News

• Jim and I are doing the second annual Gingerbread Challenge in Walt Disney World, starting Friday December 2, 2022.  

• We’re doing a live podcast recording on December 2.  Tickets available at https://touringplans.com/2022-disney-dish-tp
  
• Also, we’re looking at March 30-April 1, 2023 for our group cruise on the Starcruiser Halcyon. That’s a Thursday check-in and a Saturday check-out, which is also, somehow appropriately, April Fool’s Day.  
  

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• I’m speaking at IAAPA (Int’l Ass of Amusement Parks and Attractions) in Orlando on November 18.
  

• Our friends over at WDWMagic.com note that two new sets of permits filed at WDW indicate that some projects are moving along:
  

• Walt Disney Imagineering has filed a new permit that should move the Roundup Rodeo BBQ restaurant at Disney's Hollywood Studios much closer to its opening.

The permit, assigned to Brilliant Creative Fabrication in Orlando, calls for the installation of "themed facades." The company carrying out the work has partnered with Disney numerous times, including many of the original Toy Story Land sets. (Thanks to @danlb_2000 on the WDWMAGIC Forums for identifying the permit.)

• MOANA JOURNEY OF WATER The permit carries the vague description of "Install Sets" and was signed July 25 2022, valid for a year. (Thanks to @danlb_2000 on the WDWMAGIC Forums for locating the permit)

The contractor named in the permit is NY based Adirondack Scenic, who has done previous work for Disney, including Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser, Frozen Ever After, Na'Vi River Journey, and Morimoto Asia.

Progress has been moving more rapidly in recent months, following a year of slow-moving preparation work.

Announced almost three years ago at D23 Expo in August 2019, this will be the first-ever attraction based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios hit film, "Moana." Disney says it "will let guests interact with magical, living water in a beautiful and inspiring setting."

Disney is still to announce an opening timeframe, but the expectation is that it will open in 2023 with more details to be announced at the upcoming D23 Expo in September.

Surveys

From Christopher:

From Rachel:

We had traveled to Central Florida to take our daughter to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (why oh why didn't Disney jump at that?!), and we made a pitstop at Hollywood Studios first in order to finally get on Rise and Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railroad.  I thought the direct questions about our Disney experience were bold, though it could be that they ask that all of the time.

My overall observation was that the park experience at Universal (with the exception of the Harry Potter corners, which I think are exceptional) is much worse than Disney except for "ease of planning" and "hassle free nature" - I absolutely hated the Genie+/Lightning Lane "day of" stress, though my husband seemed to get an adrenaline rush out of the whole thing.

Thanks for the podcast!

Rachel

Listener Questions

From Kevin:

I want to tell our own story of the Frozen Ever After ride. This past February, we were staying at the Grand Floridian and headed to Epcot on Monday evening for the after hours. We wanted to ride Frozen Ever After and hightailed it there during the last song of Harmonius. We flew into Norway, my daughters stroller on two wheels as we rounded the corner and parked it in Norway! Made it…third family in line for the ride!

We come around the corner and we hear the first song is being sung…like he had a heart attack, Olaf, in mid song, just leans over and falls flat on his side and all music stops…but the bot keeps going. We go through the whole ride and all characters are standing still at attention while some eerie background music loops through. This takes place for the entirety of the ride and quite possibly the weirdest experience we’ve ever had on a ride. Consequently, the ride shut down for the evening shortly thereafter…and they did not give us passes to come back and ride again. I guess I was forced to just Let It Go.

From Craig:

Ride capacity is a frequent subject on the Disney Dish. I remember there being talk a couple of years ago about a "Mary Poppins experience" going into the UK pavilion. If they're going to put IP in the pavilion anyway, why not put Mr. Toad's Wild Ride there? It seems like a pretty dependable ride in Disneyland and it wouldn't take up too much space and it would spread the crowds out a little more in World Showcase. I get that it's not a big showstopper attraction, but it seems to stay busy at Disneyland and that ending... whoa.  Just wondering…

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Epcot’s Millennium Celebration

Part One of Two

It’s 1996. And Disney Parks & Resorts is already thinking about how it should handle the Millennium.  Not the Y2K thing, mind you.

Remember when the Y2K bug was supposed to end civilization as we know it? With the world’s power grid supposedly shutting down and everything that was run by computers clicking off? That was the fear in the years leading up to the Millennium.

