Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 4/23/2002 news item <b><a href="http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_573516.html?menu=entertainment.latestheadlines" target="_blank">Ananova: BBC Poll of 4000 Disney Fans Reveals Favorites</a></b> <I>Ananova</I> announces the results of a BBC poll that asked for readers to name their Favourite Disney film, Favourite Disney villain, and favourite Disney hero.
Originally Posted By vicky76 If you read these lists, it becomes obvious that they are boy-centric. I truly doubt that Ariel would rank number 10 among boys and girls. Only boys would choose Buzz and Mowgli as the best heros. I think that the 4000 poll takers were mostly male and the lists are skewed. Future surveys should poll girls too. Beauty and the Beast and Maleficent would rank much much higher.
Originally Posted By JeffG My guess is that the results are likely more skewed by the phrasing of the questions than by the gender of the participants. If the question was actually written as "Name your favorite Disney hero", I suspect a lot of people would instantly name a male character under the expectation that the next question would be "Name your favorite Disney heroine". Notice that Ariel at #10 was the first female character listed. Another thing to keep in mind is that this was a British poll and the popularity of different films can vary from country to country. From that poll, it looks to me like "Jungle Book" may be more popular in Britain than it is in the US (or it may simply have been more recently reissued there). -Jeff
Originally Posted By electra yes, from reading UK movie magazines like Empire often as i have, I know that the Toy Story films are VERY popular over there, & Jungle Book as well.
Originally Posted By basil fan Another thing that may have skewed the results: some kids would tend to name the films they saw most recently and forget old favorites. Also, there's no guarantee they've even seen all the Disney films. Disney Glitches <a href="http://www15.brinkster.com/wtstsgalor/dglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www15.brinkster.com/wts tsgalor/dglitch.html</a>
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Hey nothing wrong with Toy Story being numero uno, though I would have picked Toy Story 2. One of those few films that I consider to be perfect.
