-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
Disney and Pittsburgh
- Thread starter draybook
- Start date
ShoalFox
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- Yes
Well, Randy Pausch (a famous former professor at Carnegie Mellon) was a huge Disney fan and always dreamed of being an imagineer and did become one. In addition, CMU's Entertainment Technology Center produces a lot of students who eventually go on to work in the theme park industry. Even still, Jesse Schell (graduate of CMU and faculty at the ETC) owns a company called Schell Games, based in Pittsburgh, which produced both Toontown Online and the game seen in Toy Story Midway Mania.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
Disney Research has a lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
When I saw the title I though this was going to be a thread about Disney building a park in Pittsburgh. 
DizneyPryncess
Well-Known Member
When I saw the title I though this was going to be a thread about Disney building a park in Pittsburgh.
That would be nice!
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
Refresh my memory here... What part of CoP does it reference Pittsburgh... I don't remember it.
Chef Mickey
Well-Known Member
I thought of Carousel of Progress immediately.
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
How about that... I never even noticed it although I know the scene you are talking about. I guess if I had some connection to Pittsburgh I would have noticed... but, alas I do not. Thanks for the response.
plutofan15
Well-Known Member
Well as far as CoP is concerned, it could be that KDKA in Pittsburgh is widely considered the world's first commercial radio station so at the time there would be very few radio stations in the US.
SteamboatJoe
Well-Known Member
Aside from the connection to CMU and the KDKA reference, Pittsburgh (and Cleveland) seem to be commonly used in TV shows and movies when they need to mention some random city in unimportant dialogue (occasionally in a mocking tone given both city's rust belt troubles). I think it is because they are large enough places to be heard of by the masses but are the types of places that few who aren't from there tend to go, at least in the minds of people from NYC, Miami, and LA. As someone who lives in the Midwest and has been to both cities recently, I can tell you that the old, burned out image that people have of both cities is totally inaccurate.
sublimesting
Well-Known Member
Pittsburgh is also mentioned in The American Experience and there is a barrel marked Pittsburgh on the dock of the Riverboat in MK. There was one more we noticed on our last trip too but I can't recall. We were amazed that Pittsburgh was mentioned 5 times in Disney in some way shape or form.