Disney did take this threat seriously, by the way. In the years leading up to the Millennium, they set up a task force of 800 people within the Company to investigate the Y2K bug threat and set up a response plan.

And as for the Disney Parks, part of that response plan was to have emergency lights & back-up generators readily available. Just backstage, out of sight, ready to deploy in an instance. Just in case the power grid did shut down.

And how many people remember – a half hour or so before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999 – how Disney shut down every single ride, show & attraction at its theme parks and then held them in place / in check until it was clear that the world’s electrical grid hadn’t collapsed and every computer on the planet hadn’t gone haywire. Better safe than sorry was the thinking. They didn’t want Guests stuck on these things if the Y2K bug proved be a real thing.

A half hour after the stroke of midnight on now-January 1st, 2000, all of those rides, shows & attractions were up again. Loaded with happy, still alive Guests.

Mind you, Disney didn't say that they were shutting down the rides at their Parks before out of Y2K bug concerns. But – rather – because they wanted to be sure that all Guests got a chance to see that night’s special fireworks show. Yeah, right.

No, what Disney was really most concerned about was what was the smartest way to approach the whole December 31, 1999 thing?  

In California, given that Disney’s California Adventure will still be under construction at that time (While that theme park won’t open to the public ‘til February 8, 2001, the Disneyland Parking Lot will be closed on January 21, 1998. And the rest of the Resort will largely be a war zone / open pit / construction site when December 31, 1999 rolls around some 23 months later), a one-night-only party seems like the smartest way to go.

Whereas in Florida … The thinking is – instead of a one-night-only party – Walt Disney World should explore the idea of a Millennium celebration. Something that could run for months after December 31, 1999 happens. More to the point, keep people coming to the World after the newness & excitement of Disney’s Animal Kingdom wears off (That theme park would open in April of 1998).

As to which park should host Walt Disney World’s Millennium Celebration … Well, that was a gimmee. For while Epcot was the park at the Walt Disney World Resort with the second highest attendance levels (Magic Kingdom was first), it was – at that time, anyway – the least profitable park on property.

Strange to hear that today, especially given the hand-over-fist money that the WDW Resort makes off of the super-sized, extended versions of Food & Wine and Flower & Garden. But you also have to remember that today’s story starts in 1996. And the …

    • 1st Flower & Garden wasn’t til April of 1994 (just five weeks long)

    • Likewise the 1st Food & Wine in September of 1996 (just 30 days long)

    • Interestingly, the 1st Holidays Around the World / now International Festival of the Holidays debuted that very same year. In November of
     1996 to be precise (it also was just five weeks)

    • Epcot’s International Festival of the Arts is the newest of the bunch. It debuted just 5 years ago in January of 2017 (also five weeks long)

So you have to understand that these massive money makers as we know them today weren’t really in place back then. Which is why Epcot – which had to rely on its assortment of attractions to lure people through those turnstiles – was the least profitable park on property.

Anyway … Disney Parks & Resorts hoped to turn this situation around (at least for 15 months or so) by making Epcot Center the center of WDW’s Millennium Celebration. Which would get underway in October of 1999 and then run at least through December of 2000.

There was a secondary agenda here .. Disney Parks & Resorts wanted to use WDW’s Millennium Celebration as a way to reintroduce the world to the new fun version of Epcot …

Sound familiar? Yep, that’s what Walt Disney World had also hoped they’d be able to do with the Resort’s 50th anniversary celebration which began in October of 2021. Reintroduce the world to the new fun version of Epcot 2.0. (They say no good idea dies at WDI. Isn’t it Saroyan who said that “A fanatic is someone who repeats the same failed activity and expects a different result” ?)

