Appreciate and understand more about Disney today and tomorrow. You use your knowledge of Disney's history to deliver your message of vision and hope. Your passion is obvious and genuine. The value of history is ignored today by many in society and government. Thank you.
I was always infatuated by what you show here. the engineering and complexity of what has to happen to control all of the things that happen in disneyland seamlessly. from my first visit as a kid in 1966 to my last visit in 1988, its always been a marvel to me.
I will never forget seeing the Innerspace ride in person. As a pre-teen, walking by that shrinking machine and seeing those miniature people riding by, was surreal and something I will never forget. That's the sort of Disney-magic that I miss... practical effects like that. 1988-1990, I worked at the Disneyland Hotel in the restaurants, (Monorail Cafe and Chef's Kitchen, aka Goofy's Kitchen) and had the privilege of getting to use the hotel's underground tunnels, where timecards and wardrobe were located. It is essentially a giant square, connecting the main towers.
I totally agree about Inner Space, as a child I believed that illusion....that those were shrunk-down people! I loved that attraction and wish I could go on it again!
The absence today of that 2nd level at Disneyland - People Mover, Skyway - means more people crowding the 1st level. Get hundreds of people up off the ground and crowding diminishes.
Heck, even if they don't re-install the People Mover, they should add railings and allow people to walk along the track like The High Line park in New York. It get more motion up high and make the land more fun looking. Why not, it's there already!
After graduating high school in 1972, I joined the Navy, went to boot camp in San Diego and got orders to Jacksonville, Florida in November. I used a long weekend in '73 to visit Disney World. I took a bus down there, got a hotel room (the hotel was under construction). Got up in the morning, put on my Dress Blue uniform and went to the park and had an AMAZING DAY! God Bless Walt Disney and all who made the magic happen!
I love seeing how the parks are connected! It just goes to show how Walt’s original park influenced all the Disney parks. Your in-depth videos are truly edutainment. 😊
incredible that just a decade after opening, Disney literally gutted and rebuilt all of Tomorrowland ... still waiting for the next update of Tomorrowland
This why Roy, who took over after Walt passed away, did the major overhaul for Tomorrowland in 1967, to showcase new innoventions, etc, and also keeping cast members out of sight from their other themed areas where they workeed.
Bricky in the late 1970’s I was a CM at Disneyland and walked in that tunnel under Tomorrowland many times (I was a custodial busboy), I also helped raise the band stage at Tomorrowland Terrace a few times as well (You had one person on each side that had to push the elevator button at the same time. Then on my first trip to Magic Kingdom and still a Disneyland CM I got a tour of the tunnels (“Utildors”). We also were able to use our CM IDs to get in free a few of the days we were there. In high school English class a few years before I did a whole report on how Magic Kingdom was built - raised up 2 stories with the soil removed from Seven Seas lagoon and of course the access tunnels underneath.
I did the same job in the 80's. Remember dumping the trash into the chute that went downstairs to the trash compactor. The damn thing would always clog up and someone would have to go downstairs to use that long pole to to unclog that thing. Then half way through the day someone would have to change the bin out and move it through tunnel then up the elevator behind America Sings (it still may have been Carousel of Progress in your time) and bring a fresh bin down. For those of you reading, they still do that process today, you can see custodial dumping the trash in on the upper part of galactic grill restaurant (we called it "Coke Terrace" or simply "Coke" back then) at the end of the seating area on the Submarine side (If I recall it's the North side). Also, when lowering the stage if your second person wasn't in position to push his/her button the band would have to play their exit music forever and they would look at you like "what's going on?" because it wouldn't go down until both buttons were pushed -- nothing I could do but shrug my shoulders at them. -- Good Times! :)
@@ethannstevensteven4949 I was a CM when America Sings was there, but I loved Carousel of Progress and first saw it when it opened in 1967. Space Mountain completed construction whenI was a CM so we got to ride it a few times before it opened. It actually went much faster before it opened due to the wheels - I recall they had a Teflon effect on the rails so flew down that track! I am not sure it that was totally true, it may have been the “brake runs” were not grabbing the sleds to slow them. Those were corrected before it opened. Yes I do remember those stage buttons had to be pushed on both sides at the same time, and I do remember those trash chutes! And it will always be “CokeTerrace” (and “Coke Corner” on Main Street!)
Imagineering also built a Peoplemover at the Houston International Airport in the early 80’s. It still operates today. It goes from the airport to a hotel.
This was such a great video! The tunnel part excited me because I have been trying to find out more about Disneyland tunnels. I feel like a tunnel under the rivers of america to Tom Sawyer Island would make sense. I knew about the tunnel for the tommorland pop up stage and feel like they are missing out on an easy temporary solution to draw a crowd there by having regularly scheduled pop up shows until they are ready to do something with the land. Imagine a Walt Disney hologram popping up with the stage and presenting the exciting plans for tommorowland "live" or having a powerline pop up concert or something.
