As you know, I’m a huge Disney fan, but I have seen certain trends that seem to exclude all of us that joined the Mickey Mouse Club back in the fifties and I just can’t keep quiet anymore. Is it just me, am I being too critical? I was unable to watch the annual Walt Disney Christmas Parade which is now called a “Frozen” Christmas celebration(?) because I was with family and friends who might not have wanted to watch the Walt Disney World Annual Christmas parade. Of course, being a huge Disney nerd I DVR’d it to watch later.  When I got the chance to watch it, I watched something that was made for mostly 6 to 12-year-old girls and not the wider audience that Disney attracts.

Does Disney really think the only ones that care about everything Disney is 6 to 12-year-old girls? It seems that the Disney Channel is either for kindergartners or 6 to 12-year-old girls. That's fine for certain hours of the day. It is fine for certain special programs as well. What about those of us that have been Disney fans since birth and are now into our golden years.

But let me get back to my subject - the Annual Disney Christmas Parade should be about the parks. The Christmas parade should be about the parade and things that Disney has planned in the future. It should be about the entire family enjoying Christmas. The singers that were picked this year were not of my taste, not that that would have mattered if they had a Christmas parade.

They showed 4 very short scenes of the parade and hardly anything of the parks. I did however like the bringing together of friends and families that they did, that was a wonderful touch. The thing that bothered me the most was that the tradition of Santa Claus being the very last float was gone and as a matter fact you only saw Santa Claus one time for an extremely short scene. I love Frozen but number one, Frozen is not a Christmas movie, has nothing to do with Christmas. Number two, it would have been great to have had some of the Frozen music and even Olaf put in at various points of the parade, but to let it take it over completely The Walt Disney World Annual Christmas Parade and not have the parade or Santa Claus, in my opinion, was just atrocious. This was just my opinion and I'm sure that young girls loved it.

I have every single Christmas parade on VHS tape or DVD since it started. It has been a tradition in my family to watch the Christmas parade from Walt Disney World and now the other theme parks as well. But it almost seemed like Christmas was just something added in here or there with only one traditional Christmas song sung by Tricia Yearwood. Disney has been on a trend since the Disney Channel got rid of Vault Disney many years ago, to eliminate any of their audience over the age of 30, what is with this?

Disney should be ashamed of themselves for putting out a ho-hum, just okay production that in my opinion had little to do with Christmas and celebrating Christmas and, come on, where in the world was Santa Claus? I must say that this was my opinion and I'm sure all the little girls out there loved it, but wasn't it supposed to be for the entire family?