Of course, when it came to the launch of the new fun version of Epcot 2.0, the pandemic and its impact on the labor force and worldwide supply chains kind of blew that ambitious plan out of the water. So instead of a bright new shiny version of Walt Disney World’s science & discovery park being in place just in time for the launch of this Resort’s 50th anniversary celebration in October of 2021 … What we got instead is a handful of new rides, shows & attractions like “Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure,” “HarmonioUS,” “Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind,” “The Creations Store,” “Space 220,” “The Connections Café & Eatery,” and – soon – “Moana: The Journey of Water” opening one at a time in kind of a scattershot fashion … Which (let’s be honest here) didn’t have nearly as big an impact / make nearly as big a splash than if all of these new rides, shows & attractions had managed to come online in the exact same window of time (i.e., late Summer / early Fall of 2021. Just in time for the start of WDW’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Want to be clear here: This wasn’t poor planning on Disney’s part. Nobody saw a once-in-a-century pandemic coming over the horizon and disrupting everything. Epcot’s still limping through its reimagining. Which I’m now hearing should largely be complete by 2024 (This is when the Play! Pavilion in its latest form is supposed to finally come online).

Back to 1996 and the Resort’s advance prep & planning for WDW’s Millennium celebration now … there was a method to the Imagineers’ madness. All of the changes that were made to Epcot out ahead of October of 1999 (the target date for the launch of this 15 month-long celebration) the Millennium had a deliberate purpose:

    • That giant “Sorcerer Mickey” arm which was erected over Spaceship Earth was supposed to send a message to Guests that Epcot was now far more magical & fun.

    • The “Tapestry of Nations” parade (which was presented twice daily, once starting at 6:30 p.m. and then a second presentation of the same parade starting at 8:10 p.m.) was supposed compel Guests to stay in Epcot long enough each day to actually view that parade. And while these people were killing time waiting … Well, they’d either have to shop or grab a meal (Which obviously helped with Epcot’s least-profitable-theme-park problem) …

    • Then – to absolutely make sure that people lingered as long as possible  at Epcot while the Resort’s Millennium Celebration was being presented – WDW Entertainment rolled out a brand-new edition of “Illuminations,” “Reflections of Earth.” Which was a significant upgrade of the previous nighttime show that had been staged out on World Showcase Lagoon. With giant torches erected all along the esplanade and the Inferno Barge literally starting this show with a bang.

The hope was that people would have such a great time at WDW’s 15 month-long Millennium Celebration that they’d want to commemorate the occasion. This is why the Imagineers built the “Leave a Legacy” plaza directly in front of Spaceship Earth. This retail initiative was a sequel of sorts to those hugely popular “Walk Around the World” tiles that had been sold over at the Magic Kingdom as part of WDW’s 25th anniversary celebration.

FYI: This too was supposed to only be a 15 month-long celebration, running from October of 1996 – December of 1997. But that event proved to be so popular with Guests that WDW’s 25th anniversary celebration got extended another three months. All the way to March of 1998.

And to be honest, if the Resort could have gotten away with it, they’d have extended WDW’s 25th anniversary celebration event further. But they had to shut it down in March of 1998 because Disney’s Animal Kingdom was opening in April of that same year. And that theme park’s opening was supposed to be the primary promotional focus for the bulk of 1998).

Back to the “Leave a Legacy” retail program … The Imagineers built a Stonehenge-like plaza in front of Spaceship Earth which had space for 750,000 tiles that would have featured the faces of happy Guests who had attended Epcot’s Millennium Celebration (Which the Company hoped would also prove to be a WDW-25th-anniversary sized success. Which would then force the Resort to extend this 15th month-long celebration another three months in the late Winter / early Spring of 2001).

That wasn’t to be. “Leave a Legacy” was something of a loser. Ultimately only sold 440,000 tiles (People couldn’t really recognize their likenesses. Hard to find themselves in that stone garden).

We’ve talked about how Walt Disney World was going to get people to linger at Epcot in the late afternoon / early evening with the one-two punch of “Tapestry of Nations” and “Illuminations: Reflections of Earth.” But what was supposed to draw Guests there earlier in the day?

That was the assignment that was handed to Terry Dobson. Who – at this point – was a veteran Show Producer at Walt Disney Imagineering.

From January of 1993 through October of 1994, Terry had been the guy who rode herd on the transformation of CommuniCore West into Innoventions. That 100,000 square foot exhibition officially opened in July of 1994 and featured displays by all sorts of major American corporations. Among them AT&T, GE, GM, Motorola, Honeywell, IBM, Apple, Silicon Graphics, and Lego.