Another Fun Fact : The reason why the Communicore Building's height is so massive, was b/c they had plans for People Movers to move above the guests down below. The arch on top was meant for People Movers to run thru.
Can't tell you how much I love what you do! Exactly the kind of show s I loved best on Wonderful World of Color with Walt. You are one of my top heroes! Thanks for all you do!
If only we would've gotten something closer to Disney's version of EPCOT. If not a full blown city/community, at least in its transportation method. No wonder EPCOT is so huge! It was originally meant to be experienced on People Movers.
This video was fantastic. I could see how a tunnel under Main Street from West side to East side could be extremely helpful for CM’s in Disneyland. Can you do a video about the basements under New Orleans Square, and Fantasyland in Disneyland?
Fun Fact! Even though Magic Kingdom never got Disneyland's "Adventure Thru Inner Space", they did get an identical ride system w/"If You Had Wings", sponsored by Eastern Airlines, when it opened at Walt Disney World.
If You Had Wings and the Peoplemover were among the few free rides you could enjoy when you no longer had any tickets left from the ticket book at the time. My family rode them a lot in the 70’s to keep cool in the Florida heat.
@@ronparrish6666 - Don't know it didn't stay that way. Tho personally, I felt they should've turned the ride into an Antman & the Wasp themed Journey Thru Inner Space attraction.
The sad part of the 67 Tomorrowland is that the Mary Blair murals are still behind the current grey "futuristic" façades installed for Star Tours. BUT they punched holes in the tile mural to install supports for the new façade. They should have removed them intact and relocated them to some public space for preservation -- like they did with the original DCA "C A L I F O R N I A" letters in the plaza.
The Tunnel was very unique. To add to the great information that Brickey gave the tunnel also had some other features. Taken from when I worked in Tomorrowland in the 90s. Behind the Carousel Theatre (America Sings) not only is there a stairwell where the tunnel begins but also a full sized freight elevator large enough to get a golf cart down. Once downstairs, the tunnel will extend past the Carousel Theatre to the left where there are a double set of doors that leads to the basement which supports the control systems for the theatre. Also there is a stairwell that extends through the core of the building to all three levels. Continuing down the tunnel we come to a cut out on the right hand side which goes to a double set of doors for the Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill) Elevator Stage, where the band members enter to set up to perform. Also in this area is a small break room for the Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill) Restaurant, storage facilities and a passenger elevator for the Restaurant Cast Members. Throughout the tunnel there are massive pipes over head which carry everything from water to telecommunications/audio infrastructure for Tomorrowland. Continuing down the tunnel will eventually come to a stairwell where you will emerge just behind Circlevision neighboring the Tomorrowland Area Office. During my employment at the park they shot a TV episode of "Blossom' Follow the below youtube link and go in 9:00 and you can catch a glimpse of the break room under Tomorrowland Terrace just next to the tunnel. the staircase you see everyone going up and down behind the actors are the stairs that will emerge next to the order windows at Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill). ruclips.net/video/4bCBJ2-_ljs/видео.html
Yet another winner Mr. Brickey. Love all the worm holes this opens up… wow, LOVING the vintage images/ footage. Yes, those tunnels built into Walt’s Burbank Studio 1940 (among other curious design considerations). Then the very serious fun of his new custom home - curving tunnels for the train in 1950, carefully creating and preserving sight lines. And like when the PeopleMover got invented in John Hench’s mind as he watched molten steal roll around a Ford factory…’hmmm, humans could do that’. Sponsor says ‘on rubber wheels!’. Corporate influence? Think Joan Crawford screaming “Don’t F*’ With Me Fellas!!” The reality of when an old Hollywood connection with corporate clout gave Walt’s private company a big boost in New York; And taught Walt that big-bucks want a big lounge to feel Big from…Tower of the Four Winds…SpaceshipEarth, etc. Not many mention the fact that New Tomorrowland 67 was doing its job as a preview/prediction/test for EPCOT. And no one explains how the model city still had too many roads for cars…which ultimately caused it to collapse conceptually. Of-course at the very same time, a nice tunnel complex was being installed in the NewOrleansSquare project too. The Florida tunnels are a perfect solution in so many ways…mostly making use of the swamps. The old joke about ‘if you believe that, I’ve got some land in Florida for ya’, and “real estate” ads in news papers? This is that land. DisCo bought many of those kind of contracts, for very cheap, only to discover much of it was laughably unusable swamp…hence some very major engineering to make it all work. AMAZING. Then there is the fabulous fact that WALT Disney had all these, and Many More cylinders firing simultaneously just before his untimely passing. I think he knew, and was doing all he could as fast as possible, like no one else had ever been able to before, or since.
