Before Executives Took Credit, Tony Baxter Built the Disney Parks You Love
You may not know the name, but if you visited a Disney park that hasn’t been ruined by the current leadership (or lack thereof) you know his work. Tony Baxter was, according to That Park Place, able to take the way Disney told stories in movies and to a lesser extent television and translate that to the rides and attractions in the park, from Splash Mountain to Big Thunder Mountain. Losing that level of integration in favor of the usual corporate thinking about rides that Walt was trying to avoid is a symptom of the larger problems at Disney in the 2020s.
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