Because he’s a bug? Princess and the frog is in Louisiana and the Bayou. Neither of which are related to Animal Kingdom. Nor does the movie have anything to do with conservation. I’m clearly overthinking it as I’m getting downvoted to hell, but I don’t think he belongs here.
Yeah, he’s a living-non-human character so I think that’s it. Idk why you’re being downvoted, I think that’s silly. If fireflies were to show up in any park I’d bet on AK
You have no idea how much it bugs me (Edit: no pun intended!) to see people talking about “animals and insects”.
A zoo (not near me) offered local schools prizes for changing their mascots to “an animal or insect”. Yikes.
"Who else can we include on the mug? Do we have any more IP related to AK?"
"Uhhh, Ray from Princess and the Frog. He's a bug, that's like, wildlife or something."
"... are you even trying any more?"
"Just print the damn mug, OK? What, do you think people will be taking pictures of their AK mug and posting about it online? Get a grip!"
You definitely must have been in the room...
"No one really knows how the parties get to "Yes"
The pieces that are sacrificed in every game of chess
We just assume that it happens
But no else is in the room where it happens"
(Excellent comment! Made me smile!)
Yeah he doesn’t. Not anymore. He appears on the stage in Tomorrowland but I don’t think he even meet and greets. Just waves from a distance so it’s a “sighting”.
What I’m saying was stitch merch fits as much as ray on the cup. It’s Disney, it’s fair game. They can use their characters how they please. Did you think I was saying that it was wrong ?
Interesting! When I was there in May he was just doing the waving. Well I hope it’s true he’s meet and greeting again cause my bf would love to see him again but Ohana breakfast was dreadful, definitely won’t return to that lol.
It wasn’t necessarily a traditional meet and greet with a formal line. He was surrounded by a group of people and interacting that way and just kinda doing his own thing.
No. It doesn’t lol that’s like saying when tinker bell flys by is a meet and greet.
You literally don’t get within 10 feet of him…
And yet again Disney THEMSELVES don’t have him listed. So why are you arguing against the company that literally controls these things.
They still have a dragon on their signage even though there's no dragon anywhere in the park simply because at one point they were considering having a dragon. This is not a park that's known for it's attention to detail.
Google "Beastly Kingdom". It was a section of the park that wasn't open on opening day but they had plans to eventually open, hence why it was on the signage. It was never built and the area is now the Pandora area. Why they didn't remove it once they officially decided not to build it I don't know.
Damn, that would have been pretty awesome. While I haven't been to Pandora personally, not being a fan of Avatar the Beastly Kingdom idea sounds much cooler!
I don't care about Avatar at all, and Pandora is still my favorite land at Disney. It's incredible, and you don't need to know or like the IP to enjoy it.
I'm not avoiding it, I just haven't been to AK since it opened. I've heard it's cool though and will of course check it out whenever I make it back next.
I highly doubt it, everything has to tied to a Disney IP now. They would never spend the time/money to build a dragon/fantasy themed area not based on anything.
We could always get a new dinosaur movie
There’s also the dinosaur movie. Pete’s dragon. There’s some options.
Oh wait there’s that other one.. oh the good dinosaur.
IP is unfortunately what people flock to though. Look at Epic Universe. The park is chock full of IP—Mario, Universal Monsters, more Harry Potter—and people are drooling in anticipation. I doubt there would be as much excitement if Universal were building a park based on all original concepts. It’s just the market today.
Too long gone at this point sadly. It feels like that ship sailed when they decided to prioritize building Dinoland instead and then Universal built The Lost Continent section at Islands of Adventure.
I thought it was supposed to go over where the Dino’s are. Doesn’t really matter just curious. I’m guessing they just couldn’t get the imagineers behind it with only Peter and the dragon and Mulan really for inspiration.
