Tokyo Disneyland Circa 1983

This advert is amazing because 1983 had to be one of the low points for Disney — Walt had been dead for well over a decade and The Little Mermaid was still a few years in the future. Yet what impresses me is that the power of the Disney characters thanks to Walt’s storytelling skills were still keeping the company afloat all of those years later, and cooler yet those characters were so strong they could support a theme park in Japan. By the way if you look closely in the commercial you’ll see a very lackluster looking Snow White…