They have a Disney store on site, smaller than those you see in malls around the world. I also noticed that the merchandise was more reasonably priced and if you were an employee I believe you received a 20–25% discount. On both occassions they (the employees) would always assume I worked there.

In the center of the campus were the main offices. At the time I passed by the office of Jerry Bruckheimer and remember thinking, “Hey, it’s the guy who did The Rock and Beverly Hills Cop.”

Surrounding the main offices were the production houses. You could see employees in there editing film and just about every one of these small offices had characters from past films (in toy and poster form) lining the windows.

Towards the back of the complex there were memorial plaques (plastered in cement) for several Disney animators, composers, employees, etc. who had passed on. I believe Marc Davis was still alive at the time, which would have been 1999 or 2000, but he has since passed on and I would imagine he has a plaque there as well.

To sum it all up, it was a once (or in my case, twice) in a lifetime experience, of which I’ll always remember.