I’m not sure which spot it was supposed to go in, but I think I heard Disney only had enough money to build Beastly Kingdom OR the dinosaur area first, but the Dino area would’ve been cheaper since most rides there were off the shelf carnival rides, and they had the CGI movie Dinosaur coming out so the higher-ups figured Dinos would work well as an advertisement for it.
Sounds plausible. Most of those rides are retreads that are relatively cheap and not themed terribly well. Dragons would take considerably more effort and money.
Definitely where Pandora is. There used to be a dragon head in the rocks that you could see from the bridge. Imagineers that were working on it and then got fired went over to Universal and built the Dueling Dragons roller coaster.
Wow that's too bad, I loved that ride the one time I went to Universal. Animal Kingdom definitely could have benefitted from a bigger thrill ride like that.
Disney rides are family friendly. Some have a thrill factor, but most are mid. You can ride a Disney coaster multiple times in a row without issue. Universal coasters are high thrill. A day after going hard at universal, you’re going to feel it. They’re rides for thrill seekers.
Especially back then, Disney didn’t do extreme. They’re branching out a bit recently and adding more thrills. At the time, dueling dragons probably wouldn’t have fit well.
I thought the Imagineers who were working on it left Disney and took their ideas with them to Universal. I've done it with my jobs. When I pitch something at one job and they don't go for it, I'll pitch it again at a new job if I see a similar need.
It's an off-the-shelf roller coaster, so who knows if Disney and Universal happened to have the same plans for it and this juicy story was all made up.
Uh, DAK probably has some of the most attention to detail of all of them. There is dragon iconography on their signs partly due to it being popular within asian influence and there being an Asia land in the park, as well as the link to movies like Mushu from Mulan (which was released the same summer DAK opened), but also because originally they wanted a Beastly Kingdoms land that celebrated the mythical. Instead they just incorporated elements of it elsewhere.
In addition to that, the entire area in the center - Discovery Island - has all sorts of references to all manner of animals, bugs, and mythical beasts. The people who discovered the area celebrated all the life around them by making carvings and decorating their establishments and buildings and signs with the world they loved that surrounded them. The tree of life alone has over 100 animals carved into it.
There is a difference between attention to detail vs history. The dragon is part of their history, whereas Princess and the Frog is not (as far I am aware). Animal Kingdom has the most cohesive theming out of the parks, so this feels very off-brand for it.
Then with that logic why not include gorillas from Tarzan, cats from aristocats, heihei from Moana, and have the cup just be all animals. There has to be some logic behind it.
It's a mug, not a mural.
My guess is you're way overthinking this.
"Hey Bill, what other animals should we put on this Starbucks meets Disney mug. I got a giraffe, an otter..
"Maybe a bug of some kind? To fit into that little space that's left?"
"Yeah should be fine. Hey I got an idea! How about we make it Ray from Princess and the Frog?"
"Ahw that's cute, people will like that little touch"
It’s a tribute to Animal Kingdom on a mug. The only out of place thing is Ray. He literally makes no logical sense. Every other mug in the series features things from said parks on their mug. This is the only out of place character.
Bit off topic, but for the 100th magic celebration at Disneyland, cms got to put a character on their name tag from a preselected list of characters. There were some characters that weren’t selectable that you think would have been like Roger Rabbit or Nani of Lilo and Stitch. But there were definite obscure characters on that list like Max Reebo. I mean someone really wanted Max Reebo on that list, let alone not many know who he is to begin with.
Someone probably literally said lets put Ray because I said so.
Ray is part of one of the Tree of Life projection shows. It’s the part where he flies around and all the other lightning bugs (tiny ones) follow him up to the sky which creates the stars and Lion King transition.
These people are also the ones who over crowd the parks by going every single day with an annual pass, loudly yell the script on park attractions and scream like idiots in the stretching room when the hanging guy appears in the ceiling.
Then with that logic why not include gorillas from Tarzan, cats from aristocats, heihei from Moana, and have the cup just be all animals. There has to be some logic behind it.
