Sunday, April 15, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOKYO DISNEYLAND!!!!!! Some attraction poster rarities from the first overseas Disneyland!

TOKYO DISNEYLAND APRIL 15TH, 1983

Some Japan only attraction posters

Original silk screened on Tyvek paper
(NO COMPUTER IMAGES HERE!!!)

WORLD BAZAAR
1983
Rudy Lord
(this poster - was inspired by some Herbert Ryman sketches and 1890 mail order catalog covers)



                                                                THE ETERNAL SEA
                                                                             1983
(this 200 degree theater film was probably the shortest lived Disney attraction EVER!)
RUDY LORD, DEBBIE LORD, WALT PEREGOY



THE WESTERN RIVER RAILROAD
1983
JIM MICHAELSON, RUDY LORD
(Due to governmental regulations, Tokyo Disneyland could not have a train the length to circle the park, so the steam trains only travel thru Adventureland and around Westernland with a finale thru the PRIMEVAL WORLD!)


"MAGIC CARPET 'ROUND THE WORLD"
1983
LETICIA LEVEVIER, RUDY LORD
(This Circle-Vision film was an Augmented version of the WDW film of the same name)


THE CRYSTAL PALACE
1987
(this is the second version for this restaurant -the original poster used 1978 WDW artwork)
RUDY LORD, KEN KERR

CINDERELLA CASTLE MYSTERY TOUR
1986
CLAUDE COATES, RUDY LORD, KEN KERR
(this was the last project famed Imagineer Claude Coates worked on before his death)
Early TDL guests were so disappointed that they could not go inside the castle,WED designers really wanted to place a restaurant inside like WDW's. The TDL contractors however reinforced the interior with so many cris's-crossed beams for support, a restaurant was not feasible. WED Imagineers still found a way to get guests inside through narrow passages and tunnels resulting in the Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour!

The attraction posters developed for Tokyo Disneyland by WED's RUDY LORD were some of the most elaborate posters ever done. sadly this type of silk screening by Disney is long lost to history.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOKYO DISNEYLAND

4 comments:

  1. THose are some beautiful posters! In fact, many of them are better than the posters that were being produced for the other parks at around the same time. Will you have a "part two" to this post? I know there are some other great images from TD!

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  2. Major: Yes, Tokyo Disneyland had some of the nicest posters done. The Oriental Land Company always allowed a project budget to include attraction posters--they understood the show and marketing value of them --the way the US parks did during the 50's -70's. Many of the posters we had at Disneyland and WDW were really designed for and paid by Tokyo Disneyland --like most of the Disneyland New Fantasyland posters --that's why there was no Mr. Toad poster in the 1983 New Fantasyland set--because TDL had no Toad attraction! These Disneyland/ WDW posters from 1983 were also from Tokyo Disneyland poster projects: 1983 Mark Twain, Diamond/Golden Horseshoe Revue, Magic Journeys,Dumbo, Pinocchio, Snow White's Scary Adventures,Mad Tea Party,.

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  3. I have a great Disney poster that was done for Tokyo Disneyland on Mickey's 60th birthday. It was done by Mary Taylor Kent, with Art Direction by Rudy Lord. You can see it here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/230791768065?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

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