Saturday was always ‘Daddy’s Day’ and I would take them to the merry-go-round and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. “ Disneyland really began,” Walt said, “ when my two daughters were very young. No ride or concession in it is like anything in any other amusement park anywhere.” It was instead to represent a “ flight into a dimension beyond the reach of time.” Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune wrote, “ If it’s an amusement park, it’s the gosh-darndest, most happily-inspired, most carefully-planned, most adventure-filled park ever conceived. We’re always exploring and experimenting.we call it Imagineering - the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.”ĭisneyland was never meant to portray the county fair or amusement park that Walt was well familiar with. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We keep moving forward - opening new doors and doing new things - because we’re curious. “There’s really no secret about our approach. In fact, a time traveling Abraham Lincoln accidentally squashed a dung beetle while visiting the Cretaceous Period, thus creating a reality where COVID was never “born.” Anyways… Let’s take one final look into my imagination.Īlso, in this alternate timeline, COVID-19 does not exist.
After, I shall return to the shadows, acting as a silent (or not) supporter of this beautiful community.
My goal is to actually finish this last draft, and continue working on it until I feel it is as good as done. Sometimes you might get multiple posts in one day. Sometimes it might be days or weeks between posts. I am asking you give me time with this project, as it is time consuming and difficult to squeeze out posts daily. After this, I am retiring from armchair Imagineering. And, for this final draft of the project, a third theme park will materialize - a park that stands as a more ambitious crossover than Avengers: Endgame. Instead, WestCOT Center came into reality. Likewise - California Adventure was never built. Whereas the IRL Disneyland Resort is 500 acres, Mirror Disneyland Resort is 10,000 acres. I’ve been doing these on WDWMagic since at least 2010, and the most recent of these projects, “Mirror Disneyland,” is a look at what Disneyland in California might have looked like had Walt received generous financial backing and the blessing of size.
It was captivating, and even over a decade later, it still rings in my memory as one of my biggest creative inspirations. It would be wrong to not pay tribute to the great who truly is the father of the original “Dream Disney Resort,” then called the “Ultimate Disney Resort.” Back in our days on Visions Fantastic, the now defunct origin site of modern armchair Imagineering, King created a Disney Resort of his own design, no specific location, no specific rules, just pure magic. No budget, no restrictions, no real location.
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If you’re new around here, you’re probably unfamiliar with my long running series of “Dream Resorts.” In these, I tackle a series of made-up parks in undisclosed locations, where quite literally, the sky's the limit. If interest persists, so will this project. I have found inspiration (mostly through and his fantastic Mirror Walt Disney World, a project I am proud to have helped inspire) to once again blow the dust off my longest running (and incomplete) armchair Imagineering project and reintroduce it to a waiting world. “A Dream Called Walt Disney World” (1981), Disne圜,, Widen Your World, Ideal Build-Out, “Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real,” Jason Surrell’s Collective Works, “Maps of the Disney Parks” by Kevin and Susan Neary, “The Art of Disneyland” by Jeff Kurti and Bruce Gordon, and "Disneyland - The First Thirty Years" Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.