Even still I don’t find it very likely that someone in that position would speak about any sort of personal grievances with a new attraction to someone who is not in house, likely because they’re aware that person would do exactly what just got done: their words would be shared with everyone online.
Trust I'm a pure, 100% nobody in every way, shape and form. I'm just another common legacy fan like any other here.
Yeah...what can they do, right? Even if they were not proud of what they built, they can't say it.
I'm not naming names but that day I talked directly to an Imagineer that worked on Journery of Water and I asked her why they did not build it in between the Seas and Living with the Land. Journey of Water is all about water's pathways from land and water. I told her that "Journey" have joined two themes together. There is plenty of space between them and the current location could have been open for something else.
She basically told me "Hmm...y'nkow, that might not have been a bad idea. Oh well, I gues it too late now". We both laughed at it.
I asked another Imagineer that I won't say if Walt's statue was set to a 1:1 scale of him. He cocked his head sideways, asked another Imagineer standing next to him and neither one knew the answer but commended me for asking it. Again...the three of us just laughed.
I dunno...I was told a while back by some connected friends that work for Disney that morale in Imagineering was low. About 2 months later Joe Rhode left and that was when i realized how bad it really was. I remember almost dropping my phone the moment I read that. As a legacy fan, Joe Rhode leaving hurt my heart.
Uggg. Oh well. Disney had one heck of a good run there for a long time. It's nature I guess. Everything dies eventually. It's just a rule of life.
The younger generation is in charge now. The parks will just move forward with different customers. Their money is just as green as the last generation's is but it won't cost Burbank as much time, energy and money to please the new kids today.
