 2: Mission to Mars''[[note]]Mentioned briefly in the Essential Guide book when the film came out.[[/note]], and ''Meet the Robinsons 2''. ''Dumbo 2'' was in [[DevelopmentHell on-and-off development]] for a while (even though it was promoted on the 2001 DVD of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'') before being cancelled altogether, while ''The Jungle Book 3'' was cancelled after the [[FranchiseKiller under-performance]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2''. The remaining three projects were cancelled under order of John Lasseter after Walt Disney Animation Studios was given control over Disneytoon Studios (the division making the sequels) in 2007. Direct-to-video sequels ceased after the release of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'' in 2008.

* ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' (est. 2000) -- A SpinOff focusing on [[GratuitousPrincess the royal ladies of Disney animation]] (and [[{{WesternAnimation/Brave}} in one particular instance]], Creator/{{Pixar}}).

All good things must come to an end as audiences tire of Disney's animated musicals by UsefulNotes/TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation, and Disney finds some new [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation stiff competition]] ahead. As AllCGICartoon films started to become the norm (thanks to said competition and [[Creator/{{Pixar}} an increasingly-celebrated studio Disney initially partnered up with and would later buy outright]]), Disney tried to get more creative with their storytelling, both by writing stories from scratch as opposed to adapting previously-existing works and shifting to CGI as traditionally animated films begin to lose relevance. Unfortunately, with little major critical and commercial success and a few major flops in the first half of [[TurnOfTheMillennium the decade]]--which even led to some calling this period Disney's Second Dark Age--film animation at Disney was almost killed off... until Walt's nephew and Roy Oliver Disney's son Roy Edward Disney managed to get CEO Michael Eisner ousted and former Creator/{{ABC}} head Bob Iger brought in to lead the company.

-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}''' describing the transition over to this era in his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGYuvGPsQiI "Lilo and Stitch -- Disney's Unusual Masterpiece"]]

->"The late 90s and early 2000s were a turbulent time for Disney Animation. The era that was the Disney Renaissance had come to an end, and now the studio is trying to figure out, 'What do we do now? What do people want to see?' Well, they got experimental."
-->--'''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}''' describing the transition over to this era in his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGYuvGPsQiI "Lilo and Stitch -- Disney's Unusual Masterpiece"]]

# ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' (July 24, 1985) -- Based on ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' novel series by Creator/LloydAlexander, a young boy wants to be a great warrior. He defends an oracle pig from a SorcerousOverlord who wants to use her to find a legendary cauldron, with which he can raise an undead army to TakeOverTheWorld. One of Disney's [[DarkerAndEdgier darkest animated features]], it's the first animated Disney film to carry a PG rating due to violence and nightmarish imagery, the first to not be a musical, the first with a standard credit crawl, and the first to open (and end) with a VanityPlate for Walt Disney Pictures instead of the studio's distributor.[[note]]A distribution credit for Buena Vista still appears during the end titles.[[/note]]

#''WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld'' (November 23, 2022) -- Searcher Clade, the son of renowned explorer Jaeger Clade, lives peacefully in the land of Avalonia after discovering a revolutionary power source called Pando. However, after the Pando's power begins to wane, Searcher and his family are recruited to explore a mysterious subterranean world in order to save their home.[[/index]]

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#''Wish'' (2023) -- Disney's [[MilestoneCelebration 100th anniversary]] film.