Pleasure Island

In the original 1940 Disney Animated Film "Pinocchio", we see a place that is called "Pleasure Island"; it's the same spot that shows up in DDD. However, in DDD, the place is called "Prankster's Paradise". I have three theories around why this was changed:

1. "Pleasure" Island would have insinuated something more vulgar, I suppose; it might have been called Pleasure Island, but that didn't make it passed by Modern Censors. It's arguably a very different world today than it was in 1940.
2. Artistic License. Pure and Simple. You, the player, would already be familiar with the location, likely enough, so giving it a new name gives it a different spin; increases Player Interest. Usually, actual Real Life Locations are given this credit, but for a different reason; La Cite des Cloches and Country of Musketeers both take place in Paris, France, for example. It is in that case that Artistic License becomes a necessity; still, there is no actual such place that is called "Pleasure Island", except one relatable in memory, which brings me to my third and final theory.
3. This is also my favorite theory! I grew up in Central Florida for somewhere of about fourteen years, and a decent portion of this was spent surrounded by Disney Culture. (Trust me, Disney Parks most definitely have a Culture all their own; it's an extension of Reality.) In Disney World, there is Downtown Disney, and in a portion of the free-to-visit Shopping District there is a place called "Pleasure Island". Directly, my prominent theory states that the Game Producers could be looking at the potential of this part of Disney World for an upcoming world. Don't doubt it just because Downtown Disney is a collection of shops; I spent quite a great deal of time there to know: it's just as fantastic there as it is in any of the Parks.

So, have some support for one of these theories or some of your own? Feel free to comment! :D

 

"Prankster's Paradise" is more friendly for a game like KH which targets a wide range of ages I'm guessing.
"Pleasure Island" raises some questions and might upset the parents of the younger kids who play the game, though I doubt the kids themselves would think anything of it.

I doubt that censorship is purely the reason that it was changed though, I think it's more likely that they changed it to blend better with the KH universe, and they knew that censorship could have potentially given them problems so they changed it anyway. "Prankster's Paradise" just fits better with the setting and overall KH universe.


Creating a "Disney World" and naming it as such could be a good idea, and one that I would like to see. It would be where they could put most of the shops and mini-games to give it the theme park feeling that Disney Town never had. However it would put KH dangerously close to the fourth wall, which is not a good thing. Having a "Disney World" of sorts would be a nice, but I don't want to see the exact Disney World in KH, too risky.[DOUBLEPOST=1365349539][/DOUBLEPOST]

The difference is that Pleasure Island is not a real-world setting. China is.