Cheshire Cat wrote:Wow... that is pretty neat! I think they should do something like that at the end of "One Man's Dream" at MGM or better yet in that new theater that they're building in DCA. They could use the technology from Monsters Laugh Floor in a replica of Walt's office and have Walt talk to guests. That may get a little tricky though for the amount of guests it would probably attract and for the CM doing the voice. Maybe just a video in some attraction where Walt is present, talking to the audience supposedly in modern day. An attraction in Tomorrowland perhaps where Walt has been transported in a time machine from the past? In the words of Jules' Verne from Timekeeper, "In the future anything is possible."
I think that's what's really lacking. They can build statues and tributes all they want, but it's nothing compared to a living person.
I think that's a really interesting idea, but I have to wonder if Walt is too close to living memory to really do it tastefully. Just my take on it, but Ben Franklin is long ago enough that he's got some mythos going on, and people don't know exactly what he sounded like (and he has no living relatives who'd be likely to sue if you had him saying things they didn't like, I would think...). Specifically to your idea of him being transported into Tomorrowland - all I can think of is him looking around and being horrified. "Why are there monsters in Tomorrowland?? What is wrong with you guys?"
I'm skeptical that the company would be able to use Walt objectively enough, especially since based on the available info we have, the direction of Imagineering and the company in general haven't exactly been in line with what, based on what we know about him, Walt would have been interested in doing. That said, I think my real hang up with it is it seems a little ghoulish somehow (though I don't have the same problem with the HoP. Go figure.
). I actually think something like this with Mickey, perhaps, answering questions might work better. He is sort of Walt's little spokesmouse. It'd be neat to incorporate the way his design changed too.
There's some promise in the new Toy Story Mania ride thats about to open on the Pier, so it looks like they're starting to think in that direction.
