Hey Everyone, this lettering I'm posting I plan to send to Disney in the Future! I just thought I'd share it with all my Disney Forum pals! Just remeber I love disney, But I'm Frustrated with some of the out comes over recent years! Enjoy!
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Copyright 2003 (c)
Aug. 18th 2002
MY DISNEY DREAM’S AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
By: George S. III
Ever since I was a child, I’ve always been fond of the Disney experience, running down Main Street to the Castle, seeing all the wonderful sites and sounds at Walt Disney World, and dreaming about my Disney vacation every year. Over recent time I have thought of many ideas that could better improve the vacation experience to Walt Disney. Threw the last few years I have noticed something about Disney’s magic and their new rides and new experiences they have introduced to their many Disney parks. It seemed to me that Disney in a small way was losing its creative touch, in their theme parks, and some of their movies. I felt obligated to write this letter to my favorite company, and vacation destination, to try and get some of my ideas heard by you to better help the Disney experience, so that each new generation will be able to experience Disney the way I do. For many of us, Disney has been a wonderful and magical place in each of our hearts. I hope this letter will be of some help, for the years to come. As Walt Disney once said himself “We keep moving forward—opening new doors and doing new things—because we’re curious.” This quote I got out of your book Walt Disney Imagineering, and I believe that it too, shares the same kind of feelings, and ideas I have. I hope you’ll enjoy reading this letter as much as I enjoyed imagining its ideas, and putting my pen to paper. Thanks again for the many years of Disney Magic!
Its certainly clear to me, that Disney is unlike any other Theme Park, with its many rides, and many treasures hiding around every corner, going along with every little detail done up to the nines. When your standing in line to get on Splash Mountain you look up and see all the small homes and bridges in the trees, little details like this is what I mean. Out of all the theme parks in the world, its true Disney has this concept down. In some of your newer attractions, many of these details are lacking. One thing I may suggest is that you widen many of your streets in your parks to get from one place to another. The reason being is that when there is many people in one area of the Magic Kingdom, it’s rather hard for many people to get around. This is one objective I feel Disney should work on over the years so that many people can be in one area comfortably.
I have many memories I carry with me from my vacations, but I remember this one time when my sister and some of the family were waiting at around 11:30 PM for the light parade to begin, and one of your many excellent staff was sweeping the street at the time, and he came up to my sister (who was 5 then) and said, “Hi sweetie…And what was your favorite ride today.” Right there this shows you that Disney picks the best people to run your parks and keep them the way they are. Over these past year going down to Disney for our vacations, we never really could capture that aspect of worker friendliness. I think if Disney trained every worker at the rides to act according to the ride they are working at, (act scary if they are at the Haunted Mansion) in the streets cleaning, etc., then it would make the Disney Vacation experience more enjoyable like when one of your workers asked my sister what her favorite ride was. I also have seen over the years, that the 100% cleanliness of the parks has dropped to about 70% clean. I think again that if more people cleaned a bit more, this minor problem would be handled. I feel if little issues like this were addressed more, they would again amount to something greater then whats at hand currently.
