{"id":57343,"date":"2022-07-09T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/i-think-disney-should-let-the-saga-die-and-forget-about-woody-and-company-for-spin-offs\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T10:44:34","slug":"i-think-disney-should-let-the-saga-die-and-forget-about-woody-and-company-for-spin-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/i-think-disney-should-let-the-saga-die-and-forget-about-woody-and-company-for-spin-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"I think Disney should let the saga die and forget about Woody and company for spin-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It was the first 3D computer-animated film, and a milestone in the history of cinema: &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; is not yet thirty years old and <strong>it is already a classic, a masterpiece and an immovable pinnacle of animation<\/strong>.  And the quality only increased: &#8216;Toy Story 2&#8217; is a very worthy sequel and, much later, after a necessary break, &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; knew how to overcome the cries of complaints from many of us <strong>with the best movie of the saga<\/strong>.  But now, &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; needs an indefinite break.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>There is a friend in me<\/h2>\n<p>Not so long ago, the release of &#8216;Lightyear&#8217; <strong>I would have broken the lockers <\/strong>despite its concept, which seems simple (the movie that inspired the toy) but the general public has not understood.  Only the name of one of the two protagonists of &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; <strong>would have been more than enough to attract mass audiences<\/strong>.  Its failure makes us see more clearly something that Disney itself refuses to admit: the saga is already over.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<p>When, at the end of &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217;, Andy is separated from his dolls, the vast majority of us feel a sense of closure, of a satisfying and full story.  And yet, &#8216;Toy Story 4&#8217; arrived, which <strong>many of us already thought we were trying to express milk <\/strong>of a cow that had been completely milked.  And indeed, the film is not bad, but it offers a second absolute closure: <strong>&#8216;Toy Story&#8217; had ceased to be fun and an event <\/strong>to become a saga (well done) with which to try to emotionally buy the public.  If they don&#8217;t let you miss characters, there&#8217;s no way you can emotionally invest in them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:50%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy centro_sinmarco\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/650_1200.jpeg 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/1024_2000.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/1366_2000.jpeg 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Toy Story 4\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toy Story 4\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0cfbd3\/toy-story-4\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Four films, a spin-off, two medium-length films, four shorts, two series, comics, video games&#8230; <strong>The &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; franchise is not enough<\/strong>.  It has been nice while it lasted, but the box office result of &#8216;Lightyear&#8217; does not indicate, as a certain sector of the public would like, that the audience has turned its back on the LGTB nods: <strong>what it indicates is a very clear tiredness of the saga<\/strong>which must stop before it becomes a joke.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<h2>When I loved her everything was the best<\/h2>\n<p>It is ironic that &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; deals cyclically with the need to <strong>embrace change, take advantage of opportunities to evolve <\/strong>and not be afraid to grow but try to stay in the limelight for more than three uninterrupted decades&#8230; And more so when <strong>Disney itself has condemned the post-pandemic Pixar to be a streaming product<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:66.666666666667%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy centro_sinmarco\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/650_1200.jpeg 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/1024_2000.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/1366_2000.jpeg 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Woody 1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woody 1\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/d4cfb0\/woody-1-\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Pixar brand, which should remain intact after tapes as worthy as &#8216;Luca&#8217;, &#8216;Red&#8217; or &#8216;Soul&#8217;, <strong>has been greatly damaged by his conviction by launching directly to Disney+<\/strong>, as if they were second division movies.  It would not be unusual to see some of his masterminds leaving the studio after the setback of &#8216;Lightyear&#8217; and Disney taking control and <strong>forcing to do more series of &#8216;Toy Story&#8217;<\/strong> until, effectively, the cow has stopped giving even the last drop of milk.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>A rumor indicated this week that the study was already <strong>preparing a project centered on Woody<\/strong>, to the excitement, at this point, of practically no one.  &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; has a very small universe to play with (it&#8217;s not, to put it that way, Marvel) and at one point <strong>everything that can be told has been told without falling into repetition <\/strong>or in the most mundane and classic adventure.  And Pixar is worth more than that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 22 best animated movies, series and shorts of 2021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/7f32b6\/arcane-league-of-legends-mejor-animacion-2021\/375_142.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>To infinity and beyond?<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; taught us to <strong>keep the memories and the pleasure of showing them to a new generation <\/strong>for you to enjoy with them.  This quadrilogy should be exactly that: something to show the youngest, classics with which they all grow together, such as &#8216;Hercoles&#8217; or &#8216;The Little Mermaid&#8217;.  If the brand is degraded by throwing <strong>projects increasingly uncontrolled and lacking in quality <\/strong>(Imagine a &#8216;Toy story 7: the return of Lotso&#8217;, for example), it is in danger of ceasing to be the nostalgic and almost perfect work that it is to become a boring and empty repository.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disney is obsessed with keeping its sagas alive by force <\/strong>(there we have &#8216;Obi-Wan Kenobi&#8217;, for example) and he should learn to raise his hand and <strong>let them become myths on their own<\/strong>, as the Disney classics did in their day.  And if in twenty years the time comes to make a new &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; because someone has had a good idea to shoot it (as happened in the third part), it will be welcome.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 9 --><\/p>\n<p>The failure of &#8216;Lightyear&#8217; is a shame, because it proposed a fun and original tribute, but perhaps, on the rebound, it will get Disney <strong>put the franchise in a trunk and let its memory grow <\/strong>in their current and future audience: let the fans be the ones asking for more deliveries, don&#8217;t be the one shoving them down their throats. <strong>There is still room to save &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; from laziness<\/strong>But it&#8217;s up to Disney to have mercy on Woody, Buzz and company and put them back in the toy chest for a while.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 10 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the first 3D computer-animated film, and a milestone in the history of cinema: &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; is not yet thirty years old and it is already a classic, a masterpiece and an immovable pinnacle of animation. And the quality only increased: &#8216;Toy Story 2&#8217; is a very worthy sequel and, much later, after a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[11731,15092,12040,10765,19637,12271,11370,19333,12606,12129],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/cd418d\/toy-story\/840_560.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65845,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions\/65845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}