"it's a small world" 50th anniversary celebration

kap91

Well-Known Member
They'd be even more impressed if they could ride a 1964 Ford Galaxie Convertible through a time tunnel to witness a battle between a Disney animatronic T-Rex and a Stegasaurus !!!

This is the ride that has always interested me the most from the fair. Its a shame there is hardly anything left of it - aside from the dioramas at DL. D23 had a good series of videos just posted but its still relatively little. It's amazing that so few photos/film of the attractions at the Worlds Fair were taken or at least widely available.
 

Phil12

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I believe that would also prevent them from ever modifying it substantially. Not necessarily what most people are clamoring for. Or am I thinking of a different designation?
Owners of the property (Disney) can do whatever they want to a property listed on the National Register as long as no federal money is attached to the property. They would have to check with the Florida Historic Preservation Office to see if any state or local laws would apply. WDW could still modify or remove CoP if it was listed on the National Register.
 

Phil12

Well-Known Member
Can't the public petition for a site to be listed on that registry? If so, we could all ensure that Disney brass couldn't take it down... ever!
Anyone can nominate an historic place to be included on the National Registry. However, being on the registry does not necessarily offer protection against modification or destruction by the owner(s).
 

TP2000

Well-Known Member
It's amazing that so few photos/film of the attractions at the Worlds Fair were taken or at least widely available.

I agree. There used to be an amazing quarterly fan magazine in the 1990's called Persistence of Vision. It covered all things Disney parks, but mostly Disneyland. It had a huge issue (100+ pages) on each World's Fair pavilion, including the Magic Skyway. They had some amazing photos and stories from the people who worked at that pavilion and the Imagineers who built it. I have that issue somewhere in the spare garage, but they sell online for a lot of money.

There was also the fan magazine The E Ticket, which also covered the Magic Skyway ride in a couple issues.

Both The E Ticket and Persistence of Vision were available for sale at the Disneyana Shop on Main Street USA in Disneyland during the 1990's, with The E Ticket available for sale well into the 2000's until it folded.

If you can, try and find those resources online for info and photos of the Ford Motor Company Wonder Rotunda pavilion and its Walt Disney's Magic Skyway ride.

Lucky girls, you got a new Mustang to take you on Walt Disney's Magic Skyway!
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They recently went to great lengths at Disneyland to turn the 1966 version of Small World at Disneyland into the 1964 version of the ride at the World's Fair for the Tomorrowland movie filming. They installed the appropriate World's Fair coverings over the open queue and station, and put up a bunch of blue screens around the station for computer editing.

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But then they also had to create a new World's Fair façade on the Disney studio lot in Burbank for more filming, with huge blue screens for computer editing.
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This new Tomorrowland movie gets more and more intriguing! And apparently Its' A Small World at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair plays a major role in the plot.
 
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Soarin' Over Pgh

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I agree. There used to be an amazing quarterly fan magazine in the 1990's called Persistence of Vision. It covered all things Disney parks, but mostly Disneyland. It had a huge issue (100+ pages) on each World's Fair pavilion, including the Magic Skyway. They had some amazing photos and stories from the people who worked at that pavilion and the Imagineers who built it. I have that issue somewhere in the spare garage, but they sell online for a lot of money.

There was also the fan magazine The E Ticket, which also covered the Magic Skyway ride in a couple issues.

Both The E Ticket and Persistence of Vision were available for sale at the Disneyana Shop on Main Street USA in Disneyland during the 1990's, with The E Ticket available for sale well into the 2000's until it folded.

If you can, try and find those resources online for info and photos of the Ford Motor Company Wonder Rotunda pavilion and its Walt Disney's Magic Skyway ride.

Lucky girls, you got a new Mustang to take you on Walt Disney's Magic Skyway!
MagicSkyway.jpg


They recently went to great lengths at Disneyland to turn the 1966 version of Small World at Disneyland into the 1964 version of the ride at the World's Fair for the Tomorrowland movie filming. They installed the appropriate World's Fair coverings over the open queue and station, and put up a bunch of blue screens around the station for computer editing.

'Tomorrowland'%20Filming%20at%20Disneyland


its-a-small-world-tomorrowland-filming-1.jpg


But then they also had to create a new World's Fair façade on the Disney studio lot in Burbank for more filming, with huge blue screens for computer editing.
tl800.1928.jpg

tl800.2918.jpg


This new Tomorrowland movie gets more and more intriguing! And apparently Its' A Small World at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair plays a major role in the plot.