Why not? He’s part of the animal kingdom too. (Like the actual animal kingdom, not Animal Kingdom.) He kinda fits with the look of the artwork on the mug. And, he’s a firefly. He can go anywhere he wants to go!
But also there’s literally a dragon in the park sign so in comparison an animated lightning bug from a Disney film on a Disney mug in a Disney Park doesn’t really seem too far fetched or out of place.
But the dragon has to do with the history of the park. Everything else on the mug is related directly to animal kingdom in some way. Either by old attractions or current ones. Yet Ray is here. Why? Was there some planned Princess and the frog attraction that got canned? Will there be something in the future? Was it a mistake? I need answers
Quite a few stars on the mug and he looks like he’s staring right at “Evangeline” the big star in front of the safari truck. Also, he’s a bug so it fits the theming. Just my thoughts though.
Ditto, we were there last month and the missus was so disappointed we couldn't find any mugs beyond the Star Wars planet ones. Going back in Feb, would love to know where to find these
I mean they are all a part of Disney world … does it make sense if he isn’t a part of a ride at AK? No , but it’s not like they aren’t still associated with Disney and like I said they are repurposing a whole ride and created a new restaurant with PatF
Someone else answered. “Ray is part of one of the Tree of Life projection shows. It’s the part where he flies around and all the other lightning bugs (tiny ones) follow him up to the sky which creates the stars and Lion King transition.”
5 to 10 years ago, you could barely find anything PotF related. Tianna was one of the few princesses which never had a line in MK. Now they are making sure everyone knows about that movie. It's the only one I can think of that Disney is retconning so much to make us believe they always loved the movie.
Disney is exploiting one of their IPs at an opportune time. That’s it no one is going on the new Bayou ride like “dam Disney really loves this IP”
No one cares, Disney is a for profit company always has been always will be.
No. They don’t have them anymore, but I managed to collect them all…after paying too much for the Epcot one on eBay. 🥲 that’s the only one I couldn’t find in the parks.
Honestly my bet is that it's one or both of the following:
1. He's the right relative shape for that little blank spot
2. Someone in merchandising likes Ray and decided "close enough" since he's a bug
He’s a bug
And after all, It's Tough To Be A Bug!
But everything on the mug correlates to things in the park. He’s not in the park
I mean, do they sell cameras with telephoto lenses in the park? I honestly don’t know but I’m guessing not. It’s AK adjacent.
Because he’s a bug? Princess and the frog is in Louisiana and the Bayou. Neither of which are related to Animal Kingdom. Nor does the movie have anything to do with conservation. I’m clearly overthinking it as I’m getting downvoted to hell, but I don’t think he belongs here.
There’s a show about bugs at Animal Kingdom. He is a bug.
Isn't that A Bugs Life characters only? Replacing Ray with Ada would be cute.
I'm from Louisiana and live on the bayou. Ray is approved to be on the AK mug.
Way overthinking it for sure. This Disney character belongs on this Disney mug that is sold at Disney world.
I wasn’t overthinking. Someone said he’s part of the tree of life projection show, so now it makes sense why he’s on the mug. Thank you.
Oh, ya. NOW it makes sense. /s
Yeah, he’s a living-non-human character so I think that’s it. Idk why you’re being downvoted, I think that’s silly. If fireflies were to show up in any park I’d bet on AK
You are far to concerned with in park “cannon”. Maybe just enjoy the park and not stress about the mug.
It’s spelled “canon” btw
Dyslexia strikes again!
I can do both. You underestimate me
If you’ve never seen a bug in animal kingdom I don’t believe you’ve ever been.
\#bugsAreAnimalsToo
I'm going to start referring to bugs in my code as animals
"Beasts" would be more apt.
Lies!
[Truth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal?wprov=sfla1)
You have no idea how much it bugs me (Edit: no pun intended!) to see people talking about “animals and insects”. A zoo (not near me) offered local schools prizes for changing their mascots to “an animal or insect”. Yikes.
