We all agree that “It’s A Small World” is a Disney classic. But the greatest “change agent” who ever walked down Main Street at Disneyland was Walt himself. In fact, the park had not been open 24 hours when Walt began to “plus” Disneyland, and he never stopped. Having started my Disney career at Disneyland one month before the park opened in 1955, I can cite countless examples.
And at the accusation that they're ruining the attraction just to "promote" Disney characters (an argument that I find hard to believe in the first place), this is what he had to say:
We are not turning this classic attraction into a marketing pitch for Disney plush toys (rumors to the contrary). Between Tony, our chief designer Kim Irvine, and me, we represent 128 years creating Disney park entertainment and fun for literally billions of guests around the world. We are not “young marketing whizzes” trying to make a name for ourselves. We were fortunate to have trained, and worked with, all of Walt’s original Imagineers.
So take that!
Some Disney fans can be very stuck in their ways, I guess. Like I've mentioned earlier (here and here), these Imagineers have done a lot of very good stuff when they're given the freedom to be creative without being handcuffed, or micromanaged the way we had seen during the Eisner era. Disney fans should not turn around and be such a tyrant that they were heavily criticizing back then during that era. Let the Imagineers do their job at being creative, and then decide AFTERWARDS.
Zz.
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