Originally Posted By mstaft Hi Everyone, I dug this concept art up last night as I was thinking about Tomorrowland in Florida vs. Disneyland. Thought you might like to see it!It's on my blog. <a href="http://www.insightsandsounds.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://www.insightsandsounds.b logspot.com</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's a really interesting picture. The entrance reminds me of Horizons, how the building goes out past the actual entrance. That certainly makes more a much more grand entrance that the awkward one that we have today with the ball pit room. As for the outdoor cars, I've read that they actually were planned to go out side at one point. The original plans called for four intertwining tracks, with all of them leaving and reentering the building at some point. Since they had to take scale into consideration, they couldn't let the rockets out of the building higher up. Instead, they were going to have the rockets do the outside portion near the bottom, and have fake rockets complete with fake people (similar to the shrunken Atommobiles in the ATIS microscope) going along tracks at the top of the mountain. I never really understood that reasoning, because at the same time they were talking about having outdoor lift hills (which can be seen in that image), which would ruin anything smaller rockets would do for scale. Eventually, they ran into too many problems with getting the rockets outside (they let a lot of light into the building), so that was dropped. They also wanted a more reliable, completely gravity dependent (after the first lift hill) layout, so Arrow's four track design (which used energy wheels-spinning tires embedded in the track to conrol speed-like the Matterhorn) was dropped in favor of a two track design. But it's definately neat to get to see something so familiar, yet so different.
Originally Posted By mstaft At one time, I had heard they scrapped the outside idea due to lightning and such... It does look so different than everything we've seen before.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks kind of reminiscent of one of the early models, but a lot more stylized. The model didn't have the angled round roof that we know now, but this seems to sort of be a segway between the two.
Originally Posted By mickeyboy43 Wow. That is one of the most amazing looking rides ever. But i think the light problem would have been easy enough to solve. Through tiny rooms that exited, most of the light could be dissipated. I dunno. I WISH THEY HAD BUILT THIS INSTEAD!!
Originally Posted By mickeyboy43 IT just looks so retrofuturistic/amazing I had to post again to say how awesome I think this is!
Originally Posted By Britain It's fun to see, but it wouldn't have aged as well as what got built. The Space Mountain in that art is too googie-baroque. The less-is-more version that was built is more timeless.
