Connection between Dreamflight & Space Mountain?

91JLovesDisney

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Hello! Just watching Marni's Dreamflight tribute, and I noticed something that looked familiar. This cone-shaped building, featured in the middle of the screen:



Looks a lot like the cone-shaped building in this painting at the exit of Space Mountain... anyone know if there's any connection? The reason I ask is just that's a pretty uniquely shaped building, and it's basically identical!
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91JLovesDisney

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My guess is they reused a pre existing backdrop. Still, I find it pretty cool that parts of attractions can live on even after the attraction itself goes away.
If these props could talk...
But just to be clear, this painting is original to Space Mountain, right?
 

91JLovesDisney

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Actually, wasn't this painting added to SM in 1984 or 85? Dreamflight opened in 89, so I guess not! My bad, wasn't even thinking.
 

LastoneOn

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These are pretty common shapes for the futurism genre, they go way back to the earliest art, futuristic concepts. That kind of fantasy where building won't be boxy and instead will have all kinds of organic shapes and stuff like that.
 

The Empress Lilly

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I always assumed the SM painting drew inspiration from the Horizons city background painting.

Dreamflight feels a bit more unconnected, mostly just drawing from the same well of tradition, the digital art technology of its day then deciding the aesthetics.
 

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