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Blog Post:
Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 3
Todd James Pierce
Picking up where we left off yesterday ... Despite the two MCA lawsuits, Disney continued to develop plans for the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot in Burbank . At the helm of the Disney project were two Imagineers: a young Joe Rohde (then 32-years-old) and Rick Rothschild . Their mission was to seamlessly...
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29 May 2008
Blog Post:
Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 2
Todd James Pierce
Picking up where we left off yesterday ... During the first five months of 1987, Burbank city officials worked toward an agreement with Disney to build a theme-park-slash-shopping-center in their downtown district. At issue was the money: Disney wanted to buy the land for next to nothing. Disney also...
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28 May 2008
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