This is pretty awesome. Having never been to Disneyland (with no desire to do so, either), I would have no idea what is there, how big it is etc.
So watching this newly uncovered time-lapse footage of the building of Disneyland is pretty cool. Remember, this was all built in the 1950s, way before some of our easier, modern building components were invented (fibreglass was very new at the time, and was used sparingly).
Look out for Walt, surveying his egotistical fantasy land on bicycle.
Pretty amazing stuff - makes you realise just how much work / materials went into the place.
(For the record, I've been to Disneyland, but I was 11 at the time so it probably all seemed rather big. Disney World, on the other hand, I visited a few years later, and that's just insane. You really feel like you're in a different world - it's that big.)
Woah - I never knew they had two within the borders of the US... freaky. Yeh I get the feeling it would be a big, isolated world. I've never even liked the idea of our own crappy theme parks in QLD, so the US version is so scary...
Pretty amazing stuff - makes you realise just how much work / materials went into the place.
ReplyDelete(For the record, I've been to Disneyland, but I was 11 at the time so it probably all seemed rather big. Disney World, on the other hand, I visited a few years later, and that's just insane. You really feel like you're in a different world - it's that big.)
Wait, Disney World is in Europe?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's in Florida. Not sure there'd be room for it in Europe! :)
ReplyDeleteWoah - I never knew they had two within the borders of the US... freaky.
ReplyDeleteYeh I get the feeling it would be a big, isolated world. I've never even liked the idea of our own crappy theme parks in QLD, so the US version is so scary...