#Hoppers

[celestialmacros]

Buffalo Treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia)

August 31, 2024

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

[beeclops]

First look at Pixar’s next original movie ‘HOPPERS’

The film follows a girl who transfers her mind into a robot beaver to infiltrate their animal kingdom.

It also looks like it’s gonna be directed by Daniel Chong - a Pixar veteran and creator of We Bare Bears!

[pixarsource]

Disney and Pixar’s newest original film Hoppers stars Jon Hamm, Bobby Moynihan, and Piper Curda and is coming to theaters in Spring 2026!

The film follows a girl who transfers her mind into a robot beaver to infiltrate their animal kingdom.

[capturingdisney]

First look at Pixar's Hoppers.

[disneytva]

D23 Expo Brasil Unveils The D23 Expo Main Arena Panels With Animation Filled Panels.

With less than a month to go before Disney fans can enjoy an unprecedented experience in Brazil, the concept map for D23 Brazil – A Disney Experience has been unveiled, along with more details on all areas of the event. 

November 8 - 3:00PM ET

Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios and 20th Century Animation Showcase

Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios and for the first time ever 20th Century Animation are expected to reveal huge announcements, teasers, trailers, first looks, updates, and more.

Sunday, November 10th - 1:30PM ET

Disney+ Has Everything!

"With illustrious guests, Disney+ comes to celebrate the most successful series and unforgettable legacies with announcements, teasers, trailers, first looks, updates, and more." If Disney TVA gets to even be part of it likely will only be The Proud Family franchise. (Season 3, La Familia Avenúñez spin-off)

Not related to animation however Disney LATAM will have separate Disney+ Showcase panel at D23 Brazil for their Disney Novelas division, Sunday Nov 10 at 4:00PM ET

Speaking of why Disney hasn't opened it's own LATAM TV Animation Division like Cartoon Network Latin America with Villainous, The Real World of Any Malu, Jorel's Brother, Ninjin, Oswaldo and Frankelda's Book of Spooks

[thehyperfixationcorner]

Sometimes I forget this is a disney blog XD so here are my thoughts on the animation news from D23! (That I know of):

Moana 2 ⛵️: trailer looked great (the big sis lil sis moment??? AAAAA (Certified sibling dynamic enjoyer over here), animation is crisp and beautiful, story sounds interesting, LOVE Moana's redesign and that there are more characters for the journey! Only worries are the repetitive elements and no LMM, but I'll keep an open mind!

Zootopia 2 🐰🦊: we only got a few small details but I'm happy to see Ke Huy Quan in another movie, plus the few images we got really reminded me how I love that film! The one image of Nick and Judy radiates such energy

Toy Story 5 🧸: look, no one loves this series more than me, and no one is more terrified of this sucking. BUT. The tech plot line sounds promising. Just hope ruining 4's alltimer sad ending is done well, somehow

Incredibles 3🦸‍♂️: we just know it's happening. Please be better than 2. Please.

Hoppers🦫: YEAH BABY THAT’S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! This shit sound crazy! Plus, We Bare Bears guy! However, I do get people's annoyance at yet another not white Animated lead spending most their time as an animal or something

Win or Lose⚾️: such creative animation, and my kind of concept! I think this could take tumblr by storm!

Tiana show 🐸: I just wanna SEE IT ALREADY

Mufasa: The Lion King 🦁: sigh... at least the acting and expressions are a little better. Skipping it anyway.

Snow White 🍎: ahem... NO. Put aside how bad it looks, the exclusion of dwarf actors, frikin Gal Gadot, or the animals straight out of a Facebook AI commercial. This is the movie that PROVED ANIMATED MOVIES CAN WORK. Every single person who put their soul into that movie is rolling in their fucking Graves.

Lilo and Stitch 👽: ...At least he doesn't give me nightmares.

Phineas and Ferb ☀️: already gave my thoughts in an ask for a different blog, but I'm cautiously optimistic!

