Disney Movie Wheel

Seventy Disney and Pixar titles fill this wheel, running from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs through to the Monsters and Toy Story films. One click picks one, which is the fastest way to end a family argument about what goes on the screen tonight.

Four entries have typos worth fixing first

This is the most important thing to know before sharing this wheel with anyone. Four titles are misspelled, and three of them are bad enough to confuse a reader.

Oliver And Comoany should read Oliver and Company, with the m and o transposed. The Hunchback Of Hotre Dame should read Notre Dame, where an H landed in place of the N. Alantis: The Lost Empire is missing the t from Atlantis. The fourth is different and more serious. The Jungle Bear is not a film at all. It sits directly after Brother Bear in the list, which suggests it started life as a duplicate of either The Jungle Book or Brother Bear and ended up as a blend of both. Whatever caused it, a spin landing on that slice gives a family a movie they cannot find. All four are quick corrections in the Entries panel, and the wheel redraws as soon as the text changes.

The Lion King is on the wheel twice

The Lion King appears once with the article and again later as plain Lion King. Same film, two slices, which means it comes up twice as often as anything else on the wheel.

That is not the only near-collision. Incredibles and Incredibles 2 are both present, but the first film is missing its The while the sequel is numbered, so they do not look like a matched pair the way the Toy Story or Cars entries do. Anyone using this wheel to work through a watchlist should delete one of the two Lion King lines, because otherwise the list is sixty-nine distinct films occupying seventy slices.

Apostrophes are applied to only one title

A Bug's Life carries its apostrophe. The Emperors New Groove does not, and Monsters Inc drops both its apostrophe and its period. That inconsistency is cosmetic on a wheel this size, since the slices are too narrow to read mid-spin anyway, but it matters if anyone copies a title out to search for it.

Capitalization goes the other way and is unusually consistent. Almost every entry uses title case on every word, including the short ones, so And, The, In, and Of are all capitalized throughout. That is not standard style, but it was applied deliberately across the whole list, which is more than most wheels manage.

Sequels take up a large share of the wheel

Count the numbered and follow-up entries and the number climbs fast. Toy Story runs to four films. Cars runs to three. Finding Dory, Incredibles 2, Monsters University, Fantasia 2000, The Rescuers Down Under, Ralph Breaks The Internet, and Return To Neverland all appear alongside their originals.

For a family watching in order that is useful, since the wheel can decide which series to start and the sequence takes care of itself. For a random movie night it creates a specific problem. Landing on Toy Story 3 when nobody has seen the first two is an awkward result, and landing on Cars 2 is an awkward result for other reasons. Groups that only want first films can cut roughly a dozen entries and still have close to sixty options left.

The coverage is broad but not complete

The early decades are well represented, with Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, and Bambi all present. Mary Poppins is the one live-action entry sitting among animated films. Pixar shows up heavily toward the end of the list, which is also where the sorting shifts from roughly chronological to grouped by studio.

Some obvious titles never appear. There is no Hercules, no Encanto, and no Raya. The Aristocats and Robin Hood made it in while several of their contemporaries did not. None of that is a flaw, since seventy entries already spread the odds thin, but it is worth knowing if the wheel is being used for a completionist challenge where someone expects a specific film to eventually come up.

Trimming it for the night

Spinning is one click of the center SPIN button, and each click gives one result. What matters more is what the list contains when the family sits down.

A household with young children usually wants the darker and longer entries removed, which takes a minute. A group working through a marathon might keep only the films nobody in the room has seen. Somebody running a themed night might cut everything except the nine or ten titles that fit the theme, so every possible result is one the group already agreed to.

Because the entire list travels as a single link, one person can build the corrected version once, fix the four typos, remove the duplicate Lion King, and hand it to whoever is running the remote. Nobody retypes seventy titles, and the same link can be edited again next week.