"I almost feel like it would be harder to go through the next handful of years without Bandit internalizing his dad struggles while still dropping the weight of the world off his shoulders to still play crazy games with his girls."

:It’s the beauty of Disney – it holds different memories… different meanings… for everyone."

"I can almost envision Alice and I walking hand in hand among the croquet match, listening to the Queen of Hearts demand her bounty of rolling heads, and trying to make heads and tails of who is winning the confounded game. Am I leading her to safety or is she leading me?"

"While many critics and fans laud the technological advances of this franchise, the moving and uniquely relevant story often gets overlooked."

"1940 ended with two critical and soon-to-become classics costing the Disney Studio. Much needed profits were not rolling in. A war overseas threatened worldwide film distribution, not to mention the threat of American involvement."

As Mickey was evolving, the company was too, and 1939 was showing the studio was prepared to tell the world new stories and show new ways to tell them… but was the world ready?

"Join me as I share a few artifacts from the time "flat" Fantasyland was transformed into a rich world of enticing detail, a realm welcoming guests into three-dimensional enchantment!

"Guests can act out the scenes from Disney movies as if they really are the characters and the movie scenes seem to really happen."

"Snow White is as exciting as a Western, as funny as a haywire comedy. It combines the classic idiom of folklore drama with rollicking comic-strip humor.”

"Keep them wondering. Let ‘em call it ‘Disney’s Folly’ or any other damn thing, as long as they keep talking about it..."

"... eventually a public that Walt knew best would prove just how wrong his critics were."

"I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things, based on the real, unless we first know the real." - Walt Disney, 1935

"Walt was right: You can’t top pigs with pigs. However, a temperamental duck has serious staying power."

"It hit at a psychological moment, in 1933, when everybody actually had a Big Bad Wolf at their door. It wasn’t intentional on our part, we just took it and made it as a subject!”

"Colors on a screen that had, up until now, shown shades of black, white, and gray, were shining with the green tops of trees and fiery reds and oranges of fire against a blue sky."

"Through the adventures of one Mouse, Disney had been building a stable of characters. Of course, they didn’t always start out as the characters they became..."

"After all, he had two successful series and a top animator in Ub Iwerks – what could possibly go wrong?"

"Walt proved once again that he knew his audience well. The Silly Symphonies were a hit. Mickey was taking off even more...

"Although not in any way, shape, or form a complete detail of what happened during or after those fateful New York meetings, I felt it best to let Walt Disney tell the story himself..."