The GOOD, BAD and UGLY of the Disney Decade

Disney needs Michael Eisner back and to get rid of Iger and his wokester supporters on the board and in management.

Yeah I never understood the hate for Eisner. The animated Disney Renaissance, the building of Animal Kingdom, DCA, Hollywood Studios, etc, his buying of the Muppets, Pixar, ESPN, etc, all make him arguably the second best Disney CEO behind the man himself. 90's Disney was insane

What did Iger ACTUALLY create?

Thank for your documentary it was great inside . Please do more Michael Eisner related content such an interesting person and a great creative mind.

Fantastic video. Objective and fair. 👍

I’ll take Eisner over Igor any day, chapek is a clown I wouldn’t ever compare him

Is that Off Kilter in the closing statement?

I miss Disney 1994-2000

I don't like all the whitewashing of history. Eisner was not the idea man, Wells was. Eisner was a scumbag.

well i mean if westcot got built there wouldnt have been tower of terror in disneyland

Eisner gets too much hate. Dude signed off on alien encounter

I'm not sure why anyone thought Chapek was going to work out.

As a kid, I loved the '90's, we got four new Disney princesses that decade, the Wonderful World of Disney was never better, and One Saturday Morning cartoons were the best.

Micheal is the reason CEO’s should have term limits. He did some good things- but I feel the second half was all popularity, no follow through. But, he’s better than Chapek.

Let’s see… Michael Laney, VP of Disney, convicted of rape of a 7 year old in 2019. Known for hiring sexual deviants that are still working with kids there today. Corrupt to the core. Bye bye Disney! I threw out all your old movies!

love your videos, but I have to point out that your audio lately has been very low. I have to turn my volume almost to full max to hear you wonderful voice clearly. :)

In Disney history, so much is attributed to "the failure of Euro Disney". I think most of it is revisionist history, finding something to blame failures on. The facts: the park opened in 1992. The financials were bad the first seasong, with fewer guests and less spend per guest than estimated. But they turned things around quickly. Already in 1995 the park turned a profit. It is not unusual for big projects like a theme park to lose money in the beginning. But it if off course easy to blame all failures during the 90s on to one single park doing worse than expected for a couple of years... I think Wells passing was much more important to the downfall of Eisner than the Paris parks financial result.

I miss the Eisner era. It was peak Disney in my lifetime, and I'm not sorry about that opinion. Even though I love Galaxy's Edge, I truly think the Eisner Disney decade felt closer to Walt's legacy than the "IP-centric" vision of Iger. Naturally anything is better than Chapek, but I digress

I believe the 90s was a colossal triumph for Disney. Disneyland had been around for 35 years and I had heard of it, but never had any ambition to visit whatsoever. Disney World had been there since 1971 and I had barely head of it, so no desire to visit there, either. In 1997, my daughter was five years old and my wife decided to take her to the Magic Kingdom in Florida. I still didn't see the point, so I stayed home. They came home with stories and photos and got me intrigued. I said, "Hey, let's go again next year and I'll come, too!" It didn't happen. Not because we couldn't afford it, not because I changed my mind, but because we had a second child. So we went again in 2000, technically the last year of the 90s decade, and we had a great time as a family. If Michael Eisner hadn't done what he did during the previous decade, I never would have wanted to visit a Disney park. Now I have been many times and I am a huge Disney enthusiast. You should see my pin collection!

Eisner is still my favorite era of em all. So many hits and misses, experiments and weird stuff, going big, also going down - love it!!

I would like too know why and who had Toon Town removed from WDW 😢😢😢

When I think Michael Eisner, the theme song to "Videopolis" immediately starts playing in my head.

Please make another of these videos from 2000 to current day. This was so interesting.

I thought Eisner did an amazing job in comparison to Chapek. I've never had a problem with how he ran the company

Anybody remember Michael Eisner appearing during showings of Mickey's Christmas Carol and (I forget the name of the Winnie the Pooh). He appeard with Winnie the Pooh characters and Tigger got a plam tree to decorate instead of an evergreen.

Anybody remember that or am I the only one that remembers this?

Chapek literally sent everyone to universal I’m pretty sure he almost killed Disney

Why didn't he mention Tomorrowland 98?

You have an incredible collection of archival footage and it was beautifully put together but HOT DAMN, your negative opinions on Michael and the decade are really riling me up! It has to be on purpose with how much you downplay it. Well it worked, I'm commenting. I was Florida Project distance away from Disney world growing up and MICHAEL DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO.

