Originally Posted By Labuda It wa posted earlier in this thread. $75 at the resort, or $99 through the LP Store if you're a "I want it now" kinda person and won't be at the resort for a while. Plus, it's apparently only available at WDW right now.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I think that $75 is still a heck of a lot of money for this sort of thing. The Disneyland marketing and merchandising division has struck gold with this one.
Originally Posted By mstaft FYI- I just ordered this from WDW Mail Order- $75 plus $12 for shipping. Available now- 10 days ground delivery. 407-363-6200.
Originally Posted By iDisney72 For those of you who have the book already, what kind of pics make it so special? Are there any of Walt's apartment? Club 33? Pre-opening pics that haven't been released? Thanks!
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech It's the ART of Disneyland, not the photo album of Disneyland. The big deal is that a lot of the art is unseen. I don't suspect there will be many pictures at all. Now the other 3 Disneyland books coming out this year...
Originally Posted By iDisney72 ooo Duh, I should have caught onto that one. So it is like sketches and drawings of the park? Sounds cool, but I don't think I'd want it to buy it without seeing it first.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I want it. But I'll probably wait till the other 3 come out so I can compare and decide which ones I want. I'll probably want all 4. But probably won't be able to justify BUYING all 4.
Originally Posted By jmuboy I just received this book about an hour ago. I really like it. Any true DL fan will like it. But I have to warn those people who are ordering "sight unseen" - this book it short and full of HUGE beautiful artwork. But there are no "real" photos. I rate it a 7 on a 10 point scale. The Nickel Tour is an 11 (for those who want a comparison.)
Originally Posted By jmuboy one more question I have. I was told by DL DELIVEARS (and I should have asked them) that there were 4 new books coming out for the 50th Birthday. Art of DL is one of the four books. Anyone know what the other three books are?
Originally Posted By Skellington88 Is there concept art for Tommorowland 2055, America Sings, Plectu Review, and Splash Mountain in it? Is their a good amount of concept art of stuff that never made it off the drawing board?
Originally Posted By hopemax They were covered in the most recent Disney Magazine Disneyland Then, Now and Forever $24.95 Then they are reprinting Diane Disney Miller's "The Story of Walt Disney" $35 and "Disneyland 1955 in Natural Color" $9.95 Then there is also "Around the World with Disney" $21.95 but I think that one is just at WDW.
Originally Posted By jmuboy Skellington88: Splash Mt and America Sings are included. No Plectus or TL 2055. The book mainly focuses on concept art or area/rides/shoes that were built.
Originally Posted By jmuboy HOPEMAX - I don't get the Disney magazine. Do you have any info on "Disneyland Then, Now and Forever " Thanks!
Originally Posted By hopemax Do I have info... Last July, Tim O'Day, Bruce Gordon and Jeff Kurtti spoke about their books. Tim wrote the "Then, Now and Forever" Jeff wrote the "Art of Disneyland" Bruce assisted with the selections and layout for both. They had slides for their books, and I took pictures the best I could. <a href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4085211&a=31464386&f=" target="_blank">http://albums.photo.epson.com/ j/AlbumIndex?u=4085211&a=31464386&f=</a> And I wrote a trip report about their seminar for another board *** Earlier in the week, someone asked if there would be a moderator for this seminar. The NFFC organizer said there wouldn't, and then got a look of panic on their face when they realized what that meant. Any one of these guys is uncontrollable when they are alone on stage, no one knew what would happen when all three of them are together. Bruce Gordon's name you might recognize, he is an Imagineer and has made quite a little name for himself doing layouts and text for a lot of the fabulous Disney history, and biographies that have been coming out recently. The Nickel Tour, the Sherman Bros, Herb Ryman, Peter Ellenshaw. Jeff Kurtti and Tim O'Day are primarily writers. Jeff wrote the "Since the World Began: WDW's first 25 years," Tim has put together most of the recent souvenir books for DL and writes for the Disney Magazine. Next year, there will be what looks like two fabulous books released for DL's 50th anniversary. Tim and Bruce are working on "50 Years of Happiness: Disneyland Then, Now and Forever" which will be the souvenir book produced for the 50th. A lot of it focuses on DL then, mostly tomorrowland. DCA is in the back of the book, which annoyed people because they wanted to see more of it throughout the book. Bruce said, "Well that's because it hasn't had much of a then...(pause wondering if he should say it)...it doesn't have much of a now...(pause, wondering if he should keep going)...and it probably doesn't have much of a future. At this point, Tim and Jeff move their chairs as far away from Bruce as they can. Bruce said, "But of course I'm only kidding." [NOT!] Julie Andrews wrote the introduction to the book, Tim did the writing, Bruce did the design. And instead of doing the traditional chronological approach, or even a land by land approach, the decided to tackle DL from a point of emotional themes. So there is a chapter called dreams, another called tradions, surprises, adventure, fun, thrills and secrets. And then Tim made a comment that the last part of the book [you guys remember what that was] is dissapointment. After he said it, Jeff moved his chair away from Tim, Tim moved his closer to Bruce's and then said, "But I am only joking." They did have a slide show showing the pages, I took a few pictures of the screens, those will be coming later. A few other tidbits that they threw into their presentation: DL's Buzz will be closer to Tokyo's Buzz, not WDW's. This is when Bruce made his comment about watching the sub lagoon in August. And Bruce mentioned his new book that he is working on which is a tribute to Wally Boag and the Golden Horseshoe Revue. He shared a story, that while Wally Boag was working in a show in England and during one of the skits they get an audience member to get up on stage and sing with the cast, and the audience member, who is a plant, blows them away with their beautiful voice. The audience member was an about 12 year old girl, and it was Julie Andrews. Also if you want to see a really great exhibit about Disneyland's 50th anniversary you will have to head to Dearborn, Michigan because the Henry Ford Museum will be putting on a great one. Then they moved on to talking about Jeff's book. It finally occured to Disney Editions (the publishing company) that they had never done an "Art of Disneyland" coffee table type book, and that people might like one. So that's what Jeff's book will be. He's doing the writing and Bruce, once again, is doing the design. A reoccuring theme among writers, Peggy Van Pelt talked about this as well, whenever Disney Editions would complain that the text was too technical and not interesting, they'd shove as much of that into the captions for the pictures, which for some reason made it okay. Jeff shared another "difficulty" with the publishing of the book. Most of the art is long and narrow. Not really appropriate for the standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. So his great idea was that they would just print some of the artwork turned 90 degrees. So you'd have the normal sized book, and periodically you'd see that the art was sideways and you'd turn the book to look at it correctly. Apparently, management thought that their readers would not be able to figure out that they needed to turn the book, or that people might tear the pages out of the book while trying to look at these pages. And the publisher was concerned about the added printing costs (you all know how easy it is to print something landscape instead of portrait, right). Well, eventually sanity prevailed. So everyone, remember to turn your books sideways at the appropriate times. He also showed some pages from the book, most of it is turning out to be Tomorrowland. After Jeff pulled the art he wanted to use, he had Bruce through out anything that everyone has seen 1000 times. They really wanted to get the stuff that people maybe haven't seen already.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Thanks for the great report, hopemax. That was a very entertaining seminar, as I recall.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech The unbuilt stuff (like possibly Plectu's and other TL2055 stuff) sounds like it will be the subject of Disneyland, Then, Now and Forever.
Originally Posted By DisLee Sounds like this upcoming DVD may also have some good stuff on unbuilt attractions... DISNEYLAND – THE SECRETS, STORIES AND MAGIC OF THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH "... which includes a feature on “the Disneyland That Never Was,†which shows the many amazing alternate park ideas and designs..."
