I have a world of respect for the men and women who make up the Walt Disney Company’s creative wing, Walt’s fabled Imagineers.
It’s staggering when you find out just how much thought, planning and attention to detail goes into their work, particularly when it comes to the creation of something as complex as the now 20-year-old Disneyland Paris.
If we were talking about simply clearing some land, throwing up a few rides and painting everything bright and cheery, just about anyone could do it.
But the genesis of a park like Disneyland Paris (built on foreign soil, no less) was an arduous, time-consuming, cerebral process that took everything — and we mean everything — into account. […]