Walt : **can't gain scholarship to art school** Walt : _It's time to be the dictator of Germany._

Funny how Ub and Walt wanted to be released from commercial shackles, then grew into the biggest company to put shackles on people.

Imagine a different timeline where the aspiring artist Walt Disney is denied his Fine Arts degree at University and goes into politics while a young artist called Adolf Schickelgruber is just handing in his end of term papers as best of class.

Alternate History Hub: What if Walt Disney's idea for Epcot became a reality?

Isn’t it fascinating that In the 1950’s people where so bored that “funny cartoon man buys a carnival” literally shaped a large portion of how media grew.

So we're going to gloss over how a private company wanted 20K residents to live within the US borders but not be allowed any say in local government (which most people will agree is the most important)? Like imagine if it took off so every company decided to have their own little corporate fiefdoms.

cant wait until disney buys knowlegehub and makes a cinematic universe out of it

Oh boy

With only 3 circles, I dominate the planet!

"It started with a guy who liked to draw..." God damn I wish there was a little more of that in Disney these days.

Sounds like Hitler, execpt walt's art career succeeded.

"Walt Disnies main fascination as a child was drawing and trains"... I like trains guy comes to mind

So the original version of Epcot was essentially Rapture but on land? No wonder I both like what Disney does but I'm at the same time creeped out by it. It's ironic that an hyper-capitalist utopia city took on Socialistic design choices (central ring, all public transport, etc.) which just encapsulates the 1950s in a nutshell.

Walt Disney might not have been the nicest guy but boy did he have a great mustache

This is well-timed. I've been reading the biography, "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" after work. It's well worth reading if you have interest in Walt Disney. He wasn't the best at drawing, animating, or directing, but he could tell a good story and he didn't stop at anything to make his dreams a reality. I find that beyond admirable and I hope to gain those qualities myself. His dedication to his visions were tyrannical. For example, many of his animators were disgruntled by the abuse of Disney and turned coat with Charlie Mintz. While he could achieve his dreams and his drive towards innovation are amazing, I can't help but feel that his control of EPCOT wouldn't work out unless he changed himself. Without much doubt, it would have ended up as a real-life Rapture.

So basically instead of a massive genocide we could have had a massive German cartoon company should an Austrian kid draw a mouse instead of a bunch of swastikas. Interesting

What if Harald Hardrada won at Stamford bridge and subsequently beat William the Conqueror?

I'm proud to be the CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Can't wait to rule the world

RobPlays, Offhand Disney, and Defunctland have made more in depth history on EPCOT, Reedy Creek, and the Florida Project if anyone is interested on the topics.

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So when do we get a "What if EPCOT was Created" alternate history episode?

Just a thought in Alternate History: if Disney existed in the world of the Southern Victory series, his family home in Missouri/Kansas would be awfully close to the Mason/Dixon line; which is where most of the trench warfare took place. Disney never leaves to France for he might have enrolled joined the war close to home. Again he might have been too young to fight and would still do mercenary work like in our timeline. If he lives till the end of the war (from which the Central powers which America has become part of wins ww1), his family moves to Kansas City, and his ambitions of being a filmmaker flourish. Also within this timeline Ub Iwerks is Ubbe Eert Iwwerks as there was no abolishment of German heritage in ww1 like in our timeline. Maybe because of Disney being closer to the war would mean he’d profit more propaganda cartoons about fighting the south like what he did with fighting Nazis in our timeline. Just a thought.

Disney, please don’t take down this video

Oswald deserves better. Epic Mickey took the first major step toward reacquainting folks with the Lucky Rabbit, but with Junction Point having gone under, I wonder who at Disney will succeed Spector and co. in terms of enthusiasm for Mickey’s half-brother.

Can you do history of alternate history hub and knowledge hub

Without Walt's ambitions back then, other animation companies later to come probably would not have come to existence.

welp there you go disney fans

This video is a dream come true! My favourite type of history is that of the Disney company and you’re one of my favourite world history channels!

What a coincidence that you uploaded this video while I’m in Disney World! Plus it is Mickeys 90th birthday. (More coincidence?)

I got a Marvel ad before this. Marvel is owned by Disney. This video is about Disney. COINCIDENCE? I! THINK! NOT!!!

Like the Roman Empire. But more evil.

When you say the words “giant media conglomerate” I think of entertainment 720, the most thought out and carefully executed business ever created.

Walt Disney got his name on the Biggest Corporation of Media and Cartoon, now forever be immortalized.

"You can only expect so much space when in the middle of a city." Anaheim was not a city when Disneyland was built. It was a farm county and Disneyland was built on an orange grove. There was plenty of miles of space but Walt could only buy so much land at the time. And when Disneyland became a hit it drew in many motels and resturants leading to the big city that the area is today.

Before even watching the video I want to thank you for being one of the last few content creators not exclusively taking suggestions from Patreon.

What if Walt lived long enough to see his dream of Epcot become a reality? That would be a good alternate history video eh?

Doing Disney at 666k, DEVIL.

You forgot the guy from New York who made Betty Boop and lost to Walt Disney. I forgot his name😐

Ub and Walt are the best example of true friends. They always had eachothers backs even through rocky times

I love the new(ish) animation style of Knowledge Hub. A bit trippy at times, but it's pretty darn unique

Let's face it, Disney wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me. Who was the one that brought it back up from bankruptcy back in the early 80s? Who started the renaissance era of animated movies? That's right, it was me

Actually, I've seen the Alice Comedies. They're on DVD but I forget which DVD

My great grandfather was an artist and cartoonist, and just before WW2 he got an offer to work for Disney as an animator. But then the war started and he got drafted so he had to turn down the offer. Although it's cool to think that I'm related to an almost veteran Disney animator.

