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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'''''}}
Oh, the [[Disney Animated Canon]]. Such wonderful movies to be found in it: ''[[Snow White and
[[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|Wait, what do you mean that last one doesn't belong?]] It's ''not'' [[Disney]]? Don't be ridiculous, ''[[Title Drop|all]]'' [[Title Drop|animation is Disney]]!
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Remember, though, that [[Disney]] ''is'' the market leader in animated movies, and so it's understandable that rival animation studios [[Follow the Leader|follow trends]] set by the [[Disney Animated Canon]] (including, unfortunately, [[Disneyfication]]).
See also [[Critical Research Failure]]
Annoyingly, this is [[Truth in Television]].
Since Disney's most famous movies are traditionally animated films, this usually applies to cel-animated movies. On the CGI front, [[Dreamworks Animation]] has become a big enough name in its own right that their films rarely get mistaken for [[Pixar]]'s anymore. The other guys ([[Blue Sky Studios]], Illumination, Sony, etc)... not so much. If it shares DreamWorks' tendency towards subversive or referential humor, chances are it'll get mistaken for one of their films. So a sub-trope of this could be "All CG Animation is [[All CGI Is Pixar|Pixar]] or [[All CGI Is Dreamworks|DreamWorks]]."
Not to be confused with [[Disneyesque]] or [[Disneyfication]].
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== Film ==
* Poor [[Don Bluth]]. This might happen to him the most. Then again, he did get his start at Disney...
** As mentioned before, ''[[Anastasia]]'' (released by 20th Century Fox) falls victim to this a ''lot''. In fact, [[
*** Although, it doesn't help that [[Name's the Same|Anastasia is the name of one of Cinderella's step-sisters]]!
** Warner Bros. tried to play this trope to its advantage during test screenings of ''[[Thumbelina]]''. When they played the film with the Warner logo, audiences gave it a mediocre score. When they played it with the Disney logo, the scores were ''much'' higher. Bluth reported same thing was employed with ''Anastasia''. With the Disney logo, some sequences even met applause!
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*** And it appeared occasionally on the Disney Channel in the mid-1990s, as well as on [[Toon Disney]] along with all three sequels, to add to that confusion.
** Several websites of song lyrics file Bluth film lyrics under Disney films instead.
*** At least one torrent of 'Disney Songs' available on the internet contains songs from Thumbelina and Ferngully.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmNtmaq12gQ This video about Toy Story 3] makes a joke during a Disney medley about Bluth's films being Disney!
** Made even more confusing when [[Disney Channel]] started airing [[Titan
* It doesn't help that a number of non-Disney films such as ''[[Fern Gully]]'' still air on the Disney channel. Or that Disney releases films not made by a Disney animation studio, such as ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]''.
* A possibly apocryphal tale states that Jack Warner, famously clueless with regards to his own animation house, once said this: "All I know is that we make [[Mickey Mouse]]." If it's true, then it goes a long way to explaining how the "Termite Terrace" gang were able to get away with so much.
** Nicely inverted by a story from [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]]. When [[Gene Kelly]] was making ''Anchors Aweigh'' (1945), he suggested that he could perform a dancing duet with Mickey. His producers reportedly looked dubious and asked, "And what's wrong with our [[Tom and Jerry
*** The story exists in several variant forms. In some versions, Kelly's producers at MGM were willing, until [[Hanna-Barbera|William Hanna and Joseph Barbera]] heard about it and convinced them to use Jerry; in one version, [[Walt Disney]] refused to loan Mickey out; in still another (perhaps the most likely) version, Walt was willing, but his brother Roy pointed out that their studio was in debt at the time and could not afford "to be making cartoons for other people."
* 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.
* Most of the output of 20th Century Fox (which was almost entirely the work of Bluth) and much later, their 3D studio Blue Sky Studios,
* 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 [[
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* 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 [[
** 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.
** Bonus points go the one company (the name escapes me; "Wonder"somthing) that also shamelessly based their logo off the [[Warner Bros]] shield.
* A spin-off of this: all computer animation is attributed to either [[Pixar]] or [[
** [[Mind Screw|And all Pixar is Dreamworks. And all Dreamworks is Pixar.]]
** This came in full circle and bit Disney in the behind, because now when Disney makes CG movies independently of Pixar, people still assume it was Pixar.
** This video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FonD7JqiFI compares] both Dreamworks and Pixar animation.
** [http://www.filmonair.com/article/animations-in-2011 This website] gets its facts right until it gets to ''[[Rango]]''.
* [http://www.disneylies.com/films/animated/shrek.shtml This parody site] claims that ''[[Shrek]]'', ''[[
* The work of Richard Rich, who made the ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' movies and the lesser known ''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]'', is often credited to Disney. Ironically, he got his start at Disney working on ''[[The Fox and
** Disney once owned the rights to [[The Swan Princess]], as to be able to air it on Disney channel, although not as much to make their own version of [[Swan Lake]], [[What Could Have Been|like they intended]], so it is a justified trope.
* There are coloring pages labeled Disney's Shrek, when in fact DreamWorks' ''[[Shrek]]'' franchise began with perhaps the most anti-Disney film imaginable.