It's always great to see you doing something outside of Pawn Stars! At Disneyland the tunnels were a great idea, for the reasons you mentioned. However, when constructing the Florida lands, the tunnels were a way to build the new lands. The property Disney acquired in Florida was basically swamp land. The waters needed to be drained off and making them so they couldn't fill back in. The tunnel system was constructed first and covered in fill dirt. Next, the lands were constructed on top of the fill-dirt. The cast members, service personnel and supplies could be invisibly transported wherever they needed to be.
The 1967 Tomorrowland aesthetic is an IP that Disney should lean into for the next renovation, whenever that is. The new EV Autopia is a good place to start but the old Peoplemover station and guideways at a bare minimum need some kinetic activity.
Awe I totally forgot about the rising stage thing in Tomorrowland. Thought that was the most amazing thing as a kid. Zero memory of what they actually used it for, though in the 80's and 90's. Walt's underground transportation system blueprints remind me of Salesforce Park in SF.
Aloha Brickey..you are right about the tunnel in TL and that it part of the reason they have issues with rebuilding the People Mover.. That said you also know that what you see of NOS is the second and third floor of a building...the first floor is underground houseing part of Pirates along with a main kitchen for the area and a cafeteria for Cast Members..that was the first time they tried that type if construction...TL1967 was just a continuation of that idea Thanks again
There's a small tunnel as well in New Orleans Square. The entrance used to be behind Pirates, and there's a stairway leading down to it to the right of the men's room entrance by the train station. I worked at Disneyland during the bicentennial as a ride operator and drove the Tom Sawyer Rafts. There was a small employee cafeteria down there to allow employees on that side of the park to get food without having to walk across the park.
@18:47 Just to the left of Brickey is one innovation that is less glamorous. In that planter shown just below the Matterhorn is a steel door. The planter is actually a trash chute, and the door is the access for it. Every time I've been there in recent years there are zip ties on the handle, so not sure if it's used as such anymore. There is (was?) a garbage packer under that with a miniature hopper that could be manipulated with a small vehicle to the freight elevator behind the Carousel Theater, which allowed it to be emptied. This might have been an experiment that led to the use of vacuum (AVAC) garbage collection systems at Magic Kingdom because honestly, the area near the trash packer underground smelled unpleasant.
I’m still thinking about the plaza inn (or gardens?) hideaway that Walt set apart for himself and others. ;) Now when I look over there I think of him looking out upon the hub. Somebody’s watching me (song)…
I bet all of the eventual Disneyland Forward development gets tunnels and even multi level stacked attractions. I'm guessing you think that as well because knowing the past will help predict the future.
I WORKED AT WDW AND REMEMBER ACCESSING THE MASSIVE TUNNELS INDER EPCOT TO GET TO MY LOCATION OF WORK. ALSO OUR LUNCH ROOM WAS LOCATED BENEATH MY WORK LOCATION. ALL VEHICLES WERE ELECTRIC AND ALL PIPES WERE COLOR CODED!
Hmm, actually the DL PeopleMover was really a first try, because it used tires (yep, Goodyear tires) to continuously move the vehicles, whereas the WDW PeopleMover uses electromagnets. While I love the PeopleMover, I don't want it to "return" to DL. I want someone to implement a real one, one that takes people over long distances without stopping, as a truly modern transportation system. And yep, they don't have to be open to the weather. Moving bubbles would be cool. Very interesting discussion. Oh, something I remember. Wasn't there a data center underneath the Spaceship Earth that used to have a glass ceiling and a projected leprechaun or something like that? I remember reading about it when in one of my early jobs as a programmer in the 80's. I worked in a basement then, but it wasn't as cool as being in WDW.
I was a Disney World cast member in the early 2000s and spent a couple of years of that and Tomorrowland mostly at Space Mountain and the previous two years of that at The Living Seas in Epcot. The Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom doesn't have hardly any utilidor coverage. A lot of what was proposed most certainly did not make it into the finished product.
It started when Walt Disney saw 2 cast members from Tomorrowland with their futuristic uniforms, walking thru FrontierLand. I'mn sure that had to be waaaay out of place.
Do you know if DCA has tunnels, which I'm thinking they don't...if not, why do you think they didn't build them or connect Dinsey to DCA underground...just curious!!! Your videos are always amazing...thanks!!!
My happiest memory of high school was Grad Night at Disneyland. Nothing has ever come close. Her Name was Susan Beth Day. She is forever my best date ever.
epcot was literally built off of the back of corporate and nation sponsorships. i think horizon's was the only building that was not sponsored. MK had many corporate sponsorships, too. coca cola was the official beverage, but pepsi sponsored country bears, for example. there is nothing wrong with that. if we could get tesla to sponsor tomorrowland speedway, that would be a great upgrade.
