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

WALT DISNEY WORLD MONORAIL POSTER #2 1978

WALT DISNEY WORLD MONORAIL POSTER #2 1978

While WED was laboriously working on new attraction posters during the mid 1970's , Walt Disney World's opening day posters were wearing out and suffering from the extreme temperature and weather changes. At this time Disney wasn't using  Stuart Burroughs Print service (the vendor that screened most of the attraction posters of the 1950's 1960's) anymore mainly due to costs. WED  now had a one-of-a-kind serigraph silk screening equipment set up. WED was so busy working on new highly detailed posters for Jungle Cruise and Disneyland/Walt Disney World Railroad they did not have the time or money to replace ALL of the early WDW posters with elaborate silk screen re-dos.  The solution: paint new attraction posters and lithograph them until we have time to do new tyvek-paper silk screen versions. This leads us to the great WDW poster replacements of 1978!!!! Some of these 1978 re-dos include HAUNTED MANSION, GRAND PRIX RACEWAY, CRYSTAL PALACE, IT'S A SMALL WORLD, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, TROPICAL SERENADE, SWISS FAMILY ISLE TREEHOUSE, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, and......................

WALT DISNEY WORLD MONORAIL SYSTEM 1978
off-set color lithography


here's the original 1971 opening day poster:

WALT DISNEY WORLD MONORAIL SYSTEM 1971
silk screened



And if you DISNEYLAND only attraction poster fans out there think this looks familiar:

Here's the Florida's ancestor next to the 1971 WDW counterpart. It's a mystery on the 1971 WDW posters as to why certain modification were made to showcase Florida only designs -----Like why does the 1971 Florida  SKYWAY poster use the 1956 round Disneyland Skyway buckets?? These were already long out of use at Disneyland by 1971. And here on the WDW Monorail poster: why does the monorail exiting the Contemporary Resort Tower show a Disneyland Monorail while in the distance a correct White WDW Monorail heads towards the Magic Kingdom Monorail Station?????  My speculation is both time and cost. Or were these just design flubs?