The Wonderful World of Walt

I try not to post my own personal blue sky ideas much, mainly for personal reasons, but this one I want to see what people think of.

What would happen if, for Disney California Adventure's 20th Anniversary, and Walt's 120th birthday year (2021), Disney makes a show honoring the man who created the Mouse, and the park, and even after, inspired everything we have today?

It's not a great photoshop job, but I'm still working on how to really make things look more and more professional. However, this gets the point across, I hope. This is a rough draft idea, and can definitely use tweaks here and there to polish it, but I think it's an idea that could be really grand.

Photo links: Walt and World of Color

The show starts with the soft pier background music. Everyone's all standing along the waterfront, chatting with a coffee or a beer from the Garden across the way, and suddenly the lights lower. The music quiets.

As people hush their conversations, and start to cheer, you hear a train slowly chugging into the station, with small white fountains bobbing in a line as the train nears the stop along the station. As the quiet dapper music plays, you see a young walt step out of a passenger car, looks to Mickey and say "Well Mickey, you ready for your big break?" As he says this, the music picks up into a song about following your dreams, with a very classic, but upbeat style, with white fountains dancing. Relatively close to the program style used in the entrance of the current show. Dancers rotating in circles, with a few line of chasers towards the back. 

As the intro ends, the clips begin. 

the entire show brings in popular clips from the dawn of Walt and Mickey. With a newly configured spirit (yes, at this point Little Squirt would come back, but with Walt Narrative)

Starting still in "black" and white fountains, Walt's voice and spirit come around on the platform, talking about how we need to make a new dream with Mickey. He's basically talking to Mickey as a director, telling Mickey what to do, and mentoring him.  

Walt

"What we need, Mickey, is you saving Minnie. You captain the Steamboat, and save the girl, ok?" 

Mickey

"aha, you got it, boss!" 

We then venture through Steamboat Willie. As the boat sails across screen, water gags hit the cues with the film on screen, very akin to how The Just Add Water concerts are now with Maestro Goofy. 

"well boss, how'd that take go?" 

Walt

"Great job! Now let's make you a friend. How about a duck?"

As he says this, donald is drawn on screen. 

Mickey

"ha, boss, I sure could use a pal!" 

Walt

Alright, now, lets take a stand, and play with the band. 

The Band concert's then kicks up. This is when color starts to appear in the show. Up until now, it's all in white fountains. 

Donald's hijinks are displayed through the fountains as blue, Mickey's in red, and they battle back and forth. 

This progress from the band concert to the next cartoon, with Fantasia and the darker part of the show

Walt

"Well Mickey, people love you. Want to try your luck with my magic?" 

Mickey

"you trust me? Golly, that'd sure be swell, boss!"

As the says this, Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice appears, with orange dancing fountains as broomsticks, and as more fountains add water,  waves of water with blue lasers rising up fill the area, and Walt cuts it short. 

"whoa, whoa, whoa there little buddy. Gotta practice more! Lets try this. You take a break, and we're going to make some new characters appear. Someday, you're going to direct all of this."

From here, the show starts a montage of characters. Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella, Snow White, Peter Pan, etc. As it gets around to the films made in the 60's, Walt calls in Mickey. 

"Mickey, I can't do this much longer. I'm passing all of this on to you."

Mickey

"But, but...boss! I can't do this, I need you! They need you!"

Walt

"Mickey, you're going to do wonderful things, my friend. Go, and keep the magic....alive"

"B...b-boss? Mr. Walt?"

You hear a quiet, raspy sigh, and with that, Mickey stands up, walks across the water screens and picks up the paint brush Walt uses to create the characters on screen. 

"Alright guys, let's make magic!"

now Mickey conducts the show, and from here he helps create his friends. From Jungle book to Pete's Dragon, to Little Mermaid, Lion King,  Toy Story, Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc. This is when the show "blows up" with Mickey coming up with the characters we've grown up with, only to end the show with the final song, And Mickey saying "well boss, We've made it. Look at what you've done for all of us. Lets make some more magic!" and it ends. 

This is the first time I'm thinking this through, and it can easily be rewritten, and rewritten, and again, rewritten to work. But I think the basic concept here, with a show about Walt and Mickey coming together to make what we've grown up with can be very powerful, and done very well. Something I hope could become a great story to show someday. 

What do you think?