Attention space travelers!

[Gn2Dlnd]

I think this new mural on the North side of Tomorrowland may give us some hints about the direction of the Space Mountain makeover!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mural2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mural3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/gn2dlnd/Mural1.jpg

Is Space Mountain a mountain? Or is it really a Rockit Mountain?

Discuss.

[mousepod]

Very CE3K. Cool.
(Not Mary Blair cool, mind you, but cool nonetheless)

[Matterhorn Fan]

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"Fleet of Space Mountains Abducts Pin Traders!"

[Boss Radio]

Boston album cover.

[AllyOops!]

Boston album cover.

HOLY COW I just choked laughing! :D

You hit the nail right on the head, Boss Radio! I'm picturing that very cover right now!

[DisneyFan25863]

What was there before? I can't remember.


First thing I thought was War of the Worlds. Then I remembered that was Universal.

[Hades]

Before there were Starspeeders in place of the funky rockets. It was themed to Star Tours. Somewhere underneath all of the planetary painting is the remnants of the mosaic that was themed to children of the world. I don't remember the artist, but I'm sure someone will date themselves and know what I'm talking about! :blush: :p

And yes, I was thinking the Boston album cover too! *begins to sing*

"Don't look back, a new days dawning. It's been so long since I felt this way!" :cool:

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Somewhere underneath all of the planetary painting is the remnants of the mosaic that was themed to children of the world. I don't remember the artist, but I'm sure someone will date themselves and know what I'm talking about!

That would be Mary Blair. I loved those murals and wish they would return. :)

[DisneyFan25863]

Before there were Starspeeders in place of the funky rockets. It was themed to Star Tours. Somewhere underneath all of the planetary painting is the remnants of the mosaic that was themed to children of the world. I don't remember the artist, but I'm sure someone will date themselves and know what I'm talking about! :blush: :p

And yes, I was thinking the Boston album cover too! *begins to sing*

"Don't look back, a new days dawning. It's been so long since I felt this way!" :cool:

Isn't that over the South side of Tomorrowland, above the Star Trader? This mural is over Astro Blasters, on the North side.

[mistyisjafo]

Boston album cover.

That's hilarious! I was thinking Journey or Asia but no Boston! Perfect! LOL!!

[Jazzman]

Funny, the thought that popped into my head was;

"Gnak Gnak! Gnak Gnak Gnak Gnak!"

"Do not run! We are your friends!"

:D

[Not Afraid]

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LOL! If only......


And, BossRadio, why does is scare me that you remembered that cover? I know you well enough to know what your memory is like!

[Boss Radio]

Remember it? I still have the vinyl. I believe it came out in '76. That makes next year an even 30.

Boston homage or not, that's still no excuse for a slapping a second coat over Mary Blair. At the very least they should have carefully removed her mural and relocated it to the entrance/exit of Small World. Or made it into a monument.

Maybe someday future archeologists will strip away the many layers of odd, vaguely incoherent airbrushed sci-fi art and rediscover the sunny sixties optimism of Mary Blair.

I suppose you want your birthday present now...

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I sure was taking aback when I walked into TL today. It's a beautiful painting, but I think Mary Blair's should return somewhere..

[Ghoulish Delight]

It didn't show in the Commodore's photos, but there's a lot of detail painted on those rocketing Space Mountains. Lights, patterns, hanger bays. It'd be REALLY cool if they would mirror that on the real thing, maybe using some fibre optic effects.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Isn't that over the South side of Tomorrowland, above the Star Trader? This mural is over Astro Blasters, on the North side.DF is correct.

The mural that was over the NASA exhibit was a generalized "science" mural.
http://www.justdisney.com/images/Disneyland/Tommorrowland/tomorrowland/tl_mural.jpg

[Cadaverous Pallor]

BTW, they cleaned up the SW mural too, and it looks fantastic.

[Not Afraid]

Remember it? I still have the vinyl. I believe it came out in '76. That makes next year an even 30.

Boston homage or not, that's still no excuse for a slapping a second coat over Mary Blair. At the very least they should have carefully removed her mural and relocated it to the entrance/exit of Small World. Or made it into a monument.

Maybe someday future archeologists will strip away the many layers of odd, vaguely incoherent airbrushed sci-fi art and rediscover the sunny sixties optimism of Mary Blair.

I suppose you want your birthday present now...

And this is why we're friends (that and many, many years of good history).

Birthday present? We should meet in the parking garage. ;)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Who wants to start spreading a rumor about a new effect for the exterior of Space Mountain every quarter hour where you hear a bass rumble and the entire mountain appears to blast off, with smoke and rocket sound effects, raising, oh, 10 feet, and then coming back down? :evil:

[Gn2Dlnd]

I do believe Mary Blair's tile mural is, in fact, safe. The painted mural is on panels mounted over the tile. When I'm King of Disneyland I'll have the whole thing taken down, restored, and placed in the entrance tunnel of the new It's a Small Restroom.

However, back to the new mural, I hope the idea is that we are in rockets like those on the left side of the mural, hotdogging around asteroids and such, before we return to the Space Mountain Mothership. It makes so much sense for SM to be themed as a giant resting spaceship, I don't know why it never occurred to me before. Maybe CP's blast off effect takes place while you're inside the Mountain, waiting in the queue.

[mousepod]

I do believe Mary Blair's tile mural is, in fact, safe. The painted mural is on panels mounted over the tile. When I'm King of Disneyland I'll have the whole thing taken down, restored, and placed in the entrance tunnel of the new It's a Small Restroom.

That's good to know. I panicked when I saw this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13848&item=6522691539&rd=1) on eBay last week.

[CoasterMatt]

The mural on the Star Tours side was mostly destroyed... mostly.

[surfinmuse]

Didn't some of the tile pieces from one of Mary Blair's original creations in Disneyland end up on a big wall collage in a Walt Disney World restaurant? Or was it in Paris? I seem to recall someone pointing that out to me a while back.

[Not Afraid]

Tiles from the Star Tours side mural ended up being used in a mural in, I believe, the Buzz Lightyear's Pizza Planet Restaurant in DLRP.