That Future World display proved to be so popular that the team who was working on reimagining Disneyland’s Tomorrowland area back in the late 1980s / early 1990s said “Hey, we wanted an Innoventions too.” So from February of 1996 through May of 1998 (which is when Disneyland’s new version of a New Tomorrowland finally opened), Terry did the exact same thing. Which was: take a pre-existing structure (In this case, the Carousel of Progress theater-go-round building) and then turn it into a space where … Well, here’s a piece of Disney speak for you …

… deliver corporate messages through family play experiences through a mixture of high-tech, low-tech and no-tech hands-on exhibits.

This time around, Dobson delivered a 30,000 square foot exhibition space that featured displays by SAP, Compaq, Honeywell, AT&T, GM and Kaiser Permanente. That last one is a throwback to opening day Disneyland.

The West Coast version of Innovations was hugely popular. Dobson returned to Imagineering to find the Millennium Celebration team waiting for him. They told Terry “Hey, how’d you like to tackle another Innoventions-like project with lots of displays. Only this time, you’ll be working with countries, rather than corporations. Which – I’m sure -- will be far easier to deal with. But the upside is … At least this time you’ll be working with a brand-new 65,000 square foot building.”

On the next installment of this two part series, we’ll take an in-depth look at the building that we’re talking about here – the Millennium Village, now better known as World Showplace. What was located inside of this structure from October of 1999 through December of 2000. More to the point, Disney’s real reason for building this 65,000 square foot structure backstage at World Showcase between that theme park’s Canada & UK pavilions.

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Bandcamp Exclusive: How Walt transformed Disneyland’s first Tomorrowland into a “World on the Move”

There’s a story that’s told about Walt from the mid-to-late 1950s. He’s supposedly standing along the shores of the Rivers of America looking out across the water as:

    • The Mark Twain Steamboat goes rolling by

    • And then one of Disneyland’s Mike Fink Keelboats floats past Tom Sawyer Island

    • And then one of the Park’s Indian War Canoes goes paddling by

    • And all this while, the rafts to Tom Sawyer Island are ferrying Guests over from Frontierland to this relatively new destination at Disneyland.

And as this story goes, Walt first gazes at this already-very-busy waterway and then turns to his companion & says “You know what the Rivers of America needs? Another big boat.”

Which is how Disneyland Park got a full-scale recreation of the Columbia, the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. It began sailing around the Rivers of America in June of 1958.

Look, it’s probably not all that surprising to learn that Walt Disney – a guy who started his career in animation, after all – loved to watch scenes that were filled with activity.

I mean, we were just talking about the view along the shore of the Rivers of America. But if we were to turn our gaze inward towards Disneyland’s Frontierland section as this part of the Park was in 1955 & 1956, we would have seen:

    • Guests seated atop Pack Mules getting ready to head on out & explore Rainbow Ridge

    • Stage Coaches & Conestoga wagons also taking Disneyland visitors off to explore the Western frontier

    • And – of course – along the outermost edge of Frontierland, just beyond the shores of the Rivers of America, the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad would roll on through every 10 minutes or so.

People had the same sort of experience when they were down on Main Street U.S.A.

    • A horse-drawn trolley loaded with Guests would first roll up to the Hub and then return to Town Square

    • And if you missed the trolley … No worries. You could always hop aboard a horse-drawn surrey or climb aboard a vintage fire truck and quickly get to the very same destination.

And Disneyland’s Fantasyland section was chock-a-block when it came to kinetics. Everywhere you looked, there was movement:

    • King Arthur’s Carousel spinning around

    • Likewise those oversized Tea Cups at the Mad Tea Party

    • Across the way from that, you had the park’s Dumbo the Flying Elephant Ride

    • And right behind that, you had the one-two punch of the Park’s Canal Boats of the World ride. Which was then circled by the Casey Junior Circus Train.

Mind you, getting all of these moving parts in place out ahead of Disneyland’s grand opening in July of 1955 was a challenge. But Walt eventually pulled it off and was justly proud of his family fun park. For the most part.

The exception – of course – was Tomorrowland. You see, the original plan for this part of Disneyland was that it would be ready for this family fun park’s second Summer of operation. Meaning that its rides, shows & attractions weren’t supposed to be available to Guests ‘til June of 1956 at the earliest.

That was the plan as of December of 1954. Have Main Street, Adventureland, Fantasyland & Frontierland ready for the Summer of 1955. And then – to give Southern California locals a reason to return to his family fun park the following Summer – open Tomorrowland & Lilliputian Land in the Summer of 1956.