This is a WILD take compared to Defunctland's.....

would rather have westcot than calif adventure went once

Disney could use Michael Eisner right now!

And then he went on to invest in Bojack Horseman. I don't know if that was his idea but we all appreciate that the money was given.

1990 to 1992 oh good some of my worst childhood years thanks mom

Michael may not have stuck the landing completely with his tenure as CEO but Bob cheapskate makes him look like a Renaissance master

Eisner gets a bad rap because of the last half of his tenure. The first half was HUGE, but after the failure of EuroDisney he became extremely gunshy. The last half of the 90's saw a lot of subpar stuff. Everything at Disneyland was done on the cheap (I'm looking at you, new Tomorrowland). I always say the first half of Eisner's tenure was some of the best that Disney has seen while the last half was some of the worst.

I do love the transition from above sea to below sea in the Little Mermaid ride at CA though, even if the ride and the weird blowjob fish aren’t great

Say what you will about Michael Eisner but Disney was at their peak in the 90s. The Disney Renaissance movies were some of the best animated films they've ever made. The Disney Afternoon block elevated the quality of TV animation. We got MGM Studios and Animal Kingdom. Maybe not all of Eisner's initiatives worked but there were quite a few successes in that era. I have fond memories of growing up in the "Disney Decade."

Also, I don't care what anyone says. Dick Tracy was an awesome movie and I wish it had done better at the box office.

The problem with Euro Disneyland was the way in which it had been set up. Eisner and Well's couldn't beleave how much money Disney left on the table when setting up Tokyo Disneyland. This was not going to happen with the new park. With Frances very high tax rates Disney set up different divisions to run the new park and they all leased and rented to each other. Here is just one example Disney the park, had to pay royaltie's to Disney ( Burbank) to use the characters etc. If a Disney Hotel had a Character Breakfast, they were charged a seperate royalty to use them. Also in the terms the company set up Disney was to be payed all it's commisions before anyone else. Then on top of all that Disney charged a management fee. In 1994 all commisions and bank payments were frozen. The park needed 10 million visitors a year to be profitable. When "Space Mtn" opened attendance shot up. 1995, 10.7 million visiters, 1996, 11.7 million, 1997 12.6 million. In 1997 the park was able to start paying back some of the frozen commisions and bank payment's as well as paying it's current outgoings and still be profitable. Cheer's Chris Perry.

I was a kid during the Eisner era so maybe it’s the nostalgia talking, but it seemed like the parks had so much more character to them during that time. The parks was more than just pushing their IPs, there was actually more creativity involved. It’s hard to explain, but I do miss that era. The parks have lost a lot of their magic and escapism in recent years.

I don’t think Eisner was that bad, knowing what came after with auger and thumb head.

Cast Members have confirmed that Disney has not come out to confirm or deny the cancellation of the Play Pavilion therefore it is currently in a state of limbo.

I think that chimp was Micheal Jackson’s Bubbles 🫧 who he had as a companion for so long in the 80s-90s. As of today he is still alive and resides in Florida at. Centre for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida.

Eisner saved Disney. Disney was facing a HOSTILE TAKEOVER before Eisner and Frank Wells went to Texas and convinced the Bass Group to help them turn Disney around

I know Eisner was an egomaniac, but as a 90s teen going at least once a year, Walt Disney World during the Disney Decade was truly a wonder to behold.

Good memories working the Disney Decade at Disneyland (94-97)

I preferred Eisner over our current Bob Paycheck

I can remember taking my daughter to Disney Animal Kingdom and that initially it was kind of boring with not much to do . Overtime it grew into what we have today while it’s still not my favorite I do enjoy it .

I know it's an inside joke to hate on Eisner but I honestly think he and Wells were the Dream Team, second best only to Walt himself. And after all the shit Bob Cheepskate has pulled, I'd die to have Eisner back.

Honestly kind of unrelated, but I find that I haven’t been keeping up with your recent uploads. Not because of anything you’ve done, but because Disney now is so despicably greedy that I don’t think it’s really possible to speak positively of them anymore. I’m pretty sure I’ve lost my former interest in the company. Movies, parks, and all. I’m not going to unsubscribe, because I love your videos, but I don’t think I’ll be tuning in again. At least not until Disney either realizes their mistakes and corrects the park pricing, mediocre film releases, and the dumpster-fire that is the MCU now (all of which definitely are NOT going to happen), or they crash and burn in a spectacular fashion when everyone finally stops blindly shoveling Disney’s trash down their gullet, makes a stand against this disgusting company, and forces Disney to care about the consumer again. It’ll happen, eventually. Until then, TTFN.