I love reading your old stories Floyd, keep 'em coming.  What is the old animation building used for these days?  They should get it restored and turn it into a muesuem or something.

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Always love these trips down the Animation Building's memory lane...uh, hallway!  Cheers, Bob

lostincrowds said:

I love reading your old stories Floyd, keep 'em coming.  What is the old animation building used for these days?  They should get it restored and turn it into a muesuem or something.

The Animation Building was taken over by corporate types soon after Michael Eisner was named CEO. All of the animators who had helped build the Disney legacy were unceremoniously kicked out of the Disney Studio in Burbank and moved into a couple of warehouses in Pasadena. It's particularly ironic in that Walt had his architects design the Animation Building specific to the needs of the animation crew, much as Floyd details in the room layouts, etc. There was so much rich history in that building, all scattered to the wind when Eisner decided his execs needed cushy offices in there instead.

Oops, sorry - I said Pasadena but meant Glendale. I pushed the Submit button before I realized my mistake!

Thank god Eisner's gone. Hopefully Iger really will be better.

Thank you so much for sharing! What a beautiful piece of animation history told by a great Disney Legend. :)

You guys are making it so hard for me to know that I can't go to Comic-Con this year, even though I'm near San Diego that weekend. D:

Ponsonby Britt said:

"There was so much rich history in that building, all scattered to the wind when Eisner decided his execs needed cushy offices in there instead."

Please tell me that's just an exaggeration. That sounds extremely upsetting. D:

Well, at least Iger seems to be a lot better so far.

Ponsonby Britt said:

"There was so much rich history in that building, all scattered to the wind when Eisner decided his execs needed cushy offices in there instead."

Please tell me that's just an exaggeration. That sounds extremely upsetting. D:

Well, at least Iger seems to be a lot better so far."<

Actually, you can relax. The Old Animation Building is completely occupied by Screenwriters, Directors and Producers. The studio Execs., have been in the Team Disney Building four many years now. The Old Anim. Bldn, has become a nice creative environment for many Disney feature projects and TV series. Not anything like when it was a true animation building, but still, their isn't a coat and tie in sight.

That may well be the case now, Bobbydafan, but it's still cold comfort to me, considering the mindset behind the dreck that constitutes much of Disney's live-action and television output. The Animation Building should have been returned to the animation staff after the execs moved into the Team Disney Building. Instead, they got a silly big blue hat across the street.

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