Originally Posted By wangaroa Does anyone recall the Disney Magazine issue that was published in Feb 2001 and featured a large spread on the new DCA: it had at end in the "soon to be published" section a note on a book about the creation of DCA. Of course, that book never materialized, but there was a slim soft-cover volume published as a cast ember exclusive thing, sold I think at the Glendale WDI store. I have a copy of this book, but am looking for another. Does anyone have a surplus copy they'd be willing to part with?
Originally Posted By ArchtMig ^^^ I'd love to own one. Either the soft cover or especially the hard cover. Or both. I remember that the hardcover was announced, and I was very disappointed that it never materialized. The story I heard was that "they" (whoever "thay" are) were not satisfied with the way it turned out, or that they discovered something wrong with it, and either pulled it before it hit the shelves and destroyed the batch, or never ran the presses on it in the first place. Too bad... I would have bought it for sure. Then they started combining DCA with Disneyland into books that covered the whole resort, including the hotels and Downtown Disney. That pretty much put the kibosh on a DCA exclusive book. Too bad.
Originally Posted By disneywatcher >> were not satisfied with the way it turned out, or that they discovered something wrong with it << A book about DCA or DCA itself, or both?
Originally Posted By ArchtMig ^^^ ummm... the book that is. They never ever would have admitted or even believed back in those days that there was anything wrong with the park itself.
Originally Posted By wangaroa This is sort of the trend for this kind of book. The last really in depth wonderful book from inside Disney and under its offical imprint (albeit Abrahms) was, I think, the EPCOT book, and in the same vein the Disneyland Inside Story vloume. Otherwise, all things have been available only to Disney cast, with the exception of souvenir pictorial things. This DCA book falls into that latter category, and is, at least in my thinking, more of a completist vloume to own instead of a truly essential one. I was but thirteen when DCA opened, and was almost at once put off by it. This little DCA book gives the inspirational background story to the Westfield Shopping Village-esque park--not in number of stores, but in pure soullessness. But, as we've seen, the park has converted and is slowly being given life.
