"Once Upon a Snowman", the first short after Frozen II, comes out on Disney+ this week on October 23! What does Zig Forums expect from it? Good? Bad? Pointless waste of time that proves Disney is desperate for money? We'll find out soon.
I expect a funny, brief, slapstick comedy. Olaf does manage to make me laugh some times, so I'm very optimistic about the short. Plus, what little has been shown of Anna looks great.
Noah Brooks
Olaf will carry this franchise with his bare twig hands.
James Harris
Dangerous Secrets author released a short video showcasing the hardcover edition of her book. youtube.com/watch?v=jEDIdZzTbhY
Not ideal, but I’ll take what I can get and hope there’s something post F2 in the pipeline. Speaking of shorts, I wish they would use them to continue the main story. Movies take way too long to make.
Nathaniel Edwards
COVID notwithstanding, I don't understand why shorts aren't made more frequently in general. If Disney can make twenty 30-seconds-to-a-minute long shorts relatively quickly, I would think a normal short under ten minutes would be fairly easy to put together?
I suspect it becomes a big deal when you include all the characters and have to animate landscapes and crowds. I haven’t seen the Olaf shorts, but I assume they’re pretty simple. Maybe they’ll come up with some kind of tech that makes animation really fast and easy.
Luke Green
The Olaf shorts are just as "elaborate" as the movies, as far as character animation, voice acting, landscapes, etc., but as I said, a good deal of them were only 30 seconds long. However, the Olaf shorts were also "animated from home" or whatever, so one would assume that it would be far, far easier to do at the actual Disney Studios.
Caleb Williams
>it's 2020 and we still don't have a sauna scene with the girls
Gosh what a pretty book I already preordered mine. It's literally the first book I've bought in over a decade
Aaron Ortiz
Yea, if they managed to do that, it must not be that tough under normal circumstances. The thing about shorts, which I sometimes forget, is that most people don’t know or care about them. D+ could change that. We could even see regularly scheduled shorts that progress the story in a meaningful way. With the new emphasis on streaming, that could potentially work as an alternative to a full-blown series.
Owen Martinez
Yeah, attaching shorts to movies in theaters seems outdated now. It's much, much easier to simply release them regularly via streaming, rather than having to coordinate with cinemas to roll them out physically, which is subject to being delayed for a month (or a full goddamn year) at any moment. Disney+ is a golden opportunity to create sustained interest in Frozen, and I hope Disney realizes that.
Perhaps an even greater sin than splitting up the sisters is introducing a location with a sauna and never having any of the main characters use it.
Isaac Peterson
I'm sure we'll get a "sauna episode" in Frozen: The Series (like how most series inevitably have a "beach episode") wherein, due to hijinks, Anna and Elsa will get stuck in, and have to save the day in, only their sauna towels. Once the threat is taken care of, Anna realizes something and says "Couldn't you have just made us some ice clothes?" and Elsa facepalms.
Disney is nothing if not stubbornly traditional. I half expect them to attach a Frozen short to Raya’s release in March, just because “that’s how it’s done”.