I love the way Disney has come about in making and creating, wonderful and interesting new rides. My all time favorites are Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Tower of Terror. The reason these are my favorites is because they each have there own charm. Space Mountain, takes you on a journey threw space, making you feel you are in a space station looking out into space while you are waiting in line. Splash Mount, brings you back to the country where the bears run wild, frogs sing, and Br’er Rabbit fleas from a dangerous fox; and ofcourse The Tower of Terror, were a group of unsuspecting victims get on an elevator which breaks, sending them 13 stories to the ground. With these examples you know there was a long planing time, thinking and brainstorming and creating something never seen or created before. It’s hard for me to grasp, that some of Disney’s rides would be re-makes of old ones, (for example Aladdin’s Flying Carpet ride) which in it self is the Dumbo ride but only replaced with carpets. Its hard to believe that Disney, who created all these new innovations for theme parks over many years, would move back in time, and get ideas from old carnival rides which were already invented. If I was going to create an Aladdin ride, I probably would have had the carpet really flying in the air, and over clouds, past horses that were running, and flying with white swans next to the carpet (like the movie). I also couldn’t believe it when I heard Disney was putting bumper-cars and fair rides into the Animal Kingdom park dinosaur area. I wouldn’t have taken an old approach, making a few carpets that spin in a circle in a small area, or using fair rides. To me, I just feel Disney wasn’t taking that Imagineering approach. In other cases I do feel Disney needs to be ahead of the theme park business again, because some other theme parks, like Islands of Adventure (who is not completely comparable to you) are pasting you with their ideas and new and exciting rides. I feel that if you tie in some of the newer technological advances with the already great and exciting Disney rides, there should be a better outcome. One minor example would be in the Hall of Presidents attraction. If you put in just one big wide screen TV instead of 6 or however many are in there, you wouldn’t have the problem of having lines between each picture which would give the viewer a better view of the whole screen. No one has ever made an attraction like that one, or even tried, so I feel it would be a wise decision to update that minor change. With all these many new and exciting creations, its just hard to believe that Disney would go back in time, and create new rides today such as bumper cars, and octopus type rides for their parks. It was a shock to me that Disney’s new creations were just old carnival rides. I think it would be a wise decision for Disney to reevaluate some of these rides and either get rid of them, or rethink a way to make them into Disney quality. If you evaluate the rides you have now, and looked to see what new systems are used in new rides, you again could incorporate those ideas into your already world acclaimed attractions. In the end, it would make the rides and attractions even better.
Almost every adult knows about the great adventures with Tom Sawyer, and the Swiss family who moved into a tree, remember the grand opening of the Carousel of Progress, driven around the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, but the youth today doesn’t really know to much about, or even heard these people, and rides. I feel that the old themes of boys in the wilderness such as Tom Sawyer, and People living in a tree like the Swiss Family Treehouse, just don’t fly with today’s youth. I feel if you got rid of some of these rides, or made today’s youth aware about these people, more children would be aware of these famous individuals, and attractions. As it has been in the past, Disney is always on top of new things and new rides. If Disney brought in todays heroes (whom ever they may be) then I feel today’s youth would respond in a better way.
The monorail is a wonderful landmark mode of transportation to get Disney guests to and from the different parks and parking areas, but one mode of transportation I feel needs to be updated. I think if Disney Updated the monorail cars, by making them bigger, with more space, and maybe even having them run on computers instead of having them operated manually, then I feel people could get to the parks quicker. Another Idea I have to better transport people from park to park would be to expand the monorail track so that the track can goto all four parks in Walt Disney World. It would help people out a lot, and would be a better way to get to all the parks easily and quick. I also think if you remodeled each monorail station, the over all appearance would look a lot better. Some changes would make the whole Walt Disney experience an even finer one, then it already is.
As you know music has always been a huge part of the world and our culture today, from the old time classics like “You ain’t nothing but a Hound Dog,” by Elvis to “Hit me baby one more time,” by Britney Spears. I think if Disney has plans to build another park for the future, they should build a park called something along the lines of “Disney Music,” “Disney DJ,” or another name that pertains to music. One ride example could be a roller coaster similar to the Aerosmith roller coaster that takes you riding threw a dance song, with flashy lights and pictures of people dancing, (basically a music video on a roller coaster). For other attractions you could have areas where you “Make your Own Music Video,” or “Record and sing your favorite song.” You also could have concerts of famous singers, and up and coming artists on the weekends, or whenever. Different areas or “lands” in the park could include a themed 70’s disco area, pop music area, dance club central, etc. Ever bit of music could be represented, into a thrill park Disney style like this one. You also could have bands playing in the streets, like jazz bands or marching bands, etc. I feel that the list to a park like this is endless.
In conclusion to all these ideas and thoughts, I know Disney is a great and wonderful company. I know in the future, Disney will still be one of the top theme parks and vacation destinations as it already is now. I hope that one day I will have the privilege to be an Imagineer, and create many new and exciting attractions for more vacation seekers in the years to come. Thanks again!
