Is This Movie That Popular?

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its stitch thats popular and less the movie like disney princesses for girls and tinkerbelle they found that stitch merchandise sells like crazy and the ride is extremely popular. im living proof of this lol i went on the ride 3 times and my whole room is like a shrine.

They use Stitch as a demi-mascot of sorts, like the Princesses/Tinkerbell/Winnie the Pooh. The Princesses and Tink are more for the girls and Pooh is more unisex. They needed something that leaned towards more "masculine" merchandise and Stitch fit the bill.

Turns out he was a generally loved alien (by both sexes), and they kind of went a bit overboard. They figured if they put him everywhere, kids are going to see him everywhere, nag their parents and eventually will get their Stitch toys. At least that's what my managers told me when I asked about the over-saturation of Stitch when I worked there.



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In Japan, Stitch (and this movie in general) is the most popular Disney creation to date. ANYWHERE you go you can get Stitch merchandise, cell phone straps, plush toys, pillows, clocks, bags, cushions ect ect. When Disney on Ice came here last month they had Stitch as one of the characters (came in at the end of scene transitions, was exclusive to Japan) because they had to include him to sell tickets. Also many girls, into their early 20s even, love the character and buy the themed goods at every chance. A 17year old girl I know has her room wall to wall covered with the character.

i'm obsessed with WDW and stitch. stitch merchandise can be found everywhere because stitch is wildly popular by disneyers. stitch fans also tend to spare no expense when it comes to collecting stitch merchandise.

the character stitch crosses over every age group, unlike other characters that might just appeal to children, so that adds to it.

stitch is a modern icon for disney-- edgier and more humorous for the times.

i might add that i'm a big pin collector/trader and stitch's pins sell the best. hence the many releases of stitch pins every year at wdw and to a lesser extent DL.

i'm not sure if anyone read this, but i read in a recent article that tinkerbell merchandise sells very well, too. while i'm not necessarily a tinkerbell fan, i recognize that her appeal is her femininity and sass, much like stitch's outright unconventional attitude.

oh, i forgot to mention perhaps the most important reason why stitch merchandise is so popular!

the movie made over 145 million bucks. the budget was only 80 million. this was the first traditional animation movie disney produced in a LONG time that had such a great profit (at a time when it seemed that disney and pixar would never reach an agreement and were going their separate ways). lilo and stitch the series, lilo and stitch 2, and stitch: the movie also turned out a great amount of money in DVD sales etc.

though pixar movies also turn out a ton of money, disney and pixar have had their problems (and at one point their complete separation) over the last few years. also, disney tends to throw pixar characters into a different genre (they started to promote them at disney's calif. adventure) and left disneyland to the traditional characters. disney's mgm (soon to be disney's hollywood studios) is starting to do the same.

oh, also, most of lilo and stitch was produced on disney world property (before the shutdown of their animation studios there)...so that was a pretty big deal, too.

so stitch just makes sense!