I really don't think that the reason Disney movies are not an "event" anymore is because previews, featurettes or concept art are available on the Internet. There is not much information released on T.V (which is still the most wide-spread medium) until a couple of months before the release and I highly doubt that the general public cares about or searches for info about upcoming Disney movies on the net in order to feel saturated by the time the film is released.SWillie! wrote:You're right, but I think both of us were speaking in broader terms - not just ourselves, but more the general public. Back when all this information wasn't released before a movie, each new Disney film that was released was an "event" for everyone. It's not like that anymore, just because the market is so flooded with animation and previews and featurettes and all kinds of marketing. So by the time the movie comes out, for everyone except for us hardcore fans, it's just like... "oh hey another movie came out. Meh."
I think that these are the feelings of us fans and not the general public's. Instead of first seeing the trailer of an upcoming Disney movie in theatres or on our VHS cassettes with the film being released a few months later which kept our enthusiasm for the movie alive and vibrant, now we follow a movie from inception to final release while scrutinizing every new detail in between. This is what has become frustrating and tiresome and that's why some of us end up completely losing any enthusiasm left by the time the film is finally released.
But this is what we as fans may experience and I really don't think that's what the general public experiences. And again, we could avoid this but I guess curiosity gets the better of us because information is now so easily accessible. In the 90s we did not have easy access to this kind of information and we couldn't learn more even if we wanted to.