No, Horizons was sponsored by General Electric. It even had "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" used prominently in a few scenes, a nod to its still extant predecessor. I remember AT&T had Spaceship Earth (possibly Communicore too?), Exxon had Universe of Energy, GE had Horizons, Kodak had the Imagination pavilion, Kraft had The Land pavilion, and United Technologies had The Living Seas. I could be mixing those up with later sponsors but I think all of those had sponsors during the development.
I am fortunate to have visited Disneyland for the first time when I was ten and America Sings, Adventure through Inner Space, The 360 Vision of America The Beautiful, Mission to Mars and The People Mover were still there. Oh! And the Skyway to Fantasyland! Great memories. Now I read that the Subs are going away along with Autopia. So it goes. Change is not permanent but change is. Great video.
I loved the People Mover. It's a shame that Disney has seemingly moved away from it. I suspect it had something to do with their move away from corporate partners, and a general lack of interest in non-themed (i.e. non-Disney intellectual property) attractions. Walt must be turning over in his grave. So much of the original concept of Disneyland was his love of transportation.
When Disney had the balls to go big, kinetic, and non IP. We’ve lost so many attractions in Tomorrowland 😢 - abhorrent. Even in the 80s Tomorrowland 67 was the best part of the park. Blew my kid brain.
PS To my Disney family far and out Paris Hong Kong Shanghai Orlando And Anaheim I remember my first day being a CM and there was one question I want to ask are they ever going to bring back the people moveover ride lol @Brickey I guess we're still waiting 😅 let's go Disneyland forward
Dude, this was the longest intro ever and I lost interest. Like, if you're trying to keep people watching, shorten up the intro. I'm a huge fan of your channel, too and I enjoy listening to you, I promise. But that intro was redundant, extensive, and unnecessary. Listen to how often you mention what you're going to cover in your videos and keep count of how often you mention it so that you can use that to approve edits and stuff. Good luck, man. I'm wanting to become a subscriber. Just ease up on your intros so I stay engaged cuz I bet im not the only person to think the same.
Great Vlog! It’s always great to view a channel where you’ll know that the information provided evidentially comes from time and effort of research and work put into it to present an exceptional presentation for the viewers. And the tunnel in DL’s Tomorrowland was a new one for me! Always great to continue learning more and more about the Disney Parks design and history!
@mikalmos369 Suck someone else's virtual dangler, this dude is a content creator just doing his job. He's not gonna please everyone, Captain Bootlicker. People are allowed to have differing opinions and thought's. No sweat off your brow, buddy.
Thank you for this video. Disney World in the 70’s was so much more interesting than today!
Appreciate and understand more about Disney today and tomorrow. You use your knowledge of Disney's history to deliver your message of vision and hope. Your passion is obvious and genuine. The value of history is ignored today by many in society and government. Thank you.
I was always infatuated by what you show here. the engineering and complexity of what has to happen to control all of the things that happen in disneyland seamlessly. from my first visit as a kid in 1966 to my last visit in 1988, its always been a marvel to me.
Disneyland's Tomorrowland of 1967 looks much more futuristic than Tomorrowland of 2024.
On top of that, this is a great video!
It really does. So do some signage from the 50's.
Physical models were/are worlds better than just CADDing it up. Also now "More Disney" like, wtf Iger? IP vomit, as another YTr said.
I will never forget seeing the Innerspace ride in person. As a pre-teen, walking by that shrinking machine and seeing those miniature people riding by, was surreal and something I will never forget. That's the sort of Disney-magic that I miss... practical effects like that.
1988-1990, I worked at the Disneyland Hotel in the restaurants, (Monorail Cafe and Chef's Kitchen, aka Goofy's Kitchen) and had the privilege of getting to use the hotel's underground tunnels, where timecards and wardrobe were located. It is essentially a giant square, connecting the main towers.
I totally agree about Inner Space, as a child I believed that illusion....that those were shrunk-down people! I loved that attraction and wish I could go on it again!
Remember inner space , first trip to Disneyland 1969, was so magical
The absence today of that 2nd level at Disneyland - People Mover, Skyway - means more people crowding the 1st level. Get hundreds of people up off the ground and crowding diminishes.
Heck, even if they don't re-install the People Mover, they should add railings and allow people to walk along the track like The High Line park in New York. It get more motion up high and make the land more fun looking. Why not, it's there already!
After graduating high school in 1972, I joined the Navy, went to boot camp in San Diego and got orders to Jacksonville, Florida in November. I used a long weekend in '73 to visit Disney World. I took a bus down there, got a hotel room (the hotel was under construction). Got up in the morning, put on my Dress Blue uniform and went to the park and had an AMAZING DAY! God Bless Walt Disney and all who made the magic happen!
