Originally Posted By DlandDug The model is displayed at the new Frontier Tower. I just saw it tonight. It looks very nice. The model of Discovery Bay and Dumbo's Circus was displayed in the Disney Gallery for a couple of years. That was when it was located up above the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Originally Posted By Scutr >>The model of Discovery Bay and Dumbo's Circus was displayed in the Disney Gallery for a couple of years. That was when it was located up above the Pirates of the Caribbean.<< I'm thinking back farther than that....about 30 years ago. I've never been in the Disney Gallery.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Maybe it was shown in the old Disney Showcase on Main Street before my time...? Now that I think about it, the display in the Gallery was about Disneyland concepts that were not executed.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I worked at DL in the late seventies. The Discovery Bay and Dumbo's Circus models were backstage in the Cast Member Center at that time, then later moved to Main Street. The wonderful website, "Disneyland Nomenclature," had some pics of Tony Baxter explaining the models to cast members in 1976: <a href="http://disneylandcompendium.blogspot.com/2009/12/discovery-bay-teaser.html" target="_blank">http://disneylandcompendium.bl...ser.html</a> I barely remember them on Main Street in Disney Showcase; I mainly remember them in the CM Center.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I worked at DL in the late seventies. The Discovery Bay and Dumbo's Circus models were backstage in the Cast Member Center at that time, then later moved to Main Street. The wonderful website, "Disneyland Nomenclature," had some pics of Tony Baxter explaining the models to cast members in 1976: <a href="http://disneylandcompendium.blogspot.com/2009/12/discovery-bay-teaser.html" target="_blank">http://disneylandcompendium.bl...ser.html</a> I barely remember them on Main Street in Disney Showcase; I mainly remember them in the CM Center.
Originally Posted By Scutr I find it interesting that bits & pieces of old concepts still get dusted off & recycled for other projects. The scaled-down Dumbo's Circus area in WDW's new Fantasyland expansion, for instance. Or the full-sized 'Nautilus' and lagoon from Discovery Bay that found its way into TDS.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <I'm thinking back farther than that....about 30 years ago. I've never been in the Disney Gallery.> Yep. I remember the section of main street devoted to the coming attractions. Right there near Town Squate -- on the east side of the street -- next to The Egg House The model of Big Thunder was on display, as well as Dumbo's Circus, and Discovery Bay.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I remember the showcase well. I used to druel, and say "Mommy, when I grow up, I am going to be an imagineer". Sadly, I did not become an imagineer, but I loved it, especially when it was a preview centre for new Fantasyland.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I loved that preview center too. I remember a very short-lived concept for a new SW ride that would take out the witch and concentrate on Snow herself and the dwarfs. This was before the concepts for the full new FaL, at about the time they felt the need to put "scary" in the description of the ride.
Originally Posted By Scutr Didn't they have something on the aborted 'Thunder Mesa' idea for WDW too? I can't remember whether it was a model or just conceptual paintings, but I remember seeing...something. It might've even been at WDW. We were at one or the other of the 2 parks almost every year in the 70's. And notice how I'm ignoring Doug's crack about it having been before his time.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh Yup,it might be WDW you're remembering. I remember way back in my first visit in 1973 there being a bunch of exhibits in the post-show "Walt Disney Story" area - including one featuring the then supposedly up-and-coming Western River Expedition. All I can now recall seeing was a couple of the proposed ride show scenes in model form and an audio-animatronic owl (introducing himself as the "real Hoot Gibson") who was to be one of the cast of the attraction.
