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Article: Lots of Disney blood surges through theme park world. (Walt Disney Co. former employees put up own entertainment firms)

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June 21, 1993
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As an entertainment industry pioneer, Walt Disney Co. has employed many technical whizzes. But despite Disney's success and the perks it offered, not all the sorcerers in the Magic Kingdom were happy. A cadre of Disney defectors has gone on to successfully run their own companies, creating futuristic theme park attractions and interactive entertainment.

A Disney dropout cottage industry is growing in the shadow of Disney's Imagineering division, which is the fount for Disney's theme park technological developments. There are well over a dozen high-tech entertainment firms in the Burbank/Universal City area owned by former Disney techies.

These firms are ...

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