Welcome to another post on Disney- this time outlining the Subliminal messages in the lion king. We will highlight several instances of subliminal persuasion being used in the Lion King.

The best example is from the scene aprox half way through the movie where the stars in the sky start to swirl and form an outline of Simba’s father. The stars briefly form the word “sex” before fully transforming into Mufassa.

The official Walt Disney response was to completely deny the use of subliminal placement within the Lion King. As always (and yes, this isn’t the first time Disney have used subliminal messages in their movies) they claim it was not intentional, just purely coincidental that the stars happened to look “like” the word sex for a split second.

You might be inclined to believe that if it wasn’t for the 100s of other disney subliminal messages across their range of animations, and movies.

The picture of the night sky “Sex” message is generally the only message which the mainstream population are even slightly aware of. If you really break the movie down there are a lot of other uses of the word “sex”.

They are spelled out in leaves in the jungle, in the grass , and by rocks on the cliffs – once you start looking you see these suggestions everywhere.

Once you are aware of all of these messages it seems a bit more plausible that they could use hidden messages in their films and animations. The question we can not answer though is why they do it? It could well be just for amusement / a way to make their mark on the movie, or maybe a ploy to try to get people to remember the movie better.

Sadly many of these messages have been edited out for newer DVD re-releases, so you can only see them on the original VHS editions – get yours out and watch closely and let us know if you find any more