http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2006/05/14/even-more-clones/ The Magic - seen from different points of view... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2006/05/14/even-more-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Simon Veness Sun, 14 May 2006 21:39:00 +0000 http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2006/05/14/even-more-clones/#comment-663 'Best practices,' 'leverage,' 'strategic direction,' 'global focus.' Does anyone else feel slightly ill at this outpouring of corporate comment? If that's his idea of providing an exciting future for Disney parks across the globe, we might as well close them now. What happend to concepts like 'imagination,' 'creation,' 'excitement,' 'enchantment,' 'fantasy' and, above all, 'innovation'? Do NONE of those fit into the Al Weiss vision for the future? <i>Hopefully</i>, this is only a snatch of his conversation, the financial under-pinning of something more creative and substantial. We all realise there has to be some sound corporate guidance and organisation. But, if this truly is the way forward for the theme parks, there will be nothing for the Imagineers to do; nothing for the Cast members themselves to get excited about; nothing to hang grand marketing campaigns on; and <b>nothing to look forward to.</b> ‘Best practices,’ ‘leverage,’ ’strategic direction,’ ‘global focus.’ Does anyone else feel slightly ill at this outpouring of corporate comment? If that’s his idea of providing an exciting future for Disney parks across the globe, we might as well close them now. What happend to concepts like ‘imagination,’ ‘creation,’ ‘excitement,’ ‘enchantment,’ ‘fantasy’ and, above all, ‘innovation’? Do NONE of those fit into the Al Weiss vision for the future? Hopefully, this is only a snatch of his conversation, the financial under-pinning of something more creative and substantial. We all realise there has to be some sound corporate guidance and organisation. But, if this truly is the way forward for the theme parks, there will be nothing for the Imagineers to do; nothing for the Cast members themselves to get excited about; nothing to hang grand marketing campaigns on; and nothing to look forward to.

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