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~Walt's Last ride~
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lazyboy97o
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Walt planned no part of the Magic Kingdom. The Pirates of the Caribbean that he planned is in Disneyland, not the Magic Kingdom. The EPCOT he had in mind was a city, not the theme park now known as Epcot.
ABigBrassBand
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Son, you got it all wrong! PoTC was in DLR, EPCOT is 100% different from what he planned. But thanks for your post...?
Figment632
New Member
I think the last ride he worked on was Haunted Mansion.
FigmentJedi
Well-Known Member
Concepts for Space Mountain date back to Walt's time, though he obviously wasn't around to see much further development on it.
captainkidd
Well-Known Member
A.What on earth was the point of the original post?
B.Walt did have some major input into the Magic Kingdom. It was supposed to be an east coast Disneyland, but with a buffer zone.
C.On the original Behind The Scenes episode on the Travel Channel, it was said the last ride he worked on was Haunted Mansion. On the updated one they said it was Pirates.
B.Walt did have some major input into the Magic Kingdom. It was supposed to be an east coast Disneyland, but with a buffer zone.
C.On the original Behind The Scenes episode on the Travel Channel, it was said the last ride he worked on was Haunted Mansion. On the updated one they said it was Pirates.
Kamikaze
Well-Known Member
Epcot is not E.P.C.O.T. in any way, shape, or form.
And be glad for that, because if Walt had built the actual E.P.C.O.T., there would be no Disney anymore.
Master Gracey 5
Active Member
No kidding - while E.P.C.O.T. was a fine idea for the future, but building and running an actual city would have bankrupted Disney. Its one of those concepts where Walt saw beyond the financial aspect a little too much.
sublimesting
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From what I have read his last ride he worked on was POC. As he left his final day while planning POC he told Marc Davis "Goodbye Mark." and tiredly left. Marc said he knew he would never see him again as Disney usually said "So long Marc."
Also, he must have had some plans for WDW as it was he who purchased the land for it. I doubt he was just buying land without a strong blueprint in mind of what he wanted.
Also, he must have had some plans for WDW as it was he who purchased the land for it. I doubt he was just buying land without a strong blueprint in mind of what he wanted.
Wilt Dasney
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Others have noted that when Walt unveiled the "Florida Project" on television, the theme park design was just an overhead map of contemporary Disneyland, which hadn't been altered at all. That film was made 2 months before Walt died.
I guess you could make the argument that design for the Magic Kingdom was underway, but it was easier to just include a map of Disneyland. However, if the Magic Kingdom design was at any kind of advanced stage, you would think they would have wanted to show the park they were actually planning, not the one they had already built.
Based on that, I would think that if Walt was alive for any planning of the Magic Kingdom, it was probably only at the very earliest stages.
I guess you could make the argument that design for the Magic Kingdom was underway, but it was easier to just include a map of Disneyland. However, if the Magic Kingdom design was at any kind of advanced stage, you would think they would have wanted to show the park they were actually planning, not the one they had already built.
Based on that, I would think that if Walt was alive for any planning of the Magic Kingdom, it was probably only at the very earliest stages.
He did. A rough land share plot plan had been worked out, what would go where, with variations of what we know today. The Themed park was north, EPCOT in the middle, and World Drive connected them north-south. A satellite community (LBV) was also planned. Basically the highest land areas were designated. The MK had some rough layouts and proposals but nothing absolute.
If I recall, Walt only physically stepped foot on the ground he had bought just once.
RiversideBunny
New Member
- In the Parks
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Many of those rides were planned and developed many years before implementation.....I have read several biographies that mentioned Walt's work on pirates at DL....so yes I think he did have a ton of input and opinion on that before he died....there are pics of him with some of the pirate heads they were working on for different scenes...think it was already decided to be a ride through vs the original walk through....before he passed...sigh. I have always wanted to ride as it is so much longer than the WDW one....someday! 
Surely he would have used his DL plans in Florida, taking what works vs what didn't....but we will never know, I am so glad Roy replicated much of the magic of DL and WDW.
Surely he would have used his DL plans in Florida, taking what works vs what didn't....but we will never know, I am so glad Roy replicated much of the magic of DL and WDW.
Cmdr_Crimson
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- In the Parks
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Ok so I had to google it and wilkipedia has it down to being his last ride he was involved in designing, and being that it opened 3 months after his death seals it......here he is working with Marc Davis and Blaine.... .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(attraction)
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(attraction)
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
Are you aware that you responded to a four year old discussion? New Tomorrowland was also well under construction at the end of 1966 and would open in 1967.Ok so I had to google it and wilkipedia has it down to being his last ride he was involved in designing, and being that it opened 3 months after his death seals it......here he is working with Marc Davis and Blaine....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(attraction)
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
Ok so I had to google it and wilkipedia has it down to being his last ride he was involved in designing, and being that it opened 3 months after his death seals it......here he is working with Marc Davis and Blaine....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(attraction)
This is the last film footage of Walt before he passed away..
PrittiPiglet
Member
I'm getting depressed! This is sad!