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{{quote|''"But in animation, [[Follow the Leader|everyone is expected to come as close as they can to]] [[Walt Disney]]. That's not a rap on [[Walt Disney|Disney]]. He was a genius, an innovator…his stuff was so terrific that people came to believe that that was all there was to animation."''|'''[[Ralph Bakshi]], in the notes for the DVD release of ''American Pop'''''}}

* One reviewer of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine|Thomas and the Magic Railroad]]'' was under the impression that Thomas had been produced by Disney. Then again, the review itself was poking fun at fundamentalist Christians who think all movies are the work of the devil.

** Muddying the issue is that the movie actually aired on Playhouse Disney regularly in Asian markets.

* At least [http://www.amazon.com/review/RH3B1MC2JCH9R/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0007GAE12 one customer review] for the soundtrack for the [[Blue Sky Studios]] film ''[[Robots]]'' calls it a Disney film.

* And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UAEzhOI5x0 this] video calls the [[DreamWorks]] film ''[[Prince of Egypt]]'' a Disney film.

* In the heyday of Disney's Bronze Age of the early 90's, many many low-budget animation houses lived off this trope like kings. They made (or more likely scrounged up) the most [[The Mockbuster|incredibly cheap knockoffs]] of every Disney film of the era and released them on video around the same time the films had been in theaters for a while. They took advantage of the sad fact that some parents didn't realize the difference. "''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' is ''The Little Mermaid'', right? It says so on the cover!" Fortunately, the majority of parents ''could'' tell the difference between the beloved Disney films and, say, [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm915185408/tt0216882 this.] Said films are still floating around out there and have proved to be a rich well of [[YouTube Poop]]. (And you have to love how every company came up with a wildly different ''Lion King'' cash-in given that [[Kimba the White Lion|the alleged inspiration]] was still copyrighted.)

** Goodtimes Entertainment counts itself among these companies; whenever a Disney movie hits theatres or video, Goodtimes is there with a based-on-the-same-public-domain-property direct-to-video cartoon.

* Animation movies done in other countries besides the USA can often fall under this, even in their own country! It's not helped by the fact that Disney often distributes those films in the international market, adding more fuel to the confusion.

** Bridgit Mendler, who voiced the title character of the American dub of ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'', refers to the film as a Disney movie in one of the bonus features, since Disney commissioned the American dub.

 

== Other ==

* An entry on [[This Very Wiki]]'s Disney fetish fuel page that said [[Space Jam|Lola Bunny]]. This is probably because her image was plastered on a bunch of [[Tastes Like Diabetes|glittery, sugar-coated]] merchandise like the [[Disney Princess]]es have.

* [http://www.sporcle.com Sporcle] has quizzes for both Walt Disney Pictures films and Pixar films. Half the comments for the Disney quiz are asking where ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' is; half the comments for the Pixar quiz are asking where ''[[Bolt]]'' is. Yeah.

* A book of Disney quotes sold at Hallmark stores as part of a series of official Disney merchandise includes a line from Don Bluth's ''[[The Land Before Time]]''.

** This trope doesn't really apply when you consider that Pixar was bought out by Disney. Then again ABC is in fact also owned by them...

* This trope has a way of running rampant on [[EBay]], either because the sellers themselves are ignorant or because they assume the buyers are.