Talk:Yen Sid/@comment-27838199-20160221035630

Y'all are amazing. What an excellent piece of research. If I may, could I propose one edit and then point you to the source material I have compiled on Wikipedia?

Walt's name wasn't Dis Ney, it was Disney :) Walt used the name Retlaw Yensid as a psedonym when he didn't want to be directly connected to something. The sorcerer was modeled on Walt and was given the name Yensid as an inside joke. To the best of my knowledge, Yensid was never verbally named, nor was the name in the credits in Fantasia. Same goes for Fantasia 2000.

My assumption that it was Yensid and not Yen Sid is the fact that the copyright for "Walt Disney Present: Robin Crusoe U. S. N." in 1966 says: Original story by Retlaw Yensid. The name was also in the film credits i believe.

Atari released Sorcerer's Apprentice for the Atari 2600 in 1983. The back cover says "the Sorcerer's cavern." instead of "Yen Sid's cavern" as the text appears on the Fantasia Wikipedia page. I purchased 2 manuals from the original game, so we should have the answer in about a week.

I recently updated the  wikipedia.org/wiki/Yensid page to reflect the tidbits above and a whole lot of other really interesting information. Someone asked why Nic Cage's character name wasn't Yen Sid? I think you will find the answer there.

p.s. I own the trademark for Yensid, and I registered yensid.com back in 1999 when I was webmaster for Disney.com :)