Playdate with Winnie the Pooh

Disney should stop salvaging their franchises and making them new to appeal to little kids. By redesigning characters and removing the original charm of these originals. They have ruined Winnie the Pooh for me and everyone else. So embarrassing and disgusting. It sickens me when studios recycle and make things worse for this new 2020 generation. Literally put your kids to watch the cartoons that made them the stars they are now. Not some stupid shorts about baby Pooh and baby tigger baby piglet playing with toys for 2 minutes. Could even bore a toddler who is a Pooh fan or whichever. Just stay away from this disgrace.

My gosh this show sucks, my 2 and 3 year olds who love Winnie the Pooh hate this show because it's short and the redesigns are ugly. Why can't Disney just die at this point. And that new cars show is coming out soon which will probably be another failure. Disney needs to stop using these ugly Cocomelon redesigns and go back to their roots that made them popular in the day.

I've personally never watched Winnie the Pooh growing up because I could never get into it. My SO did though and even then I feel we enjoy it more than our little one :) I feel it teaches some pretty good lessons fairly quickly, such as conquering fears or having to calm down before doing a certain task (at least that's what I gathered from them and what I've been teaching my girl). I just wish they were a bit longer and had a thicker plot but other than that I think it's a really cute art style and a pretty good way to keep the younger gens. Interested in things from our pasts. We're all looking forward to the newest episodes as the songs are fairly catchy :)

My kids were excited for this to come out only to find that the "episodes" are only two minutes long and Disney disabled the autoplay feature for this series so you have to change the episodes over for them every two minutes which is rather irritating as a busy parent who doesn't want to sit down and watch children's music videos. If Disney enables the autoplay feature for this series that would make a big difference, but the fact they also only put in the effort to make 2 minute long songs for every episode and marketed it as full length episodes just shows how grimmy Disney has become as a company and only helps to highlight them as a cash grab company that doesn't care about putting out quality work anymore. Disney is a dumpster fire trying to burn up everything in sight for a dollar.

I really wanted to enjoy Playdate with Winnie the Pooh, but this series just missed the mark completely. The Pooh here feels so different and unfamiliar-he's not the warm, gentle, and lovable character we all grew up with. It's like they created a completely new version that doesn't capture the spirit or charm of the original Pooh at all. For longtime fans, this feels like a letdown.

After Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey stirred up so much buzz, Disney had a chance to do something good with Pooh that would remind us why we love him. Instead, this show just feels like a missed opportunity. If you want the real Pooh, this isn't it.