10 Scandals Disney REALLY Wants You To Forget

Over the last few years alone Disney has been on the receiving end of an astounding number of plagiarism accusations. In 2014 animator Kelly Wilson alleged that the teaser trailer for Frozen was a rip-off of her 2010 short film The Snowman and the following year author Dyke Robinson claimed Wreck-It Ralph ripped ideas from his book series Digiland that he’d previously pitched to Disney as a potential adaptation.

More recently in 2017 Total Recall writer Gary L. Goldman accused Disney of basing Zootopia on a concept he’d previously pitched but was rejected by the company while child psychologist Denise Daniels alleged that Inside Out was suspiciously similar to a project she’d developed called The Moodsters featuring five colour-coded characters representing different emotions and had also pitched to Disney.

It’s not just a modern phenomenon either. Back in 1994 when The Lion King was released several critics were quick to point that it bore an uncanny resemblance to Osamu Tezuka’s anime TV series Kimba the White Lion and way back in 1965 two songwriters accused Disney of plagiarising their own song with the Mary Poppins classic Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

These accusations could all be the product of mere coincidence, of course, or perhaps just a bunch of jealous, delusional folk hoping to cash in on Disney’s massive success but as they say there’s no smoke without fire.