‘Return of the Tiny Men’ Advance Ticket Sales On Fandango, Record for Disney during Pandemic: Several Guests Expected To Attend Spring Tentpole

March 30, 2023

After a recent downward trend of animated films for Disney outside of 20th Century Animation from their main core frnachises Twentieth Toons, Cool Spot, Daniel, The Teenagers, and Alaina Gleen as well as the sole exception ''Boing! Too, Disney hopes to redeem theirselves and prove dominance with their newest and most highly anticpated animated sequel, Return of the Tiny Men''. Tickets went on sale Monday and Fandango is already reporting that the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 hit Tiny Men in My Backyard is outstripping advance sales of Crystal: The Rise of Darkness at the same point in its sales cycle, a movie which opened to $145 million while also being the biggest pre-sales of the year thus far while also reporting that within 24 hours, it doubled the amount of pre-sales that Twentieth Toons: Quest for the Toon Temple earned around the same point in its sales cycle.

To date this week, Return of the Tiny Men has been the No. 1 ticket-seller on Fandango, with the online retailer calling it “unstoppable early pre-sales, the likes of which Fandango usually sees during the summer or winter time.” Already there are hundreds of sold-out showtimes nationwide, and the movie doesn’t open for another two weeks.

Disney’s long-awaited animated sequels have been huge box office hits with Incredibles 2 ($182M stateside opening, $608M domestic, $1.2B global), Toy Story 3 ($110.3M opening, $415M domestic, $1.06B global), Finding Dory ($135M debut, $486M domestic, $1.02B global), and Wild Friends 4 ($130M debut, $411M domestic, $957.2M global).