As one of those fans who grew up with Star Wars, and as one of the original Disney Cast members at Walt Disney World, I come at this from a different angle. I’ve watched in real Dis-may as Disney has morphed into a killer of creativity. I point with crooked finger at Pixar, which has descended into sequel hell, after all claims to the contrary. I no longer watch or buy Pixar movies for that reason. When I worked for Disney back in the seventies, when WDW was just beginning to rise out of my home town Central Florida swamps, one of our key phrases of the time was “What would Walt do?”

While Walt had his issues, as he was a man of his time, I seriously doubt that what Disney has become today would make him proud.

My house today still sports twinkling lights, which are the legacy of how I used to eschew heading downstairs into the employee tunnels to take off my Main Street costume and return to civilian status for the long drive home to Orlando. Instead, I would walk almost alone towards the Magic Kingdom Castle, surrounded by the trees full of white light that lined the Main Street where I sold Mickey ears in the Emporium.

The world that Walt built was back then, still magic. I know people work hard to keep it that way, but for my Disney insider dollar the castle has lost its luster. It has become as greedy and cankered as any corporation in America, with crimes against its employees and insults to taste. Somewhere along the way we forgot about Walt and focused solely on the Wal-let.

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