What is Disney to you?

[Babs Bunny]

Well, not even a week old, and already we have a pretty decent population!  Sweetness! 

 

Anyway, for the sake of throwing out conversation and getting to know each other, I'd like to toss out a topic for discussion for you guys!

 

Why is Disney so special to you?  How do you incorporate and associate it with your standing as a furry?

 

With me, it's a number of things, and much of it goes back to my roots.  My mother was an animal naturalist and what I like to call a furry ancestor.  At one point in the 60s, she took up a job with Walt Disney working with and supplying the animals for a couple of nature films he was working on in Jackson Hole Wyoming.  With experiences like that under her belt, and her artistic inclination and love for drawing animals both anthro and non, needless to say that rubbed off on me quite a bit!

 

In addition (and because of the above reasons), Disney was something I was practically weaned on since infancy. :)  It wasn't just Mickey and Donald and Pooh, either.  When I was a kid, the 70s incarnation of the Mickey Mouse Club aired regularly, and the Wonderful World of Disney aired every Sunday night on CBC.  So I got to see a lot of productions that went well beyond the cartoons. 

 

Disney also indirectly helped introduce me to a lot of literature that I probably would have never read had it not for my mother.  Basically in the case of Winnie the Pooh and the Jungle book, the characters in the Disney features are a far cry from where they originated from.  Instead of catering to my calmoring to see the movies when I'd see the previews for them on TV, my mother, especially unimpressed with the Disney version of the Jungle Book, instead read Kipling's masterpiece to me.  I loved it so much, I wanted to read it myself, and by age 6 was doing just that! :)  Mom told me that if I still wanted to see the Disney version after that, she would arrange that.  But it wasn't nearly appealing to me as the book I just read. So I declined. :)  I still have yet to see the Jungle Book, but I have however, seen the many Winnie the Pooh stories done by Disney.  But I still have my mother's old copies by A.A. Milne, and I still read those a lot!

 

Today, I vastly appreciate animation and cartooning. Granted I've always preferred Warner Brothers as far as that goes, but as I've gotten older, I've further loved the creations Disney has come forth with, and appreciated the quality put into the animation. 

 

As a furry, Disney's fueled quite a bit.  The art and cartooning, of course, but also the fursuiting aspect of it.  I didn't get to visit Disney World until 2002 for the first time, but I'd seen the fursuits and costumes depicted on TV and adverts.  I liked the idea of using fursuits to bring well loved characters to life, and the detail on them has always fascinated me.  When I discovered that costumes like these could be created either myself, or commissioned, I was very impressed!   That was 1998 when I delved into furry, and I've been here ever since, loving every minute of it!!

 

Whew.  I didn't mean to go on at such a great length!   But now it's your turn!  What's your Disney story? :)

 

Babs Bunny

 

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