Lilliputian Land was one of the aspects of Disneyland history that doesn’t really get talked about much anymore. It grew out of Walt’s fascination with miniatures. Remember that elaborate miniature steam train set-up that he had built which ran all around the backyard of the Disney family home in Holmby Hills in the late 1940s / early 1950s? Disneyland visitors were originally supposed to have been able to experience a similar sort of ride down in Anaheim.

Here's a description of that attraction from the original Disneyland prospectus from 1953. Guests were supposed to be able to climb aboard …

… a little diamond-stack locomotive engine which is only 17 inches high. Once that miniature steam train pulls into Lilliputian Land’s tiny railroad station, Guests would have been invited to take a seat on the roof of one of this train’s tiny Pullman cars.

Once everyone was safely seated, the 9-inch-tall Engineer in the lead locomotive was supposed to pull back on the throttle and then take Guests off through the miniaturized countryside. Where – as part of their journey -- Disneyland visitors would have rolled past a miniature New England village from Colonial Times.  Where – from their seat aboard the roof of that Pullman car – they’d have seen the 9-inch-tall mechanical residents of this tiny New England village doing all sorts of chores like chopping wood, churning butter or rowing boats.

Once again, we see here Walt’s keen interest in filling Disneyland with all sorts of moving things.

By the way, I want to point out another aspect of the never-built Lilliputian Land that is going to seem very familiar to fans of the Avengers Campus (both the one that opened in Anaheim back in June of 2021 as well as the Avengers Campus that opened at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris just last month). I am referring to

… And for Disneyland visitors who have little appetites - you can get miniature ice-cream cones, or the world’s smallest hot-dog on a tiny bun when you visit Lilliputian Land.

That sounds a lot like the menu currently being offered at Pym’s Test Kitchen, don’t you think?

Just so you know: A tiny chunk of Lilliputian Land did actually make it into Disneyland. And that’s the attraction which was originally supposed to be called the Erie Canal Barge ride. Which was supposed to allow Disneyland Guests to travel through some of the most famous canals in the world. In much the same way that people who climbed aboard Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise in Adventureland were supposed to be able to travel from the Nile to the Amazon to the Irrawaddy in Southeast Asia and the Ganges in India.

That ride – of course – was the Fantasyland attraction that I just mentioned a few minutes ago. Which started off life as the Park’s Canal Boats of the World ride. But – by the Summer of 1956 – it had been reimagined as Disneyland’s Storybook Land Canal Boats ride. Which opened to the public on June 16th of that year.

Anyway … We were originally talking about how Lilliputian Land & Tomorrowland had previously been put off ‘til Phase 2 of Disneyland’s construction. Which was supposed to have been completed by the Summer of 1956.

And if that plan had been adhered to, we would have wound up with a very different World of Tomorrow (FYI: That was the original name of this side of Disneyland. The World of Tomorrow, NOT Tomorrowland).

Now remember, Walt wanted all of the lands at Disneyland to be filled with kinetics. All sorts of moving things that immediately catch the Guests’ eye. So picture this (This info comes from that Disneyland prospectus from 1953):

Guests wanting to experience Disneyland’s World of Tomorrow would first make their way to that Park’s Hub and then step onto a moving walkway. Which would have them whisked them deep into this corner of Walt’s family fun park. As these Disneyland visitors quickly moved to the center of the World of Tomorrow, they would have traveled under a track of a suspended monorail. Which regularly passed overhead.

Just so you know: There’s a number of pieces of concept art for this early, early take on a monorail for Disneyland. And what’s kind of interesting about this iteration of that transportation system is:

    • It was initially supposed to look like something straight out of Buck Rogers. A very sleek capsule with rocket-like fins.

    • This version on the monorail didn’t travel on top of a track. But – rather – hung down below that track. Which – I’d imagine – would have made traveling through tight turns kind of fun.

As for the rest of the World of Tomorrow, there were a few rides that did make it into the finished version of Tomorrowland. Like the

… gigantic rocket space ship to the moon. Where – after Guests were safety-belted into their seats – they’d then experience a trip through space which was supposed to be scientifically correct.

