• One Little Spark!

  • Mickey's Ten Commandments and the Road to Imagineering
  • By: Marty Sklar
  • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
  • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (214 ratings)

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One Little Spark!

By: Marty Sklar
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
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Publisher's summary

We've all read about the experts: the artists, the scientists, the engineers - that special group of people known as Imagineers for The Walt Disney Company. But who are they? How did they join the team? What is it like to spend a day in their shoes?

Disney Legend Marty Sklar wants to give back to fans and answer these burning questions. When Marty was president of Walt Disney Imagineering, he created a list of principles and ideals for the team, aptly named Mickey's Ten Commandments. Using this code of standards as his organizational flow, Marty provides listeners with insights and advice from himself and dozens of hands-on Imagineers from around the globe. It's a true insider's look like no other!

The full copyright information can be found below:

© 2015 Marty Sklar Creative, Inc.

P 2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

“One Little Spark” Words and Music by Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman © 1981 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI) All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission.

“Meet The World” Words and Music by Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman © 1982 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI) All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission.

“There’s A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” Words and Music by Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman © 1963 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI) Copyright Renewed. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission.

“It’s A Small World” Words and Music by Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman © 1963 Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI) Copyright Renewed. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission. Academy Award® and Oscar® are registered trademarks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

©2015 Marty Sklar Creative, Inc. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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  • 02-19-18

More like a collection of emails.

I’ll admit I was very excited to read Marty’s latest Imagineering book. However, the majority of this book is a collection of emails from other Imagineers about their various paths to Disney. Still worth the read for any Disney Parks and Imagineering fan.

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Not what I expected

Would you try another book from Marty Sklar and/or Jeff Cummings?

Maybe if it had more substance

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Less reading email from people that happen to mention what a legend Marty Sklar is and more of how the book begins. It would be more interesting.

Have you listened to any of Jeff Cummings’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

yes, good

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I don't know how that is possible... Have Marty Sklar sitting in front of a computer reading emails that all have a comment with how great Marty Sklar is and deleting the others?

Any additional comments?

I am a Disney fan and certainly admire from a business perspective what they have done in the parks, and Sklar is one of the few that is still around. It is very interesting to hear the approach to creating this successful theme park enterprise.

Overall, I believe I misunderstood the purpose of the book, I'm not a kid looking to be an imagineer, and not looking for career advice-which most of the second half of the book refers to with inserted email messages from previous Marty contacts. Maybe if I was it would have been more meaningful

I also found the book self serving. Sklar has no problem reading things he wrote that say how great Marty Sklar is. Though one of the key messages in the book is TEAMwork, Marty spends much time using the word "I" typically around the great things he has done and the great things people have said and wrote about him.

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Helpful and inspiring for the creative in me

I was delighted to hear Marty’s explanations and examples of Mickey’s 10 Commandments, as well as mentioning examples of the related mistakes for each! Marty includes stories of many different imagineers, and it paints a picture of how varied their career backgrounds are from engineers to literary scholars.

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Boring

This book was really redundant and quite boring when it came to reading letter after letter from Imagineers with the same theme… Become specialized in something that interests you rather than setting out to be an Imagineer.

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be inspired

Let your imagination soar to new heights and find yourself free to dream, engage, and become

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Inspiring!

Absolutely, Loved it! a spark to keep the fire burning within! Disney Style! Creativity Unleashed!

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The narrator...

I couldn’t handle him and his overacting. The story couldn’t be enjoyed because I just couldn’t get passed his grating performance.

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Disappointing

Very repetitive. It was like a sales pitch. I was hoping for something else I guess

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Straight from a Disney Legend

This book is full of anecdotes from the late Marty Sklar that give a great perspective on how Disney Parks are created and it's a fun listen.

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Excellent book but drug on toward the end

This book started off fascinating and I couldnt put it down but the last half was drudgery. Way too many quotes. The author should have taken his own advice and known what to leave out of the story to keep it interesting.

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