by DGFone » October 21st, 2018, 5:48 am
[quote="Regulus"] At best you could consider them placeholders, like "Fluffy" was before Kopa.[/quote]
Exactly - Disney requested the creation of Six New Adventures, and while it can hardly be considered to be anything on the level canon-wise as The Lion King, truly speaking, nothing can be considered canon outside of the original movie. And sure, Disney can say "this is canon, this is not," but apart from owning the property, arbitrarily determining their own properties as canon or not later down the line can prove rather dangerous - just look at the Star Wars expanded universe.
What I myself personally consider important is what the work was meant when it came out - Six New Adventures added backstory to the Lion King universe, and while late works down the line can consider it useless, if there is nothing else to replace the information given - what's the point of saying it's invalid? It was valid enough back in 1994, and saying it's no longer the case in 2018, and therefor Mufasa's and Scar's father is ------, what's the point?