NickMaio
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Love the pictures......Things have changed over time, but some of WED's wonderful design work is still there in Florida's Magic Kingdom:
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WED's Wonderful Kingdom
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lazyboy97o
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Brer Panther
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How about Peter Pan's Flight? I hope they never change the load area, no matter how "dated" it looks.
The dimensional murals created for WDW's Peter Pan, Snow White and Mr Toad dark rides were another wonderful example of "plussing" the original painted walls of Disneyland's Fantasyland (pre-1983). The little touches like the Tinker Bell on wire or the "waterfalls" of Snow White's load gave them added life.
Tokyo Disneyland replicated two of these and still has Snow White intact as it was over 50 years go in WDW. The figure of the Queen peering through the curtains in the 1983 Disneyland exterior was originally created for this tableaux
jah4955
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Yesterday I perused the 4 pages; today I read them. So many great insights @Animaniac93-98 ... and there are so many more examples (maybe they were there but some of the photo links wouldn't open) .... all of which beautifully contribute towards so many experiences that at times felt transcendent. It echos most of what I've read everywhere else: that The Magic Kingdom was the chance to, in a sense, recreate Disneyland without, comparatively speaking, the restraints of space or money, 2 areas Walt previously lamented. Incorporating much of DL with previously unused ideas of Walt's, like HoP & MMR, they made The Magic Kingdom feel magical in it's quality, especially through the details.
I haven't been to Disneyland, but, looking at the photos, there just doesn't seem to be as much TLC in the details as in many of the Magic Kingdom counterparts. As many have frequently noted, Disneyland seems to have its unique intimacy and charm, but Magic Kingdom this unique awe-inspiring factor thru its greater scale (as @lazyboy97o offered yesterday) and greater lavishing on the details, as books like "The Architecture of Reassurance" observes.
I haven't been to Disneyland, but, looking at the photos, there just doesn't seem to be as much TLC in the details as in many of the Magic Kingdom counterparts. As many have frequently noted, Disneyland seems to have its unique intimacy and charm, but Magic Kingdom this unique awe-inspiring factor thru its greater scale (as @lazyboy97o offered yesterday) and greater lavishing on the details, as books like "The Architecture of Reassurance" observes.
Smiley/OCD
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Having stumbled on this thread today, it just makes me sadder that TSI has been sacrificed to build WDW’s version of Cars land…without opening an additional can of worms, I’ll just leave it at that…