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Tomorrowland Transit Authority Peoplemover - Port View

First third of the attraction from a tripod pointed out the side. Done as an experiment, but turned out well!

#youtube #tomorrowland #peoplemover #walt disney world #wdw #theme park #tomorrowland transit authority #passpoart2dreams #foxxfur

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I Know That On a Personal Level, I Hold This Film Roughly 60% Responsible

[Twitter Screenshot from She.Va Villari (verified) @KittinExploits: “Happy 46th Birthday to Disney’s Robin Hood. Cheers on making a whole generation sexually confused about foxes. (three Fox face emojis) (gif of Disney’s Robin Hood Leaning against a tree)” 1:25PM, November 8, 2019, Twitter for iPhone]

Source: KittenExploits@Twitter

Also, let me use this opportunity to link to one of my all time favorite posts on the Disney Design & History blog, Passport to Dreams Old & New. Back in 2014, FoxxFur did a series of movie reviews focused on the films made in the years immediately following Walt Disney’s death. Their review of Robin Hood (in the second half of the linked post) touches upon just what a pivotal role this film had in the development of the Furry Community pre-internet.

#disney #disney's robin hood #KittnExploits #Twitter #furry #furry communty #passport to dreams old & new #FoxxFur #Also check out the link to the twitter post to read all the replies -- they're golden #EASILY 60% Responsible

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Catawampus blanket and foxxfur's new haunted mansion book. Living the good life

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Revived Haunted Mansion videos from early internet fandom

When Foxxfur was a young, internet-obsessed Haunted Mansion fan, she accumulated many rarities that streamed in Realvideo and other long-forgotten formats, and swapped VHS tapes with other early online Disney fandom.

https://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2020/04/haunted-mansion-video-treasures.html

This 1996 JD Roth includes a rare look at the film-looping systems Ub Iwerks designed "allowing the film to circulate endlessly through a giant series of spools without ever getting out of synch with each other."

(I own some of this 16mm film!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5yPVyZ0-Zk

This ridethrough shows "what the controversial 'windblown' bride looked like in real life...when she was brand new she at least was impressive, and that is captured well here."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3IkAGo7POU

This "analog nightvision" is a great look at the original load area with its beloved table/chair/lamp tableau.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-cmIlDr4Uo

And from Disneyland, a tour of the short lived, 1995-2005 version of the ride, including the "DEAD END" sign outside the unload area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKTFFATvNBg

Foxy concludes: "It can be so fun to dig into the history and details of the places that we forget that they're constantly changing. Time races by, and now the look of analog video is nostalgic, I hope these documents of a time long since past are helpful or at least fun."

#pluralistic

[tvwolfsnake]

theme park rides are a distinct form of art and are to theater and film as film is to radio—an evolution. you combine the presentational, live aspect of theater with the repeatability and control of experience—as in, a form of “editing"— of film. I’m not the first person to bring up how the omnimover, with its control of sightlines, is functionally similar to how framing works in film, but it really is an important part of defining what makes a ride a distinct artform also disneyland is one of the most important works of installation art in america. and no, I’m not being hyperbolic

#disneyland #disney world #anyways I'm basically just parroting foxxfur and ian kay but #this bears repeating #I think too much focus is placed on disney as 'a place where dreams come true!!' #which is partly (mostly?) the company's fault #but nevertheless forms most of its reputation in the popular consciousness #and so distracts from the value their parks and rides have as artworks

[thebaldierevolution]

Tweeted

Blessed. http://pic.twitter.com/GkXnCA7KGL

— Foxxfur🐐 (@therealfoxxfur) September 25, 2017

#IFTTT #Twitter

[pureimagineering]

The question then becomes what the role of Tomorrowland is in the Disney patheon. If Imagineering will no longer tolerate the Presentational mode, and if Tomorrowland must have a “story” and exist harmoniously with the other themed areas of the castle parks, perhaps Disneyland Paris had the best idea with their Verne-themed Discoveryland. Orlando’s pulp writing theme is promising, even if it needs less Buck Rogers and more Fritz Lang in its DNA and a lot more work and money after its abortive first try. Anaheim’s gold-hued Tomorrowland has already been vanquished in favor of that “old”, “white” version, but there is still no real life to the space. Both areas are in a transitional mode right now, and either need to be allowed to be what they are designed to be or rethought and reworked even more than they are now.

FoxxFur, "Futures with No Future"

#Foxxfur #Tomorrowland #The Tomorrowland Problem #Magic Kingdom #Walt Disney World #Disneyland #Euro Disney #Disneyland Paris #Discoveryland #Steampunk #Theme Parks #Disney

[breachingtheberm]

Another fantastic piece on Florida's mansion, once again by FoxxFur. This was one of the earlier essays that I read on her blog and remains incredibly interesting each time I reread it.

#Haunted Mansion #FoxxFur #Passport to Dreams Old & New #Haunted Mansion 45th Anniversary #Walt Disney World #Liberty Square #history #Disney Parks history

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Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland 1972 BGM (New Restoration)

more info

#youtube #audio only #music #disney parks #wdw #walt disney world #tomorrowland #magic kingdom #theme park #1970s #1972 #passport2dreams #foxxfur #library music

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Buddy Baker Walt Disney World Vacation Kingdom Theme - 1972

Buddy Baker's haunting WDW theme for its first few years

#buddy baker #1970s #disney music #1972 #foxxfur #passport2dreams #disney world #walt disney world #wdw #disney #disney parks #theme park

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Tokyo Disneyland's new vinyl LP is AMAZING

Tokyo Disneyland is a curious beast: it's owned by a Japanese company (the "Oriental Land Company") but the company is contractually obligated to use Disney as its sole supplier of rides and designs; historically, TDL has expanded by ordering the very best, most popular rides and shows from other Disney parks, and then paying to have them built to the very highest possible specification -- it's a kind of global best-of Disney park, gold plated and buffed to a high finish.