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...Comments?:lookaroun
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Copyright 2003 (c)
Aug. 18th 2002
MY DISNEY DREAM’S AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
By: George S. III
Ever since I was a child, I’ve always been fond of the Disney experience, running down Main Street to the Castle, seeing all the wonderful sites and sounds at Walt Disney World, and dreaming about my Disney vacation every year. Over recent time I have thought of many ideas that could better improve the vacation experience to Walt Disney. Threw the last few years I have noticed something about Disney’s magic and their new rides and new experiences they have introduced to their many Disney parks. It seemed to me that Disney in a small way was losing its creative touch, in their theme parks, and some of their movies. I felt obligated to write this letter to my favorite company, and vacation destination, to try and get some of my ideas heard by you to better help the Disney experience, so that each new generation will be able to experience Disney the way I do. For many of us, Disney has been a wonderful and magical place in each of our hearts. I hope this letter will be of some help, for the years to come. As Walt Disney once said himself “We keep moving forward—opening new doors and doing new things—because we’re curious.” This quote I got out of your book Walt Disney Imagineering, and I believe that it too, shares the same kind of feelings, and ideas I have. I hope you’ll enjoy reading this letter as much as I enjoyed imagining its ideas, and putting my pen to paper. Thanks again for the many years of Disney Magic!
Its certainly clear to me, that Disney is unlike any other Theme Park, with its many rides, and many treasures hiding around every corner, going along with every little detail done up to the nines. When your standing in line to get on Splash Mountain you look up and see all the small homes and bridges in the trees, little details like this is what I mean. Out of all the theme parks in the world, its true Disney has this concept down. In some of your newer attractions, many of these details are lacking. One thing I may suggest is that you widen many of your streets in your parks to get from one place to another. The reason being is that when there is many people in one area of the Magic Kingdom, it’s rather hard for many people to get around. This is one objective I feel Disney should work on over the years so that many people can be in one area comfortably.
I have many memories I carry with me from my vacations, but I remember this one time when my sister and some of the family were waiting at around 11:30 PM for the light parade to begin, and one of your many excellent staff was sweeping the street at the time, and he came up to my sister (who was 5 then) and said, “Hi sweetie…And what was your favorite ride today.” Right there this shows you that Disney picks the best people to run your parks and keep them the way they are. Over these past year going down to Disney for our vacations, we never really could capture that aspect of worker friendliness. I think if Disney trained every worker at the rides to act according to the ride they are working at, (act scary if they are at the Haunted Mansion) in the streets cleaning, etc., then it would make the Disney Vacation experience more enjoyable like when one of your workers asked my sister what her favorite ride was. I also have seen over the years, that the 100% cleanliness of the parks has dropped to about 70% clean. I think again that if more people cleaned a bit more, this minor problem would be handled. I feel if little issues like this were addressed more, they would again amount to something greater then whats at hand currently.
