That’s actually the story in the Figment origin story comics. The Chairman and the academy (aswell as chairman illocrant and the singular control bots) represent the current ugly state of the Disney company & Imagineering.
Actually, I believe the main culprit of the Imagination issue is the suppression/lack of allowing any free spirited creativity or non-film IP based ideas from WDI to be greenlit for the parks. Couple that with the fact that the execs somehow believe it was already fixed by shoehorning Figment in there, cause that’s what they genuinely believe was the only problem with it when they changed it. Nope, the problem was they made it a Film-IP based experience that has little to do with imagination or Figment whatsoever.. and then shoehorned him as the interference to the film ip ride as the character that supposedly proves his “upside down” way of thinking right in the end by making a big stink about Channing’s completely flawed concept of what imagination is .. it’s wild what happened to that ride. Absolutely nonsensical. And it’s especially insane just how clueless upper management truly is. They really think the only thing that holds any value to the Disney company is their film & television production facilities and that the entire company should be synergized strictly around that.. when it couldn’t be any further from the truth.
That's one of the biggest problems. Their core business IS film and tv. The parks were added later and are treated as such.
Every time I see how filthy those beautiful pyramids are, my heart sinks. Basic upkeep and cleanliness is so important...far more important than building a brand new festival center. Disney's priorities are so skewed.One would think the pyramids could be cleaned during the night, when it wouldn’t affect foot traffic and wouldn’t affect those sitting in the DVC lounge. Such a radical thought.
The people who added the parks to the business did not actually treat them as such. This is a far more recent change.
Your right. I was just referring to how things are running currently.
Let's not pretend plateaus are bad. The current Wall Street mindset that profits must continue to rise and that no business can be successful with profits remaining flat is simply dumb.
If Wonders was downgraded to Play, it's only a matter of time until Imagination get's downgraded to Social (the Wonders of Social Media).
Ohhhhh....... Cars 2!!!!
I mean, I really enjoyed Inside Out personally as a film.. but I just don’t think it should come in at the ‘expense’ of park-original concepts.. particularly ones that ‘already’ have memorable, well-loved characters. I think it’d be nice to perhaps have Inside Out as ‘one’ of the attractions in an upgraded Wonders of Life pavilion.. but it shouldn’t have to take over the ‘entire’ pavilion.
