New artwork about Disney's California adventure Placemaking were released or appeared recently, and we're going to have a little look at them. As always, double-click on each picture to enjoy them in bigger size.
First, this one above showing a room of the awaited DCA preview center - now called "Blue Sky Cellar" as it is installed in the previous "wine cellar" - schedule to open next monday Oct 20! Al Lutz did a brilliant update about it this week, with much details of what you can expect to see inside.
Also published first on the L.A Times Brady MacDonald's article, this new rendering of the future "Silly Symphony Swings" attraction, previously the Orange Stinger. Themed on the 1935 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Silly Symphony Swings should have Mickey dressed as a band leader on the top of it.
I think i've showed you before this artwork of the Paradise Pier makeover. Themed like a 1920s California seaside amusement park with a Victorian architecture, it should be a wonder when it will be completed in spring 2010.
Now, we also have to thanks Mice Chat member BFJen for the next pictures originally posted on the Mice chat forum. There is little doubts that the artwork below will be display in the Blue Sky Cellar preview center.
This one below also show the future "Silly Symphony Swings".
But this one is related to Mickey's fun wheel, the new theme of DCA's Sun Wheel that closed today, as works on the new version will precisely begin soon.
Always thanks to BFJen, this concept-art of the Goofy's Sky School - previously "Mulholland Madness"...
...and these of the highly awaited Little Mermaid ride that Al Lutz described in his update as "a grand E Ticket experience in the 1960's sense of the term". Expectations are high on this attraction, but guests shouldn't be disappointed as the show will be filled with Audio-Animatronics everywhere in the ride, not to mention special "under water" effects and even chilling projection effects in Ursula's cave...
No need to say that the "Under the sea" sequence will be one of the highlights of the show, among many others in this attraction schedule to open in 2011. Can't wait to ride it, really!
There is a new picture from Annie Leibovitz in the “Dream Portrait” series for Disney Parks, and this one is a tribute to the Little Mermaid, with Actress Julianne Moore, as “Ariel,” and world champion swimmer Michael Phelps, as a “merman”.
It's saturday - well, in France, it's midnight and already saturday! - and so we have a "high-res wallpaper pictures" topic. And, as i know that most of you - including me! - can't wait to se the "new" California Adventure placemaking, this wallpaper topic is all dedicated to it with concept-art of the future attractions or re-theming.
If we except the new one above, you know most of the renderings include in this topic. But they are here in super-high-res quality, so, click on each picture to get them in big size. They will all look fantastic on your computer desktop!
The first one above is a brand new "Toy Story Mania" picture released by WDW, and it looks great.
The new "Walt Disney Story" in the Cathay theatre replica.
The rendering below is about the future Little Mermaid ride.
Another Toy Story Mania rendering.
A concept-art of the highly awaited "Super E-Ticket" Radiator Springs Racer ride.
The next one is about the also awaited spectacular Disney world of colour water show.
This last one is not really about DCA, but, as the hotel is almost a part of the park, i thought i could include it here.
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A looong time ago, i.e at the opening of Disneyland Paris, back in 1992, when one bought a map of the park, you could see a Little Mermaid attraction in the Fantasyland area with these words "future attraction". Well, it was such a "future" attraction that it never opened, and probably will never will, at least in DLP.
But all is not lost as the idea to bring a Little Mermaid attraction at Disneyland, Anaheim is seriously in talks.
But before we talk about this, let me tell you more about the attraction itself. First, this Little Mermaid attraction concept is a dark ride. I should say a GREAT dark ride, i mean as "dark" as Peter Pan's flight or Snow White can be, but much much better.
Then, the vehicles, designed like a shell, looks great, and will be hold by the top , just like Peter Pan's flight.
Two , the ride will bring you under water AND over the water, and back again, thanks to the "dry for wet" WDI technology, a mix of lighting, lasers and smoke effects that give you the feeling you are under water, even if you're not really.
But the great design begin by the outside decor, with the Little Mermaid "castle", a wonderful theming - who would have been a great addition for DLP's Fantasyland in front of the Pizzeria Bella notte restaurant...
The first scene will be over the water with the Little Mermaid meeting Eric for the first time.
Then, as you hear the Sebastien character singing "under the sea" the vehicle will "dive" under water for a great "under the sea" concert scene, obviously full of audio-animatronics...
We will find back Ariel - the Little Mermaid - in her grotto, before entering in Ursula's threatening cave , the famous scene where she try to het Ariel's voice. Some rotating circles effect will give you a kind of vertigo illusion when you will enter the cave...
The next sequence "kiss the girl" will be right after this one, but although it can look peaceful, Ursula's marine eels will be there to remember us that something dramatic is on its way to happen, as the creatures will try to stop the first kiss between Ariel and Eric... And, as the vehicle will come "out" of the water again, we will discover that the surface of the sea is now under a frightening storm. The "giant" Ursula is there, soon to be defeated, just like in the movie. A really powerful scene in terms of sound and lighting effects...
The last scene will show Ariel and Eric living happily, a usual end for this kind of fairy tale.
Looks like a great dark ride, doesn't it? Now, why was it never built at DLP? Well, back in 1993, when the park desperately needs some additions, the main problem of the park was to increase the capacity of the park. And they needed more than one attraction to do so. That's why they opened the Indy's temple du péril, Story book land, Casey Jr's train and Les mystères du Nautilus in the next two years. Then came Space Mountain, and once all of this was done....no more money was left to built this Little Mermaid dark ride!
For many years, i thought that we will never see it built, that the project was dead, at least for DLP. Then one month ago, at the opening of the Finding Nemo's submarine voyage at Disneyland, Ed Grier in an interview to a web site cited "...his personal favorite as The Little Mermaid... "The Little Mermaid continues to be a Disney classic," he said during a roundtable talk at Main Street's Opera House, noting that the animated version of the Hans Christian Andersen story has been adapted for Broadway. "Imagineer Tony Baxter has done great work on a Little Mermaid-based attraction. Have we officially drawn plans up? No, we haven't. But I think we can one day." Mind you, this doesn't mean that a definitive decision has been done to bring the Little Mermaid attraction for sure at Disneyland. So don't get too excited right now. But the good news is that legendary imagineer Tony Baxter was recently named as the Imagineer in charge of Disneyland - to supervise Disneyland's development. And, as the Little Mermaid project was created by Tony Baxter AND that it is a great dark ride project, my feeling is that it's time again to cross our fingers and hope that Ed Grier will make the right choice between eventual different concept around the same theme.
Those of you who bought the Platinum edition of the Little Mermaid dvd last year may have seen the special feature about this attraction project - the images you've seen on this article are screen capture done by the very good dlrp.fr web site - you will find a direct access link to it in our "links" section on the right. In that special feature it was possible to see a video of a "virtual creation" of the ride, and it's time for you now, to have a better look below to this Little Mermaid attraction concept. You won't get any closer to it until its eventual creation at Disneyland.
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