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Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)
The 1980s were a very rough time for the Walt Disney Company, at least in the first half of the decade. We may now think of the 1980s as the time when Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg joined Disney, steering it to new heights with films like
The Little Mermaid and with the expansion of the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. And while that’s all true, the two men didn’t arrive until 1984. The first few years of the decade were a bumpy stretch, marked by minimal animated products and only a smattering of live-action films. The flip side is that the theme parks were moving onward, with the 1982 opening of EPCOT Center and the 1983 unveiling of Tokyo Disneyland.
over into local races, state races, and they, for the first time see a chance to pick off one or both chambers of congress. now it s a long shot, longer shot for the senate than for the house, perhaps, but, you could argue there are signs that potentially there s a wave election. who knows, it could happen. it could happen. and so they feel better. what they don t have is sort of fresh new leadership. right. but are we sort of in is this i feel like are we really wash, rinse, repeat, here amy, carol, meaning that we re just reliving eight years ago, except this time, exchanges all the democrats for the republicans? you don t need a message right now because you just run against the machine. that s the risk. for the democrats, and that s what it feels like, you know, they have they re not necessarily united around any sort of policy. it s all is there something beyond we re the party that s anti-trump. and if if you don t like trump,