Tell me, if Disney does something the same way it always has for 46 years, is it bad because Eisner did it?
No. It's bad because (and here I quote from one of my posts in that thread):
When you consider the relatively small level of attention being paid to the focus of the celebration in contrast to the high visibility of the pin and snow globe ads; when you consider that this celebration is merely one of a series of 15-month celebrations beginning two years apart with the intention of boosting attendance at a specific park; when you consider that the center of the celebration is a park Walt had nothing to do with, and actually contains a significant percentage of non-Disney content... well, when you consider all that, it's difficult for me to believe that the intention was to celebrate Walt's birth or his life.
The 100 Year Celebration might include the best snow-globe parade that the 'scoop ever sees, but overall, it's not much of a celebration of Walt or his life. That's what the original thread was talking about.
they did it the right way, the same way they always hve done it
If you want to further discuss this, you might take it to another thread, rather than have it buried here, off-topic. Personally, I don't see this as the way Disney has always done it. They've always used partners to help finance projects, but the projects typically had creative meat to them. Mr. Lincoln and Carousel were both created with corporate money for the World's Fair, absolutely true. But the projects existed in the first place because Walt was developing the lifelike animatronics that would become the basis for so many other attractions, and because Walt felt that there needed to be a celebration of progress and how it has helped our lives. The projects had reasons for being that were based in creativity and entertainment.
The components of the 100 Year Celebration have their own reasons for being. Replacements for parades that have grown long in the tooth, advertisements for snow globe sales and light-up pins, a reason that more people might actually stay in AK after about two o'clock, hiding a one-time park icon because the building it represents is now "the competition." I'm not even saying that any of those are bad business reasons to do something (a few of them have been good business reasons to take some kind of action for quite a while, now), but not one of them represents a valid celebration of Walt Disney's life.
As to where the quote is pulled from, and the context. the fact remains that that sentiment exists
Correct. The pulled quote was true when it was written, and is still true.
it really doesn't matter he quoted it, because they are not his words, he didn't attribute it
It most circles I've run in, not attributing when you use someone else's words is frowned upon. In some, it's actually considered dishonest.
so know assumptions can be made abut who said it or its true relevence
I'm not sure what you mean here. A quote was pulled and placed in such a way so as to attempt to discredit the quote with new information. The new information does not, in fact, discredit the quote. I made no assumption at all about who said it or its true relevance; I know for a fact who said it, and precisely what is its true relevance.
So I posted that information, with the intent that no one need make any assumption about its origin and relevance.
Jeff
I especially like the MGM parade... can't wait to see the AK one. Not overly impressed with the MK parade, having the characters in snowglobes just looks...... cheap. I don't know maybe its just me.
