 |
Progress City and other extinct attractions, Disneyland! |
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
|  Posted: 2009-07-01 2:57 pm Permalink
http://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/disneyland-in-focus-carousel-of_10.html
This was the impressive model/diorama that was in the carousel of progress in tomorrowland. As you were exiting up an escalator, this was right next to you.
[ This Message was edited by: lucas vigor 2009-07-12 13:04 ]
|
TikiG
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 1519
From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2009-07-01 4:02 pm Permalink
I have vivid memories of this model. I do remember it being billed as EPCOT.
This was built inside a 180 - 270 degree, glass wall area that you walked around. No escalator (maybe a moving floor?)
You entered at one end and the model was in "daylight".
By the time you walked around the circle, the model was lit up because the daylight turned to night.
I'm an amusement park fan and as a kid I remember the small amusement area built into this Epcot model. Loop-o-planes, double ferris wheel, carousel etc. All moving like real.
A fantastic model display and worth the torture of watching the Carousel Of Progress show.
I miss it!
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-01 4:10 pm Permalink
I think you are right about the daylight/night, but I somehow remember going up and past it....but I could be wrong about that. The memories are so hazy at this point. I must have been under 10 years old at the time. Maybe even about 7, so who knows?
In researching it, I see that Walt had intended to build it in florida. After he died, they sort of did make it, renaming the creation EPCOT.
My next quest is to find any image of the interior of space station X-1.. I see plenty of ride posters, but nothing of the actual diorama itself.
|
The Lounge Tiki
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 10, 2009
Posts: 91
From: Chiwai'i (Chicago)
| Posted: 2009-07-05 10:48 am Permalink
When I was there a few years ago, in the Florida Magic Kindom anyways, I think this diorama was in one of the tunnels of the People Mover/Disneyland Transit Authority rather than the Carouself of Progress. I don't know if maybe it was in the COP before and moved. I'm only 20, so, I'm seeing Disney World and Land in their more modified state.
I want a turkey leg now...
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I think the X-1 was removed for the current rocket ride in the middle of the Tomorrow Lands.
-LT
[ This Message was edited by: The Lounge Tiki 2009-07-05 10:50 ]
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-05 11:55 am Permalink
It was taken from disneyland, and moved to walt disney world, or so I heard! In disneyland, it was definitely in the carousel of progress (Later American sings, then innoventions)....It seems like walt disney world actually kept a lot of the attractions that disneyland phased out, like the people mover.
|
Polynesiac
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 29, 2004
Posts: 2020
From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2009-07-06 01:07 am Permalink
Yes - this model is in the people mover at Disney World. I understand that it is the same model that was at the carousel of progress and it was moved to Florida.
There's a great documentary about Walt's vision of this proposed city (which he called EPCOT) on the limited edition Tomorrowland DVD's "Disney in space and Beyond"
_________________
Polynesiac - putting the "F" back in "ART"
|
Unga Bunga
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5734
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2009-07-06 11:34 pm Permalink
Remember it well,
This could be seen from both the people mover (from behind the line) and while leaving carousel of progress.,
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-10 11:36 am Permalink
And now, the Matterhorn basketball court!
http://www.invisiblethemepark.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/matterhornbasketballcourt.jpg
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-12 12:27 pm Permalink
The exclusive club 33:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7LaRVTdlA&feature=related
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-12 12:45 pm Permalink
This one actually shows Progress City. As soon as you go in the first tunnel, there it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLMKLSuwPA
|
lucas vigor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 12, 2004
Posts: 3453
From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2009-07-12 1:03 pm Permalink
This one has some info on progress city, but as an added bonus the music is really cool...sounds like Mancini on a 70's cruise ship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7y7-chgEbE&feature=related
|
Hakalugi
Site Administrator
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 2802
From: Redondo Beach, CA
| Posted: 2010-07-14 11:46 pm Permalink
Great film footage of the Progress City model being made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OfPzmnU6Q
Here are some good photos from the Daveland website which Lucas pointed out in the first post.
House sporting an A-Frame partially visible on left:
|
King Bushwich the 33rd
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005
Posts: 933
From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2011-03-11 2:10 pm Permalink
There was a tiki bar/lounge/restaurant in Progress City when it was at Disneyland
Disney Imagineering: Progress City, then and now
Not sure if it's in the current version that got transplanted to Florida.
_________________
->>King Bushwich 33rd on Hulu.com<<-
|
uncle trav
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Posts: 1531
From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2011-03-12 05:10 am Permalink
The People Mover!!! The only ride at Disney without any lines. I have been told it is the stupidest ride there but I love it. The highlight for me every time is the diorama.
_________________
"Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream" Karl Woermann
|
