Eddie Sotto's take on the current state of the parks

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hpyhnt 1000

hpyhnt 1000

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EPCOT Explorer said:
Come now, hpyhnt...SSE is a GIVEN.:lol:
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I know, I know. Still, the folks over at Disney don't seem to think so, and because of that, its necessary to offer a reminder... :rolleyes:

There, that's it, no more on SSE in this thread (at least for now)! Back to the castles!:wave:
 
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hpyhnt 1000 said:
I know, I know. Still, the folks over at Disney don't seem to think so, and because of that, its necessary to offer a reminder... :rolleyes:

There, that's it, no more on SSE in this thread (at least for now)! Back to the castles!:wave:
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Maybe with the descent money...


But yes, the Castles!:D DLP has a awesome living building projection system...So does Tokyo.:D

I think DL and WDW need them now.:lookaroun
 
Eddie Sotto

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HMF said:
I was looking through my "Art of Disneyland" book and noticed a marker drawing you had done for the 94 Jungle Cruise Boathouse queue which is in my opinion one of the best queues in the Disney Parks.
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Thanks. Mine too! I hope you saw the upstairs infirmary with the bone saws! Chris Runco and Eddie Johnson worked on it with me and did an awesome job. Both underrated guys! A model was made from that sketch you mention and it was made out of scale and I was busy and didn't catch it. I had to beg them to cheat the drawings where we could afford to, getting it back into the more petite Ad'land scale that was across the street. Oops. The tower is still a bit too tall for me. Chris and Eddie made it sing. I chose the music for the short wave radio BGM to move the timeframe into the late 30's and closer to Indy's.

The project came out of the park's desire to alleviate pressure from the all too tiny Adventureland street, to not have the queue of the JC crossing the one for Indy, so we got funding to do a two story queue.

The other hard part was getting this block long building to reflect the ridiculous montage of facades directly across from it. You have African on one end and Arabic adobe on the other with British Colonial in the middle!

We went with the French/British Colonial Victorian as the primary structure (was in the park in 1955) and then added later 1920's-1930's "additions" to it until we end in a mirror of the Arab inspired adobe ruins at the opposite end by the Bazaar. The short story was that some French and British Soldiers began a post-war tourism business as guides using surplus boats in their old HQ, it grew popular and they added a souvenir stand at one end, but a fire all but ruined the place. Ned was their doctor working upstairs until he was captured and beheaded into Shrunken Ned! (Now performing at the South Sea Traders shop). All of the structure is canted is to be "sinking" into the riverbank and in various stages of being overtaken by the Jungle to give a subliminal sense of jeopardy.

I hope that adds some insight to your next visit to the JC. I used to work at Sunkist "I Presume" across the way from the JC, so the Treehouse and the JC come with memories attached. If you visit Ned, say hello for me, he's a family friend.
 
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Eddie Sotto said:
Thanks. Mine too! I hope you saw the upstairs infirmary with the bone saws! Chris Runco and Eddie Johnson worked on it with me and did an awesome job. Both underrated guys! A model was made from that sketch you mention and it was made out of scale and I was busy and didn't catch it. I had to beg them to cheat the drawings where we could afford to, getting it back into the more petite Ad'land scale that was across the street. Oops. The tower is still a bit too tall for me. Chris and Eddie made it sing. I chose the music for the short wave radio BGM to move the timeframe into the late 30's and closer to Indy's.

The project came out of the park's desire to alleviate pressure from the all too tiny Adventureland street, to not have the queue of the JC crossing the one for Indy, so we got funding to do a two story queue.

The other hard part was getting this block long building to reflect the ridiculous montage of facades directly across from it. You have African on one end and Arabic adobe on the other with British Colonial in the middle!

We went with the French/British Colonial Victorian as the primary structure (was in the park in 1955) and then added later 1920's-1930's "additions" to it until we end in a mirror of the Arab inspired adobe ruins at the opposite end by the Bazaar. The short story was that some French and British Soldiers began a post-war tourism business as guides using surplus boats in their old HQ, it grew popular and they added a souvenir stand at one end, but a fire all but ruined the place. Ned was their doctor working upstairs until he was captured and beheaded into Shrunken Ned! (Now performing at the South Sea Traders shop). All of the structure is canted is to be "sinking" into the riverbank and in various stages of being overtaken by the Jungle to give a subliminal sense of jeopardy.