I love seeing how the parks are connected! It just goes to show how Walt’s original park influenced all the Disney parks. Your in-depth videos are truly edutainment. 😊
incredible that just a decade after opening, Disney literally gutted and rebuilt all of Tomorrowland ... still waiting for the next update of Tomorrowland
As always, wonderful context on disney park development. I miss the 67 tomorrowland. it was so kinetic.
This why Roy, who took over after Walt passed away, did the major overhaul for Tomorrowland in 1967, to showcase new innoventions, etc, and also keeping cast members out of sight from their other themed areas where they workeed.
Bricky in the late 1970’s I was a CM at Disneyland and walked in that tunnel under Tomorrowland many times (I was a custodial busboy), I also helped raise the band stage at Tomorrowland Terrace a few times as well (You had one person on each side that had to push the elevator button at the same time. Then on my first trip to Magic Kingdom and still a Disneyland CM I got a tour of the tunnels (“Utildors”). We also were able to use our CM IDs to get in free a few of the days we were there.
In high school English class a few years before I did a whole report on how Magic Kingdom was built - raised up 2 stories with the soil removed from Seven Seas lagoon and of course the access tunnels underneath.
I did the same job in the 80's. Remember dumping the trash into the chute that went downstairs to the trash compactor. The damn thing would always clog up and someone would have to go downstairs to use that long pole to to unclog that thing. Then half way through the day someone would have to change the bin out and move it through tunnel then up the elevator behind America Sings (it still may have been Carousel of Progress in your time) and bring a fresh bin down. For those of you reading, they still do that process today, you can see custodial dumping the trash in on the upper part of galactic grill restaurant (we called it "Coke Terrace" or simply "Coke" back then) at the end of the seating area on the Submarine side (If I recall it's the North side). Also, when lowering the stage if your second person wasn't in position to push his/her button the band would have to play their exit music forever and they would look at you like "what's going on?" because it wouldn't go down until both buttons were pushed -- nothing I could do but shrug my shoulders at them. -- Good Times! :)
@@ethannstevensteven4949 I was a CM when America Sings was there, but I loved Carousel of Progress and first saw it when it opened in 1967. Space Mountain completed construction whenI was a CM so we got to ride it a few times before it opened. It actually went much faster before it opened due to the wheels - I recall they had a Teflon effect on the rails so flew down that track! I am not sure it that was totally true, it may have been the “brake runs” were not grabbing the sleds to slow them. Those were corrected before it opened.
Yes I do remember those stage buttons had to be pushed on both sides at the same time, and I do remember those trash chutes! And it will always be “CokeTerrace” (and “Coke Corner” on Main Street!)
So happy to have a new video. I was thinking about you this morning. Gosh I miss the PM.
Imagineering also built a Peoplemover at the Houston International Airport in the early 80’s. It still operates today. It goes from the airport to a hotel.
Yep. That’s a different video.
This was such a great video! The tunnel part excited me because I have been trying to find out more about Disneyland tunnels. I feel like a tunnel under the rivers of america to Tom Sawyer Island would make sense. I knew about the tunnel for the tommorland pop up stage and feel like they are missing out on an easy temporary solution to draw a crowd there by having regularly scheduled pop up shows until they are ready to do something with the land. Imagine a Walt Disney hologram popping up with the stage and presenting the exciting plans for tommorowland "live" or having a powerline pop up concert or something.
Another Fun Fact : The reason why the Communicore Building's height is so massive, was b/c they had plans for People Movers to move above the guests down below. The arch on top was meant for People Movers to run thru.
Another fascinating video! Well done!!
Can't tell you how much I love what you do! Exactly the kind of show s I loved best on Wonderful World of Color with Walt. You are one of my top heroes! Thanks for all you do!
Fact loaded, always getting it done right!
If only we would've gotten something closer to Disney's version of EPCOT. If not a full blown city/community, at least in its transportation method. No wonder EPCOT is so huge! It was originally meant to be experienced on People Movers.
Balboa park in San Diego still has Walt’s inspiration for EPCOT from the 1935 worlds fair 😉
@@kimberlyphifer2391 - It's unfortunate Balboa Park hasn't been turned into a modern day EPCOT. 🤔
Made my week! Planning on a Disneyland Paris rip in August… will be bringing my friend Brickey with me
This video was fantastic. I could see how a tunnel under Main Street from West side to East side could be extremely helpful for CM’s in Disneyland. Can you do a video about the basements under New Orleans Square, and Fantasyland in Disneyland?
Brickey's Best video to date! keep grinding Brickey my boy
Very informative video, thank you for all you do
Fun Fact! Even though Magic Kingdom never got Disneyland's "Adventure Thru Inner Space", they did get an identical ride system w/"If You Had Wings", sponsored by Eastern Airlines, when it opened at Walt Disney World.
