Vintage Disney Parks fabrics!

As aforementioned, I spend a decent amount of time skulking around Ebay in hopes of finding unique vintage Disney Parks merchandise.  Whilst looking for Disney-related craft supplies, I came across the following fabric prints:

I love that the Contemporary made it on.

Tomorrowland specific… WHAT!?

Love the castle illustration on this one.

I thought this one was especially charming.

Disneyland Hotel, where I will be staying in less than a month!

Besides the fact they are incredibly charming, these prints are interesting to me based on the fact that the current Disney company gravitates towards generic, mass produced merchandise, opting to keep assortments down in order to maximize profits.  I should also mention that even the small pieces were extremely expensive!  I guess the Disney die-hards want park-specific, land-specific merchandise.  With the Coop opening at Disney Springs and the Haunted Mansion store opening in the old Yankee Traders building, it will be interesting to see how the company approaches merchandise design and assortment and in the coming years.

Original Fan Doodle by Yours Truly!: Space Mountain Range!

When it comes to show buildings, vying for first place (neck and neck with Spaceship Earth and the Florida Enchanted Tiki Room) is Space Mountain. I just love it. This building, flat white, peculiar and mysterious, yet incredibly classic and iconic, just does it for me. When I feel inspired to do Disney-related art, it is often this building that acts as the catalyst. Today I would like to share this doodle-collage of a Space Mountain range:

I have printed off a bunch of copies and think that I'll continue to experiment with color and stuff. I hope you all enjoy this little piece, and I hope to make original fan art a more regular facet of this blog. Let me know what you think of this in the comments section!

Disneyland's Monsanto House of the Future!

Awhile back, I wrote a post about the time Imagineers tarted up Cinderella's Castle to look like a birthday cake for the park's 25th anniversary, and how every Disnerd keeps at least a mental list (mine may be a hard copy!) of extinct events and attractions that they are super bummed to not have been around for.  The Monsanto House of the future is next on my list.

Developed as a collaboration between Walt Disney, Monsanto, and MIT Scientists, the house existed as a walk-through attraction in Disneyland's Tomorrowland between 1957 and 1967.  With all its components made of the brand-spanking new consumer product, plastic! (HA!), the house was set up to show visitors what domestic life in (the then far-off year) 1986 would look like.

One thing I can say is that between Space Mountain, Spaceship Earth, the Contemporary, and this, Disney sure has a way with white, 'futuristic' buildings.  That sounds like a post in and of itself.  Enjoy these images from a 1954 issue of Life Magazine: