Friday, September 19, 2008

The Last Spark...


On this day, forty-two years ago, Walt Disney gave his last public event...

A press conference featuring a noticeably aged and tired Disney met with reporters in Sequoia National Park where Walt talked about his plans for the Mineral King Ski Resort that Walt Disney Productions was working on.

It was the last idea he was working on since announcing his intention to build a Disney World in Florida featuring his EPCOT dream.

The Mineral King project would be developed into the early seventies until the dream of Disney's last resort, his last spark of American ingenuity was put away to develop cobwebs in the dustbin of history...

Not all of it failed to come about. Remember that in the world of Disney, nothing actually ever is buried and done. The Wilderness Lodge at WDW, the Grand Californian, Blizzard Beach and other designs reflect the inspiration Walt had for the Mineral King plans and the Country Bears, a show that was planned for the Resort was actually built in Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.

Ideas never die. They just find new avenues to continue to exist...

2 comments:

Matt said...

I just want to share the power of the imagination of Disney.

Let me state, for the record, that DIS stock went up about $2.50 in the past two days.

Some imagination, huh?

Anonymous said...

never knew it was supposed to be called sky crown. I still think they ought to do this and set it up as a vaction club resort.