Walt Disney – A Magical Life

[TheCoasterNerd]

I do wonder how the sign will work. I hope it's not a screen cycling between names, that would feel so out of place on Main Street. Maybe just The Disney Gallery or The Disneyland Story or Main Street Opera House? Leaving the show name off completely and having a screen inside with what show is currently playing could work

 

[Phroobar]

Will Disney be smoking like Mark Twain does?

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Will Disney be smoking like Mark Twain does?

Let's hope he's not smoking like CBMJ did!

Yes, I know it was a power failure...it's a joke!

 

[donaldtoo]

Will Disney be smoking like Mark Twain does?

As long as it’s a Chesterfield, Camel or Gitanes, for historical accuracy.

On a related note, on another site/forum I was a member of years ago, someone posted a thread titled “What Was Disney’s Biggest Mistake?”, as in the company.
A few posts in a dude posted “Chain smoking.”
It was a drop the mic post moment, and it got a massive amount of reactions…!!!!!

 

[Phroobar]

If Walt did live into the 1970s and 1980s would the Walt Disney company still exist today? There would be no Eisner/Wells to fight off corporate raiders. Disney movies and theme parks were seen as for little kids only and not that profitable.

 

[Disney Irish]

If Walt did live into the 1970s and 1980s would the Walt Disney company still exist today? There would be no Eisner/Wells to fight off corporate raiders. Disney movies and theme parks were seen as for little kids only and not that profitable.

Too hard to tell. But for sake of argument to add to that, would Walt be too distracted with the Florida Project to actually pay attention to what was happening in the Studio? Would some of the post-Walt classics even have happened?

I think the company would have still existed, as many of the reasons for the raiders in the 80s was Disney's lack of success. But it certainly wouldn't be the same company as it was in the 50s and 60s, as change would have still happened.