Sorry for the lull in post, guys...
I've had a very busy week followed by an even busier weekend. I've been attending, with the help of a couple friends, the Destination D events and figured I'd bring you a couple of interesting nuggets. The first one was when asked about what was his favorite attraction never built, Tony Baxter mentioned that his favorite was DisneySea in Long Beach (the Port Disney Resort he was referring to). And the designs and plan for that is what allowed Tokyo DisneySEA to be built. That's music to my ears, hearing someone I greatly admire mention that. He GETS it. Let's hope the Disney Suits let him pursue some other dreams he has. I know he had been working on Plus +ing several attractions around the park, but he's got a few grand designs I'd love to see get greenlit. And if all goes well, we should start to hear about some of those as DCA's Phase One gets closer to the end. Cross your fingers. Too bad the Suits wouldn't let him talk about any of this.
But the other thing I wanted to mention, which is rather interesting is how much we owe to Breck Eisner. You know him, right? He's Michael's son. When Eisner first became head of the Mouse he put a halt to all development so he could see what they were working on and decide what would continue and what would be halted. Being as he wanted to see how these projects would be perceived by kids, he brought along his fourteen year old son, Breck to look at the projects. He wanted to see what ideas/concepts lit a fire under his son. Three things in particular made the young lad's eyes light up. Out of all the projects, Star Tours, Splash Mountain and Captain EO were what he liked. All three were then greenlight and the rest is history. We owe that young fella more than you can comprehend, so I guess I'll just have to forgive him for "Sahara."
So with that I only have one question. Where was young Breck when Disney's California Adventure was being thought up? Couldn't Eisner have brought his now early twenties son in and showed him the carnival model? He could of said: "Dad! What were you thinking!?" Saved a lot of time and money. Sadly he was around twenty-four or so and likely finishing up college. Dang higher education! Look at what you have wrought! Ok, ok. Enough of that, but imagine how things could have been different if the young man had just happened to have had bad taste?
You know, like his father...
