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Defunctland

Interview w/ Former Imagineer Brian Collins: "Spiels, Shootouts, and Signage"

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8573 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Kevin interviews former Imagineer Brian Collins about his time in Imagineering, where he worked on many of the original Disney-MGM attractions as a show writer, including the Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you wish upon a lot.

0:04.9

Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.

0:09.2

Disneyland.

0:13.9

Just go to action park with no other park like it.

0:16.9

Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.

0:22.7

Paramount's Kings Island.

0:24.1

We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.

0:26.9

Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.

0:35.5

Now, here is your host.

0:37.5

Hi, and welcome back to the Defunct Land podcast.

0:39.5

My name is Kevin Perger.

0:40.9

Today, I am joined by a very special guest, former Imagineer Brian Collins.

0:45.3

Brian, thank you for joining me.

0:46.7

Hey, it's my pleasure to be here.

0:47.9

Thanks, Kevin.

0:48.7

I'm always excited to get to talk to an Imagineer of any sort.

0:53.0

But you in particular are really exciting to me because you've worked

0:57.7

on a lot of Disney MGM attractions. And I have not had the opportunity to discuss these in depth

1:05.2

yet. So I'm very thrilled to do that as well as just talk about your career as a whole. So

1:09.6

thank you for coming on. No, this will be a lot of fun so uh usually when i talk about um stuff that's defunct uh it it's kind of

1:18.8

sounds dated right away but it's uh perfect for you guys so uh this will be fun yes it's the topicality

1:26.6

of yesterday here at defunct right yeah it's uh Yes, it's the topicality of yesterday here at Defunco. Right. Right.

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