A Mouse and a Frog - Nothing "fairy tale" about it!

[DVC-Landbaron]

Whether you like Hill or not, I think you'll admit that his take on the "Mouse House" certainly can spark some thought provoking debate. I think you all know that I want to run him for President, but no matter what your feelings, I think all of you should check out his recent series about the relationship between Disney and the Muppets. The series is on Laughing Place and it's eight articles long and still not complete yet.

I'm providing a link to article #8 HERE.

If you haven't read the whole thing, I suggest you do. Sure it's a bit jaded and reeks of Hill's (wonderful?) style. But I think even the most anti-Hill can see some of things I'm on about all time. How the current management philosophy doesn't care at all about the concepts of story, theme, children, guests, pixie dust or magic. Unless, of course, they can make a couple bucks while pandering to the concept. As an example I offer the following paragraph from article eight:

This was at the point that Jim's surviving family members really lost their enthusiasm for the initial Disney / Henson merger attempt. In their day-to-day dealing with the Mouse House attorneys, it had become all too clear to the surviving Henson family members what the Walt Disney Company was really about. Mickey didn't want to tell great stories, or make great movies or television shows anymore. All the Mouse wanted to make money -- by whatever means possible.

"All the Mouse wanted to make money -- by whatever means possible." But I've been saying that for a while now. So, I'm just wondering, with all the car hopping lately, if the Hill article and his particular slant makes a little more sense to some of the passengers of car #1 now?

Well, does it?

 

[DisDuck]

No, it does not because I find Hill to be too biased against Disney. Without him being at any of the meetings between Henson and Disney all that can be gleaned is speculation about what was it each person's mind and what there agenda is/was.

What has moved me from the middle seat in car #1 to a door seat is the 'opening' hours change at Adventureland. Even though it was probably done as a 'cost' savings measure, I tend to agree that the savings might have been too slight versus the bad publicity.