10 Disney Movies You Didn’t Know They Changed On Disney+

Disney+ is one of the newest and most popular streaming services on the market, and rightfully so. Thanks to the Walt Disney Company, fans of their animated classics and fantastic family films now have their pick of material to watch with a press of a button. But certain eagle-eyed Disney viewers have noticed some things change…

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For some strange reason or another, certain films and entries have been altered or edited in some way. This might be as simple as a film restoration, but it also might be as glaring as unnecessary censorship. Has the studio been meddling with their own properties?

10 Various Short Films

When it comes to certain cultural depictions, Disney doesn’t exactly have the cleanest of records. They aren’t the only ones with this issue, but they are one of the only ones who go out of their way to edit their material to coverup said trepidations.

This has been seen in films like Fantasia, but now some of their short films have even gone under the knife. It’s easy for any Disney historian to notice.

9 Logo Openings

It’s hard to nail down just how many features have had this done, but it’s definitely enough to warrant an honorable mention on this list. Certain classics on the platform have had their traditional Disney or castle logos replaced by their modern, CGI opening sequence.

Disney has done this before, namely with their Buena Vista Logo, but this takes the simple title card change to a new level.

8 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (Supposedly)

This one is actually on the speculative side, seeing as how an original copy of the hard-to-find Disney western isn’t exactly what one would call accessible.

Supposedly, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin had Roddy McDowell uttering some rather scandalous insults in the original cut, namely certain racial slurs. Blazing Saddles this movie might not be, but given Disney’s history with racial content, it might have some shred of truth at the very least.

7 Hamilton

Rolling on with the theme of censorship, seeing how Hamilton was one of the most popular musicals in recent years, it should come as no surprise that the play got its own filmed version. What was a surprise was that it aired on Disney+ first.

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It’s not the most scandalous show on stage, but it isn’t exactly a Walt Disney production. So when one of the songs literally had a bleeped-out term, it kind of shattered the sanctity of a stage production.

6 Adventures in Babysitting

Yet another case of Disney censoring its films came with the inclusion of Adventures in Babysitting.  Touchstone Pictures, one of Disney’s distributors, was their way of exporting films for a more mature audience, which meant they could get away with more, including dropping an F-bomb here or there.

But when this film rolled onto the service, the explicative was dubbed over with “messed up” instead of the alternative. Smooth move, Disney.

5 Splash

One of the first things noticed with Disney+ and its appetite for censorship was some seriously strange editing to Splash, one of their first features released through Touchstone.

The film is rated PG for brief nudity, and it’s barely brief enough to warrant a PG-13. But Disney still censored the scenes by the use of essentially CGI hair. It doesn’t cover up so much as make the scenes look awkwardly altered.

4 Lilo and Stitch

Lilo and Stitch has an animated moment that was altered not once but twice in its existence. The scene where Nani is chasing Lilo through the house only to have her hide inside a dryer before getting caught was changed for Disney+ due to fear of children attempting to hide themselves and dryers as well.

A noble notion, but replacing the dryer with some strange end table and an open pizza box doesn’t exactly cover well.

3 The Lion King

One can make the argument that Disney did this with many special edition releases of their animated classics, but The Lion King’s is the most noticeable. It’s not so much that they edited the film, more like polished up certain animated sequences.

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Take a look at some of the wider shots, then compare them to a VHS version. For further proof, the infamous SFX is missing from the leaves as Simba collapses on the cliffside.

2 Toy Story 2

Not a censorship issue, not a reanimation, not a bleeped-out profanity, but a whole blooper was actually cut from Toy Story 2. Following the “Me Too” movement, the blooper where Stinky Pete is putting the moves on a pair of Barbie dolls and offering them some “acting lessons” was ripped straight out of the end credits.

Given the social climate in Hollywood, one can see why this instance was cut, but it’s hardly anything overly risque or suggestive.

1 Bedknobs and Broomsticks

As of now, it’s unclear whether Bedknobs and Broomsticks was edited for Disney+ on purpose or on accident. Because it certainly looks incomplete and unpolished. Seems her changed mid-dialogue, characters suddenly appear, and entire song sequences are missing like Professor Brown’s “With a Flair.”

It feels like only part of the film made it through the streaming process and anyone who saw the film in its original form will definitely notice more than a few things wrong.

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