* Weird inversion: ''[[Enchanted]]'' is a Disney film... but the animation in that was made by a third-party studio during Disney's five-year break from 2D animation. Some animators, including Andreas Deja and Mark Henn had a long history with Disney, though.
* ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' is a frequent victim of this trope, more so than Dream Works' other 2-D animated features.
* ''[[
* ''[[Balto]]'' is another one that's frequently mistaken as a Disney film ''and'' as a Don Bluth film.
* 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 ''[[
== Other ==
* Also exploited in a rather famous experiment on false memories: People were shown fake ads for Disneyland that included [[Bugs Bunny]] (who belongs at Six Flags), and they ended up telling the researchers that they'd seen Bugs Bunny when they went to Disneyland as a child.
* Among the many flaws of the [http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/02/01/100201sh_shouts_rudnick New Yorker's] satirization of ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' and it's darker, yet retro, reboot of Mickey, they call [[Looney Tunes|Porky Pig]] a Disney character.
* In critic Ed Gonzalez's [http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/despicable-me/4887 review] of ''[[
* A Norwegian TV channel used to describe all animated features as Disney movies.
* An entry on [[This Very Wiki]]'s Disney fetish fuel page that said [[Space Jam
* [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 ''[[
* From the website "Letters Of Note" comes [https://web.archive.org/web/20130821143829/http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/this-little-girl-has-her-walters.html this adorable exchange.] In 1964, a girl who was a fan of [[Woody Woodpecker]] attempted to write a letter to its creator [[Walter Lantz]], but addressed it to Walt Disney instead, who was nice enough to reply to the girl ''and'' forward it along. Disney seemed to anticipate this trope in his note to Lantz, grumbling, "I get blamed for everything that happens in Hollywood!"
* 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]]''.
* On March 22, 2011, Disney's [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] TV network presented a two-hour special titled "Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time", which presented the best moments or films in various categories. In the animation category, four of the choices were made by Walt Disney Pictures: 1. ''[[The Lion King]]'', 3. ''[[Beauty and
** 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
** It's easier to peddle used VHS tapes of Bluth movies when people think it's Disney.
* The new ''[[
** This is a nod to Limpet cameoing as a background character in Under the Sea in a crowd shot.
* Looking up "[[Dingo Pictures]]" on [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia]] will actually lead to the website saying "Did you mean ''Disney'' Pictures?"
** There is now.
* The Goldo song Boom Da Boom, which is about Disney Characters, mentions Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is made by
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/maccas-takes-out-pester-power-prize/2007/10/04/1191091281190.html This article] about the 2007 Pester Power awards calls Shrek a Disney movie.
* Inverted with the comic [[Blacksad]]- Guarnido, the illustrator, actually WAS a Disney animator, animating Hades in [[Hercules]], Sabor in [[Tarzan]], and Helga in [[Atlantis:
== Webcomics ==
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100316163909/http://www.ugmadness.net/index.php?date=2004-06-04 this] early ''[[UG Madness]]'' comic.
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* The [[Trope Namer]] is obvious. Got its start during [[The Golden Age of Animation]], and it only got worse from there...
** It could probably be traced back to all of the ''[[Silly Symphonies]]'' clones that just about every animation studio was producing in the 1930's, to cash in on the success of Disney's shorts. Most of the time you could hardly tell the difference between them enough to realize which studio was producing it.
* One YKTTW featured an incident where someone commenting on ''[[
* The Disney parody in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Road to the Multiverse" is sometimes believed by others that it WAS made by Disney due to realistically mimicking the animation style and throwing in some Disney references (such as a musical sequence about pies, making Brian and Stewie look cute, Lois like a princess, Adam West as a mouse, etc.) But to be fair, this sequence was outsourced to a smaller, lesser-known animation studio (it wasn't even animated in Korea like the show usually is.)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40VFcJTIduw An Iranian scholar] ranting about how ''[[
* Usually avoided by the ''[[Looney Tunes]]''. Nearly everybody knows that they are definitively NOT Disney; they’re Warner Bros.
** But then, a lot of people mistakenly assume that *any* non-Disney, slapstick-based short cartoons from the Golden Age are ''Looney Tunes'', including characters from other studios like [[
* Disney potentially invoked this trope on a Christmas-themed Sing-Along Song video. Apparently, they couldn't find any fitting Disney clips for the "[[Rudolph the Red
** This might be the result of the fact that Disney did distribute Fleischer cartoons on home video in the 1980s. Disney must have taken advantage of the fact the cartoons were public domain and release them for their own profit.
== Real Life ==
* [http://www.facebook.com/events/119454151519590 An event at a children's indoor playground/birthday party center] has an event called "Disney Parade". The characters are [[Phineas and Ferb|Phineas, Ferb]], [[Toy Story (franchise)|Woody, Buzz, Jessie]], [[Snow White and
** Darth Vader wasn't Disney at the time, but Disney bought Lucasfilm (and thus Star Wars) in 2012. Perhaps the party center felt a premonition in the Force...
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[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]
[[Category:All Animation Is Disney]]
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