My daughter’s hero, John Lasseter was born on
this day in 1957. John first worked for Disney as a Jungle Cruise skipper at
Disneyland and eventually worked as an animator for Walt Disney Feature
Animation. Today he is the Chief Creative Officer for Pixar and Disney
Animation. Toy Story, Cars, Up, Wall-E,
Wreck It Ralph and a host of other movies we brought to completion under
the guidance, or direct work of, John Lasseter. There are very few corners of
WDW that you can visit where you won’t find Lasseter’s influence to some
degree. You could sleep in the Cars section of Art of Animation, go to
Hollywood Studios and ride Toy Story Midway Mania, meet Merida at the Magic
Kingdom, experience It’s Tough To Be A Bug in the Animal Kingdom and we even
played Brave games at EPCOT on our
last trip. John Lasseter may be today’s version of Walt; he certainly is to
Allison.
I learned to read by looking at comic books. I
remember being at Hinkle’s Motel and Restaurant in Louisa, about three years
old, looking at comics on the Motel’s magazine rack. In the comic, when the
hero hit the villain there was a big splash of color, action and a word: BAM!
or POW! or Whack! and I started to figure out that those words represented the
sound of the villain being thumped. It was the first time that I assigned
meaning to the written word. That comic was
Batman and a couple of years later, in 1966, “Batman” with Adam West and
Burt Ward appeared on television. Batman and Superman were always my favorites
even though Stan Lee was my comic book version of John Lasseter. I know Disney
owns Marvel but every time that I ride Soarin’ at EPCOT, I am thinking, “I can
fly like Superman.”
My amazing mental abilities tell me that you
have almost finished reading today’s blog. But my abilities pale in comparison
to the “Amazing” Kreskin, born in 1935. But I do feel some vibrations on the
spiritual plane, it’s a message…
Remember, your best excuse is always: waiting
for your dreams to come true.
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