Originally Posted By oc_dean Help! I stumbled on to a website a few weeks ago .. regarding Monsters Inc. .. and I found a website that contained Sci-Fi Tomorrowland artwork. It wasn't full fledged artwork, but was more like "background" to this website I found. There were only 2 maybe 3 pics on this main page .. that contained a lot of current day Tomorrowland pics .. and in the lower half of the screen showed the "Sci-Fi" artwork of the shelved project in 1999. Does anyone know of it ... and have it as one of their bookmarks/favorites? Thanks for any help in advance.
Originally Posted By irishfan Here it is, scroll down about a 1/4 of the page. <a href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2008/05/wikipedia-list-of-never-built-disney.html" target="_blank">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....ney.html</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean In fact .. it might be one of those websites of Attractions Never Built.
Originally Posted By irishfan The entire article is a great read, not just the Sci Fi artwork relating to Tokyo.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Would you believe it ... I just stumbled on to it .. as you posted that. Thank you kindly, anyway. Appreciated it!
Originally Posted By oc_dean So what do you think of "Sci-Fi City" irishfan? Do you wish they would still go through with it? A modified version of it? Or something different altogether?
Originally Posted By irishfan The artwork looks pretty impressive, it reminds me of a cross between Discoveryland at Paris, and Hong Kongs Tomorrowland, the first picture in particular reminds me of Hong Kong, only better, less "toony". I'd love to see Disneylands tomorrowland recieve a make over like this.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Well .. it's a bit too "50s" ... I would hope though they'd go for a design that is more reaching into the future .. instead of hashing out YET another retro Tomorrowland. They already did one retro Tomorrowland: TL:98. Enough with the retro stuff! lol
Originally Posted By irishfan instead of hashing out YET another retro Tomorrowland. They already did one retro Tomorrowland: TL:98<< I think though to do retro right, you need a budget, and TL 98 ended up just being a paint job. With a proper budget retro could really work. Discoveryland in it's original form, though hardly "retro", shows what can be done when you think outside the "tomorrowland" box.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Well ... actually .... Discoveryland IS a retro future: The future as it seemed in the 1870s. But it is amazing looking, and more refreshing than one of so many retro futures of the 20th Century .. depending on what decade you want to pick: The future as it seemed from a 1920s/30s perspective: Metropolis, Buck Rogers 1950s: Googie 1960s: The Jestons 1970s: Logans Run
Originally Posted By irishfan ^^ My bad, that was a cut and paste error >>Discoveryland in it's original form, though hardly "retro", shows what can be done when you think outside the "tomorrowland" box<< take out "though hardly "retro" and get what I meant to say.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Well .. actually you were right in the way ... It was the first time the Future from a late 1800s perspective was fleshed out .. As appose to the hundreds of films and tv shows to date .. that like to get into retro futurism. Interestingly .. taking this "retro" thing into a broader discussion ... As a child growing up in the 70s ... so much of what I was seeing new .. was always new. It seems only in the last 15 maybe 20 years ... society has made "retro" a thing from retail spaces/clothes, furniture, to restaurants, and even movie theaters. (and more!) I'm sure you've heard all about the Garden Walk mall that just opened near Disneyland ..... Well .. it sports a "retro" styled movie theater. Very "1970". Not quite the 60s ... but not quite the 70s either. That transition time. My feeling, society is stuck in a time right now .. where it's more comforting to cling to old visions of just about anything. And WDI feels it's a lot easier for them too.
Originally Posted By jefegordon blue sky disney talks about a new tommorowland for tokyo disneyland that is a version of the once proposed 2055 tommorowland
Originally Posted By oc_dean Where exactly Jef? Blueskydisney is a huge website with tons of columns.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Just a refresher course for newer posters unfamiliar with TL:2055 at Disneyland (which was on the drawing boards throughout the late 80s/early 90s).... The idea was a lunar surface .. with alien plants and other interesting "eye candy" that makes up the theme. An Intergalactic Spaceport of sorts. With an emphasis on the comings and goings (Transportation) of aliens and Earthlings from Star Tours, to travels of "EO", to "Plectu" crashing landing on Earth, to the alien transporting/beaming to Earth in Alien Encounter, to Earthlings traveling back in time in Timekeeper. A little more detail.......... Had it gone through the attraction lineup would have been this: Circle-Vision: American Journeys would have been replaced with: Circle-Vision: Timekeeper (A show TDL did have, and since replaced with Buzz Lightyear) Kodak "Magic Eye" theater - featuring "Captain EO" would have remained. (Both at TDL, and DL) It was a fairly new show at the time TL:2055 was on the drawing boards. Peoplemover - Slightly rerouted track of the same "1967" attraction. The Japan audiences, though, are used to ultra modern transportation systems. Never adapted into TDL's TL even at inception - 1983. Plectu's Fantastic Intergalactic Revue - A variation on the "America Sings" format: Singing AAs, but aliens from another world. I don't see WDI trying to fit this into TDL's TL ... no room. Unless they knock down Showbase 2000. Alien Encounter - Ultimately built for WDW. A sound show with minor visuals that was tweaked for version 2.0 just after opening version 1.0. Finally succumbing to a show revolving around Stitch. Mixed revues. Is WDI considering this for TDL? So there's the rundown for what would have been DL's Tomorrowland 2055. If they are indeed looking at adapting anything from TL:2055 .. it will be the general theming around the land. I think all the show ideas are now officially declared obsolete at this point.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Actually .... if this what you are refering to ... <a href="http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/search?q=Blue+sky+buzz" target="_blank">http://blueskydisney.blogspot....sky+buzz</a> It refers that Tony Baxter is looking to make DL's Tomorrowland a variation of the TL:2055 plan. But "TL:2055" is not mentioned in any context to TDL. Unless I'm missing something.
Originally Posted By jefegordon This is the paragraph from the blue sky buzz im referring to... It's not known yet how this has affected the redo of Tokyo Disneyland's Tomorrowland that WDI is working on. When I last talked with my Bothans that was still on. The project that Imagineers have been working on for the redo of TL was/is a welcome thing. It was originally going to be done back in the late 90's when the remake would be known as "Sci-Fi City", but because of the OLC deciding to spend that money on Tokyo DisneySEA, those funds were diverted to the expansion of the park in general. Hopefully, this project hasn't died because WDI was going to use all the R & D from this to justify the makeover here in Anaheim. This was going to make it easier to justify the large redo of TL in Disneyland as the development cost would have been subsidized by our partners in Japan. The status of this project is unknown as of yet. people press him for more info in the comments section and he says "Sci-Fi City isn't what the redo of TDL's Tomorrowland will look like... That was just what the design was going to look like when they were planning it in the late 90's. What's being planned now is more of a retro/TL 2055 look" Hopefully one way or another we will see a new tommorowland in both Tokyo and Disneyland California
Originally Posted By jefegordon I also just heard WALL-E May be a part of this makeover both in ca and Tokyo