If You Had Wings and the Peoplemover were among the few free rides you could enjoy when you no longer had any tickets left from the ticket book at the time. My family rode them a lot in the 70’s to keep cool in the Florida heat.
I remember when Eastern airlines went bankrupt the ride then becomes the Delta flight ride
@@ronparrish6666 - Don't know it didn't stay that way. Tho personally, I felt they should've turned the ride into an Antman & the Wasp themed Journey Thru Inner Space attraction.
Perfect timing! I literally just had a conversation two days ago, explaining the original location and aesthetic of Astro Orbiter with my 24 year old.
It was so cool and exciting to be flying around that high! I wish they would return it to that location....and that '60s aesthetic too!
Great episode Brickey. Very interesting and very informative. Thanks for the great work.
The sad part of the 67 Tomorrowland is that the Mary Blair murals are still behind the current grey "futuristic" façades installed for Star Tours. BUT they punched holes in the tile mural to install supports for the new façade.
They should have removed them intact and relocated them to some public space for preservation -- like they did with the original DCA "C A L I F O R N I A" letters in the plaza.
Boomers hate anything beautiful or joyful.
Learn something new Thanks Brickey!
Well done video and topic!! Keep up the good work!
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Professor Bricky! Love these educational videos! Thank you for your dedication to learning Disney history!
The Tunnel was very unique. To add to the great information that Brickey gave the tunnel also had some other features. Taken from when I worked in Tomorrowland in the 90s. Behind the Carousel Theatre (America Sings) not only is there a stairwell where the tunnel begins but also a full sized freight elevator large enough to get a golf cart down. Once downstairs, the tunnel will extend past the Carousel Theatre to the left where there are a double set of doors that leads to the basement which supports the control systems for the theatre. Also there is a stairwell that extends through the core of the building to all three levels. Continuing down the tunnel we come to a cut out on the right hand side which goes to a double set of doors for the Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill) Elevator Stage, where the band members enter to set up to perform. Also in this area is a small break room for the Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill) Restaurant, storage facilities and a passenger elevator for the Restaurant Cast Members. Throughout the tunnel there are massive pipes over head which carry everything from water to telecommunications/audio infrastructure for Tomorrowland. Continuing down the tunnel will eventually come to a stairwell where you will emerge just behind Circlevision neighboring the Tomorrowland Area Office. During my employment at the park they shot a TV episode of "Blossom' Follow the below youtube link and go in 9:00 and you can catch a glimpse of the break room under Tomorrowland Terrace just next to the tunnel. the staircase you see everyone going up and down behind the actors are the stairs that will emerge next to the order windows at Tomorrowland Terrace (Galactic Grill).
ruclips.net/video/4bCBJ2-_ljs/видео.html
I have ridden the one in Disney World. It's a nice way to relax for a minute while still getting to see lots of things
Great vid as always!!
Loved this!!!
Yet another winner Mr. Brickey. Love all the worm holes this opens up… wow, LOVING the vintage images/ footage.
Yes, those tunnels built into Walt’s Burbank Studio 1940 (among other curious design considerations). Then the very serious fun of his new custom home - curving tunnels for the train in 1950, carefully creating and preserving sight lines.
And like when the PeopleMover got invented in John Hench’s mind as he watched molten steal roll around a Ford factory…’hmmm, humans could do that’. Sponsor says ‘on rubber wheels!’.
Corporate influence? Think Joan Crawford screaming “Don’t F*’ With Me Fellas!!” The reality of when an old Hollywood connection with corporate clout gave Walt’s private company a big boost in New York; And taught Walt that big-bucks want a big lounge to feel Big from…Tower of the Four Winds…SpaceshipEarth, etc.
Not many mention the fact that New Tomorrowland 67 was doing its job as a preview/prediction/test for EPCOT. And no one explains how the model city still had too many roads for cars…which ultimately caused it to collapse conceptually.
Of-course at the very same time, a nice tunnel complex was being installed in the NewOrleansSquare project too.
The Florida tunnels are a perfect solution in so many ways…mostly making use of the swamps. The old joke about ‘if you believe that, I’ve got some land in Florida for ya’, and “real estate” ads in news papers? This is that land. DisCo bought many of those kind of contracts, for very cheap, only to discover much of it was laughably unusable swamp…hence some very major engineering to make it all work. AMAZING.
Then there is the fabulous fact that WALT Disney had all these, and Many More cylinders firing simultaneously just before his untimely passing. I think he knew, and was doing all he could as fast as possible, like no one else had ever been able to before, or since.
RIP to Tokyo Disneyland's original Space Mountain.
It's always great to see you doing something outside of Pawn Stars!