I hope that adds some insight to your next visit to the JC. I used to work at Sunkist "I Presume" across the way from the JC, so the Treehouse and the JC come with memories attached. If you visit Ned, say hello for me, he's a family friend.
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Darn' I only saw the first floor.:( BTW I read that you guys had a lot of trouble building the boathouse around a palm tree that had been there long before the park opened. Actually' we have 999 Happy Posts here. But there's room for a Thousand.
 
Eddie Sotto

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Trees and JC's

HMF said:
Darn' I only saw the first floor.:( BTW I read that you guys had a lot of trouble building the boathouse around a palm tree that had been there long before the park opened. Actually' we have 999 Happy Posts here. But there's room for a Thousand.
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True, that was the "Dominguez Palm" (the Dominguez family had the land prior to the park) but it was closer to Indy. We built the JC Roof around a big old tree that had been there a long time, having it weave through the tin roof. Years later it was gone, (maybe they just decided to lose it for Indy Fast Pass). We did that tree/roof gag at Knott's in Ghost Town when I was there and it looked really cool. To give the sense of the Jungle taking over, a tree piercing the building was the right story point so we did it. (The upper level has bug specimens, an infirmary, an AA Cobra and squacking Bird).
 
EPCOT Explorer

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Eddie Sotto said:
Thanks. Mine too! I hope you saw the upstairs infirmary with the bone saws! Chris Runco and Eddie Johnson worked on it with me and did an awesome job. Both underrated guys! A model was made from that sketch you mention and it was made out of scale and I was busy and didn't catch it. I had to beg them to cheat the drawings where we could afford to, getting it back into the more petite Ad'land scale that was across the street. Oops. The tower is still a bit too tall for me. Chris and Eddie made it sing. I chose the music for the short wave radio BGM to move the timeframe into the late 30's and closer to Indy's.

The project came out of the park's desire to alleviate pressure from the all too tiny Adventureland street, to not have the queue of the JC crossing the one for Indy, so we got funding to do a two story queue.

The other hard part was getting this block long building to reflect the ridiculous montage of facades directly across from it. You have African on one end and Arabic adobe on the other with British Colonial in the middle!

We went with the French/British Colonial Victorian as the primary structure (was in the park in 1955) and then added later 1920's-1930's "additions" to it until we end in a mirror of the Arab inspired adobe ruins at the opposite end by the Bazaar. The short story was that some French and British Soldiers began a post-war tourism business as guides using surplus boats in their old HQ, it grew popular and they added a souvenir stand at one end, but a fire all but ruined the place. Ned was their doctor working upstairs until he was captured and beheaded into Shrunken Ned! (Now performing at the South Sea Traders shop). All of the structure is canted is to be "sinking" into the riverbank and in various stages of being overtaken by the Jungle to give a subliminal sense of jeopardy.

I hope that adds some insight to your next visit to the JC. I used to work at Sunkist "I Presume" across the way from the JC, so the Treehouse and the JC come with memories attached. If you visit Ned, say hello for me, he's a family friend.
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Great stuff, Eddie.:D Love reading about this!
 
Lee

Lee

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Any time spent reading about the JC boathouse (my favorite queue building in any park) is time well spent.:D
Seen the downstairs, seen the upstairs, got the music/radio loop.....
Seriously, what with JC and Indy, DL's Adventureland is my favorite land in all of Disneydom. I just love the 30's backstory and theme.
 
Eddie Sotto

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Lee said:
Any time spent reading about the JC boathouse (my favorite queue building in any park) is time well spent.:D
Seen the downstairs, seen the upstairs, got the music/radio loop.....
Seriously, what with JC and Indy, DL's Adventureland is my favorite land in all of Disneydom. I just love the 30's backstory and theme.
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As for me, NOS used to be in first place until the retail got out of hand. Adventureland is such an "escape" isn't it? You'd never guess you were in Anaheim. There was something intrinsically romantic about the "Swiss Family Treehouse" that Tarzan never did for me. It's the whole fantasy of being able to actually live like that and picture yourself there. Working at the Sunkist place across from it, I never tired of that Polka song, in fact, I used to sweep to it to pass the time! Becoming the character of "Shrunken Ned" was the best way to "hang" in Adventureland on a permanent basis!
 
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