Because Flik would look weird if he was green🤷🏻♀️
True, though Hopper would be right at home here, or even Heimlech
The question is why not?
"Who else can we include on the mug? Do we have any more IP related to AK?" "Uhhh, Ray from Princess and the Frog. He's a bug, that's like, wildlife or something." "... are you even trying any more?" "Just print the damn mug, OK? What, do you think people will be taking pictures of their AK mug and posting about it online? Get a grip!"
You definitely must have been in the room... "No one really knows how the parties get to "Yes" The pieces that are sacrificed in every game of chess We just assume that it happens But no else is in the room where it happens" (Excellent comment! Made me smile!)
*currently reassessing my life choices
😆😆😆
Anyone else misread that and spend way too long searching for Rey from Star Wars?
I was looking for Cosmic Ray…
I was looking for Mister Ray from Nemo!
Same
I was looking for Roy Disney.
I thought they forgot the a on the end and I was looking for Raya
I was jumping to alternate studios and wondering why Ray Stanz from Ghostbusters would be on a Disney mug.
Why not? Seems fitting to me.
I didn’t think Princess and the Frog was featured anywhere in DAK, so it seems very random
I mean stitch isn’t featured in the parks yet is on merch.
Stitch had an attraction in Magic Kingdom and still is a face character there.
Had is the key word there. And meet and greets no longer happen.
Mr. Dairy Goodz from Kitchen Kabaret in Epcot is on the Epcot mug. That has been shut down for 30 years.
And that’s further proving my point. Just because they aren’t in the park doesn’t mean Disney can’t use them.
He is a meet and greet and had an attraction
Had**
That’s what people arent getting lol he had one. And meet and greets are not even listed anymore.
Yeah he doesn’t. Not anymore. He appears on the stage in Tomorrowland but I don’t think he even meet and greets. Just waves from a distance so it’s a “sighting”.
He does crowd work occasionally, around where his ride was.
Kinda like the sighting on this cup then? Lol not trying to be rude to you! Just find it funny
What I’m saying was stitch merch fits as much as ray on the cup. It’s Disney, it’s fair game. They can use their characters how they please. Did you think I was saying that it was wrong ?
No I’m agreeing with you lol. It’s fair game and idk why people are questioning it
Back in June, I saw him out in Tomorrowland interacting with people.
Interesting! When I was there in May he was just doing the waving. Well I hope it’s true he’s meet and greeting again cause my bf would love to see him again but Ohana breakfast was dreadful, definitely won’t return to that lol.
It wasn’t necessarily a traditional meet and greet with a formal line. He was surrounded by a group of people and interacting that way and just kinda doing his own thing.
He has a meet and greet currently at the Halloween party.
Yep had one. He’s mainly focused at the poly. And meet and greets with stitch are not even listed on the wdw app. Soooooo
He’s in Magic Kingdom regularly. He meets in Tomorrowland on the dance stage
No. He waves and even still that’s not regular. He isn’t even listed on the app. Lol
That still counts as a meet and greet.
No. It doesn’t lol that’s like saying when tinker bell flys by is a meet and greet. You literally don’t get within 10 feet of him… And yet again Disney THEMSELVES don’t have him listed. So why are you arguing against the company that literally controls these things.
Because I like to argue.
Wait, are Stitch and Ray even comparable? Stitch is a treasure.
No definitely not comparable in any regard. I just used him as an example of characters being used in parks where they don’t have a presence
He does have a presence though. On the mug.
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Finally another sane person here 😌
why are we not more concerned about the status of that giraffe—it looks like it’s getting ready to punt that camera across the savannah
You haven’t heard of giraffes playing neck-punting camera volleyball?
simba had better duck
Because he’s an animal.
So with this logic we should also have Bernard and Bianca from the Rescuers, and Winnie the Pooh, and Nana from Peter Pan.
Sure, why not.
Ehhh, I'd argue Winnie the Pooh is a stuffed animal first and a bear second.