At Disneyland the tunnels were a great idea, for the reasons you mentioned. However, when constructing the Florida lands, the tunnels were a way to build the new lands. The property Disney acquired in Florida was basically swamp land. The waters needed to be drained off and making them so they couldn't fill back in. The tunnel system was constructed first and covered in fill dirt. Next, the lands were constructed on top of the fill-dirt. The cast members, service personnel and supplies could be invisibly transported wherever they needed to be.
We love the people mover in our WDW here in FL - it’s a MUST DO
Yaaaay Happy Tuesday Brickey drop day
marvelous idea !
Miss Carousel of Progress!
Ooohhh, I just got to ride it in WDW (in Jan), it was so great!!
Nothing like a Brickey video to cozy up to before bed
Fun video, how amazing would it have been to walk through Tomorrow Land 1967 ? Keep up the good work.
That was a fantastic Tomorrowland... There was magic everywhere especially in the night time. They need to bring back the people mover to Disneyland.
The 1967 Tomorrowland aesthetic is an IP that Disney should lean into for the next renovation, whenever that is. The new EV Autopia is a good place to start but the old Peoplemover station and guideways at a bare minimum need some kinetic activity.
Tomorrow Land 1967. I was there!
I would love to have those miniatures.
Peoplemover... Not silent. Not smooth. But, it was innovative, and it's well beloved.
Awe I totally forgot about the rising stage thing in Tomorrowland. Thought that was the most amazing thing as a kid. Zero memory of what they actually used it for, though in the 80's and 90's. Walt's underground transportation system blueprints remind me of Salesforce Park in SF.
Brickey dropping more Disney science on the kids!
Aloha Brickey..you are right about the tunnel in TL and that it part of the reason they have issues with rebuilding the People Mover..
That said you also know that what you see of NOS is the second and third floor of a building...the first floor is underground houseing part of Pirates along with a main kitchen for the area and a cafeteria for Cast Members..that was the first time they tried that type if construction...TL1967 was just a continuation of that idea
Thanks again
There's a small tunnel as well in New Orleans Square. The entrance used to be behind Pirates, and there's a stairway leading down to it to the right of the men's room entrance by the train station. I worked at Disneyland during the bicentennial as a ride operator and drove the Tom Sawyer Rafts. There was a small employee cafeteria down there to allow employees on that side of the park to get food without having to walk across the park.
Back in the 90's This is also the area where the New Orleans Main Kitchen was to provide food for the park.
Some areas of the utilidors in Disney World, had the pnuematic tubes for garbage disposal, sometimes the scent was bad.
This is so cool
@18:47 Just to the left of Brickey is one innovation that is less glamorous. In that planter shown just below the Matterhorn is a steel door. The planter is actually a trash chute, and the door is the access for it. Every time I've been there in recent years there are zip ties on the handle, so not sure if it's used as such anymore. There is (was?) a garbage packer under that with a miniature hopper that could be manipulated with a small vehicle to the freight elevator behind the Carousel Theater, which allowed it to be emptied. This might have been an experiment that led to the use of vacuum (AVAC) garbage collection systems at Magic Kingdom because honestly, the area near the trash packer underground smelled unpleasant.
I’m still thinking about the plaza inn (or gardens?) hideaway that Walt set apart for himself and others. ;) Now when I look over there I think of him looking out upon the hub. Somebody’s watching me (song)…
I bet all of the eventual Disneyland Forward development gets tunnels and even multi level stacked attractions. I'm guessing you think that as well because knowing the past will help predict the future.
Bring back the Disneyland people mover
Good Vid...
The tunnels are under the ground we walk on in Magic Kingdom but it’s actually the first floor.
I WORKED AT WDW AND REMEMBER ACCESSING THE MASSIVE TUNNELS INDER EPCOT TO GET TO MY LOCATION OF WORK. ALSO OUR LUNCH ROOM WAS LOCATED BENEATH MY WORK LOCATION. ALL VEHICLES WERE ELECTRIC AND ALL PIPES WERE COLOR CODED!
Hmm, actually the DL PeopleMover was really a first try, because it used tires (yep, Goodyear tires) to continuously move the vehicles, whereas the WDW PeopleMover uses electromagnets. While I love the PeopleMover, I don't want it to "return" to DL. I want someone to implement a real one, one that takes people over long distances without stopping, as a truly modern transportation system. And yep, they don't have to be open to the weather. Moving bubbles would be cool.
Very interesting discussion.
Oh, something I remember. Wasn't there a data center underneath the Spaceship Earth that used to have a glass ceiling and a projected leprechaun or something like that? I remember reading about it when in one of my early jobs as a programmer in the 80's. I worked in a basement then, but it wasn't as cool as being in WDW.
The experiment going on for a while though underground the modern park, aka working on concepts to eventually build a better world!!
