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Full Track - Episode 32: How Disney Blew it with Don Bluth

from Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - How Disney Blew it with Don Bluth by The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill look back at when Don Bluth resigned from Walt Disney Animation Studios in September of 1979 and then took 15% of that studio’s artists & animators with him. Drew then shares the interview that he did with Chris Butler, the director of “Missing Link” (i.e., Laika’s latest stop motion movie)

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Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:

How exhibitors reacted when a work-in-progress version of “Toy Story 3” was screened at ShoWest (now CinemaCon) in Las Vegas back in March of 2010

How Ron Miller’s outright dismissal of “Banjo the Woodpile Cat” made an already bad situation worse at Walt Disney Animation Studios back in the late 1970s

How Michael Eisner should have learned from the lessons of the past (i.e., Disney’s mishandling of the Don Bluth situation = the Studio’s animated features being forced to compete in a far more crowded marketplace) when it came to Jeffrey Katzenberg

How Robert Stevenson turned one giant prop rock into the entire Arctic Circle in Walt Disney Productions’ December 1974 release, “The Island at the Top of the World”

How did Tim Burton persuade the powers-that-be at Disney that the villain of his live-action “Dumbo” reimagining should basically be an evil version of Walt (i.e., Michael Keaton’s character, V.A. Vandevere, the ruthless entrepreneur behind Dreamland)

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from Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - How Disney Blew it with Don Bluth, track released March 9, 2019
Hosts: Drew Taylor and Jim Hill
Editor: Aaron Z. Adams

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Jim Hill is a writer, blogger, and theme park historian, and he'll be the first to tell you all of the back-room deals and corporate gossip that happens inside the Walt Disney Company.

Len Testa co-authors the Unofficial Guide series of travel books, focusing on theme parks.
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