Fun fact: for the Epic Mickey games Disney bought back the rights to Oswald. It’s a shame he hasn’t really been used since

6:00 Kinda makes me wonder what will happen if they went with Mortimer mouse.... Might be shortened to Morty mouse later on

0:43 he was just VORE

The editing on this was great!

Thanks for making this!

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What if the Epcot city was built?

Where did you get these stock videos omg they are funny. Great editing.

Your drawings of Disney characters look so good that I expect this video to get auto-DMCA'd.

This is why I say Oswald IS the original Disney character

Walt Disney is immortalized by the Media company he created.

A little redirection. Ub Iwerks was a very talented man, but he was married to the old style of animation. He was indeed one of, if not the, best animators that worked in the 20s who was very good at making his characters likable and personable. Not only was he very good, but he was very FAST. 600 drawings a day type of fast. In that he was in a league of his own. However, once he left, it actually turned out to be for Disney's benefit. You see, while Iwerks was incredibly talented, his actual animation was fairly close to the industry standards of the time. Once they stopped relying on Iwerks' peerless production, Disney's animators set about revolutionizing the industry by developing modern animation techniques that are still followed to this day. By the time Iwerks was brought back to Disney only 10 years later, the company had made probably the most impressive leap in an artform that we've ever seen. They went from the relatively crude Steamboat Willie and other Mickey shorts, to the ridiculously polished animation of Pinocchio and the other Golden Age films that are in many ways unrivaled to this day in terms of animation craftsmanship. Ub Iwerks, was still only in his 30s when he went back to Disney, but was hopelessly behind the times. And so he worked on special effects. And it turned out he was awesome at that as well.

Your handmade drawings were beautiful.

The mention of the red scare reminds me of something you should do. Ever considered covering the satanic panic?

It still has over 666,000 subs

Similar things happened with John Kricfalusi (creator of Ren & Stimpy) at Nickelodeon studios. Animation studios produce such beauty but are seemingly volatile places to work.

Fun Fact. The Recording for Steamboat Willie was recorded in New York and Carl Edourade did the Conducting

"I like trains."-walt disney

You forgot the part where he froze himself

My grandpa was an animator back in the day and (for a little while) was a competitor of him and Walt Disney was a brutal business man. He told stories about how the guy would walk through the studio and fire people who were shooting the breeze.

'He had a fascination for drawing even at this young age' There are many interesting points in this sentence

I wish I had survived No Nut November but then your video came like me

Fun fact Walt Disney created South Park back in 1978. He created it while on set for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I live here in Kansas City, and I smiled ear to ear when you started talking about Kansas City

I am loving the weird drawings Keep up the good work

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Can you do a what if British lost the Argentinian

I gotta admit, I wish we could have seen Walt’s original idea for Epcot brought to life.

2:29 That draw will follow me on my nightmares, thank you

No joke I got a Disney world ad during the vid.

Ah, Disney. The only company I'd allow to become a mega corporation.

Epcot city sounds absolutely terrifying. Impressive but scary as hell.

I've been loving you since 2015 my guy

His avatar keeps reminding me of Lenin

Doesn't this Walt and Ub sound familiar to Joey and Henry from Bendy and the ink machine?

It’s almost it’s birthday for this vid

Glad you mentioned that Walt loved trains.

You pronounced Ub Iwerks wrong, it's Oob, not like Ub

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Amazing that this used to be Knowledgehub. How times changed.

They did build a city (Celebration, FL) but then sold it to the state in like 1998. Not in ring patterns or anything but definitely the nice part of town. Lived like 5 minutes from there.

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I know it's a stupidly minor, pathetic first-world-problem and typical-whiney-people-on-the-internet-are-resistant-to change complaint to have but... the stock footage is really distracting. It really takes me out of the narrative watching unrelated stock footage, especially when it's all glossy and HD and the subject matter is set in the 20s. I get having to keep up with the times and evolving the videos etc etc, but it's really taken that Knowledge Hub style out of the videos. That's part of what made these videos endearing. Who doesn't wanna see a poorly animated jaggedy-lined Walt Disney popping across a map on his journey to Cali?

I got a Disney ad coming to this.

I do wish Walt’s dream of Epcot was reached, it was ambitious, very. But damn.

Ahh, captain copyright abuse the antisemite and his merry band of corporate lawyers.

I really want to know what happened to your Paraguayan War video? I was looking for it and can't find it.

Great stuff loved the video

6:48 My face when the teacher says there's going to be a Pop Quiz today.

I've been to Tivoli. I was 6 years old and I remember it. Disneyland is very much inspired by it. (it's in Denmark for those who want to know,and yea I'm Danish )

12:59 Tour guides at Walt Disney World also said it was called Project X

I'm from Kansas City, his original studio is practically abandoned.

I finally got a copy of the Alantropa Articles, damn that book is intense and awesome, please make more

I've been to the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. It's the world's oldest amusement park going back all the way to the 1500's. It's very beautiful there.

and also 9:14 to 9:16 is the creepiest drawings i every saw through my eye, gonna get me eye bleach again

“He’d make sure none of the residents could vote” excuse me could you run that by me one more time because WHAT!!!

Finally! Someone actually talking about Iwerks. He’s my inspiration in life. 😁