- Network: Disney+
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 12, 2019
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While Iwerks’ vision comes with its own biases and we know that current Disney leadership would never allow something too disparaging to anchor launch day of something as important as Disney+, The Imagineering Story is more candid than expected.
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It’s fascinating to hear the stories behind game-changing rides like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Matterhorn straight from the mouths of the artists and engineers who helped create them. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, it all comes with a heaping helping of corporate propaganda, with Bassett’s voiceover whitewashing such troubling legacies as Walt Disney’s well-documented history of union busting.
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It is a stunningly hagiographic piece of television that verges on placing Disney World in the same ranks as the Seven Wonders of the World. I love Disney World, but you’ll learn almost nothing from this series, one that should have taken a step back and attempted something greater than a long-form commercial.