Dream Productions 💭: eh

Frozen 3 ❄️: please be better than 2, please be better than 2

[musicalhog]

My thoughts on the Pixar announcements at D23:

Elio now being directed by Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian? yyES. I'm predicting now that it'll become one of my fave Pixar movies but most people won't care about it. That's fine.

Hoppers. It looks FUN. It's giving me Turning Red vibes, not just because of the theme girl-turns-into-another-animal, but also because it just seems like a fun and goofy concept and it's not taking itself too seriously. I just want to have fun and then for the story to unexpectedly take a turn and break my heart (see: Luca, Turning Red, Onward)

Toy Story 5. I mean we already knew it was happening and I'm still not a fan. I think obviously it'll be good, but while I will always be up for rewatching Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, I'm already kind of over Toy Story 4, and Toy Story 5 will likely be similar. But I guess a movie doesn't need to go down in history to be good.

Incredibles 3. We didn't know this was happening but I guess we also kind of knew this was happening. I'm more on board with this than Toy Story 5 but I still have mixed feelings. I think Incredibles 2 was amazing but also disappointing because the sequel could've done ANYTHING and it ended up not doing...much. But maybe 3 will do more with e.g. what will the family look like more grown up? OR. And I think this would be more cool. A prequel??

And I'm excited for Win or Lose to finally makes its debut! I think it's going to be very, very good but just because of the way Disney+ series have gone, it'll fly under the radar a bit.

[fantasygerard2000]

Tastes and Preferences Are Not Standards

There's this issue with fans of any media complain about the lack of original works over actually watching them.

So, recently, D23 announced a ton of upcoming projects for the parks, games, shows, etc with their movies being the one that got the most attention. Majority of them are sequels and live action remakes and per usual, people are outrage over the big D for prioritizing on nostalgia baiting than making new ideas.

Here's the thing tho, alongside the sequels and live action remakes, they also announced Hoppers, an upcoming original film by Pixar directed by the guy that made We Bare Bears, Daniel Chong. Response to Hoppers, was near nonexistent. Like, very little anticipation as in "it exists".

Not only that, another original film before Hoppers is currently to be released next year, Elio. Just like with Hoppers, Elio only seen as this movie that was originally supposed to be released this year before swapping places with Inside Out 2.

Now, the obvious answer to this is rage culture. Being angry over the current thing is an easy content mill. Mufasa is being blasted because it had the audacity to not be faithful to an obscure prequel book series and Snow White for even much more dumb reasons, mostly centering on the lead actress because, if that didn't work on Halle, might as well try again on Rachel.

And when other people addressed that Pixar and Disney did made original films with Elemental and Wish being their current examples, the response these grifters is "We want GOOD original ideas." Now that just shows that they genuinely don't actually care about wanting to watch original ideas, regardless of quality, and simply only using them as a point to why hollywood is dead, blah blah blah.

Original ideas take time to get people invested into watching them. People prefer to engage with media they are more familiar with over the new ones, hence why they are always needlessly comparing things.

Elemental was mocked for being a Zootopia clone but with living elements and themes of racism, but while Zootopia is about general prejudice, Elemental is about personal prejudice. It doesn't use allegories like Zootopia, it's straightforward about the characters being immigrants. Just like any other Pixar film, there's more to the story than the general concept. But that didn't stop people saying that the characters being living elements didn't contribute to the story. Just like with Turning Red, the creator chose so because he want to, as if kids totally wanna watch a movie about immigrants. It's his story, based on his own life experiences told through a lens so kids can enjoy it.

I already talked about Wish to death, but it is a major factor considering that it's an original story that is deliberately made to be an homage to classical and renaissance era Disney films. The comparisons of to to previous films like Disney's more well known works like Snow White are dubious because they're oddly biased and surface level when there's another Disney film that's even more comparable, The Princess and the Frog.

