Disney Adventures/YMMV

Disney Adventures contained examples of

• 8.8: The last issue called |Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 the greatest game ever made.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Michael Jackson "posed" with Pinocchio for the June 1993 cover, just one month before he was accused of child molestation.
  • In the same issue, Jackson said Pinocchio was his favorite Disney character. Gee, I wonder why?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "In the future, Tom Cruise will leave Nicole Kidman for Rosie O'Donnell."
• Magazine Decay: DA was once a nearly-educational magazine aimed at children, covering varied and sundry topics (one issue, for example, covered the Vikings and Norse Myth). As the years passed, however, it narrowed its scope to the point that it became yet another facet of Disney's marketing department.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Look at message boards: fans of DA in the 90s can't stand to talk about the editorial direction the magazine took after 1999.
• What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: For some reason, in the 90s, DA kept promoting and mentioning un-kid-friendly stuff such as The Nutty Professor, Terminator 2, and Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill.
  • One early letters section talked about Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin mentioned a then-upcoming movie starring both actors called The Good Son...
  • In one issue about UFOs and extraterrestrials, DA did a profile of the Queen Alien as a bad creature to tangle with. They even labeled her as Queen of the Universe, complete with a composite picture of the beast with a Miss Universe sash and a crown. And they even went into detail what the Xenomorphs did to people, even joking, "This one will give you a new meaning to the term 'Bellyache', literally!" This crosses into Nightmare Fuel territory, or at the very least, leaves you staring at that picture for hours, trying to decide if that was supposed to be funny, or scary as heck, or whatever...

The Comic Zone contained examples of

• Animation Age Ghetto: Seriously, why did they run excerpts from The Simpsons comic book in here? Were the kids who read the magazine honestly being allowed to watch the show?
• Older Than They Think: The Duck Avenger storyline starring Donald Duck was based on a European Donald comic that started in the 1960s.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: One Aladdin story had the Sultan and Jasmine get meticulously kidnapped and imprisoned by an immortal and embittered enemy of the Sultan's from back in the day. When word reaches Agrabah, Genie poofs Aladdin and co. to the dungeon where the Sultan and Jasmine are being held, but can't poof everyone back out until twilight because the enemy's city is cursed or something. So they all sit around and wait in the dungeon until twilight, and then poof out. The End.