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Port Discovery area looks like something out of Studio Ghibli

"Tokyo DisneySea has hit the 10 million attendance mark in just 307 days of operation, beating the previous record of 338 days, set by Osaka's Universal Studios Japan." - AP, 2002

It's from architectural artist Dan Nicholl's website. I don't know what it was for, though some elements make it look connected to the PotC property. Nicholl has done renderings for Disney resort hotels over the years, including the TDL Hotel and Aulani. It fit Animaniac's imagined area...

I love this idea. I may have to draw it one day). The Nordic model looks awesome (providing enhanced vistas from other ports and possibly blocking the official hotels from the SS Columbia deck) and it would have spared us the FantasySpringsHotel calamity. Imagining something like this instead:

The Adventures of Pluto Nash. This one is famous for being one of the biggest critical and box office bombs in history. I wanted to see just how bad it was and finally got around to it. And.. I ended up liking it. Good production design, great musical score. A light, ridiculous...

It's a big note and a no-brainer... I suppose land-restraints forced it, but seeing and listening to the opening scene (Tower) from the queue for a long time diminishes that aspect of the ride. Other parts met or exceeded (didn't think outdoor figures would be AAs) expectations for the...

Hey, I'm a big fan of books like "Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality ["DLP:FSTR"], filled with art, models, background stories, etc. and really wish each park, including Universal's parks, would get something similar. Short answer: there is unfortunately nothing at that level for the...

The little grass symbols mean "landscape area": Whenever a rumor comes around and I think "that's bad," it's almost guaranteed to get greenlit, and vice-versa. My hope with this was that everything Marvel would get moved to a new Avengers Campus land and the coaster would be highly-themed and...

If you weren't excited enough for Epic Universe, Themeparx posted a collection of Nathaniel West's unreleased art for Celestial Park. It is gorgeous work and very interesting in how it shows the design evolution. It does make me wish they had stuck with the earlier, more theatrical version of...

Before Iger was made CEO, the MK Resort Area - Bay Lake & Seven Seas Lagoon - was the most sublime man-made area yet built in the Post-War era, anywhere on the planet. If anyone knows of anything that compares, I'd be interesting in learning about it. Actually-well-themed, beautiful...

Of the elite level artists capable of gorgeously hand-rendering entire parks or lands... e.g. Tom Gilleon, John , Herb Ryman, Bryan Jowers, Collin Campbell, Greg Pro, Chuck Ballew and a handful of others... I put Dan Goozee atop that list of greats. I strained my eyes as a kid looking at...

As a fan of the Syberia style, I'd be interested in seeing this. When I went to the site, all I could see was an abridged version of the released flyover, then it goes to white. At the bottom there were the Portal concept art stills. Maybe my browser is incompatible or they took what your are...

The theme is "French Riviera", which is a great theme for what could have a been a gorgeous resort if the Old Guard were still at Disney. The French Riviera at its peak (1880s-1914) was studded with scores of big, beautiful hotels in places like Nice, Cannes, Antibes, Menton & Monte Carlo...

Interesting. My reaction at the moment is 'somewhat disappointed' regarding the hotel - it has reminded me of Gran Destino since the first finished elements (massing, window treatment & siding) have been photographed by Bioreconstruct, but that's not a good thing (Destino is I-4 worthy). I...

Ah.. I rewatched and you can hear a train whistle. Makes more sense. I have no idea what's going on with the harem stripper(?) elephant & hippo, but the 2nd videorecording (above) has a spotlight which spoils the surprise. In the first video, the rider gasped when the naked elephant & hippo...