Princess and the Frog is a lot like Wish, black lead, classical villain, hand drawn animation (though Wish's is stylized) and themes about working hard to achieve your dreams. While Wish has problems about how "half cooked" it is, Princess and the Frog has more problems than Wish; Tiana, their first black princess being a frog for majority of the movie, the sugarcoating of a 1920's setting, the demonization of an active closed religion that people use as an aesthetic coughAlastorHazbincough and a complicated story about technicalities to break the spell and a forced moral about love and family, and not in a good way.

Despite these issues being present and are still discussed today, the fact that it's hand drawn animated and has a cool looking villain wallpapers all over this issues. This is also extends in a lot of Disney's other older films. The mess of a cultural mix setting that is in Aladdin and Raya, the racism in Peter Pan, the usage of g*psy in Hunchback, Pocahontas existing and characters of color being played by white actors that the same thing literally happened with Raya (SEAsian characters, not SEAsian actors). Even though these problems have always been present, people dismiss them with "It was fair for the day". They value their personal nostalgia over the issues other have during them.

Coming back on the topic of comparing films, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is often brought up to compare anything Disney and Pixar make. People had low expectations towards The Last Wish because it was a sequel to a spin off no one asked for and it succeeded their expectations. The reason why I brought up The Last Wish is because a minority of animation fandom use it as the standard for animated films. The comment saying "We want GOOD originals" is practically them moving up the goal post because to them, any original idea isn't good enough for their tastes. We can't have an original idea without someone bemoaning about how it's inferior to an already existing idea based on surface level comparisons.

Bringing back Wish because it's a good example, people wanted it be like the previous Disney films. However, being like them means loosing its own identity. Turning Star into a generic pretty boy for the girls to salivate over means losing what Star represents, the hope people have to keep on pursuing their ambitions.

An ironic thing is whenever they find a good idea they liked, they want more of it. Basically, wanting others to be just like it. What's the point of wanting an original when all you just want is the same old thing again?

[justyouraveragealternanfuzzball]

A new Pixar film, Hoppers, was just announced yesterday. Idk why but I just couldn't get it out of my head! I love the concept so I had to draw some fanart.

Really hoping its gonna be a good film 🤞

[franciya]

People be like: "If you hate that Disney is doing remakes/reboots and prequels so much then why don't you support their original ideas?" And you go look at said "original idea" and it's just another "Non-white Protagonist swapping bodies with an animal with an environmental message at the end"......🤦‍♀️

Thank you, I'm skipping this one too, it's not the early 00s anymore.

[melanatedmedia2]

Exciting news from the first night of D23! We've already got the scoop on some amazing upcoming films and series. Can't wait to see what else is in store! #D23 #DisneyMagic

[celestialmacros]

Versute Sharpshooter (Graphocephala versuta)

February 27, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[ontaworks]

Today it’s @cultofgalaxy’s birthday in their timezone as I drew Kinoko alongside with Kinoko’s old design and former name known as Hoppers.

Originally was going to add a Star Sprite onto the birthday illustration but I decided to go with Kinoko’s old design and name instead.

Anyways, Happy Birthday to @cultofgalaxy

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[skydarcyedwards]

Nostalgia: 12 years of macro photography.

Probably my first good macro photo. I had recently bought my 60D, original nifty fifty 50mm f/1.8, extension tubes, and snoot for the built in flash. For the price it's an excellent way to get into macro photography.

An unidentified tiny hopper on a blade of grass.

Sky Edwards

2012

Canon 60D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

Extension tubes

[mrlifesthoughts]

Just Announced at #D23: Disney and Pixar’s newest original film #Hoppers stars Jon Hamm, Bobby Moynihan, and Piper Curda and is coming to theaters in Spring 2026!

‘Hoppers’ follows a young girl, Mabel, who can transfer her mind into a robot beaver with the goal of going undercover in the animal kingdom. She winds up befriending a regal beaver, King George, and uniting the animals to fight off the plans of a real estate developer.

[theartofpixar]