Defunctland: The History of Mickey Mouse Park

28 thoughts on “Defunctland: The History of Mickey Mouse Park”

1. Hey everyone! Hope you like the video. I see many people commenting on the use of "Dixie" in the intro, and I want to be clear that this was done purposefully with knowledge of its historical context. If you look at the context it is placed, both with the images of the intro and within the video's theme as a whole, I hope it makes sense as to why I included it.

   I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. If you need something else to past the time, as always, I recommend my experimental channel Themed Alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lp9sObiJNk

2. thank you kevin
   wonderful job

3. Was….was Walt autistic?

4. Is that song in the end the kaiserreich theme

5. disney's oversimplified and overglorified past revisionism may not have been complex from him, but we are beings affected by incredibly complex, interlaced social strains, and there is certainly something to be said that someone so influential because of his wealth not giving weight to the complexity of his own nostalgia is where critique can nestle into to form. combine this nostalgia with a hostility to worker rights and a supposedly particularly american paranoid style ('i was denied because the politicians are listening to my resentful studio employees!' and 'communist infiltration plot' rhetoric is a really telling signature of this paranoid style; i say supposedly because it could be applied to britain as well), and you see a synthesis of a general worldview that today we would identify as the loose affect that is complacent towards fascist leanings. it becomes irrelevant whether or not the man himself sees in this complexity, a person is affected by and becomes a complexity, and with the power of wealth and wealth-influence, 'i am not complex' is just handwaving the responsibility of that power.

6. Here at 943,980 views. (before that too… maybe)

7. Steam-up parties sounds like such a fire party concept ❤️😂

8. You know, the more I learn about Walt, the more I wonder if he had ADHD.

9. There's no way Walt wasn't on the autism spectrum – and I say that as an autistic person myself.

10. 3:33: Walt lost his friends, his studio, and his hobby… and it was all Art Babbitt's fault.

11. Outstanding doc. Now if I could just find a train ….

12. Why did he play the confederate anthem in the intro

13. Basically the man got nostalgic and made it everyone’s problem

14. disney actively being involved = bambi, pinocchio, and fantasia
    disney not being involved = Cinderella
    Ummm why didn’t they get him distracted sooner??

15. you may be rich, but are you operational-train-in-backyard rich?

16. Fantastic sequence editing! Every damn time.

17. I don't love how catchy I find the cover of Dixie

18. THE UNHOLY CACKLE I LET OUT WHEN "he was broken and depressed" WAS FOLLOWED BY SOME JAUNTY FUCKING TUNE

19. Factual, exaggerated, or a fib..as someone who has struggled with depression and dealt with the idea of “what the hell happened and where did my life go” that story of Walt conducting the train and pulling the horn and being revitalized brought a legit tear to my eye.

20. I'm the voice of experience on this, some seasons are better than others. Just hang on.

21. It's too bad that Walt was a smoker, that's what killed him.

22. Try and fail, but never fail to try.

23. “As he sat there … he was broken and depressed.” Ok, cool. Way to savagely read your viewer like that.

24. I don’t know what it is but something about this brought a tear to my eye. Walt being obsessed with trains – and having the opportunity to build some – while extremely depressed is so touching.

25. Where his kids saw fun and relaxation at Griffin Park, Walt saw capitalistic enterprising opportunities

26. The more I hear about Disneyland's history, the more I think: 'Damn, this is basically a manchild with money'

    Good for him, good for him

27. So did people want Atrocity Park? Walt wanted to enjoy his memories.

28. When it comes to Disney's view of history he was building his park from his own memories as a kid growing up at the turn of the century, and he was looking back on it through industrial strength rose colored glasses. That said Walt wasn't a historian, he was a storyteller, but does that mean Disneyland and Disneyworld's attractions need to become stuck in Walt's time no, it was suppose to be an idealized view of American History and America itself, not a reflection of realty, and it should be updated to be the idealized version of America's past as seen in 2022 not 1955.

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