The Lilo and Stitch franchise had already died back in 2006 with the cancellation of Lilo and Stitch: The Series. Although the Japanese series Stitch! was ongoing until 2015, it was never very popular anywhere besides Japan. Despite this, Lilo and Stitch have continued to be a very important part of the Walt Disney Company through merchandise, theme parks, and the cruise line. Whenever Stitch shows up in the parks, he is very popular and attracts a fair wait time. But without

Over this past summer Disney made the shocking announcement that it was cancelling the Disney Infinity game series. This came as a surprise to almost everyone and appeared to be just as much of a surprise to the people working on the game. Now the question that was immediately posed by almost everyone was why this happened? In Disney's first quarter earnings statement of 2016 when concerning Consumer Products and Interactive Media Disney stated: "The increases at Merchandise