I love the way Disney has come about in making and creating, wonderful and interesting new rides. My all time favorites are Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Tower of Terror. The reason these are my favorites is because they each have there own charm. Space Mountain, takes you on a journey threw space, making you feel you are in a space station looking out into space while you are waiting in line. Splash Mount, brings you back to the country where the bears run wild, frogs sing, and Br’er Rabbit fleas from a dangerous fox; and ofcourse The Tower of Terror, were a group of unsuspecting victims get on an elevator which breaks, sending them 13 stories to the ground. With these examples you know there was a long planing time, thinking and brainstorming and creating something never seen or created before. It’s hard for me to grasp, that some of Disney’s rides would be re-makes of old ones, (for example Aladdin’s Flying Carpet ride) which in it self is the Dumbo ride but only replaced with carpets. Its hard to believe that Disney, who created all these new innovations for theme parks over many years, would move back in time, and get ideas from old carnival rides which were already invented. If I was going to create an Aladdin ride, I probably would have had the carpet really flying in the air, and over clouds, past horses that were running, and flying with white swans next to the carpet (like the movie). I also couldn’t believe it when I heard Disney was putting bumper-cars and fair rides into the Animal Kingdom park dinosaur area. I wouldn’t have taken an old approach, making a few carpets that spin in a circle in a small area, or using fair rides. To me, I just feel Disney wasn’t taking that Imagineering approach. In other cases I do feel Disney needs to be ahead of the theme park business again, because some other theme parks, like Islands of Adventure (who is not completely comparable to you) are pasting you with their ideas and new and exciting rides. I feel that if you tie in some of the newer technological advances with the already great and exciting Disney rides, there should be a better outcome. One minor example would be in the Hall of Presidents attraction. If you put in just one big wide screen TV instead of 6 or however many are in there, you wouldn’t have the problem of having lines between each picture which would give the viewer a better view of the whole screen. No one has ever made an attraction like that one, or even tried, so I feel it would be a wise decision to update that minor change. With all these many new and exciting creations, its just hard to believe that Disney would go back in time, and create new rides today such as bumper cars, and octopus type rides for their parks. It was a shock to me that Disney’s new creations were just old carnival rides. I think it would be a wise decision for Disney to reevaluate some of these rides and either get rid of them, or rethink a way to make them into Disney quality. If you evaluate the rides you have now, and looked to see what new systems are used in new rides, you again could incorporate those ideas into your already world acclaimed attractions. In the end, it would make the rides and attractions even better.
Almost every adult knows about the great adventures with Tom Sawyer, and the Swiss family who moved into a tree, remember the grand opening of the Carousel of Progress, driven around the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, but the youth today doesn’t really know to much about, or even heard these people, and rides. I feel that the old themes of boys in the wilderness such as Tom Sawyer, and People living in a tree like the Swiss Family Treehouse, just don’t fly with today’s youth. I feel if you got rid of some of these rides, or made today’s youth aware about these people, more children would be aware of these famous individuals, and attractions. As it has been in the past, Disney is always on top of new things and new rides. If Disney brought in todays heroes (whom ever they may be) then I feel today’s youth would respond in a better way.
The monorail is a wonderful landmark mode of transportation to get Disney guests to and from the different parks and parking areas, but one mode of transportation I feel needs to be updated. I think if Disney Updated the monorail cars, by making them bigger, with more space, and maybe even having them run on computers instead of having them operated manually, then I feel people could get to the parks quicker. Another Idea I have to better transport people from park to park would be to expand the monorail track so that the track can goto all four parks in Walt Disney World. It would help people out a lot, and would be a better way to get to all the parks easily and quick. I also think if you remodeled each monorail station, the over all appearance would look a lot better. Some changes would make the whole Walt Disney experience an even finer one, then it already is.
As you know music has always been a huge part of the world and our culture today, from the old time classics like “You ain’t nothing but a Hound Dog,” by Elvis to “Hit me baby one more time,” by Britney Spears. I think if Disney has plans to build another park for the future, they should build a park called something along the lines of “Disney Music,” “Disney DJ,” or another name that pertains to music. One ride example could be a roller coaster similar to the Aerosmith roller coaster that takes you riding threw a dance song, with flashy lights and pictures of people dancing, (basically a music video on a roller coaster). For other attractions you could have areas where you “Make your Own Music Video,” or “Record and sing your favorite song.” You also could have concerts of famous singers, and up and coming artists on the weekends, or whenever. Different areas or “lands” in the park could include a themed 70’s disco area, pop music area, dance club central, etc. Ever bit of music could be represented, into a thrill park Disney style like this one. You also could have bands playing in the streets, like jazz bands or marching bands, etc. I feel that the list to a park like this is endless.
In conclusion to all these ideas and thoughts, I know Disney is a great and wonderful company. I know in the future, Disney will still be one of the top theme parks and vacation destinations as it already is now. I hope that one day I will have the privilege to be an Imagineer, and create many new and exciting attractions for more vacation seekers in the years to come. Thanks again!
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