Multi Level Tomorrowland?

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

If they build a second level in tomorrow land it will probably be all shops. $$$

 

Originally Posted By Bellella

Yeah, more shops for Disney merchandise! As if they don't already have too many.

 

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

Right.
I remember the shop in Frontierland from when I was a kid. It had cowboy and cowgirl hats, coon-skin caps (Davy Crockett style), some Indian (Native American) type things, leather bracelets, etc. When I go in that shop now it makes me sad. Everything has Mickey Mouse on it!
Now, I love Mickey MOuse as much as the next fanatic, but there is no room left for imaginative play.

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

>>I recall that the Tomorrowland 2055 project had two levels in some areas. That concept was somewhere in the late 90’s.
<<

Actually - think, one decade before.

Originally brainstormed - late 80s
Original construction start date - Jan 1992
Piece-meal delivery, with final "3rd phase" finished by Summer 1995.

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

The most notable "double decking" would have been to Coca-Cola Terrace, and the Star Trader.

And then "sky ramps" were to connect Coke Terrace to Space Mountain and Plectu's Fantastic Galactic Revue.

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

For you Orange County natives think - Early Westminster Mall's central tiered core with connecting ramps.

I miss that design.

Damn mall developers took it out in the 90s.

It was so cool.

 

Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt

I was sort of thinking that Tomorrowland would end up looking like a big outdoor shopping mall if they added a second level. I'm not a big fan of this idea.

 

Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo

>>>'Future Space Mountain Above' and 'Future Flying Saucers Below'. Wow! Sometime in the late sixties or perhaps the early seventies someone at WED was thinking about bringing the Flying Saucers back and perching Space Mountain above them!>>>

This is really really cool!

 

Originally Posted By Bellella

DyGDisney, I wish to goodness that the shops would sell more merchandise related to their particular location, like they did before my time. I've got a bit of a problem with the coonskin caps, though. Couldn't they just squeeze all the Disney-related stuff into DCA, Fantasyland, and Mickey's Toontown?

 

Originally Posted By monorailblue

OC_d: what I remember most about the Westminster Mall was the colored wire & cross beam sculpture. I've found it hard to describe, but I remember it clearly.

 

Originally Posted By DyGDisney

I'm pretty sure they weren't real coon-skin.
But you know what I mean. I don't know how old you are, but when I was a kid we watched Davy Crockett (he was a little before my time, but I still watched him), we played "Cowboys and Indians", etc. So all that stuff was really cool to me. I wanted to be a cowgirl so bad!!

 

Originally Posted By oc_dean

>>OC_d: what I remember most about the Westminster Mall was the colored wire & cross beam sculpture. <<

Ohhhh .. you and I could talk! That mall opened in 1974. I was 10 .. one of my mom's favorite hangouts .. and I had fun racing around the center tier with all those unusual skyramps going all around the place. It was unique!

 

Originally Posted By monorailblue

Well, in 1974, I wasn't, uh, ten. Ummm, yet. I wasn't ten until after the Summer Games in Los Angeles, but it was before Splash opened. I don't remember too much from the mall but that piece of artwork (and Buffums, and the old BEST) linger in the memory.

 

Originally Posted By Bellella

DyGDisney- let's just say that I'm not old enough to remember the Disneyland stores selling anything but Disney merchandise.