Thread:Passionate Seddier45/@comment-3180503-20140628013524/@comment-24341760-20140715015808

Heavily! But Disney copies everything. Jake and the Pirates, a HUGE hit for them, is basically Dora the Explorer, but with pirates. They have to follow a map and find things, etc. The problem is, Disney is so big and wealthy it can make the copies better and more appealing than the originals. Disney has not had an original thought in quite some time. Last time I went there, they were marketing a "build a bear"/American Girl concept with "Mickey's Teddy" (who nobody ever heard of until now), and you had to buy him and then of course pay for different outfits. It's like they hear kids are into something and they immediately make one of their own. They are not paying people to come up with ideas, just to execute them.