Tuesday, August 04, 2015

My LATEST TRIP TO DISNEYLAND 8/2/2015


Here's (above) my favorite destination at Disneyland: Tarzan's Treehouse. Everyone on the trip wanted to live up there.


It's a whole city in the sky. 


Lots of rope bridges, lots of leaves.


It's impossible to find a bad vantage point on this tree. The view is beautiful from every angle.


Even the structural elements (above) are interesting.


Here's the view from the very top. There's lush greenery everywhere. 


The walk back down is exciting beyond all expectation. The downward steps are steeper than the steps leading up, so the ground appears to rush toward you as you descend. You feel like you're in a controlled fall. There's a lot more verticals in the side tree trunks, too, and that heightens the effect.


Here's (above) the Royal Theatre in the part of the park I call "Princessneyland." We saw "Frozen" re-enacted here with live actors. 


Above, the actress who played the Princess. How do you like her costume? Boy, 18th Century Europeans really knew how to design. 


 
The vest design looks Polish. Poland was enormously influential in European folk art. 


Here's some awning covers from the outside of The Enchanted Tiki Room in
Adventureland.


Where can I buy that fabric?

In the Indiana Jones ride (above) there's a fenced off area showing Jones' office.


It kinda' makes you want to rethink your own workspace, doesn't it?


Is that a picture of John L. Sullivan on the wall?


Here's (above) the starting point of the Peter Pan ride. The ride begins with a glide over the London rooftops...



...and right into the open window of Wendy's bedroom. Well, actually it's an open wall. Gee, if only rooftops and rooms were really like that. Isn't there some way real-world architects could make that possible?



Here's (above) a window display from one of the shops on Main Street. It's a little too girly for my taste but, wait, there's more. The set is integrated with holographic pixie dust that transforms the characters. How do they do that?


Good old Disneyland! It never ceases to be inspiring!

3 comments:

Joshua Marchant said...

Looking trim Eddie! The Disneyland Diet and whoever took that for you is doing wonders!

Stephen Worth said...

whole lotta purple and pink

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Joshua: Thanks! I discovered that shooting from a high angle slims people down a bit.

Steve: Yeah, they use purple and pink by the barrel full nowadays. I wish they wouldn't.