Talk:Disney Revival/@comment-15306376-20141024230555/@comment-5342139-20141025010012

I think Disney eras are about all 3: critical and financial successes as well as change.

However, while u are correct about Walt's death defining the Golden and Dark Age, Aristocats had mixed reviews, in contrast to Jungle Book's critical success.

also, u cant just use one era as an example. Renaissance Era didn't start with Eisner and Katzenberg and Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and Glen Keane coming into the studio. those years were still Dark Age. it wasn't until glowing success of Little Mermaid that started the era. Golden Age also has the same thing: success of Snow White.

I also tend to think beginning of an era and end of an era ends differently. all 3 Disney Golden Age started with a critical and financial successful princess film. and end of Dark Ages really have nothing to do with Golden Ages.

Bolt is like Oliver and Company, both are financially and critically successful, and are both animal films, but theyre not Disney's traditional roots. their roots are fairy tales. and both Dark Age and Post-Renaissance (or Lost Era, as I call it, since Disney lost their ways) ended with a turning point that almost shut down the studio (Chicken Little, Black Cauldron), and executives hired new people (Katzenberg, Lasseter), and had complete changes within the studio's strategies (Detective and Oliver, Robinsons and Bolt) before starting a new era with a great Disney Princess musical film (Little Mermaid, Frog).

and as for the name. No one calls the previous ages 'A Golden Age' or 'A Renaissance Era'. also, if this ers we're in ends in the future, it wont be 'new' anymore, so we have a specific name to call it without changing it in the future.