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The Disneylands That Never Were 7/24/2006 |
 By: Shaun Finnie E-Mail Shaun |
 The Disney Diary's Shaun Finnie hasn't been providing many columns for this site recently. Today he's back with an apology, an explanation and an invitation to read his biggest collection of Disney theme park information yet.
Firstly I'd like to apologise for not writing as much for MickeyNews as I'd like to have done recently, but over the last few months – make that the last couple of years – I've been a bit busy… As many of you may know, I'm fascinated by the Disney Company's history, and in particular the development of its theme parks. I'm especially interested in the designs that Disney's Imagineers drew up but never followed through with, those attractions that were planned but for whatever reason weren't built. My interest in these grew to the point that I had discovered enough about some of them to write a few articles which were posted here on MickeyNews. But the more information I found, the more I wanted to know about these lost Disney attractions. I started looking everywhere for a book detailing these things that the Imagineers had designed but had never been constructed. To my surprise I learned that none existed. Nobody, it would appear, had published a book about the Disneylands that never were. That was the book I really wanted to read... so I wrote it! The Disneylands That Never Were is now available to order online. Here's what it says on the back cover:
first theme park. Disneyland opened with just 18 rides and attractions. Today there are eleven Disney parks around the globe. Visitors can spend weeks at a time in these resorts, often staying in one of Disney's own hotel rooms. But in the last fifty years the Disney Imagineers have designed thousands of rides, attractions, hotels, and even entire theme parks that have never been built. Many of these concepts have remained hidden in the company's private archive for decades… until now. The Disneylands That Never Were documents the biggest, best and most outrageous of these abandoned plans. It details everything from Walt Disney's initial ideas for Mickey Mouse Park to his planned ski resort in California. From small developments like The Disney Hotel in New York's Times Square to the huge Port Disney concept, over five decades of dreams are brought to life in The Disneylands That Never Were. More details can be found at this link |