The original content show for Disney+, “Behind the Attraction”, may be in a bit of hot water. It seems the show has “borrowed” artwork from a YouTube channel without permission or compensation. The show is a self-promotion / advertising series for Disney Parks that runs in a documentary format. It is produced by Brian Volk-Weiss for Disney+ via The Nacelle Company and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions. So now the question is, who stole the artwork?
Several people have mentioned that the graphics in the Tower of Terror episode of 'Behind the Attraction' are very similar to my YouTube video, so I decided to give it a watch for myself.
Left is my original artwork from my video.
Right is from Behind the Attraction on Disney+ pic.twitter.com/Sf1biymTSz
— James St.Onge – Art of Engineering (@aoEngineering) September 16, 2021
Art of Engineering YouTube Channel personality, James St. Onge, shows how the Disney+ show essentially ripped the channel’s material with minor color changes as the only modifications. Used in the Tower of Terror episode for Behind the Attraction, it would appear that someone involved in the production decided to take Art of Engineering’s original artwork — created specifically for the YouTube channel — and then modify it only slightly without any notification.
No response has been given yet by The Walt Disney Company, The Nacelle Company, or Seven Bucks Productions. Once they do, we’ll be cover it here on That Parks Place.
