American Magic: A Different History of Disney
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JCP is WCW, the only way is someone else save JCP from itself and run it competetly so Turner keep their programing spots in Superstation/TBS and later TNT(or Turnersports here) is just the chance, if a good managment keep JCP-WCW healthy it might convice turner it can work without having to buy it himself.
So basically there was no way Turner would get in to wrestling without acquiring JCP? If that's the case, then I guess that is understandable.
Turner getting into wrestling was keeping JCP-WCW alive so he would not loss that programming(he still reeled how mcmahon burned the good rating of GCW with his show, rating take year to get back the GCW Levels) so if there is not chance to buy JCP he will lament but wrestling might die in Superstation/TBS
Plus, we haven't exactly touched upon wrestling in I'm Going to Disney World.
Dose any body like the idea of trump closing down circus world and donate ride to newyork for use for a small senonal amusent park in centeral park (kinda of ealier verison of cirucus word). If trumps gets his permison to build a perment cicrus building in centeral park then perhaps the amusment in centeral park would be an second circus wordl
July 1985
It was July 1985, the 209th birthday of the United States. In the entertainment business, it was an extremely busy month.
First, Disney's Hyperion label scored a huge box office hit with Back to the Future, the Steven Spielberg-produced, Robert Zemeckis-helmed scifi comedy that went on to be the biggest box office hit of the year. The film tells the tale of a teenager named Marty (Michael J Fox) who is accidentally sent back in time to the mid 1950's, where he inadvertently becomes the love interest of his future mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson). Before he can return to his own time, Marty must make sure Lorraine and his future father George (Crispin Glover) fall in love or his own existence would be butterflied, and when he does get back to 1985, he must save the life of his partner in crime, the eccentric Dr Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Thanks to good reviews and a greater turnout in ticket sales, the film could potentially become the first of a trilogy.
Note: See I'm Going to Disney World for slight tweaks to Back to the Future Part 1 ITTL.
Next, on the Seventeenth of that month, Disney celebrated the 30th Anniversary of its first theme park. Once a sleepy farm town, Anaheim went through an almost Cinderella-like transformation in to a vacation destination over a thirty year span. Although his public appearances were becoming far and between with age, Walt Disney himself was on hand to recite the same speech he made exactly thirty years earlier on the park's opening day. The celebration came with all the pomp, circumstance, fireworks and throngs of tourists you'd come to expect on any given day at the park. Pat Weaver, head of NBC when Disneyland first opened, was accompanied on this night by his daughter Sigourney. Directing the commemorative TV special was none other than John Landis, who made a brief appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, and has since expressed interest in producing a Baby Huey film. While some visitors lamented the closure of Adventure Thru Inner Space, Walt reminded the crowds that there will always be new and exciting things at the parks in the years ahead. Also taking part in the TV special were Stan Lee, Helen Hunt, Mark Hamill, Drew Barrymore, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Julie Andrews, Jim Henson, David Hasselhoff, Phil Simms, Marie Osmond, Donna Summer, Annette Funicello, Weird Al Yankovic and George Takei.
Later in the month, two movies would go head to head. The first contender is Pee Wee's Big Adventure from Warner Bros, starring Paul Reubens reprising his character from a wildly successful midnight stage show that later became an HBO special. After failing to lure Tim Burton away from Disney to direct the film, Warners instead gave the job to Joe Dante after the success of Gremlins. The film chronicles the titular character (Reubens) and what turns out to be a nationwide search for his beloved red bicycle. Along the way, Pee Wee meets some hilarious and wacky characters (EG Daily, Diane Salinger, etc), before finding his way to Hollywood, where his bike is being used as a movie prop by a studio exec (Alec Baldwin), whom the screenwriters later claimed was meant to be a parody of former MGM chairman Donald Trump. Cameos include Cassandra Peterson, best known as Elvira, Dee Snider, Terry Bollea, Dr Demento, Weird Al Yankovic, Dick van Patten and Milton Berle. Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the first major Hollywood film to be scored by Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman, who had previously scored the independently produced Forbidden Zone.