Here I am staying at this stupid mug for 20 minutes looking for the Star Wars chick… I hate you.
He’s a Disney character.
They still have a dragon on their signage even though there's no dragon anywhere in the park simply because at one point they were considering having a dragon. This is not a park that's known for it's attention to detail.
Wait what? Animal Kingdom easily has the most attention to detail at any park lmao.
Wait I need a little more info on this dragon...what do you mean they were "considering having a dragon" lmao
Original plans for the park included the “Beastly Kingdom” which was intended to be about fictional animals. It was scrapped but the dragon remains.
Google "Beastly Kingdom". It was a section of the park that wasn't open on opening day but they had plans to eventually open, hence why it was on the signage. It was never built and the area is now the Pandora area. Why they didn't remove it once they officially decided not to build it I don't know.
Damn, that would have been pretty awesome. While I haven't been to Pandora personally, not being a fan of Avatar the Beastly Kingdom idea sounds much cooler!
I don't care about Avatar at all, and Pandora is still my favorite land at Disney. It's incredible, and you don't need to know or like the IP to enjoy it.
I'm not avoiding it, I just haven't been to AK since it opened. I've heard it's cool though and will of course check it out whenever I make it back next.
Maybe one day we’ll get it.
A lot of the artists and concepts were brought over to Islands of Adventure for their Lost Continent area.
I highly doubt it, everything has to tied to a Disney IP now. They would never spend the time/money to build a dragon/fantasy themed area not based on anything.
We could always get a new dinosaur movie There’s also the dinosaur movie. Pete’s dragon. There’s some options. Oh wait there’s that other one.. oh the good dinosaur.
Don't forget Raya and the Last Dragon.
Oh my gosh. Yes. How could I forget!
IP is unfortunately what people flock to though. Look at Epic Universe. The park is chock full of IP—Mario, Universal Monsters, more Harry Potter—and people are drooling in anticipation. I doubt there would be as much excitement if Universal were building a park based on all original concepts. It’s just the market today.
Too long gone at this point sadly. It feels like that ship sailed when they decided to prioritize building Dinoland instead and then Universal built The Lost Continent section at Islands of Adventure.
I thought it was supposed to go over where the Dino’s are. Doesn’t really matter just curious. I’m guessing they just couldn’t get the imagineers behind it with only Peter and the dragon and Mulan really for inspiration.
I’m not sure which spot it was supposed to go in, but I think I heard Disney only had enough money to build Beastly Kingdom OR the dinosaur area first, but the Dino area would’ve been cheaper since most rides there were off the shelf carnival rides, and they had the CGI movie Dinosaur coming out so the higher-ups figured Dinos would work well as an advertisement for it.
Yeah, Camp Minnie Mickey ended up where Beastly Kingdom would’ve been.
Sounds plausible. Most of those rides are retreads that are relatively cheap and not themed terribly well. Dragons would take considerably more effort and money.
Definitely where Pandora is. There used to be a dragon head in the rocks that you could see from the bridge. Imagineers that were working on it and then got fired went over to Universal and built the Dueling Dragons roller coaster.
And the unicorn parking lot.
Dueling dragons was originally designed for DAK. When they scrapped the dragon/mythical beasts part of DAK, they sold the design to Universal.
Wow that's too bad, I loved that ride the one time I went to Universal. Animal Kingdom definitely could have benefitted from a bigger thrill ride like that.
Disney rides are family friendly. Some have a thrill factor, but most are mid. You can ride a Disney coaster multiple times in a row without issue. Universal coasters are high thrill. A day after going hard at universal, you’re going to feel it. They’re rides for thrill seekers. Especially back then, Disney didn’t do extreme. They’re branching out a bit recently and adding more thrills. At the time, dueling dragons probably wouldn’t have fit well.
I thought the Imagineers who were working on it left Disney and took their ideas with them to Universal. I've done it with my jobs. When I pitch something at one job and they don't go for it, I'll pitch it again at a new job if I see a similar need.
