WDW Magazine December 2015 - Crowds at WDW | Page 124

For example, I use [barn 00:32:08] at Disneyland which I think is a really, really important feature
and Walt wanted to be a storyteller, he was most accustomed to telling stories in Hollywood
where he had the benefit of sound stages which afforded him control while he was filming those
stories but now, he's going to do storytelling in outdoor environment and suddenly he doesn't
quite have the control that he's accustomed to. One of the solutions they came up with was
when they dug out what became the Rivers of America, they took all of that dirt and then built
a around the perimeter of the park and thatby and large is what the railroad sits on but it serves
an even better and more important purpose. What it does is it keeps the magic inside and all of
the rest of the world, all of those other distractions outside.
I use that as an example to say to the reader whatever your dream, whatever your crazy idea
might be, you need to build a barn up and figure out what do I need more of to accomplish this?
What do I need more of to make my dream real? Then put ... Move forward whatever that is
inside your barn and then what is it that you need less of? What is distracting you? What is taking
you away from accomplishing your goals? Put those outside of your barn and again, that's just
another way of how the park, if you pay attention to it, is giving us the examples that we need.
Not just that Disneyland as the only dream but how we can accomplish our own dreams as well.
Does that make sense?
Carl - Absolutely.
Jef - I'm trying to think of another ... Forced perspective. The way in which Walt wanted to build

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