I was a Disney World cast member in the early 2000s and spent a couple of years of that and Tomorrowland mostly at Space Mountain and the previous two years of that at The Living Seas in Epcot. The Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom doesn't have hardly any utilidor coverage. A lot of what was proposed most certainly did not make it into the finished product.
It started when Walt Disney saw 2 cast members from Tomorrowland with their futuristic uniforms, walking thru FrontierLand. I'mn sure that had to be waaaay out of place.
If you told me I could ride only one attraction past or present at Disneyland, that answer is easily Peoplemover for me.
I was lucky to see the Tomorrowland on the move in 1977, 79, & 80.
So sad it seems abandoned
Do you know if DCA has tunnels, which I'm thinking they don't...if not, why do you think they didn't build them or connect Dinsey to DCA underground...just curious!!! Your videos are always amazing...thanks!!!
Wouldn't mind some myself.
Is it true that the tunnels were inspired by Walt seeing a cast member in a cowboy costume walking through Adventureland?
My happiest memory of high school was Grad Night at Disneyland. Nothing has ever come close. Her Name was Susan Beth Day. She is forever my best date ever.
So he made a sky Trolly?
epcot was literally built off of the back of corporate and nation sponsorships. i think horizon's was the only building that was not sponsored. MK had many corporate sponsorships, too. coca cola was the official beverage, but pepsi sponsored country bears, for example. there is nothing wrong with that.
if we could get tesla to sponsor tomorrowland speedway, that would be a great upgrade.
No, Horizons was sponsored by General Electric. It even had "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" used prominently in a few scenes, a nod to its still extant predecessor. I remember AT&T had Spaceship Earth (possibly Communicore too?), Exxon had Universe of Energy, GE had Horizons, Kodak had the Imagination pavilion, Kraft had The Land pavilion, and United Technologies had The Living Seas. I could be mixing those up with later sponsors but I think all of those had sponsors during the development.
I am fortunate to have visited Disneyland for the first time when I was ten and America Sings, Adventure through Inner Space, The 360 Vision of America The Beautiful, Mission to Mars and The People Mover were still there. Oh! And the Skyway to Fantasyland! Great memories. Now I read that the Subs are going away along with Autopia. So it goes. Change is not permanent but change is.
Great video.
News flash, today's tomorrow land is extremely dated.
Ummm that's not a news flash, we all know that. It's still cool to see how the past viewed the future.
I loved the People Mover. It's a shame that Disney has seemingly moved away from it. I suspect it had something to do with their move away from corporate partners, and a general lack of interest in non-themed (i.e. non-Disney intellectual property) attractions. Walt must be turning over in his grave. So much of the original concept of Disneyland was his love of transportation.
Do Disneyland Paris and the othe Asian parks have the same utilidors ? I've never heard a word about that regarding Paris.
When Disney had the balls to go big, kinetic, and non IP. We’ve lost so many attractions in Tomorrowland 😢 - abhorrent. Even in the 80s Tomorrowland 67 was the best part of the park. Blew my kid brain.
PS To my Disney family far and out Paris Hong Kong Shanghai Orlando And Anaheim I remember my first day being a CM and there was one question I want to ask are they ever going to bring back the people moveover ride lol @Brickey I guess we're still waiting 😅 let's go Disneyland forward
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Dude, this was the longest intro ever and I lost interest. Like, if you're trying to keep people watching, shorten up the intro. I'm a huge fan of your channel, too and I enjoy listening to you, I promise. But that intro was redundant, extensive, and unnecessary. Listen to how often you mention what you're going to cover in your videos and keep count of how often you mention it so that you can use that to approve edits and stuff. Good luck, man. I'm wanting to become a subscriber. Just ease up on your intros so I stay engaged cuz I bet im not the only person to think the same.
This video has an above-average retention rate. I think I know what I'm doing, but thanks anyway.
Great Vlog! It’s always great to view a channel where you’ll know that the information provided evidentially comes from time and effort of research and work put into it to present an exceptional presentation for the viewers. And the tunnel in DL’s Tomorrowland was a new one for me! Always great to continue learning more and more about the Disney Parks design and history!
Ever try reading a book that was more than a few pages?
@@HeyBrickeyJust offering a little critique. Sorry for the offense.
@mikalmos369 Suck someone else's virtual dangler, this dude is a content creator just doing his job. He's not gonna please everyone, Captain Bootlicker. People are allowed to have differing opinions and thought's. No sweat off your brow, buddy.
Please concentrate on Disneyland, not Walt Disney World!
Boooo, Brickey makes the best WDW content!!!
I would love to see more WDW stuff, but I understand why you don’t. 😊
Walt died trying to fix his mistakes of Disneyland! More World!!!
Why did california. adventure never include cast service tunnels