Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>This was my thinking, too, EE.<<< Right, and I find it very unlikely that they filmed everything. They only did so for promotional sense. Martin's vids are probably the only still existing shots of some of these scenes. >>>Disney either has everything (certainly what is being sold by fans, which is almost entirely stuff from the last 20 or so years) or they can acquire it largely from Imagineers who worked on the projects and filmed it themselves.<<< I'd have to imagine that that quality is not professional, then. I mean, I'm fine going on youtube sometimes and squinting at the screen, trying to see Mr. Toad, but I'm not about to pay money for that same experience from Disney. This is sounding like D23... Lots of blather and fluff... and then in the end, a very boring product.
Originally Posted By danyoung How can you possibly form an opinion on what the product will be when we've seen nothing but 61 messages speculating on what the product will be?
Originally Posted By Manfried "OK, so who do you want leading this? Rhode? Davison? Tons of Celebrity WDIs out there" How about a non-celebrity Imagineer? You know one of the new breed?
Originally Posted By Christi22222 But how on Earth is a "new breed" going to manage an historical project based on nostalgia?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>How can you possibly form an opinion on what the product will be when we've seen nothing but 61 messages speculating on what the product will be?<<< I'm forming a opinion in the speculation, nothing more.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>>>"OK, so who do you want leading this? Rhode? Davison? Tons of Celebrity WDIs out there" How about a non-celebrity Imagineer? You know one of the new breed?<<<<<< Fine by me. Just make it good.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>But how on Earth is a "new breed" going to manage an historical project based on nostalgia?<<< Hey, us youngin's know our history. Sometimes. ;-) (said the history major. )
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I hear "Next Gen" so much on Disney boards it's soon going to become synonymous with hearing "experience the 3-D experience of the season" in movie trailers.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Hey, us youngin's know our history. Sometimes. ;-) (said the history major. ) --LOL ! truth be told there likely needs to be a mix on the team-- some old farts like me that canmake sure those things nostalgic to us are not overlooked - and someone younger to make sure all that is archived is not schmaltz - but also objectively relavent
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I'm forming a opinion in the speculation, nothing more. << I haven't yet established an opinion of your opinion in the speculation.
Originally Posted By Britain Film? Who needs film? They've already dipped their toe in making digital versions of their parks with Google Earth. This is just taking it to the next level. Lots of documentation is necessary in order to make sure things like Haunted Mansion's stretching room wall paper from '71 is properly applied to the texture maps, etc. I'm 99% certain this has to do with digitally building CG environments from days gone by. (And wouldn't this be a nice thing for management to have the next time a protest breaks out over removing things like Lincoln? "Hey, you'll always have Lincoln... on your Yesterland app.")
Originally Posted By leobloom >> I haven't yet established an opinion of your opinion in the speculation << My opinion on your opinion on his opinion on the speculation is that your opinion is horribly ignorant. And you dare call yourself a cowboy philosopher. Makes me sick.
Originally Posted By Manfried "truth be told there likely needs to be a mix on the team-- some old farts like me that canmake sure those things nostalgic to us are not overlooked - and someone younger to make sure all that is archived is not schmaltz - but also objectively relavent" Excellent post.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<How about a non-celebrity Imagineer? You know one of the new breed?>> Like one of your friends? Who are desperate to see the old farts fired so they can move up the Imagineering food chain and take control? Those new breeds?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I haven't yet established an opinion of your opinion in the speculation.<<< My opinion is that I am a extreme moderate, Mr. Pierce. (So many kudos if you know where that's from. )
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>My opinion on your opinion on his opinion on the speculation is that your opinion is horribly ignorant. And you dare call yourself a cowboy philosopher<<< Back to your toilet bowl!!!!! (How I've missed having time to post at LP....! )
Originally Posted By Manfried Good grief, skinnerbox, aren't there some newer Imagineers out there? Are you stuck in the "only good Imagineer is Tony Baxter" mode? It is time for Tony, Fitz, Rhode and others to let go of the reins. They've held them for a long time. Some of which they did was good, some was awful. They can and should be a part of the next generation, but they are not the primary users of it.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> And you dare call yourself a cowboy philosopher. << You misunderstood me. I said I was a cowboy philanderer.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> My opinion is that I am a extreme moderate, Mr. Pierce. (So many kudos if you know where that's from. ) << Thank you Mr. Franklin.
