[Emmlei]

For a while I studied up on animation and its history (mostly Disney and WB). Realized it wasn't quite my cup of tea, but I find a number of techniques applicable to art and comics. So it influences my art style in various ways.

And I still harbor the dream that I'll write a story or screenplay that could be used for an animated film, preferrably 2D. I remember attempting to write one when I was in my early teens.

[Nez]

You wanted to be an animator? Cool.

I want to have some of my own stories done in animation (2-D).

[Fidget Goblinweb]

Without Disney I don't think I would ever have dreams of becoming a full time animator or voice actress. It also showed me how beautiful music can be. My life would also be rather boring though if Disney never existed.

[Jas]

Watching the movies growing up (and even now) has helped me retain some "childishness" that I love. Plus, I love children, and the movies are something you can discuss with them and see them light up about - I love asking my Cubbies about their favorite Disney movie / character. I also have many wonderful memories of family vacations at WDW. I'm sure we would have had fun at other travel locations, but we love WDW. And if it wasn't for Disney, I likely wouldn't have met my best fried. So yes, Disney has (and always will) have a part of my life.

[Syera]

Well, now that ya bring it up, I'm sure Disney influenced the direction of a few of my own shopping dollars... lemme take a look around...

-A few assorted glass... er, bottle-type things kept for their... aesthetic value. At least two look Arabianish.
-One brass Arabian lamp-shaped incense burner sans lid. (I don't actually burn incense in it; I use a piece of wood I put a hole in. Keeps the ash where I want it.)
-Assorted Mulan fast-food toys I happened to find.
-One recreation of a Civil War sabre. (Blame it on PotC. Yes, I know the Civil War was a good distance away from TGAoP by a decent amount of time and space, but... hey, it's still a spiff-looking sabre.)
-An Arabian-style knife.
-Mechanical pencils with characters from Winnie the Pooh on them.

[Ariellen]

Little bit, yeah. It's at least got a minor presence in my life.

[AladdinsGenie]

So it changed your life just a little, huh?

[Ariellen]

A day in the life:

Today, I woke up in my Bambi pajamas. The pillow that my head was resting on was covered with a Beauty and the Beast pillowcase, and next to me was my decorative "Greetings from Paradise" Ariel pillow. Looking around the room, a Disney Princesses poster (that I don't even really like anymore, but at the time, a $3 poster with the Princesses seemed like a cool decoration for college) is on the opposite wall, above the TV. Ariel, Pocahontas, and Esmeralda Zizzlingers sit on top of the TV, with Song of the South (a VHS converted from an international laserdisc), Nightmare Before Christmas, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers Volume 1, BatB, Aladdin, Mulan, Atlantis, Brother Bear, Peter Pan, and Home on the Range among the movies next to the TV. In front of the movies is my CD player with Classic Disney, Volume II inside of it. Leftover College Program collateral is lying in front of my dresser, next to my box of scrapbooking materials and CP pictures.

Sitting on my desk is a slip of paper with the phone numbers of Disneyland and WDW mail order, a pair of Mickey Mouse earrings, the soundtrack to Tarzan the musical, and my glasses in a Winnie the Pooh glasses case. The desktop wallpaper on my computer is a picture of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Above my desk, on the wall, I have an Aladdin poster advertising the release of the DVD, next to some postcards from WDW: one of a ghostly image of Cinderella Castle rising from a Florida swampland as a ghostly Walt Disney surveys the swampland, one of Mickey Mouse peering over a desk watching Walt draw him, one of Peter Pan and the Darlings flying over London, and one of Lilo and Stitch.

I threw a Figment sweatshirt on as a jacket after I got dressed, fastened my Disneyland watch around my wrist, threw my Mickey Mouse wallet in my bookbag, and went to class. I shut the door to my bedroom...on the front of the door is a drawing my friend Dave did for me of Jasmine, Belle, Ariel, and Aurora. My first class is University Singers; took notes in the music using the Cinderella pencil I keep in my folder.

Now, I think I'm going to start working on my first speech for Public Speaking, which will be about The Little Mermaid.

[APK]

I think I was a Disney kid since conception. I adapted Disney-isms from inside the womb.


Disney has definitely affected my life in so many ways that it's too much to count.

I think it's safe to say that even if everyone isn't a big fan, Disney has affected everyone on earth in one way or another. (Especially in America)

I'm not ashamed to stand up to anyone who trash-talks Disney. The same thing goes for my country, my religion, my race(s)

::plays patriotic music in the background and salutes::

[Dragonessa]

I enjoy all kinds of Disney stuff quite a lot, but the most important change it made to my life is if there was no Disney, I wouldn't have fallen in love with Iago and this site wouldn't exist, so I'd have never met my best friend. And she has certainly made a lot of changes to my life, for the better. And I wouldn't have seen Kirsten's avatar and checked out SGA, another tragedy!

[Syera]

You do realize that the Aladdin series is nothing but a sci-fi with a 'magical' wrapping, right?

[Merkal]

Though I enjoy reading and watching the cartoons of my childhood (80's), am interested in stuff like science and tech Aladdin is what makes me tick. I can't even remember how my life was before Aladdin cq Disney. I'm even looking for Disney connections in my other intrests. So yes Disney changed my life allot.

[Syera]

Biggest Disney fan? I think I'd have to say... someone who is not me. My interests are too dispersed.

[AmethystFae]

I wonder who here is the biggest Disney fan among us.

~Hikaru

[Ariellen]

I'll just answer this question with a "yes."