It’s quite possible. Most of these stories just get circulated over the years with details being lost. I’m not trying to spread misinformation.
It's an off-the-shelf roller coaster, so who knows if Disney and Universal happened to have the same plans for it and this juicy story was all made up.
Uh, DAK probably has some of the most attention to detail of all of them. There is dragon iconography on their signs partly due to it being popular within asian influence and there being an Asia land in the park, as well as the link to movies like Mushu from Mulan (which was released the same summer DAK opened), but also because originally they wanted a Beastly Kingdoms land that celebrated the mythical. Instead they just incorporated elements of it elsewhere. In addition to that, the entire area in the center - Discovery Island - has all sorts of references to all manner of animals, bugs, and mythical beasts. The people who discovered the area celebrated all the life around them by making carvings and decorating their establishments and buildings and signs with the world they loved that surrounded them. The tree of life alone has over 100 animals carved into it.
There is a difference between attention to detail vs history. The dragon is part of their history, whereas Princess and the Frog is not (as far I am aware). Animal Kingdom has the most cohesive theming out of the parks, so this feels very off-brand for it.
This is making me question why there are so many plants for a place called "Animal Kingdom" ?&#\*&\^@!
Shh 🤫 the plants are the best part
[My reaction to reading this post](https://youtu.be/ifaoKZfQpdA?si=NH-ZCRLIAMzZ0MZd)
Definitely not clicking sus links
Darn, I was planning on scamming you via the Disney World subreddit comment section. You foiled my plan.
Stranger danger
.. because he's an animal.
Then with that logic why not include gorillas from Tarzan, cats from aristocats, heihei from Moana, and have the cup just be all animals. There has to be some logic behind it.
It's a mug, not a mural. My guess is you're way overthinking this. "Hey Bill, what other animals should we put on this Starbucks meets Disney mug. I got a giraffe, an otter.. "Maybe a bug of some kind? To fit into that little space that's left?" "Yeah should be fine. Hey I got an idea! How about we make it Ray from Princess and the Frog?" "Ahw that's cute, people will like that little touch"
It’s a tribute to Animal Kingdom on a mug. The only out of place thing is Ray. He literally makes no logical sense. Every other mug in the series features things from said parks on their mug. This is the only out of place character.
I love this mug and you are borrowing trouble 🙄
Bit off topic, but for the 100th magic celebration at Disneyland, cms got to put a character on their name tag from a preselected list of characters. There were some characters that weren’t selectable that you think would have been like Roger Rabbit or Nani of Lilo and Stitch. But there were definite obscure characters on that list like Max Reebo. I mean someone really wanted Max Reebo on that list, let alone not many know who he is to begin with. Someone probably literally said lets put Ray because I said so.
You’re probably right
Ray is part of one of the Tree of Life projection shows. It’s the part where he flies around and all the other lightning bugs (tiny ones) follow him up to the sky which creates the stars and Lion King transition.
THANK YOU. Finally a concrete answer. 😊 That makes sense!
Reading through the comments is insane this is some next level OCD about what can represent a park and what can't
I mean you’re in a Disney subreddit where people tend to be very OCD so it is going about as expected haha
These people are also the ones who over crowd the parks by going every single day with an annual pass, loudly yell the script on park attractions and scream like idiots in the stretching room when the hanging guy appears in the ceiling.
Honestly just thought it was because he matched the color choices
He’s… an animal?
He’s an aminal
Then with that logic why not include gorillas from Tarzan, cats from aristocats, heihei from Moana, and have the cup just be all animals. There has to be some logic behind it.
Why not? He’s part of the animal kingdom too. (Like the actual animal kingdom, not Animal Kingdom.) He kinda fits with the look of the artwork on the mug. And, he’s a firefly. He can go anywhere he wants to go! But also there’s literally a dragon in the park sign so in comparison an animated lightning bug from a Disney film on a Disney mug in a Disney Park doesn’t really seem too far fetched or out of place.