Wow! Now that's cool! I haven't been following the movie at all, but maybe I should be... Very neat to see this resurrected if only for movies sake. If any ride could fit the retro theme well, it's this one.
 

kap91

Well-Known Member
I agree. There used to be an amazing quarterly fan magazine in the 1990's called Persistence of Vision. It covered all things Disney parks, but mostly Disneyland. It had a huge issue (100+ pages) on each World's Fair pavilion, including the Magic Skyway. They had some amazing photos and stories from the people who worked at that pavilion and the Imagineers who built it. I have that issue somewhere in the spare garage, but they sell online for a lot of money.

There was also the fan magazine The E Ticket, which also covered the Magic Skyway ride in a couple issues.

Both The E Ticket and Persistence of Vision were available for sale at the Disneyana Shop on Main Street USA in Disneyland during the 1990's, with The E Ticket available for sale well into the 2000's until it folded.

If you can, try and find those resources online for info and photos of the Ford Motor Company Wonder Rotunda pavilion and its Walt Disney's Magic Skyway ride.

Lucky girls, you got a new Mustang to take you on Walt Disney's Magic Skyway!
MagicSkyway.jpg


They recently went to great lengths at Disneyland to turn the 1966 version of Small World at Disneyland into the 1964 version of the ride at the World's Fair for the Tomorrowland movie filming. They installed the appropriate World's Fair coverings over the open queue and station, and put up a bunch of blue screens around the station for computer editing.

'Tomorrowland'%20Filming%20at%20Disneyland


its-a-small-world-tomorrowland-filming-1.jpg


But then they also had to create a new World's Fair façade on the Disney studio lot in Burbank for more filming, with huge blue screens for computer editing.
tl800.1928.jpg

tl800.2918.jpg


This new Tomorrowland movie gets more and more intriguing! And apparently Its' A Small World at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair plays a major role in the plot.
I miss the e-ticket so much. As an WDW native I didn't find out about it until several visits in to Disneyland. I immediately subscribed but alas it folded before I even got my fourth issue. So sad - d23 magazine is about the closest you get to it but it's still a far cry.
 

TP2000

Well-Known Member
I miss the e-ticket so much. As an WDW native I didn't find out about it until several visits in to Disneyland. I immediately subscribed but alas it folded before I even got my fourth issue. So sad - d23 magazine is about the closest you get to it but it's still a far cry.

So true! I started buying the E Ticket at Disneyland shops in the late 1990's, after I'd been purchasing Persistence of Vision for awhile. It was neat that Disneyland allowed them to be sold inside the park, since it wasn't an official Disney publication or condoned by the Company. Somewhere in the garage there's a big stack of old E Ticket magazines that I need to go dig out again.

The E Ticket was really focused only on Disneyland, and beloved by the rabid fan base for Disneyland found on the West Coast, but they occasionally had things related to WDW too. What a treasure those magazines were!
 

david10225

Active Member
inal form...of World's Fairs of yore.

I will confess that i kind of geeked out when i recently visited New York City again to meet up with a friend.
Of all the things i could have chosen to do, it was visiting the Fair grounds in Flushing Meadows that had me most excited from a fan standpoint.
So on that freezing January day, with 1965 Guide Book in hand, the two of us set out to walk the entire grounds...'finding' where all the old Attractions used to be, and not just the Disney related ones.
It was quite a memorable visit.

I'm old now..but this guy still remembers being 8 years old in 1964...taking a bus tour from New Bedford Mass on Almeida Tours to the Fair for the day for the price, including admission, of 10 bucks. I remember riding the magic skyway..oh my goodness mom...we are riding in actual convertibles and the sound for the show is coming out of the radio...and look..we are going through a clear tube outside of the building...so cool....I remember the Pepsicola/Unicef salute to It's a Small World which we almost didn't ride because we had to pay an extra fee (donation to Unicef). I even got the album (33 1/3) soundtrack later as a souvenir! I don't remember Mr. Lincoln, but I do remember the Carousel of Progress and the coolest thing was when the show was over, the last stage was some kind of moving belt up to a second level where we saw a model of the city of the future! The only other pavilions I remember were DuPont and IBM. It's amazing how much money they spent in those days for something that only stayed open a year or two.
 

kap91

Well-Known Member
It's amazing how much money they spent in those days for something that only stayed open a year or two.

Blame TV and the Internet. Much easier to reach your audience without them having to travel across the country. And I imagine the large companies spend more per year there than on any Worlds fair attraction.

I'm a devout techie but sometimes it'd be nice to have lived in that age.
 

Marc Gil

Well-Known Member
That film crew is most definitely not for a feature film. Most likely some reality show, news segment, or (very unlikely) WDW planning video.
Hmmm... You're probably right.
I'm guessing it's probably going to be a short video for the DisneyParks Blog.
 

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