Making of Dream Makers Statue for Hong Kong Disneyland

A behind-the-scenes look at how Imagineers from Hong Kong and the US worked together to design and create a new statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse for Hong Kong Disneyland.
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[@RankingTheMouse]

This is so beautiful. I'm so glad Walt is still the center. Thank you for showing this video & for giving us this background. Truly magical.

[@solgast]

Truly amazing! Continue to bridge your dreams to reality, young one. I look forward to the upcoming 100 years.

[@Dan-56]

Wonderful to see the statue go from concept to finished project, and it’s truly a joyous pose of Walt and Mickey that will bring smiles to the faces of all the guests 😃👍!

[@lyndakorner2383]

"I do not make films for children... or, at least, not primarily for children." "You're dead if you aim for kids." "We design the films to appeal to ourselves." "The adults have the money; ... children don't have any money." - Walt Disney

[@lyndakorner2383]

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[@lyndakorner2383]

Just as the majority of households subscribing to Disney+ do not contain children, the majority of parties visiting Disneyland, and its progeny, throughout their history, have also not contained children. In fact, Walt Disney told the C.B.C. in a 1963 interview that 80% of Disneyland's guests are adults.

[@lyndakorner2383]

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[@lyndakorner2383]

The plaque on the "Partners" statue in Central Plaza at Disneyland is a lie. Walt Disney never uttered the sentence attributed to him.

[@TheOnlyJohnAbraham]

"Where parents and children can have fun together"... even if it's made up, why do you care so much?

[@lyndakorner2383]

The original maquette Blaine Gibson sculpted for "Partners" depicted Mickey Mouse as a child who was holding in one of his hands Walt Disney's, and, in the other, Mickey held an ice-cream cone. Thankfully, someone had the good sense to get rid of the ice-cream cone in the finished product, but, unfortunately, Walt and Mickey were still depicted holding hands. Mickey is a "happy little bachelor," not a child, so "Partners" has never made sense. And, the false quotation is not helping. A better quotation would be, "Disneyland will never be complete; it will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." That sentiment implicitly refers to Mr. Disney's death and legacy while also emphasizing the longevity and ongoing work of the organization he founded.

[@OrvinReyes]

sorry but disney HK is the worst ive been to, so many mainland chinese overcrowding the place, pushing themselves around, cutting lines, shouting all over. please control it.

[@IDK-ui5en]

As a local every time I go it’s just filled with rude mainlanders most locals hate them being there but there’s nothing much we can do about it I don’t even wanna know how it is in shanghai

[@no.sw_tz]

@@IDK-ui5en I can support on that, it aint our fault bro, locals hate the mainlanders LMAOOO, generally its their culture...