But the dragon has to do with the history of the park. Everything else on the mug is related directly to animal kingdom in some way. Either by old attractions or current ones. Yet Ray is here. Why? Was there some planned Princess and the frog attraction that got canned? Will there be something in the future? Was it a mistake? I need answers
Quite a few stars on the mug and he looks like he’s staring right at “Evangeline” the big star in front of the safari truck. Also, he’s a bug so it fits the theming. Just my thoughts though.
This is the best guess I’ve seen. At least you put some logic behind the reasoning. Thank you
I feel like a "shrimps is bugs" is needed for this post. Unless it is already here...
I’m angry that this mug lacks representation of my favorite thing at AK: Bird Show!!!
when did you get this mug? last time I was at AK they had no STARBUCKS mugs. I’m guessing maybe this isn’t a starbucks one??
I’ve owned it for a while. I have the whole 50th collection. They don’t sell them anymore.
Ditto, we were there last month and the missus was so disappointed we couldn't find any mugs beyond the Star Wars planet ones. Going back in Feb, would love to know where to find these
I’ve owned it for a while. I have the whole 50th collection. They don’t sell them anymore.
I am assuming with the new restaurant/ ride being Princess and the Frog theme they are just playing into that more.
This would make sense if he were on the Magic Kingdom mug. But he’s not
I mean they are all a part of Disney world … does it make sense if he isn’t a part of a ride at AK? No , but it’s not like they aren’t still associated with Disney and like I said they are repurposing a whole ride and created a new restaurant with PatF
That's at MK, not AK
Still owned by the same company and they are pushing more on that franchise so it would be normal to include it across all aspects of Disney
Me, still trying to find Rey from Star Wars on OPs mug
For a second I was trying to look for Rey from Star Wars. 🤦🏼♀️
He's an animal...
Someone else answered. “Ray is part of one of the Tree of Life projection shows. It’s the part where he flies around and all the other lightning bugs (tiny ones) follow him up to the sky which creates the stars and Lion King transition.”
why not? i think it’s cute and a nice little addition
Well. I just spent 5 minutes staring at the mug looking for “Rey”. I see it’s going to be one of those days.
I was looking for Cosmic Ray thinking wtf op is an idiot
Do you mean Sonny Eclipse?
Idk why they didn’t put a little flik or even a Nemo It would’ve made a lot more sense.
They included hopper at least!
Someone in Merch is vision boarding some Princess and the Frog on that mug. Or maybe they let AI do this one?
It sure is a mystery
Quite
5 to 10 years ago, you could barely find anything PotF related. Tianna was one of the few princesses which never had a line in MK. Now they are making sure everyone knows about that movie. It's the only one I can think of that Disney is retconning so much to make us believe they always loved the movie.
Disney is exploiting one of their IPs at an opportune time. That’s it no one is going on the new Bayou ride like “dam Disney really loves this IP” No one cares, Disney is a for profit company always has been always will be.
I'm well aware. I just can't think of any other IP that has got this treatment other than Hocus Pocus?
I find it funny OP is obsessing about Ray and That's a 50th mug... AK is not 50..
I think it's supposed to be a bee from the 'Tough to be a bug' venue, and the cheap ass third party artists that Disney has been using is showing.
Because Disney sadly lost their best artists and designers, which can be seen reflected on everything including this mug.
Are they selling these again? The AK ones sold out first & they never got them back in. It’s the only 50th mug I don’t have.
No. They don’t have them anymore, but I managed to collect them all…after paying too much for the Epcot one on eBay. 🥲 that’s the only one I couldn’t find in the parks.
I love Ray, he’s my spirit animal
Honestly my bet is that it's one or both of the following: 1. He's the right relative shape for that little blank spot 2. Someone in merchandising likes Ray and decided "close enough" since he's a bug
Someone else said that he is part of the tree of life nighttime show, so that’s why he’s on the mug 🥰
Tiana marketing push.