Anyone not like the castle walls idea?

[tirian]

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! It really does carry that old school Imagineering magical quality. Are there any books that reveal early concepts and the development process of WDW? I'm really interested in Walt's visions for WDW besides EPCOT and how those ideas may have evolved/devolved after his passing.

No, he seems to have been obsessed with EPCOT and left the MK to his Imagineers. That's okay, though: they were the same Imagineers that fixed DL throughout the sixties, and they knew what they were doing.

Walt did that a lot. He'd perfect an idea, like animated features, then pass them on to people he trusted in order to start working on a new big idea.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! It really does carry that old school Imagineering magical quality. Are there any books that reveal early concepts and the development process of WDW? I'm really interested in Walt's visions for WDW besides EPCOT and how those ideas may have evolved/devolved after his passing.

Any biographer of Walt Disney is going to tell you that the Magic Kingdom was not something he wanted at Disney World, but a concession to financiers who wanted a "sure thing" and a means of generating some income to help pay for EPCOT. If you want to see Walt's vision then just go and watch the "EPCOT film" where he lays down exactly what he was thinking.

The EPCOT Film