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Mickey Mouse is there to greet visitors. Also on hand are Minnie, Tinker Bell, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Donald Duck and Dumbo. So are Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and other lures for the 32 million Japanese who live within a 30-mile radius, as well as for tourists from all over...
Everything is as American as the bright red fire truck near the band shell and not far from the barbershop, sort of the way it was in Disney's home town of Marceline, Mo. When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...
...cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam and perpetual rain. This baroque Tomorrowland juggles images from a dozen yesterdays: walk out of the rain and into a 1940s world of overhead fan blades and women in shoulder-pad jackets moving to the cadence of a keening alto sax. The filthy streets are clogged with Third World losers and carnivores, while 10 ft. above...
...planning Disneyland, which opened in 1955, Walt Disney solved the problem in a novel way. He lined his idealized Main Street, U.S.A., through which all visitors must pass before getting to Tomorrowland or Frontierland, with Chinese elms. They are not quite look-alikes of their American cousins, but do grow in balmy Southern California. More important, they resist Dutch elm disease...
Perhaps Harvard should take a tip from Walt Disney and divide our requirements into Tomorrowland, Adventureland, Frontierland...