In light of that, it's not entirely surprising that the park's latest musical souvenir, a vinyl LP called Official Album of Tokyo Disneyland that comes with a lavishly illustrated booklet.

Over on Passport to Dreams Old and New (previously), Foxxfur burnishes her credentials as the most thoughtful and engaging writer about Disney parks and their designs and history with an in-depth review of the Official Album, contrasting it favorably with the 1980 Official Soundtrack of Disneyland/Walt Disney World and The Official Album of EPCOT Center, which were "just lousy products - thin-sounding, with cheap packaging."

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/22/daring-journey.html

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#1yrago Adventure House: the sequel to the Haunted Mansion that never was

In 1976, Walt Disney World was riding high: the oil crisis was over, tourists were flocking back to Florida, and the successful bicentennial celebration at the Florida Disney resort had been national news.

Against that backdrop, Disney Imagineering finally started earnest work on long-promised design improvements to the Fort Wilderness Campground, an on-site camp resort serviced by themed paddlewheeler boats and with its own ambitious (and now abandoned and rotting) water park.

Enter Marc Davis, the character designer who was half of the design team for the Haunted Mansion. In those post-Walt days, he -- and other veteran Imagineers -- created plans for a series of never-built themepark attractions, shows and rides.

Among Davis's most detailed and exciting designs was a set of designs for walk-through funhouses for Fort Wilderness, long rumored and never seen -- until now.

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, Foxxfur (previously) pieces together the evolution of Davis's walk-through funhouses, which revived and called back to the original plans for a walk-through Haunted Mansion, incorporating many of the best special effects from the Mansion in novel and creative ways.

The first of these was called "The Roost," a kind of hillbilly hotel presided over by Jasper (an inveterate tinkerer whose inventions filled the Roost's rooms) and Maude (a domineering hotelier with a soft spot for the dozens of chickens that roamed The Roost so they could escape the predations of the critters of Fort Wilderness).

The Roost morphed into Adventure House, which was, if anything, even more ambitious, where a sleeping bear snored so hard the ceiling pulsed up and down (re-using the stretch gallery effect from the Haunted Mansion), man-eating plants filled a bouncy-floored greenhouse, and an animated kitchen was full of jostling, clanking appliances, pots and pans (effects that appeared in the Carousel of Progress).

Foxxfur's incredible connections with Disney fans and employees, along with her keen insights into themed environment design and encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the Disney parks are all on display in this post, which is a tour-de-force of archival insight, design criticism, and pure fannish love.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/16/marc-davis-masterpiece.html

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#5yrsago Where the Jungle Cruise queue audio-loop came from

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, the world's greatest Disney themepark critic Foxxfur traces the history of the Jungle Boat Cruise queue-loop, makes some shrewd guesses about where the Imagineers found their material, and (most importantly), what the addition of the music did to the overall design story of an iconic ride.

https://boingboing.net/2014/05/11/where-the-jungle-cruise-queue.html

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#5yrsago The REAL reason the Florida Haunted Mansion's elevators go up

On the always-amazing Passport to Dreams Old and New, a fantastic piece of detective work about the evolution of the  Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion. FoxxFur starts with the observation that the traditional story about the Florida stretch rooms going up (unlike the California Mansion, whose stretch rooms descend) is that the water table was too high to permit a descent, but quickly demolishes that. From there, she undertakes some remarkable detective work in exploring the inspiration and thinking that went into the Florida Mansion's design.

I think what happened is that once Claude Coats knew he would have to re-design the facade to sit at the same level as the load area, he simply transposed the layout down. The second ticket and holding area would now be useless as well as in the way of the exit door, which would now sit at the same level as the entrance door, so he got rid of it.

The Florida Haunted Mansion facade is really a pretty ingenious case of form following function; in this case; the form was already determined by an aborted elevator configuration. The Florida facade is actually very tiny; only large enough to accommodate the stretch rooms. The Foyer area is disguised as a stone pedestal that the house sits on, and it's buried in dirt on two sides, further disguising its function. This construction photo, paired with the layout above, pretty clearly shows how the Mansion itself is really just a tiny wrap that conceals the empty space that the dual stretch rooms are hauled up into:

In fact, the biggest change is that the entrance door now faces west instead of south - it's in the exact same spot.

https://boingboing.net/2013/10/15/the-real-reason-the-florida-ha.html

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#1yrago "Bring Back Weird Epcot" and other unofficial retro Disney World tees

Foxxfur, proprietress of the outstanding Passport to Dreams Old and NewDisney themepark design critique blog (previously) has opened a t-shirt store featuring designs celebrating the lost, lamented design-flourishes that lurked in the corners of early Walt Disney World: the crowning glory of the store is this Bring Back Weird Epcot tee that really tells it like it is.

https://boingboing.net/2016/11/21/bring-back-weird-epcot-and.html

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#5yrsago What Disneyland's "awkward transitions" teach us about signaling changes with physical cues

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, FoxxFur continues her unbroken record for highlighting insightful, deep design truths by examining the minutae of the design and evolution of the Disney theme parks. In the current post, "The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland!", she looks at the way that the designers of Disneyland managed their space-constraints when butting up one themed area against another (comparing this with the much more spacious, and relaxed, transitions in Walt Disney World). By reconstructing the history of these transitions, she's able to reconstruct the history of the theory and practice of using physical cues to signal mood-transitions in built environments.

I seriously can't wait for FoxxFur to write a book about this stuff some day.

https://boingboing.net/2012/11/24/what-disneylands-awkward-t.html