Animation Courtyard and Attempts at Animation Myself

This is the Animation Courtyard at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Mostly, this will focus on the exibit One Man's Dream. It's a look at Walt Disney's life and the creation of Disney attractions. By the way, I still hadn't figured out how to not have every indoor photo look orange when I took these photos. Sorry!

Before we get there, let's see some shows more intended for a younger audience.



As you can see, there are a few stage shows. I never saw Playhouse Disney, but it's there for the little ones. I did see Voyage of the Little Mermaid with Kyle and family. They mostly did it for Emma, the toddler who loves Ariel. Decent show, but not intented for adults.

One thing I did really enjoy was the Magic of Disney Animation show and exibition area. Mushu is great. I really do like this little interactive movie. As always, you can meet some of your favorite Disney and Pixar characters here. I met Mickey in his apprentice attire as well as Dug and Carl from Up. Of course, you can see some animators hard at work, see sculptures for designs, and of course purchase your favorite Disney art.



Now, I've said it before, but animation is fascinating to me. And that's with knowing an animator or two. Something about how you can draw and draw and draw the same character with slight variations, play it back and it creates the illusion of movement. Simple concept, but boggles my mind.



Another thing that boggles my mind is the post office. You can stick a letter in a mailbox and a few days later it goes to another mailbox across the country.

Luckily, there's a video explaining it too.



Amazing, but a little disturbing how in the video someone is just throwing a package across the room.

Let's get back to some none moving pictures. All that's really left is One Man's Dream.



There are some picture exibits, such as Walt with Mickey at Disneyland and the dedication speech to open Walt Disney World. Roy, Walt's brother, gave the speech and also insisted it be called Walt Disney World as a constant reminder of the dreamer.

"Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney and to the talents, the dedication, and the loyalty of the entire Disney organization that made Walt Disney's dreams come true. May Walt Disney World bring Joy and Inspiration and New Knowledge to all who come to this happy place, a Magic Kingdom where the young at heart of all ages can laugh and play and learn - together."

- Dedicated this 25th day of October, 1971. Roy Oliver Disney.

Originally, Mickey was not going to be present at the dedication, but the last minute decision was made to bring him out as a symbolic representation of Walt.

Speaking of Walt, you can see a few momentos from the man throughout the museum, including his office.



Mostly, one can see a host of actual props and scale designs. Here we see a mask from the Broadway production of The Lion King. You can also see a design area with an animatronic character guests can control along with model statues of Abraham Lincoln (Hall of Presidents) and a singing bust (Haunted Mansion). Look up and you can see one of the original flying elephant pods. Sitting nearby is a small scale model of the drunken pig man from Pirates.



The scale models were pretty neat to look at. Here we see the four icons of the Walt Disney World parks, as well as the Typhoon Lagoon waterpark shipwreak.



Other famous rides have their original concept models on display, including Jungle Cruise and Tower of Terror.



Other castles from other parks around the world are also on display.



That about raps it up.

I call your attention to a previous animation I did in honor of some of us FINALLY winning trivia at Mellow Mushroom.

It was me, Kyle, Jed, and Alex. Stick around till the end, despite it's elementary attempts at animation. And again, my sincere apologies to my actual animator friends.



For those of you that are curious, the word toon was made popular by the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

On deck in blog entries is Discovery Island from Animals Kingdom with an Animal Kingdom resort in the hole. (Baseball terms for what's next and what comes after that).

TTFN