THE ATTRACTION POSTER BOOK IS HERE!!!!

Finally!! After several years its here!! Late May this Bible will appear at the parks. While it doesn't show EVERYTHING, it does have a good historical overview of the parks poster art. But the best, is the concept art! You'll see the earliest visions of some of Disney's most famous attraction posters as well as poster that just didn't make it into production. Be sure to get this one for your collection!!

And DISNEY PARK ATTRACTION POSTER BLOG will continue to share images and stories.........many stories Disney can't publish--about these amazing graphic works of art!!

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