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Blog Post: Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 4

Todd James Pierce

Picking up where we left off yesterday ... The real problems for Disney began to emerge in the fall of 1987. Though the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot had originally been budgeted at $150 million to $300 million, in September Disney received new estimates from architecture and construction firms that placed...

on30 May 2008
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...

on29 May 2008
Blog Post: Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part I

Todd James Pierce

Most longtime Disney fans know that Disney’s California Adventure was not Michael Eisner ’s first attempt at establishing a second Disney theme park in California. There was, of course, WESTCOT in Anaheim and Port Disney in Long Beach . But hardly anyone talks about Eisner’s first attempt to bring a...

on27 May 2008