This chunk of the original Disneyland prospectus is fascinating. Since it insists that the park’s rocket-to-the-moon ride will depict “ … exploding stars, constellations, planets and comets exactly as charted, and be no less thrilling for being authentic.”

Also on this side of the Park was supposed to be Disneyland’s

Little Parkway system where children will drive scale model motor cars over a modern freeway (That proposed Tomorrowland attraction – of course – eventually the Autopia)

Somewhere in this corner of Disneyland, Walt also wanted to build

...The Magic House of Tomorrow, with mechanical features that obey the command of your voice like a Genie. You say ‘Please’ and the door opens, a polite ‘Thank you’ will close it.

That – of course – eventually morphed into Monsanto’s House of the Future. But isn’t it kind of cool that – nearly 70 years ago – the Imagineers were already envisioning something like Alexa, a voice activated personal assistant?

But then there are the things that were proposed for Disneyland’s World of Tomorrow that never got built. Like the futuristic restaurant where Guests could look straight into the kitchen area and watch as

conveyor-belts carry your food through the electronic cooking device of Tomorrow where you will then see it cooked instantly to your liking.

Another intriguing but never-built idea that was proposed for Disneyland’s World of Tomorrow area was a soundstage of sorts. Where Guests would then be invited to sit in on the production of an episode of a TV series that Walt wanted to produce, called the “World of Tomorrow Television Show.”

But again, this was the plan as of December of 1954. Get Main Street, Fantasyland, Adventureland & Frontierland open by the Summer of 1955 and then push off the opening of Disneyland’s World of Tomorrow ‘til the Summer of 1956.

But then – in January of 1955 – Walt suddenly changed his mind. I’m told that this was largely because the Tomorrowland themed segments on the “Disneyland” TV show (which began airing on ABC in the Fall of 1954) had proven to be so popular with viewers. And Walt was supposedly worried that – if Guests journeyed to his family fun park and didn’t find a future-themed area there – they’d then be disappointed.

The only problem was there was now only six months left ‘til Disneyland was scheduled to open in July of 1955. And not nearly enough time or money to build things like the moving walkway which would carry visitors to this theme park deep into Tomorrowland. Likewise a monorail track which would regularly pass directly over Guests’ heads.

But Walt did what he could with the time & money he had left. Disneyland’s Tomorrowland did open with that rocket-to-the-moon ride that was described in the Park’s prospectus. Likewise the Autopia AKA the Little Parkway.

But what genuinely frustrated Walt was that this side of his family fun park – at least when Disneyland first opened in the Summer of 1955 – was woefully low on kinetics. So to add some movement & animation to this area in the Park, Walt – in very short order – had:

    • The Tomorrowland Boats (later called the Phantom Boats) were added to this side of the Park’s array of attractions in the late Summer of 1955.

    • Disneyland’s Flight Circle (where model planes could be flown) opened in the Fall of 1955.

    • Astro-Jets were added to Tomorrowland in March of 1956.

    • Disneyland’s Skyway (which whisked Guests from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland or visa versa) opened in June of 1956.

    • The Viewliner Train of Tomorrow opened in June of 1957.

    • The Matterhorn & its Bobsleds opened in June of 1959. Alongside with the Disneyland Monorail and that theme park’s “Submarine Voyage” ride.

Only after these last three rides were finally up & running was Walt somehow happy with Disneyland’s Tomorrowland area. Largely because now … Well, just like when the Rivers of America had the Mark Twain & the Columbia & the Mike Fink Keel Boats & the Indian War Canoes & the rafts to Tom Sawyer Island all running at the same time, this area was finally filled with movement & animation. It was loaded with kinetics.

That said, it is worth noting that – once Walt finally acquired ABC’s stake in Disneyland in June of 1960 and then finally bought out the last of the Park’s original lessees in late 1964 – one of the very first things that Disney decided to do once he finally had total control over his family fun park was to build New Tomorrowland. Which – thanks to the PeopleMover & the Star Jets (which built high atop the PeopleMover station in Tomorrowland) had even more kinetics than before. It was truly a “World on the Move.”

I mean, you gotta give Walt points for being consistent. He really did love animation & movement. It’s just a shame that he didn’t actually live long enough to see Disneyland’s new version of Tomorrowland in action. He passed away on December 16, 1966. Whereas Disneyland’s New Tomorrowland didn’t open to the public ‘til July of the following year.