Leslie Iwerks

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Leslie Iwerks | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 18 Mar 2026 podcast

that you could meet them and you could get a photo with them.

And it's this walk-through experience that you can walk through the castle and you can live in these worlds.

And it was the first immersive theme park, I think, by far.

Yeah, the Coney Islands and the, you know...

I mean, even Knott's Berry Farm, which Walt loved, and he was friends with the owner, you know, the owners, the Knott's.

And Knott's was, in a sense, a theme park too, but it wasn't based on IP that was known around the world, right?

So I think what I've always found fascinating is this idea of vertical integration from a business model standpoint that Walt did.

It was taking this IP, and then now he can put it into the parks, and now people can experience that IP in a completely different way.

And I don't like the word IP, but these characters, these beloved characters and stories that people can experience and live and breathe, and that is a whole other way of living and breathing.

these stories yeah and and that has that in and of itself was a brilliant business model that hadn't been done before and now lives on all these years later around the world and now the imagineers at disney are completely taking all this all these brands all these stories and all these characters that we've loved for decades and now pushing the envelope with the technology and always trying to you know be ahead of the technology so that we can experience them in even greater ways

I do, actually.

I do.

I think I was in the thick of this project when I was down there for the 70th anniversary party, and I just remember looking at Main Street and going, look at which brick was that, and

It looks so similar to what hasn't changed.

And I think that nostalgia and that, I think for fans, they love the fact that so much of this is still there.

It hasn't been torn down or redone or whatever.

Walt's Disneyland is still intact.

And hopefully it always will be that his castle, his main street, the things that he loved, his, um, rivers of America will always be there because this is, this was Walt's DNA.

Yeah, it's a tricky one.

And I know the Imagineers, you know, have that...

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