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Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for McKim's Mile House Signage at Magic Kingdom​

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Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for McKim's Mile House Signage at Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for McKim's Mile House Signage at Magic Kingdom
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nickys

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Is there a McKim in a Disney movie? Or an Imagineer / figure in Disney’s history?
Wondering what, if any, significance there is in the name.
 
Club Cooloholic

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Phonedave said:
You can say they should have never been shut down, but they were. And not to make them a lounge. They were shut down for other reasons. Then it became a case of they were not being used for anything (other than perhaps storage). So DVC paid (yes, DVC paid, not WDW. The money for refurbishing the lounges, staffing them, and maintaining them, comes from DVC operating funds - which are not part of dues either) to create these lounges.

So the choice really was - a glorified storeroom, or a lounge that the capital and operating costs of did not come from the park budgets.
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The shooting gallery was shut down to make it a lounge. Heck it was free before shut down and I know we took a few turns at it every visit
 
Disstevefan1

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Phonedave said:
You can say they should have never been shut down, but they were. And not to make them a lounge. They were shut down for other reasons. Then it became a case of they were not being used for anything (other than perhaps storage). So DVC paid (yes, DVC paid, not WDW. The money for refurbishing the lounges, staffing them, and maintaining them, comes from DVC operating funds - which are not part of dues either) to create these lounges.

So the choice really was - a glorified storeroom, or a lounge that the capital and operating costs of did not come from the park budgets.
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Good point about the shooting gallery. The switch was to save costs, camouflaged as a DVC perk.
 
MichWolv

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nickys said:
Is there a McKim in a Disney movie? Or an Imagineer / figure in Disney’s history?
Wondering what, if any, significance there is in the name.
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MisterPenguin said:
d23.com

Sam McKim - D23

Sam McKim inspired many a Disney film and theme park attraction with his drawings. But is best known to fans as the creator of the Disneyland souvenir maps.
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Presumably for the same reason, the host of Test Track (original version) was "Bill McKim".
 
MisterPenguin

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prberk said:
Umm. Have you seen the “comfortable chairs”? They are plush modern, not period.
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Umm. Have you been to Country Bears? Their music has always been 1950's or later. The inside of that attraction doesn't take place in the 1800s, and yet, it's always been considered part of the "Frontierland theme."
 

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