Comcast Out, Mel Gibson In On Disney Takeover?

NewsMax ^ | 5/5/04 | Carl Limbacher

[Tallguy]

Lethal Weapon meets & defeats Michael Eisner. I'd pay to see that!

[Hildy]

wow...think of the possibilities!

[Vigilanteman]

Would this mean no more "Gay Day" at Disneyland? Would it mean the fudgepackers would have to crawl back in the closets where they belong? Awesome!

[Phsstpok]

My mom was Walt's secretary, and my Dad was employee number 5 in the Disney empire...thats how they met.

Oh, good Lord! Do you know what you've let yourself in for with that admission? Every Disneyfile (like me) is filing away your screen name for every Disneyana question we ever come across!!!!!

I'm a stockholder (I like the artwork on the shares) and used to be an annual passholder for Disneyworld. I spent many hours before the web became THE WEB on the old Florida forum on Compuserve and became one of the addicts there.

We've now got several friends who work in the Florida park (mostly at AC on PI, for fellow addicts), and some who've moved to California, as well as some of the animators who have now branched off (involuntarilly) and some folks in admin from the mouse house. One of the strangest experiences of my life is when one of the Florida Dapper Dan's showed up at my home while he was visiting relatives in my town! You expect to see Disney folks when you visit Disneyworld. It's something else when they come to see YOU!

I think Mel would be able to bring the house of Walt back together again.

It's a nice scenario, true or not.

[section9]

I can see it now: instead of Main Street U.S.A., we have the Via Dolorosa and the Stations of the Cross.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Spirited]

If Gibson does this and doesn't get rid of Eisner and his supporters he will go down with Disney.

I would like to hope that he will cleanse that entity of all the evil stupidity that has marked it since the death of the founder.

[FourPeas]

I believe #24 is to you.

[Always Right]

Wow, can't wait for Mel to spin off Mad Max into Mad Mouse.

[antaresequity]

Agreed. Eisner has nearly destroyed the "Magic"...anybody even remotly associated with the founders hates his guts, and where he has taken Disney Land.

Walt was a genius...and a truly beautiful person.

Walt Disney: "We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun - together."

[bayourod]

How much did Disney pay NewsMax to spread this rumor to drive up stock prices so they can afford to release "911"?

[antaresequity]

I got to be a beta tester on Space Mountain before they even had scenery....that was killer.

Before Disney Land CA was even a construction site, it was a farm house and orange grove....

The day before they officially broke ground, everyone drove out to the farm house the evening before. They threw a big party, with all sorts of booze and food.

They had a bunch of crow bars and sledge hammers....so everyone got hammered, and hammered on the house.

According to my mom and dad, Walt got so tanked he passed out. They threw him in the bath tub, and carried him out like newly crowned king in the claw foot tub, legs hanging out....every one was singing drunk party songs.

My mom has a picture...

The official ground breaking and demolition started the next day, but the house looked like it had been in a war zone. Randomly busted holes in the walls, empty booze bottles and what not scattered around...

The imagery my mom and dad shared with me is as real as if I had been there my self...

[antaresequity]

I think Mel would be able to bring the house of Walt back together again.

I can't think of anyone better to resurrect the "Magic"...

[eleni121]

Walt would be proud if Mel could pull it off.

I wonder if this is why Eisner told Miramax fatso weinstein that he would not distribute the latest fatso Moore propaganda film.

[BobS]

Mel needs to fire a whole bunch of people too:):)

[TC Rider]

I went to the Disney ranch in Wyoming once on business back in the 70s. I was blown away, I kept getting a really weird sense of Deja Vu.

I told the ranch foreman about it and he asked if I had watched Micky Mouse Club in the 50s. I told him of course I had. He told me the ranch was the location for "Spin and Marty".

[Future Useless Eater]

awesome is right. thanks

[Freedom2specul8]

COOL!Now that would be a really interesting take-over. I hope he does..and will reserve my judgement until afterwards.

[pbear8]

We owned Playland in San Francisco

Whadja do with Laughing Sal?

[onyx]

Wouldn't that beat all?

[antaresequity]

Whadja do with Laughing Sal?

My dad sold her to John Wickett in 1972. He has recently passed away and it is now going on the auction block.