11/13/2022 0 Comments Treasure island disney![]() The surrounding communities were flooded with traffic and the usual annoyances associated with an influx of lost and irate tourists.ĭisney shut it down and nobody knew what the Hell to think. The same thing happened with Mowgli’s Palace.Ĭonstruction was complete. Disney sunk those millions in and then split. Local TV and Newspapers were against the resort at the beginning, but some insane connection between Disney’s media holdings and the local venues came into play and their opinions turned on a dime. The houses were razed, the land was cleared, and there wasn’t a damned thing anyone could do or say about it. One member of the crowd tried to storm the stage, but he was quickly subdued by security after he managed to break one of the presentation boards over his knee.ĭisney took that community and essentially broke it over its knee, as well. It was a questionable mix at that point in history. We’re talking about a large Indian Palace, Jungle, and Loincloths not only in the center of a relatively wealth area, but also a somewhat “xenophobic” area of the southern USA. When they showed the concept art, this gigantic Indian Palace… surrounded by JUNGLE… staffed with men and women in loincloths and tribal gear… well, suffice to say everyone flipped their shit. They intended to sell everyone on how lucrative this project was going to be for everyone. A group of stuffed shirts from Disney Co. Knowing full well what was going on, people started calling it “Mickey Mouse Highway”. The land grabbed by the Government was supposedly for some fictional highway project. At one point a home that had just been constructed was immediately condemned with little to no explanation. The local Government claimed “eminent domain” on people’s homes, then turned around and sold the properties to Disney. Disney bought up a ton of high-priced land for the project, and there was actually a scandal surrounding some of the purchases. Mowgli’s Palace was a controversial undertaking from the start. Mowgli is an abandoned child, in the jungle, essentially raised by animals and simultaneously threatened/pursued by other animals. If you haven’t seen it anywhere else, you’d know it as the Disney cartoon from decades past. If you’re unfamiliar with the character of Mowgli, then you might better remember the story “The Jungle Book”. ![]() The concept was a Jungle-themed resort with a large, you guessed it, PALACE in the center of the whole thing. Near the beachside city of Emerald Isle in North Carolina, Disney began construction of “Mowgli’s Palace” in the late 1990s. No, I sincerely doubt those reasons were legitimate. It wasn’t because of sand, and it obviously wasn’t because “foreigners are lazy”. That’s where the factual nature of their story ends. It didn’t START as a ghost town! Disney’s cruise ships would actually stop at the resort and leave tourists there to relax in luxury.ĭisney blew $30,000,000 on the place… yes, Thirty Million Dollars.ĭisney blamed the shallow waters (too shallow for their ships to safely operate) and there was even blame cast on the workers, saying that since they were from the Bahamas, they were too lazy to work a regular schedule. It also was quite an expensive movie at the time, making the film's financial success all the more important.Some of you may have heard that the Disney corporation is responsible for at least one real, “live” Ghost Town.ĭisney built the “Treasure Island” resort in Baker’s Bay in the Bahamas. Treasure Planet itself was a passion project for The Little Mermaid directors Ron Clements and John Musker but it was a project that it seems higher-ups at Disney were never really into. While Eisner owed Roy for helping to make him CEO in the mid-1980s, by the early 2000s the relationship had soured. The Michael and Roy in question are then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then head of Walt Disney Animation Studios Roy Disney. There was this authenticity to Silver that I thought was really remarkable. ![]() I have to say, it’s one of the most beautifully animated films. And then to see it sacrificed in a political battle that went on between Michael and Roy at that time, where was written off as a loss after, I think, almost two weeks. And also just the connection of CG and hand-drawn blended into one character I just felt like this is defining everything of who I am as an animator - the heart, the passion, the humor, the weight. I put my heart and soul into creating that guy. ![]() Glen Keane, who recently made his directorial debut with Netflix's Over the Moon, was the main character animator for Long John Silver in Treasure Planet, and he recently told Vulture that the fact that the film was seen by so few people still hurts, because he thinks the movie is actually incredible looking, and he believes the character of Silver was the culmination of his career to that point. ![]()
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