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How Disneyland Became America’s Great National Park


It’s a small world … -dominating empire after all.

By far, the buzziest piece of criticism of the year so far — more talked about and clicked upon than that scathing literati takedown in Bookforum, or all of those Madame Web drubbings, or even the worst and meanest of reactions to the new Katy Perry song — is a four-hour video in which YouTuber Jenny Nicholson thoroughly analyzes every inch of the now-defunct Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser immersive hotel at Walt Disney World. But how did a scrappy Jazz Age animation studio peddling a Felix the Cat knockoff become, in essence, a travel, real-estate, and robotics-engineering company? Upcoming episodes will focus on Disney’s animation studio, adventures in the Wonderful World of Corporate Acquisitions (that means Marvel and Star Wars), and more.

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