[Behind Liberal Lines]

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't half the problem simple demographics?

Disney cartoons did best when the baby boomers were kids.

The made a comeback in the late 80s, early 90s, when the boomers started having kids of their own, and the "baby boomlet" started.

Now the boomlet is aging into older fare.

So there's no ready made audience for their big budget cartoons.

[KC_Conspirator]

Actually, Disney films have usually made more money in Hollywood than most movie studios.

[LS]

I think that is true, and also the fact is that since "Beauty and the Beast/Alladin" they have not had any good SONGS, which carried many of the animated movies. To this date, many of us know and sing those songs. Much of the HUMOR also came from the songs ("Under the Sea," "Gaston," "Be Our Guest").

[Darksheare]

Well, that and.. Disney doesn't have any 'in house' animators anymore.
They farm out the work and have other countries do it.. just like all perfect communist communes do.

(Disney has an animation shop in Japan do some gross number percentage of their animation, last I heard.)

More American Jobs overseas...