#started with a mouse

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as an Uncharted fan, I find Billy Unger (aka baby Nate) as a goody good book nerd in Lab Rats utterly delightful

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Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?

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Now, with ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure, there’s an alternate reality experience inside a theme park. An outgrowth of the Flynn Lives alternate reality game that played out at Comic-Con International and elsewhere in the 18 months leading up to last year’s release of Tron: Legacy, ElecTRONica is a movie transmuted into an ARG reborn as a theme-park attraction.

Most of the article's about either that or the tech/analogies/causes of theme park rides in general, but the end is what struck me (emphasis mine):

In an odd way, the new Tron and ElecTRONica close the loop on the Disney legacy. When the original Tron was released, in 1982, it seemed utterly alien to Disney and what it stood for. At the time, the company was struggling to find its place in the world; Walt had died in 1966, but “What would Walt do?” was still the mantra in the executive suite.

That such a futuristic film, not to mention a computer-animated one, got made at Disney back then was a fluke of the first order. (The studio brass wasted no time getting rid of Tim Burton and John Lasseter when they surfaced on the lot in the same period.) Yet Disney himself was both a serious techie — he pushed the invention of Audio-Animatronics, for example — and a pioneer of the alternate reality experience, in the form of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle and Main Street USA. It’s a measure of how far we’ve all come since — Disneyland, Disney Studios and we the audience — that this has all come together at Disney California Adventure.

Walt was all about doing new shit, which I think people forget these days; I'm always side eyeing at those "Walt Disney would be rolling in his grave at all these neeeeeew things in Disney films" pages.

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This is ORI-FRIGGIN-GAMI.

Bad. Ass.