"Mini Magic Kingdom" Layout

[WEDImagineering]

Hi there everyone! After a little over a year of working on it, I'm excited to share with you my Mini Magic Kingdom!

Rather than an exact scale model, I set out to capture the feeling of each themed land and included features from both Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida. In short, it's an eclectic mash-up of the U.S. Disney theme parks!

Here are some YouTube videos that provide a good overview of the layout...




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I used whatever I had (mainly styrofoam, kabob skewers, cardboard, craft sticks, and clay) to construct many of the attractions, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, the Jungle Cruise, Splash Mountain, and many others. LEGO modular sets (And the Disney Castle) were used on Main Street USA, and awesome paper models by equally awesome artists were also used throughout the layout.

In fact, I want to send a super special thanks to the awesome artists who have provided their paper crafts online for Disney Parks fans! In this layout, I used paper models from the following artists:

Robert Nava - Main Street Train Station, Disneyland Marquee, Space Mountain

Ray Keim (haunteddimensions.raykeim.com) - Haunted Mansion, Haunted Mansion Entrance Pillars, Torre Del Cielo

Rebecca P. Chestney - Space Mountain Base, Popcorn Carts, Fantasyland Station

Fred Folger - Country Bear Jamboree Playhouse

(If you've never put together a paper model, it's a lot of fun and it's free! Most of the ones that I used can be found on disneyexperience.com and haunteddimensions.raykeim.com)

**A big thank you to @spacemt354 for helping me navigate the forums and inviting me to share here in the Imagineer section!**

 

[CreateDisney]

This is amazing! Love the Lego Main Street

 

[Poe Dameron]

Oh wow this is impressive!

 

[spacemt354]

@Voxel you might enjoy this

 

[MonorailRed]

Super cool!!

Frontierland is so detailed!

 

[Timon_1994]

I just wanted to say your layout is spectacular, what an accomplishment!

 

[Disneylover152]

This is so amazing and detailed. I thought I was the only one who built mini-Magic Kingdoms in my basement, but I guess not! Yours is no joke 100x better than mine! XD.

 

[WEDImagineering]

Super cool!!

Frontierland is so detailed!

Frontierland and Tom Sawyer Island were some of the last areas that I worked on, so by then I had learned what techniques worked better. I really learned a lot about model making, layout, etc. throughout this project that will help me tremendously in projects to come.

Thank you all so much for your kind words and support!

 

[spacemt354]

Just finished watching the nighttime version - i don't know which version I like more! Both are so excellent!

@D Hindley you might also like to see this

 

[D Hulk]

Stunning!

Like Michel Gondry’s Disneyland.

 

[WEDImagineering]

Stunning!

Like Michel Gondry’s Disneyland.

Thanks! I did keep this layout fairly simple in terms of materials and used whatever I had access to. That, paired with the fact that I had to detail so much space in so little time (I'm getting ready to leave for college) led to that whimsical "Gondry-esqe" feel Now that I've "cut my teeth" so to speak and learned so much while working on this layout, I can't wait to start on some extremely detailed projects that I've been thinking about!

 

[kmbmw777]

Great work! This is incredible!

 

[Brer Oswald]

Hi there everyone! After a little over a year of working on it, I'm excited to share with you my Mini Magic Kingdom!

Rather than an exact scale model, I set out to capture the feeling of each themed land and included features from both Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida. In short, it's an eclectic mash-up of the U.S. Disney theme parks!

Here are some YouTube videos that provide a good overview of the layout...




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I used whatever I had (mainly styrofoam, kabob skewers, cardboard, craft sticks, and clay) to construct many of the attractions, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, the Jungle Cruise, Splash Mountain, and many others. LEGO modular sets (And the Disney Castle) were used on Main Street USA, and awesome paper models by equally awesome artists were also used throughout the layout.

In fact, I want to send a super special thanks to the awesome artists who have provided their paper crafts online for Disney Parks fans! In this layout, I used paper models from the following artists:

Robert Nava - Main Street Train Station, Disneyland Marquee, Space Mountain

Ray Keim (haunteddimensions.raykeim.com) - Haunted Mansion, Haunted Mansion Entrance Pillars, Torre Del Cielo

Rebecca P. Chestney - Space Mountain Base, Popcorn Carts, Fantasyland Station

Fred Folger - Country Bear Jamboree Playhouse

(If you've never put together a paper model, it's a lot of fun and it's free! Most of the ones that I used can be found on disneyexperience.com and haunteddimensions.raykeim.com)

**A big thank you to @spacemt354 for helping me navigate the forums and inviting me to share here in the Imagineer section!**

As a massive fan of model villages, this is incredible!!! I wish I could do something like this. Every year I do a Disney Christmas Village, but it’s nowhere near as good as yours. As you can see, my Space Mountain paper craft didn’t turn out too well .

 

[spacemt354]

As a massive fan of model villages, this is incredible!!! I wish I could do something like this. Every year I do a Disney Christmas Village, but it’s nowhere near as good as yours. As you can see, my Space Mountain paper craft didn’t turn out too well .

Nice job! We had that same monorail around our tree

 

[spacemt354]

@WEDImagineering -- great interview with Bob Penfield! A Club 55er!

 

[WEDImagineering]

@WEDImagineering -- great interview with Bob Penfield! A Club 55er!

Thanks! It was extremely neat to hear from him about all of his historic roles. From opening day at Disneyland to Squaw Valley and even the '64 World's Fair, he has been involved in quite a few historical Disney events!