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Toy Story Mania Fun Facts
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nibblesandbits
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Thanks Steve! Some interesting facts in there!
TheBeatles
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"The murals located in the load area at Disney's Hollywood Studios are the biggest murals painted since Epcot was built."
Which mural(s) does this refer to at EPCOT?
Which mural(s) does this refer to at EPCOT?
hpyhnt 1000
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I suppose the entrance mural of Spaceship Earth could be considered. The wall of quotes for Living with the Land is fairly large as well.
In World Showcase, the mural at the loading area of Maelstrom is quite large.
Unfortunately, I never had the chance to ride Horizons or World of Motion. Perhaps there were some large ones in there, too?
sanctumsolitude
Active Member
"Toy Story Mania! is the first time that Walt Disney Imagineering is creating an attraction for two Disney Parks simultaneously."
Pinocchio's Daring Journey opened at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland one month apart from each other (same as Toy Story Mania will be). Surely that is considered creating the same attraction simultaneously for two parks (unless they decided to not count Tokyo Disneyland as a "Disney" Park).
Pinocchio's Daring Journey opened at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland one month apart from each other (same as Toy Story Mania will be). Surely that is considered creating the same attraction simultaneously for two parks (unless they decided to not count Tokyo Disneyland as a "Disney" Park).
Yep, there have been MANY attractions built simultaneously.
The first was the Haunted Mansion back in 1968. (The DL building was constructed years earlier, but all of the animatronics and props were created in duplicate for WDW)
Besides Pinnochio, I assume other DL "New Fantasyland" attractions were built side-by-side for Tokyo in 1983.
Tokyo's Splash Mountain was definitely built simultaneously with WDW's (besides the increased capacity, the side-by-side seating was selected over DL's old lap-seating for Japanese cultural reasons)
Wasn't DL's "Buzz Lightyear" built in tandem with Tokyo?
And how far apart were WDW and Tokyo "Star Tours" rides?
I guess you could also include the simultaneous "Pirates" rehabs, and the numerous elements created for the Epcot, DL, and Disney Studio Paris Nemo/CrushCoaster attractions.
Perhaps Disney meant to say "two attractions opend at the same time", but DCA's version of TSM is still months from completion.
The first was the Haunted Mansion back in 1968. (The DL building was constructed years earlier, but all of the animatronics and props were created in duplicate for WDW)
Besides Pinnochio, I assume other DL "New Fantasyland" attractions were built side-by-side for Tokyo in 1983.
Tokyo's Splash Mountain was definitely built simultaneously with WDW's (besides the increased capacity, the side-by-side seating was selected over DL's old lap-seating for Japanese cultural reasons)
Wasn't DL's "Buzz Lightyear" built in tandem with Tokyo?
And how far apart were WDW and Tokyo "Star Tours" rides?
I guess you could also include the simultaneous "Pirates" rehabs, and the numerous elements created for the Epcot, DL, and Disney Studio Paris Nemo/CrushCoaster attractions.
Perhaps Disney meant to say "two attractions opend at the same time", but DCA's version of TSM is still months from completion.
darthjohnny
Active Member
But still, WDW's Haunted Mansion opened in 1971.
Tokyo's Buzz was built before DL's but, DL's opened pretty close to Paris' Buzz I believe.
I wouldn't count the Pirate rehabs though.
I think what they mean is what you said, "at the same time" (or reasonably close since DCA is planned to open in June).
Also, I seem to remember them saying before that this was the first time an attraction was built simultaneously "on both coasts."
ChrisFL
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I'm going to guess the original Horizons mural at the end of the attraction:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_OO7WbmARD08/R7y0PF8boVI/AAAAAAAAFwI/QOz-LYHW-4g/s1600-h/horizons+29.jpg
(from disneyandmore.blogspot.com)
TheBeatles
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Was the Horizons mural painted over or covered?
If so, what was put in its place?
If so, what was put in its place?
ChrisFL
Premium Member
It was replaced by a few hallways of multi-colored lights and a reflected GE logo...I don't know exactly what happened to the mural itself, but it was sad not to be able to see it just a few years after Horizons opened.
Horizons1
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April of '71. It was one of the easiest construction projects in all of Phase 1.
As for the Epcot murals, don't forget JII's. That one was pretty large.