The second contender would be 20th Century Fox's The Cat in the Hat. The Cat represented the first collaboration between Chuck Jones and Dr Seuss in fifteen years, the last being the Horton Hears a Who TV special while Jones was with MGM. Jones and Dr Seuss, the pen name of Ted Geisel, dates back to the Second World War when Jones was at Termite Terrace and the two concocted Private Snafu for a series of propaganda cartoons. While many of Geisel's other beloved books were made in to specials by DePatie-Freleng, it was The Cat in the Hat that bedeviled filmmakers the most until now. To pad out the story for a running time of eighty minutes or more, the screenplay, written by Dr Seuss himself, combines the elements of The Cat in the Hat and its sequel The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. The songs featured in the film were originally written for a proposed TV special in the early 70's that was scrapped due to disagreements between Geisel and DFE. This musical take on the beloved books tells the story of the titular fun loving Cat (Gene Wilder), who drops by unexpectedly on a snowy day to entertain a bored pair of twins, Theo* (Seth Green) and Sally (Soleil Moon-Frye; special thanks to @markedward), while their mother (Gilda Radner) is out. Of course, the family fish Carlos K Krinklebein (Daws Butler), disapproves of the mess the Cat makes and is unsuccessful in every attempt to get rid of him. On top of all that, Thing One (Mel Blanc) and Thing Two (Thurl Ravenscroft), along with Little Cats A through Y, add to the already out of control chaos, which spills out into the snowy yard. When the twins hear of their mother's car getting closer to the house, a race against time ensues to get the house clean. Little Cat Z saves the day with the power of Voom to clean up the house and yard before mom pulls in to the driveway.
*The boy was not given a name in the OTL books or the Friz Freleng version, but was later named Conrad in the OTL Mike Myers film.
The Cat in the Hat was a hit with families who felt Disney's Revenge of the Jedi was too dark or scary for their little ones. In stark contrast, Pee Wee's Big Adventure was a bigger hit with teenagers and college-aged moviegoers.
In other entertainment news, shortly after acquiring the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Donald Trump has been meeting with New York City officials on acquiring either the historic Coney Island amusement parks for a proposed northeastern Circus World to complement the existing location in Florida. (special thanks to @Goldwind2)
The big movies of 1985 so far...
1. Back to the Future (Buena Vista)
2. Rambo First Blood Part 2 (Tristar/Carolco)
3. Goonies (Warner Bros)
4. Care Bears Movie (Paramount)
5. Revenge of the Jedi (Buena Vista)
6. The Cat in the Hat (20th Century Fox)
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Warner Bros)
First, Disney's Hyperion label scored a huge box office hit with Back to the Future, the Steven Spielberg-produced, Robert Zemeckis-helmed scifi comedy that went on to be the biggest box office hit of the year. The film tells the tale of a teenager named Marty (Michael J Fox) who is accidentally sent back in time to the mid 1950's, where he inadvertently becomes the love interest of his future mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson). Before he can return to his own time, Marty must make sure Lorraine and his future father George (Crispin Glover) fall in love or his own existence would be butterflied, and when he does get back to 1985, he must save the life of his partner in crime, the eccentric Dr Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Thanks to good reviews and a greater turnout in ticket sales, the film could potentially become the first of a trilogy.
Note: See I'm Going to Disney World for slight tweaks to Back to the Future Part 1 ITTL.
Next, on the Seventeenth of that month, Disney celebrated the 30th Anniversary of its first theme park. Once a sleepy farm town, Anaheim went through an almost Cinderella-like transformation in to a vacation destination over a thirty year span. Although his public appearances were becoming far and between with age, Walt Disney himself was on hand to recite the same speech he made exactly thirty years earlier on the park's opening day. The celebration came with all the pomp, circumstance, fireworks and throngs of tourists you'd come to expect on any given day at the park. Pat Weaver, head of NBC when Disneyland first opened, was accompanied on this night by his daughter Sigourney. Directing the commemorative TV special was none other than John Landis, who made a brief appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, and has since expressed interest in producing a Baby Huey film. While some visitors lamented the closure of Adventure Thru Inner Space, Walt reminded the crowds that there will always be new and exciting things at the parks in the years ahead. Also taking part in the TV special were Stan Lee, Helen Hunt, Mark Hamill, Drew Barrymore, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Julie Andrews, Jim Henson, David Hasselhoff, Phil Simms, Marie Osmond, Donna Summer, Annette Funicello, Weird Al Yankovic and George Takei.
Later in the month, two movies would go head to head. The first contender is Pee Wee's Big Adventure from Warner Bros, starring Paul Reubens reprising his character from a wildly successful midnight stage show that later became an HBO special. After failing to lure Tim Burton away from Disney to direct the film, Warners instead gave the job to Joe Dante after the success of Gremlins. The film chronicles the titular character (Reubens) and what turns out to be a nationwide search for his beloved red bicycle. Along the way, Pee Wee meets some hilarious and wacky characters (EG Daily, Diane Salinger, etc), before finding his way to Hollywood, where his bike is being used as a movie prop by a studio exec (Alec Baldwin), whom the screenwriters later claimed was meant to be a parody of former MGM chairman Donald Trump. Cameos include Cassandra Peterson, best known as Elvira, Dee Snider, Terry Bollea, Dr Demento, Weird Al Yankovic, Dick van Patten and Milton Berle. Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the first major Hollywood film to be scored by Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman, who had previously scored the independently produced Forbidden Zone.
