Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We were in Disneyana on Thursday and were choosing some attraction posters to put in a couple of our bedrooms. DH thought we should buy all the "posters" of attractions that no longer exist. He pulled out an old subs poster and we were still thinking about buying it when I went around the corner and saw the new subs poster in a frame! Well that's all it took for me. I now had a theme so of course I needed to buy BOTH of them. The CM was more than happy to check in the back for unframed posters and came out cheering that she found some We love the CM's in Disneyana So today I check on LP and here is a thread about the 2 posters! I love it that I'm not the only one to be excited over things like this Any suggestions on where to buy frames? I think we bought 8 and I shudder to think what the frames will cost
Originally Posted By cstephens FYI, they've released an adult-sized t-shirt with the Nemo sub poster design on the back and the Nemo sub logo on the front left breast. I still like the kid's sub t-shirt design better, but I like this one a lot better than the Dory or Bruce one since it's actually about the subs and not just the Nemo movie, so I bought this one. And it was free! OK, well, it was sort of free. I ended up walking from Downtown Disney back to the parking structure today and found a $20 bill on the ground in the parking lot, so the t-shirt was effectively free. Sorry to whomever lost their $20, but thanks. I got the shirt at the Emporium, near the plush display. I would presume they also have it at Tomorrowlanding, but that area was totally closed off for the press event today. /cs
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I would love for them to make a book that features all the attraction posters, past and present...I thought the new Subs poster is nice, and I see they went with that retro Nemo art that appears to be used in a lot of the Nemo merchandise like storybooks, stickers and the Holiday 2003 Disney Catalog. Is there any particular reason why Nemo and friends is done in that style?
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Actually it's an edict from Pixar that all of thier films adopted a "traditional" look on products that don't use actual film images. What follows are only my theories as to why. Rather than trying to constantly recreate the look of the films, without using the actual computer images (which would be incredibly time consuming and impractical for new stories), they've created a simpler graphic look for each film. Had they tried to achieve the look of the film the effect would be close but not quite right (Check out some early Toy Story storybooks- Yike!). Also, very little illustration work is done inhouse- Disney frequently farms it out, and a simple graphic style is more easily duplicated by more illustrators than a highly rendered style. It's ironic that the CG films are the one's that are doing their books and stuff traditionally, while Disney has been digitally painting their traditional characters (Mickey, Princesses, etc...) for years now.
Originally Posted By schnebs I'm with FiveBearRugs - I'd love to see a book with illustrations of the attraction posters from all the Disney parks. The closest they've ever gotten to that was a series of pins theat were put out a couple of years ago and an address book and notecards that featured the DL attraction posters from the 50s and 60s (I'm not sure how long ago i came out, but I remember buying it in the gift shop at the old DL Hotel Travelport, so it's been a while). If you can't make up your mind which of the Subs posters you'd like and you've got some money to spend, Tomorrowlanding had both posters in a really nice frame available the weekend prior to the Subs' re-opening. I can't remember how much it was, though.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech And they are selling a Print on Demand print of the Nemo Subs poster, for those of us who like a larger poster. As for a Poster book, I'd like it too, provided it's done right. The real problem is that the consumer products people (who choose which posters are for sale in the gallery) have very little idea what posters are out there. They don't know that between all the parks there are like 5 or 6 variations on the Monorail poster, several versions of the 1977 DLRR poster, a poster for the World of Tron/Peoplemover. I was floored to see the Casa De Fritos poster finally see the light of day in the Official Disneyland souvenir. Heck they don't even sell a copy of the Carousel of Progress poster and that one's been well publicized. I guess another problem is that the posters take time to digitally clean up or photograph, so they don't want to take the time to clean up multiple variations. If you've seen one Railroad poster you've seen em all, right? In my mind, the only way such a book would be worthwhile would be if it included everything.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<schnebs:...but I remember buying it in the gift shop at the old DL Hotel Travelport, so it's been a while).