AHC:Disney-wank

If only. If only.

Frankly, the only actual executive of the era I could ever see executing with Sigma7's vision would be Richard Branson, but there's absolutely no way I could ever see him in charge of the Disney empire in that or any era. So, I'll just have to dream on.
 
Frankly, the only actual executive of the era I could ever see executing with Sigma7's vision would be Richard Branson, but there's absolutely no way I could ever see him in charge of the Disney empire in that or any era. So, I'll just have to dream on.
I'm still hoping for Bluth.
 
Frankly, the only actual executive of the era I could ever see executing with Sigma7's vision would be Richard Branson, but there's absolutely no way I could ever see him in charge of the Disney empire in that or any era. So, I'll just have to dream on.

Bluth could do it.

The thought of Bluth with the full Disney Empire behind him on Dragon's Lair...:cool:

A Disney owned Atari has it's Fantasy/RPG franchise right there.

Dirk The Daring as 'Atari's Link' would kick fifty shades of ass.:cool:
 
Bluth could do it.

The thought of Bluth with the full Disney Empire behind him on Dragon's Lair...:cool:

A Disney owned Atari has it's Fantasy/RPG franchise right there.

Dirk The Daring as 'Atari's Link' would kick fifty shades of ass.:cool:
Two words: Space Ace.
 
Bluth could do it.

The thought of Bluth with the full Disney Empire behind him on Dragon's Lair...:cool:

A Disney owned Atari has it's Fantasy/RPG franchise right there.

Dirk The Daring as 'Atari's Link' would kick fifty shades of ass.:cool:

The Nine Old Men wouldn't respect him because he's an upstart whipper-snapper know-it-all. The New Generation (John Lassiter, Brad Bird, et all) didn't respect him OTL because while they thought he was part of their cadre, or close enough for government work, they considered him a jerk. And finally, the theme park folks and the bean counters and Wall Street hawks wouldn't respect him because in their eyes he's a perfectionist diva who can't see the bottom line and would refuse to fear him because he wasn't independently wealthy and didn't have any measurable ties to the (actual) Disney family. And the Disney family itself would despise him at the time for "perverting Walt's vision."

Don Bluth's tenure in charge would unite the entire company... against him.
 

Thanks for the offer :D (I see your point now, I have started to read it myself).

Roy Disney?

Walt's Brother or Roy E. Disney?

Basically, we need someone with a scope of vision to match that of Walt himself, but not be willing to paint himself into a corner by insisting on "Family Entertainment or Else," while at the same time being a obsessive-compulsive perfectionist unwilling to cut corners and willing to fire bean-counters willing to destroy the company's reputation for the sake of margin.

Unfortunately, with the death of Walt himself, the closest we get to a Disney insider before the rise of Michael Eisner with those qualities is Don Bluth, and he's (quite literally) been in the wilderness for a while.

Perhaps a POD would be that Don Bluth remains with Disney and do not do missionary work for the LDS.
 
The Nine Old Men wouldn't respect him because he's an upstart whipper-snapper know-it-all. The New Generation (John Lassiter, Brad Bird, et all) didn't respect him OTL because while they thought he was part of their cadre, or close enough for government work, they considered him a jerk. And finally, the theme park folks and the bean counters and Wall Street hawks wouldn't respect him because in their eyes he's a perfectionist diva who can't see the bottom line and would refuse to fear him because he wasn't independently wealthy and didn't have any measurable ties to the (actual) Disney family. And the Disney family itself would despise him at the time for "perverting Walt's vision."

Don Bluth's tenure in charge would unite the entire company... against him.

Why was that the case?
 

Stolengood

Banned
How about Disney never going apeshit over the 1941 animators' strike, and thus never driving out many who would form the non-Disney field, including Art Babbitt, Ken Anderson, and Bill Melendez?
 
What about EPCOT? What if they stick to Walt's vision of "The City Of The Future!"

This is what Disney Wank really means to me. As an entertainment company they really are there with the possibility of some minor tweaks to have some things happen a little sooner. OTOH if Walt is healthier and lives longer and the company has even marginally more resources early on you can completely change the nature of Central Florida, turn EPCOT into a true New City on a huge scale (wank right, so assume it all goes well, though I rather think a realistic EPCOT would have ended up pretty grim) and end up with Disney Corp damn near running the state.
 
This is what Disney Wank really means to me. As an entertainment company they really are there with the possibility of some minor tweaks to have some things happen a little sooner. OTOH if Walt is healthier and lives longer and the company has even marginally more resources early on you can completely change the nature of Central Florida, turn EPCOT into a true New City on a huge scale (wank right, so assume it all goes well, though I rather think a realistic EPCOT would have ended up pretty grim) and end up with Disney Corp damn near running the state.

There is one problem. Orlando does have other employers like Lockheed and similar defense companies. It also had a large military infrastructure, between McCoy AFB, NAS Sanford and NTC Orlando. That could hamper some of Disney's plans.
 
There is one problem. Orlando does have other employers like Lockheed and similar defense companies. It also had a large military infrastructure, between McCoy AFB, NAS Sanford and NTC Orlando. That could hamper some of Disney's plans.

The basic EPCOT plan was entirely contained within the site they have. Assuming they don't go somewhere else entirely (and if we really are trying to wank them I'd think something coastal might be more attractive). They aren't really going to be constrained in terms of land any time soon, and in a wank TL they would most definitely be successful in redirecting development away from Orlando toward EPCOT and it's surroundings.

All in all I'd point to my thoughts in https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280069 on EPCOT and add that with a couple more years perspective my current perception of the outcome is leaning more toward the cynical side of the possibilities I mentioned then.
 
I have a rough idea on the major changes responsible for a Disney-wank, as it may seem. Observe...

-Walt copyrights the ownership of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and changes the public domain rights to see fit that the property's centennial would be when he/she/it would go into the public domain. For example, Fantasia would be in there in 2040.
-As a sort of secondary mascot, Walt still creates Mickey Mouse. For those who are confused at how these two icons could coincide with each other in any universe as this, imagine the Mickey V.S. Donald shorts, except with their rivalry being more of a "brotherly squabbling" sort of concept.
-As one of the better examples of "What Would Walt Do?", the Walt Disney Home Video branch is created in 1978, specifically for Betamax tapes and occasional Laserdisc releases, which were then known as Discovision releases.
-Disney purchases Nintendo in 1991 or earlier, which further implemented both companies into the public eye, due to better video game cartoons and movie adaptations.
  • Nintendo purchases SEGA and sells Rareware to Microsoft a year earlier, on the condition that Rare can do whatever it pleases while making Xbox games.
  • The plot of "Captain N: The Game Master" involves Kevin Keene playing Tetris on the NES, while his father plays the it on the Game Boy, until they get separated from each other in Videoland, somewhat reminiscent of a plot from one of the later OTL Mario games.
  • The infamous "Sonic '06" is replaced by "Sonic Extreme", which gets released for the Wii, alongside sequels to "Samba De Amigo" and "Space Channel 5".
-The OTL acquisitions still happen, only with Disney not selling Dic Entertainment or Baby Einstein, because they made their products better for the former, and more educational for the latter.

I think this would cover it all.
 
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