The second contender would be 20th Century Fox's The Cat in the Hat. The Cat represented the first collaboration between Chuck Jones and Dr Seuss in fifteen years, the last being the Horton Hears a Who TV special while Jones was with MGM. Jones and Dr Seuss, the pen name of Ted Geisel, dates back to the Second World War when Jones was at Termite Terrace and the two concocted Private Snafu for a series of propaganda cartoons. While many of Geisel's other beloved books were made in to specials by DePatie-Freleng, it was The Cat in the Hat that bedeviled filmmakers the most until now. To pad out the story for a running time of eighty minutes or more, the screenplay, written by Dr Seuss himself, combines the elements of The Cat in the Hat and its sequel The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. The songs featured in the film were originally written for a proposed TV special in the early 70's that was scrapped due to disagreements between Geisel and DFE. This musical take on the beloved books tells the story of the titular fun loving Cat (Gene Wilder), who drops by unexpectedly on a snowy day to entertain a bored pair of twins, Theo* (Seth Green) and Sally (Soleil Moon-Frye; special thanks to @markedward), while their mother (Gilda Radner) is out. Of course, the family fish Carlos K Krinklebein (Daws Butler), disapproves of the mess the Cat makes and is unsuccessful in every attempt to get rid of him. On top of all that, Thing One (Mel Blanc) and Thing Two (Thurl Ravenscroft), along with Little Cats A through Y, add to the already out of control chaos, which spills out into the snowy yard. When the twins hear of their mother's car getting closer to the house, a race against time ensues to get the house clean. Little Cat Z saves the day with the power of Voom to clean up the house and yard before mom pulls in to the driveway.
*The boy was not given a name in the OTL books or the Friz Freleng version, but was later named Conrad in the OTL Mike Myers film.
The Cat in the Hat was a hit with families who felt Disney's Revenge of the Jedi was too dark or scary for their little ones. In stark contrast, Pee Wee's Big Adventure was a bigger hit with teenagers and college-aged moviegoers.
In other entertainment news, shortly after acquiring the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Donald Trump has been meeting with New York City officials on acquiring either the historic Coney Island amusement parks for a proposed northeastern Circus World to complement the existing location in Florida. (special thanks to @Goldwind2)
The big movies of 1985 so far...
1. Back to the Future (Buena Vista)
2. Rambo First Blood Part 2 (Tristar/Carolco)
3. Goonies (Warner Bros)
4. Care Bears Movie (Paramount)
5. Revenge of the Jedi (Buena Vista)
6. The Cat in the Hat (20th Century Fox)
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Warner Bros)
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Neither of Stallone's films made the top 6 of the year? That's just implausible. In a sea of family films audiences must be aching for something gritty.
Fixed. Here's the updated standings so far...
1. Back to the Future (Buena Vista)
2. Rambo First Blood Part 2 (Tristar/Carolco)
3. Goonies (Warner Bros)
4. Care Bears Movie (Paramount)
5. Revenge of the Jedi (Buena Vista)
6. The Cat in the Hat (20th Century Fox)
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Warner Bros)
Speaking of Stallone, is John Landis still going to make Oscar for Hyperion?
It was July 1985, the 209th birthday of the United States. In the entertainment business, it was an extremely busy month.
First, Disney's Hyperion label scored a huge box office hit with Back to the Future, the Steven Spielberg-produced, Robert Zemeckis-helmed scifi comedy that went on to be the biggest box office hit of the year. The film tells the tale of a teenager named Marty (Michael J Fox) who is accidentally sent back in time to the mid 1950's, where he inadvertently becomes the love interest of his future mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson). Before he can return to his own time, Marty must make sure Lorraine and his future father George (Crispin Glover) fall in love or his own existence would be butterflied, and when he does get back to 1985, he must save the life of his partner in crime, the eccentric Dr Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Thanks to good reviews and a greater turnout in ticket sales, the film could potentially become the first of a trilogy.
Note: See I'm Going to Disney World for slight tweaks to Back to the Future Part 1 ITTL.
