Disney has reportedly pulled a Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode for telling a trans-inclusive story https://t.co/McDrBD1QdI
— The Verge (@verge) November 15, 2024
According to now-deleted social media posts from animators who worked on “The Gatekeeper” — an episode about Lunella and other members of her school’s volleyball team being terrorized by a transphobic adult — Disney has chosen to keep the episode from officially debuting because of its subject matter.
“One of the projects (episode) I worked on is getting shelved because of which party that won the recent election,” Derrick Malik Johnson, a storyboard artist who worked on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur said in a recent, since-deleted post on the social media platform Bluesky. “It breaks my heart knowing this impactful and amazing [episode] is now about to be consider a lost media episode.”
The episode has since leaked online.
🚨BREAKING🚨: The shelved ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ episode titled ‘The Gatekeeper’ has been LEAKED online by @owlphibia!
With the episode’s LGBTQ+ focus, Disney chose to shelve the episode.
Now, it gets to be seen by all.
Watch it here: https://t.co/ydvec8bpDu https://t.co/8AvayzbLSG pic.twitter.com/cxog9xTP16
— Lost Media Busters (@LostMediaBuster) November 15, 2024
