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Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World: Hardcover
by David Koenig
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| Signed by the author, David Koenig.
From the author of Mouse Tales and Mouse Under Glass
Walt Disney constantly pushed his animators and theme park designers to make their creations look as realistic as possible. Yet his was always a romanticized reality. His Disney versions scrubbed clean the Grimm Brothers morbid fairy tales. His True-Life Adventure nature films humanized animals and invented not-so-true storylines.
Walt was concerned not with the way things were, but with the way things should be. In Florida, he wanted to create a hyper-idealistic theme park, but as just one small component of an entire city built on those same principlesan Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
Realityland follows Walt and his hand-picked successors as they first surreptitiously acquire enough land to hold his ambitious dreams, then go about trying to make them come trueall the while battling thieving contractors, unlike-minded executives, unscrupulous corporate raiders, uncontrollable economic forces, and P.R. nightmares.
Based on a decade of research and interviews with 100 Disney insiders, Realityland also reveals what its like to work for The Mouse, what lies in the Magic Kingdoms subterranean tunnels, and how despite extraordinary efforts to control every aspect of the show everything
doesn't always go according to plan.
Price: $ 24.00
After Discount: $ 20.40
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Product ID: 9836
334 pagesRelated Categories
Books, Books on the Parks
| Signed by the author, David Koenig.
From the author of Mouse Tales and Mouse Under Glass
Walt Disney constantly pushed his animators and theme park designers to make their creations look as realistic as possible. Yet his was always a romanticized reality. His Disney versions scrubbed clean the Grimm Brothers morbid fairy tales. His True-Life Adventure nature films humanized animals and invented not-so-true storylines.
Walt was concerned not with the way things were, but with the way things should be. In Florida, he wanted to create a hyper-idealistic theme park, but as just one small component of an entire city built on those same principlesan Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
Realityland follows Walt and his hand-picked successors as they first surreptitiously acquire enough land to hold his ambitious dreams, then go about trying to make them come trueall the while battling thieving contractors, unlike-minded executives, unscrupulous corporate raiders, uncontrollable economic forces, and P.R. nightmares.
Based on a decade of research and interviews with 100 Disney insiders, Realityland also reveals what its like to work for The Mouse, what lies in the Magic Kingdoms subterranean tunnels, and how despite extraordinary efforts to control every aspect of the show everything
doesn't always go according to plan.
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