>> Sigh, I remember that place! And the Monorail Cafe...and Mickey's Corner... and It's a Small World of Toys...and Sgt. Preston's... <<SIR at X-S Tech: They don't know that between all the parks there are like 5 or 6 variations on the Monorail poster, several versions of the 1977 DLRR poster, a poster for the World of Tron/Peoplemover. I was floored to see the Casa De Fritos poster finally see the light of day in the Official Disneyland souvenir. Heck they don't even sell a copy of the Carousel of Progress poster and that one's been well publicized. I guess another problem is that the posters take time to digitally clean up or photograph, so they don't want to take the time to clean up multiple variations. If you've seen one Railroad poster you've seen em all, right? In my mind, the only way such a book would be worthwhile would be if it included everything.>> Crap. I did not know that there were multiple posters of the same attraction. I guess those would have definitely have to share a page or two. I was originally thinking of having the books exclusive to the parks, so the DL Poster book would contain all the DL attractions, but I suppose you could mix it with Magic Kingdom... Now that I think about it, Monsters Inc., Incredibles and Cars all appeared to use a retro-60s look in their storybooks as well. I remember all the Toy Story ones trying to look like the movie, and A Bug's Life (that was a Pixar film? Really? Pixar never mentions it, lol) used a 2-D look.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech The most frequent reason that a poster seems to get a revision is if a sponsor changes or drops out. The Original subs poster said "General Dynamics" on it, right where it now says "thru liquid space". Gen Dynamics dropped out so new posters were screened up. Let's take a look at a few more examples shall we?These are all reproductions so in most cases the sponsors have been deleted. This monorail poster <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/disneyland-monorail-poster-png" target="_blank">http://www.answers.com/topic/d isneyland-monorail-poster-png</a> says "Board at Speedramp in Tomorrowland or Disneyland Hotel Station" at the bottom while this one: <a href="http://www.dldhistory.com/disneyland/att/poster/tms-446.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.dldhistory.com/disn eyland/att/poster/tms-446.jpg</a> says" Board Speedramp at Monorail Terminal Disneyland USA The differences were due to their being displayed in different areas. If I'm not incorrect the first one would have been displayed in the park, telling guests both locations to board the monorail, while the second would have been on display at the DLH Monorail station (so that they were aware of the other station in DL). There is also another version (hardly ever see it) that has the Douglas Rocket in the background instead of the TWA Moonliner. Then there's this one: <a href="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/180px-Mono_poster.jpg" target="_blank">http://content.answers.com/mai n/content/wp/en/thumb/4/41/180px-Mono_poster.jpg</a> When WDW first opened thier attraction posters were all redos of early DIsneyland posters. They printed up silver version of this: <a href="http://www.jansworld.net/images/Gh" target="_blank">http://www.jansworld.net/image s/Gh</a>%20Poster-1955.jpg and changed the title to read Diamond Horseshoe Revue (keeping the Red white and Blue Pepsi colors but deleting the Pepsi sponsorship logo). Anyway this monorail is clearly inspired by the Disneyland version. The wierd thing is how they clearly new what the new monorails were going to look like (there's tiny one in front of the MK in the Background, but they didn't bother changing the one in the foreground. Anyway there's so many interesting little things about attraction posters, I really do wish they would do a really comprehensive book like this comparing all of them, but I fear anything we get will be the same 3 dozen posters that have been published a million times before.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Sorry, here's the link to the Golden Horseshoe poster again <a href="http://www.jansworld.net/images/Gh" target="_blank">http://www.jansworld.net/image s/Gh</a>%20Poster-1955.jpg
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Anyway there's so many interesting little things about attraction posters, I really do wish they would do a really comprehensive book like this comparing all of them, but I fear anything we get will be the same 3 dozen posters that have been published a million times before." You know, I do hope they come out with a book like this considering they released a book about all of the insignias Disney created for the US Armed Forces during WWII. Also, they released a book of movie posters from the animated films...now that one was not totally comprehensive though, and did not include a lot of the reissue or variant posters. So, if there ever is a book with all of the attraction posters, I also hope it is accurate and contains everything.
Originally Posted By schnebs Interesting about the duplicate posters, SIR. I have an example of one of the more obvious duplicates hanging on my wall - a reproduction of the WDW HM poster with the Liberty Square version of the Mansion in the background instead of the NOS version. I didn't realize they'd copied that many of the DL attraction posters...
Originally Posted By Matterhorn1959 Gurgi- The Disney Insignia book is far, far from complete. The book only showed a small percentage of the true number of designs. I have heard that people are working on both an Attractions Poster book and also a comprehensive Disney Insignia book.
