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A hand-written letter signed by Brian from Park Lore. It reads, "A self-indulgent and broad thank you is a ridiculous thing to post, but it does feel like a good day to say how sincerely lucky I am that you – yes, you! – are here. Five years ago, I decided to put all my stuff in one place, bought a domain, and just kept writing and drawing. Now, 1.6 million words and hundreds of niche diagrams, ride layouts, and park build-outs later, I have to pinch myself when I realize I have the supreme gift of sharing my work, ideas, and opinions with people who actually care. The purpose of life, I think. Thank you for it – especially supporting Members. It's beyond my wildest imagination and I can't wait to share what's next."

Interestingly, for all its success, the Disney theme show is quite a fragile thing. It just takes one contradiction…one out of place stimulus to negate a particular moment’s experience. Take that street car conductor’s costume away and put him in double knit slacks and a golf shirt….replace that old Gay Nineties melody with a rock number…replace the themed merchandise with digital clock radios and electric hair dryers…tack up a felt-tip drawn paper sign that says ‘Keep Out’…place a touch of astro turf here…add a surly employee there…it really doesn’t take much to upset it all.

What’s our success formula? Well, it’s attention to infinite detail…the little things, the minor picky points that other companies just don’t want to take the time, the money, the effort, to do right. As far as our Disney organization is concerned…it’s the only way we’ve ever done it…it’s been our success formula in the past and it will be applied to our future projects as well. We’ll probably still be explaining this to outsiders at the end of our next two decades in this business.