Next, on the Seventeenth of that month, Disney celebrated the 30th Anniversary of its first theme park. Once a sleepy farm town, Anaheim went through an almost Cinderella-like transformation in to a vacation destination over a thirty year span. Although his public appearances were becoming far and between with age, Walt Disney himself was on hand to recite the same speech he made exactly thirty years earlier on the park's opening day. The celebration came with all the pomp, circumstance, fireworks and throngs of tourists you'd come to expect on any given day at the park. Pat Weaver, head of NBC when Disneyland first opened, was accompanied on this night by his daughter Sigourney. Directing the commemorative TV special was none other than John Landis, who made a brief appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, and has since expressed interest in producing a Baby Huey film. While some visitors lamented the closure of Adventure Thru Inner Space, Walt reminded the crowds that there will always be new and exciting things at the parks in the years ahead. Also taking part in the TV special were Stan Lee, Helen Hunt, Mark Hamill, Drew Barrymore, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Julie Andrews, Jim Henson, David Hasselhoff, Phil Simms, Marie Osmond, Donna Summer, Annette Funicello, Weird Al Yankovic and George Takei.
Later in the month, two movies would go head to head. The first contender is Pee Wee's Big Adventure from Warner Bros, starring Paul Reubens reprising his character from a wildly successful midnight stage show that later became an HBO special. After failing to lure Tim Burton away from Disney to direct the film, Warners instead gave the job to Joe Dante after the success of Gremlins. The film chronicles the titular character (Reubens) and what turns out to be a nationwide search for his beloved red bicycle. Along the way, Pee Wee meets some hilarious and wacky characters (EG Daily, Diane Salinger, etc), before finding his way to Hollywood, where his bike is being used as a movie prop by a studio exec (Alec Baldwin), whom the screenwriters later claimed was meant to be a parody of former MGM chairman Donald Trump. Cameos include Cassandra Peterson, best known as Elvira, Dee Snider, Terry Bollea, Dr Demento, Weird Al Yankovic, Dick van Patten and Milton Berle. Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the first film to be scored by Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman.
The second contender would be 20th Century Fox's The Cat in the Hat. The Cat represented the first collaboration between Chuck Jones and Dr Seuss in fifteen years, the last being the Horton Hears a Who TV special while Jones was with MGM. Jones and Dr Seuss, the pen name of Ted Geisel, dates back to the Second World War when Jones was at Termite Terrace and the two concocted Private Snafu for a series of propaganda cartoons. While many of Geisel's other beloved books were made in to specials by DePatie-Freleng, it was The Cat in the Hat that bedeviled filmmakers the most until now. To pad out the story for a running time of eighty minutes or more, the screenplay, written by Dr Seuss himself, combines the elements of The Cat in the Hat and its sequel The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. The songs featured in the film were originally written for a proposed TV special in the early 70's that was scrapped due to disagreements between Geisel and DFE. This musical take on the beloved books tells the story of the titular fun loving Cat (Gene Wilder), who drops by unexpectedly on a snowy day to entertain a bored pair of twins, Theo* (Seth Green) and Sally (Soleil Moon-Frye; special thanks to @markedward), while their mother (Gilda Radner) is out. Of course, the family fish Carlos K Krinklebein (Daws Butler), disapproves of the mess the Cat makes and is unsuccessful in every attempt to get rid of him. On top of all that, Thing One (Mel Blanc) and Thing Two (Thurl Ravenscroft), along with Little Cats A through Y, add to the already out of control chaos, which spills out into the snowy yard. When the twins hear of their mother's car getting closer to the house, a race against time ensues to get the house clean. Little Cat Z saves the day with the power of Voom to clean up the house and yard before mom pulls in to the driveway.
*The boy was not given a name in the OTL books or the Friz Freleng version, but was later named Conrad in the OTL Mike Myers film.
The Cat in the Hat was a hit with families who felt Disney's Revenge of the Jedi was too dark or scary for their little ones. In stark contrast, Pee Wee's Big Adventure was a bigger hit with teenagers and college-aged moviegoers.
In other entertainment news, shortly after acquiring the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Donald Trump has been meeting with New York City officials on acquiring either the historic Coney Island amusement parks for a proposed northeastern Circus World to complement the existing location in Florida. (special thanks to @Goldwind2)
The big movies of 1985 so far...
1. Back to the Future (Buena Vista)
2. Rambo First Blood Part 2 (Tristar/Carolco)
3. Goonies (Warner Bros)
4. Care Bears Movie (Paramount)
5. Revenge of the Jedi (Buena Vista)
6. The Cat in the Hat (20th Century Fox)
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Warner Bros)
Donold father bought out steeple chase park with the intnent o building aparment. When he was unable to get a permit he held a vandilize the park party. T
Technically since the POD is in WWI we can butterfly away Fred Trump being an asshole towards the cultural history of New York City. Because fuck that shit.
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