If Al Lutz is to be believed, Jay Rasulo is Disneyland’s savior. His predecessor, the very retail-minded Paul Pressler (who recently left to fill a position at the Gap) was not very big on installing new attractions, or spending the money to maintain existing ones.

Al’s latest sarcasm-filled update reveals some newly-leaked plans for Disneyland’s 50th birthday coming up in 2005.

Jay sounds like he’s got good intentions, but we’ll see. I think Cynthia Harriss did as good a job as she could do with the resources she was provided, but Al seems to think she’s a flake who doesn’t care about much more than pushing merchandising events. I have mixed feelings about that.