What do Disney, The Oatmeal, and Nikola Tesla have in common? The real answer might be tucked safely away inside the mystery box, but at the very least it was Brad Bird's upcoming film, Tomorrowland, that brought them all together. Web cartoonist Matthew Inman, better known on the webz as The Oatmeal, recently posted on his blog about his invitation to a meeting with the Disney filmmakers and their conversation that took a strange turn towards all things Tesla. It's safe to say that The Oatmeal is a big fan of the misunderstood scientist, and was responsible for starting a campaign that successfully saved Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory. Since The Oatmeal himself admits that he's not the foremost expert on Tesla, why would Disney fly him out there to talk tech? Misdirection? Hype machine? Something else entirely? Hit the jump for more. You can read the full blog post over at The Oatmeal, which has a 7.6% chance of being taken down sometime soon. Here are some of the interesting bits: A few months ago I got an email from Disney asking me to come down to Burbank to consult with them on an upcoming film: TomorrowLand ... Right off the bat I got to meet Brad Bird ... He was courteous and funny and appeared to be used to this type of fanboy-cartoonist-babble, so we chatted for a few minutes until someone steered the conversation toward the real reason I was there: TomorrowLand. As I said before, we didn't talk about the movie. Instead, they asked me a ...
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