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No trend, movement, style or genre can survive Disneyfication (especially of the market-driven variety) intact. It's the very definition of cultural co-opting, keeping everything neutered, sanitized and scrubbed free of troubling socio-political subtext. (And remember, I love Disney.) So, Disney character steampunk just can't ever be authentic (for want of a better word). That said, I would happily watch a cartoon or feature with the characters in a Victorian steam-punky setting. Too bad that isn't happening. Just a set of pins that I will not be buying.
From what I understand, Epic Mickey has completely lost the dark edge present in the earlier leaked designs. Too bad. I was hoping Disney would do something radically disturbing and recontextualized. Instead, it sounds like we're getting something far more conventional involving Disney villains. Pity.
Some of the early urban vinyl Mickey stuff actually was kind of gross, disturbing and unsettling. Everything I see lately has been much more friendly. (In any case, it was trend-chasing all the way.)
My, but I'm in an uncharacteristically cranky mood this evening.
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