Re-Imagineering shut down already?

[CoffeeJedi]

By now, i'm sure you've all seen the Re-Imagineering blog at: http://imagineerebirth.blogspot.com/, if not, check it out, there's some great stuff there, all posted by current Disney or Pixar employees.

Last week, they were posting at least once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Friday was the last date that any content was put up.

Do you think the higher-ups shut these guys down already?

 

[wannab@dis]

check it out, there's some great stuff there, all posted by current Disney or Pixar employees.

Do you really think it's legit?

I'm not so sure. :wave:

 

[CoffeeJedi]

that is what they claim... i first followed the link from Jim Hill, but since then I've seen it pop up on Boing Boing, and a few other Disney news sites/blogs, and noone's questioned its authenticity

 

[wannab@dis]

I don't know. The content seems to run in line with some of the activist views that you see on so many fansites. While it's good to want to see improvements, always looking for the negative is annoying at best. I first saw it on JH and you're right, it's popping up since then. But that just means that people have pulled it from JHM. Not that it has any legitamacy.

There's some interesting articles and views, but for the most part, a lot of articles basically follow every heated debate on the forums. It just appears everything is a "hot-button" issue being used to elicit the fanboy activism. That's why I question it's authenticity. *shrug*

 

[Ghostbuster626]

I like the site because it helps me push my agenda of making Disney a better place.

Ghostbuster626: He Dreams...of a better tommorow.

 

[EpcotServo]

Please tell me I'm not the only one that finds this site very annoying?
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They make every little fault in Disney today seem like it's the end of the Disney World. And I strongly think that this is just some fan like Ghostbuster626 ranting. I mean, notice how not one bit of that site mentions good things in the company going on? EE being a great ride? Better rides are getting built? Nope. Just the same ol' song. Nothing's good enough....As a WDW and Disney Company fan, I've found inner peace during moments of trouble. Because I've learned that when you love a company like Disney.....you can't always get want you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find.....you get what you need.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Merlin Jones is a name that's known to me, I just can't place where I know it from. I feel that several of the pieces posted there by both Merlin Jones and Mr Banks are well written and worth reading. A few others sound like they are from someone just dying to let some of their ideas loose on Guests. I'm going to keep it bookmarked, and see where it goes.

 

[ScrapIron]

I mean, notice how not one bit of that site mentions good things in the company going on?

This is the stated purpose of the site on the top of page 1.

"A forum for Pixar and Disney professionals passionate about the Disney Theme Parks to catalog past Imagineering missteps and offer up tenable practical solutions in hopes that a new wave of creative management at Imagineering can once again bring back some of the wonder and magic that's been missing from the parks for decades."

I have no idea why you would expect a site that exists for the above reasons to mention good things in the company.

Merlin Jones was one of the main forces in Roy Disney's Save Disney site. So, either re-imagineering is legit, or someone is fraudulently using his name. It is currently still up.

Cheers.

 

[psuchad]

Still up. They just posted "Disneyland is Escapism".

 

[prberk]

Merlin Jones is a pseudonym. It was the name of Tommy Kirk's character in The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) and its sequel, The Monkey's Uncle (1965).

The writer, at least at SaveDisney, I assume used this pseudonym to let dyed-in-the-wool Disney fans know he understood Disney history, yet flew under the RADAR of casual fans or critics who did not know their Disney history.

Anyhow, I did find his writings at SaveDisney to be well-informed and thoroughly-researched, {although I know that some disagreed with the overall points he (and the site) made}.

Hope this was helpful.

Paul

 

[Ghostbuster626]

Merlin Jones is a pseudonym. It was the name of Tommy Kirk's character in The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) and its sequel, The Monkey's Uncle (1965).

The writer, at least at SaveDisney, I assume used this pseudonym to let dyed-in-the-wool Disney fans know he understood Disney history, yet flew under the RADAR of casual fans or critics who did not know their Disney history.

Anyhow, I did find his writings at SaveDisney to be well-informed and thoroughly-researched, {although I know that some disagreed with the overall points he (and the site) made}.

Hope this was helpful.

Paul

Doesnt Merlin Jones post on this forum as well?

 

[GothMickey]

I like the site because it helps me push my agenda of making Disney a better place.

Ghostbuster626: He Dreams...of a better tommorow.

That's a great line... push your agenda.. trying to take over the World? Disney World that is :lol:

 

[DonaldPOTC]

The blog has a new posting for today. Must not be shut down afterall

 

[CoffeeJedi]

Still up. They just posted "Disneyland is Escapism".

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[jedimaster1227]

Doesnt Merlin Jones post on this forum as well?

I don't think so...

Oh, and at first glance, I thought that you were Thrawn...I mean that he was back... By your icon. Its nice, too bad it reminds us of Thrawn...

 

[mkt]

hmm... it's like a west coast biased d-troops.

 

[wannab@dis]

hmm... it's like a west coast biased d-troops.

Was that a typo or a perfect slip? :zipit:

 

[Enderikari]

a slip that seems... almost... Freudian

 

[mkt]

Was that a typo or a perfect slip? :zipit:

a d-troops with a bias to the west coast... ie, DLR.


*SMACK!*

 

[dxwwf3]

In sports they always use the term East Coast Bias when referring to why some Pac 10 teams might get left out of the BCS or some other instance. Most sports writers live in the East Coast and sometimes might not see all of the games in the West Coast.

That's where MKT got the phrase (At least I think) and you just misread it.

West coast Baised D-Troops not west coast, baised D-Troopes :lol: