As a Disney Parks fan, there's nothing more exciting than getting the opportunity to see a new Disney attraction built from the ground up. With each new development in the construction process, anticipation builds toward the day when the walls finally come down and new wonders are revealed.
Guests visiting Disney's California Adventure these days are watching that park transform itself with the additions of World of Color, Ariel's Undersea Adventure, Cars Land and more. Construction walls and displays throughout the park and in the Blue Sky Cellar offer enticing previews of the attractions coming in the next few years.
Sneaking a peek behind the walls (or a bird's eye view from atop Mickey's Fun Wheel) offers a fleeting glimpse of how those attractions look right now. Once everything is open, the world will forever know them in their finished state. Today, we get to see them as they will never be seen again. It's a fascinating window on the construction process. The inner workings. The birth of magic.
With the advent of digital photography and the Internet, it has become easier than ever for Disney fans to follow the progress of new attractions. A simple online search can produce dozens of results for anyone interested in the state of expansion at Disney's California Adventure, Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom, Toy Story Playland at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris, or the new realms coming to Hong Kong Disneyland.
For the next week or so on this blog, we'll instead turn our focus to the past for a look at the development of some of the iconic attractions we now know and love in the Disney Parks. Stay tuned...