Perhaps the most identifiable building and garden in the Disneyland model: the Main Street Train Station with its floral Mickey Mouse. This is where the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad embarks every few minutes as a tiny train.
A model close-up of Fantasyland, where Captain Hook's Pirate Ship and the Casey Jr. Circus Train are in view. Circling the entire model is the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad with its yellow passenger cars.
Disneyland model Fantasyland concept sketch by former Imagineer Nina Vaughn. This version of the land is how it appeared to guests soon after the 1955 park opening.
Within the Disneyland model is Frontierland as it appeared in the 1960s. The Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland (center & upper left) predates Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, featuring a blacklight-illuminated Rainbow Caverns finalé (center right).
In the New Orleans Square area of the Disneyland model is the Haunted Mansion. Larger scale elements were created for several attractions to highlight a memorable moment in the show. Here, three hitchhiking ghosts glow larger than life on the front lawn.
In the Tomorrowland area of the Disneyland model is the original Rocket Jets, with Adventure Thru Inner Space to the left, and the Circlevision theater 'America The Beautiful' motion picture to the right.
When guests enter Gallery 9 they encounter a floating sphere presenting a motion picture of Walt Disney's imagination. Below the sphere is an exhibit showcasing original concepts for EPCOT Center in Orlando, FL.
Floating within Gallery 9 is a 360-degree spherical motion picture display. Here, Walt Disney appears in the Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln sequence. The Disneyland model is in the background. A guest walk ramp serpentines to connect the two.
Walt Disney Family Museum - Gallery 9 exhibits
Scale model of the Disneyland® Walt envisioned & 360˚ spherical motion picture
• The highest detail scale model of Disneyland® (Anaheim, CA) ever created
• The model has become the most memorable exhibit in the entire museum
• Concept collaboration from legendary Disney Imagineer, Tony Baxter (Disneyland Paris)
• Walk-around spherical motion picture of some of Walt’s most well-known creations
• The spherical display presents short stories without any spoken language or sound
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Within antique brick walls of the Walt Disney Family Museum, the expansive imagination, vision, and industry-changing technologies of Walt Disney are showcased. Located in San Francisco’s Presidio, a series of walk-through galleries draw guests toward discoveries of a truly unique individual and the hundreds of creations he and his studio artists and Imagineers brought to life.
Featured in Gallery 9 is a 13-foot diameter scale model of the Disneyland® Walt envisioned, as well as a 360-degree spherical motion picture presenting achievements across Walt’s career: Disney Studio exhibitions at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, his love for trains, and the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow, or EPCOT Center. GPG is proud to have had a primary role in the realization of these two standout attractions.
The Disneyland model was art directed by Geoff Puckett, and hand-crafted by some of the same model makers who built spaceship and alien planet models for the original Star Wars motion pictures. The design featured well-known attractions, as well as proposed but never realized attractions and lands. Celebrated Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter conceived the idea to display what Walt would have created in three-dimensional theme park form had budget and guest circulation challenges been no obstacle up to his passing in 1966.
Scripted and produced by Geoff, the floating spherical display presents the very first it’s a small world, the dinosaur-inhabited Primeval World, an original Abraham Lincoln animatronic figure, and the Carousel Of Progress. Produced to show filmic short stories without audio, museum guests can observe some of the key moments of Walt Disney’s illustrious career.