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Right, right, my bad!

Don't give up. The engineers are probably just struggling to figure out the dormers. Or how to get an Etsy account.

Yes it would be engineered and permitted. Christmas decorations are permitted. But let's be real. Each of the five units (which are each the size of a doghouse and trivial for a scenic shop to fabricate) that I'm describing would be a few hundred pounds. This roof carries more load with roofers...

I'm going to continue to refute your claims that this would be a significant project for The Walt Disney Co. You are approaching this perhaps thinking that I think the guy behind the churro cart would be doing this. Yes, I'm talking about an architect, themed environmental designer, lighting...

I feel like you are describing unremarkable aspects of construction as if they are exotic and high-risk ("...to properly tie so that water is moving around it and not going pool and/or working its way in to the building"). Do you mean...reinstall the roof? I'm confident the roofers got this. I...

What's so galling about this project is how juicy it is. Any creative director in L.A. given the opportunity to work with the Haunted Mansion / Madame Leota property, or just a late-1800s mystical and spooky fortune-telling aesthetic in general, would jump at that with passion and ideas. It...

I think the "we didn't have enough budget" excuse is letting them off the hook. The stuff I listed is incidental in cost. Buying 1800's style blackened iron hardware on Etsy instead of zinc hardware at Home Depot is a no-cost-add thing (well, maybe $100 total). Doing a stone wainscoting instead...

PHASE 1: Add a 3-foot stone wainscoting around building to cut down on the amount of wood siding and make it more architecturally charming. Add a cupola with Rolly Crump "Museum of the Weird" weather vane that erratically changes direction to indicate mysterious natural forces swirling around...

Again, why wasn't anyone made to report to him, why were people told to ignore him? What is it about him that made that happen? Are people suggesting he was this flawless and well-liked genius that everybody above and below loved and respected...and in some unexplainable conspiracy of injustice...

...so why design the building like that? To design a brand new building to have a gate swing-opening onto that high-traffic guest path so therefore the gate had to be see-through so therefore guests have to see the backstage mechanicals? That's the creative/design/problem-solving path they...

Yeah, but this is all expected. You're describing the inherent conditions of the corporate world. Essentially every leader in every large company faces these exact same dynamics. What would explain some leaders being successful and some not? My point is that the reason to pay someone "the big...

I read Disney War years ago and thanks for the impetus to re-read it. But when an executive does get "undercut," you have to wonder why? The undercutting may be the symptom, not the cause. Do great people just "get undercut"? Isn't the whole point in hiring a leader is to find a leader that has...

I recall Paul Pressler (most well-known to Disney Parks fans from DCA 1.0) faced similar criticism about whether his career background in retail was good for the Disney Parks. The Michael Ovitz hire was similarly questioned. I think any time a company hires an outsider or change agent it has...

I like that Disney famously (used to) hide their construction, but if I see that activity, it doesn't bother me much because it's temporary (even if for a few years). The Epcot in-ground lighting is bad and a clear technical/engineering failure. The issues with the Madame Leota gift shop are of...

Sadly, some 30 thousands guests a day walk right past this blight on their way out of the historic, classic attraction. The pipe seen above the wall is one issue (which could have easily been avoided in the architecture process, of course, had they extended the building to have a utility...

They do "miss" routine things too, so it's not out of the question to suggest it. For example, they missed figuring out proper drainage outside the new Madame Leota gift shop in Disneyland last year and when rainwater flowed into the store they had to hastily put construction walls up again, dig...

And then the next question is whether the new river will be still water (which would be similar to the Rivers of America) or be a running river that would help mask sounds of the Cars attraction? It's questionable if they have enough height difference for running water, say, if it started at the...

Really curious to see how this project will play out. I wonder if they'll be pouring a concrete retaining wall to hold up the dirt fill along where the new less-wide river will be. The wall in this image is essentially right on top of where the riverboat track is.

If they reroute the canal alongside Everest and relocate services facilities, they can fit a 5 acre land there. It could be an indoor land (like Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea, but larger) that creates an undersea environment (starring Nemo). It could have an enhanced Crush's Coaster as the...

For out of state visitors going to a Disney park was, for many, an alternative to more expensive international travel. But with rising costs and travel-planning stress/complexity at Disney Parks, and meanwhile web tools for finding great travel deals and resources (web sites, videos, podcasts...