Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tokyo Disney Sea 9th Anniversary Tribute



It's Tokyo Disney Sea 9th Anniversary, and to celebrate this event here is a great collection of Tokyo Disney Sea artwork, a tribute to the most beautiful Disney theme park WDI Imagineers ever built.

From opening day, the park has been acclaimed and for a lot of good reasons: the theming is stunning, the story line of each land and the E Tickets are great and i've been told that, for once, WDI Imagineers were asked to add more details instead to have major budget cuts.

I was invited at the grand opening and i still remember someone from the press office telling me: "you know, Alain i don't think we will see again a park like this one before a loooong time". Unfortunately, until now, he was pretty right but if Disney execs have understood the mistakes done at the end of Eisner's era, hopefully we will see another park as beautiful as this one in the future.

Anyway, lt's begin this TDS artwork tribute, beginning by a bird eye view rendering of the whole park, the renderings of Mysterious Island, a pure dream come true for any Jules Verne lover. Also below and from the top:
Rendering of the big ocean ball at the entrance
A rendering of Renaissance fortress and Mysterious island
Rendering of the inside of Mysterious island
A close shot of the inside of Mysterious island
A rendering of the boarding room of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A scene of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
Another scene of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A concept-art for the submarines vehicles of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
Another concept art for the inside of the submarines vehicles of the 20000 leagues under the sea attraction
A concept art for the steamer boats of the park
A rendering for a scene of the Journey to the center of the earth attraction


As always, click on each picture to see them in bigger size.























Part two of this Tokyo Disney Sea artwork is about the Little Mermaid lagoon, Arabian coast and Lost river delta, including the Indiana Jones adventure.

From the top:
Rendering of the outside coaster of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the inside of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the outside decor of the Little Mermaid lagoon
Rendering of the Little Mermaid lagoon's restaurant
Rendering of the Arabian coast
Rendering of the inside decor of the Arabian coast
Rendering of the preshow area of Arabian coast magic show
Rendering of the Arabian coast magic show
Rendering of the Indiana Jones adventure pyramid
Rendering of the Lost river delta entrance
Rendering of a scene of the Indiana Jones adventure attraction
Rendering of the Raging spirits attraction
Rendering of another area of Lost river delta



























Part three is about Port Discovery, Mediterranean Harbour and American Waterfront.

From the top:
Bird view rendering of Port Discovery
Rendering of the restaurant area and Tram station of Port Discovery
Rendering of the entrance of Storm rider
Rendering of the Mediterranean Harbour
Sketch for the Venitian gondolas
Rendering of American Waterfront
Rendering of the "Encore" show in the Broadway theatre
Rendering of the Tower of Terror
Sketch of Cape Cod Waterfront
Rendering of the New York harbour
Rendering of the s.s Columbia























Let's end with more artwork and some of them are in "panoramic" size, so double-click on each to enjoy them in big size. Let's begin by the entrance and Mediterranean Harbor and let's have a look to some renderings which served as inspiration for this land. The one below was inspired by the Toscana region, in Italy.



This next one was of course inspired by the famous italian Portofino village.



The artwork below was indeed inspired by Venezia, the city of the Doges!



Here is an artwork inspired by the city of Firenze , and used for the TDS Miracosta hotel.



A great artwork of the beautiful Arabian coast.



Another one, great too, for Lost River Delta.



Here is rendering showing Port Discovery and the Storm Rider entrance.



Let's end by another rare rendering showing the Cape Cod area.



Hope you've enjoyed this Tokyo Disney Sea tribute!

All artwork: copyright Oriental Land Co - Disney - Walt Disney Imagineering

7 comments:

DisWedWay said...

Alain, Great renderings of one of the Best Disney Adventures since EDL. Hope you can delve into the inner design drawings to show the meat and potatoes of what makes Tokyo Disney Seas at the top of the International Theme Park chart.

Anonymous said...

http://jieshun.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/universal-studios-citywalk-singapore/. What do you think about it?

Brian said...

Wow, Disneysea is probably the most beautiful park in the world! I would love to see this being a third park for Paris, although al these themes are already used in either the Magic Kindom or studios, the jules verne theme, the tower of terror, the adventureland theme, the frontierland theme etc.

Anonymous said...

Je confirme, TDS est vraiment le plus beau parc Disney ! Rien à dire, j'avoue que j'ai été surpris surtout après avoir visité les Disney Studios de Paris et California Adventures, je ne pensais pas que Disney pouvait encore me surprendre !

Ce parc est tout simplement extraordinaire et les attractions fantastiques ! Même "Indiana Jones et le temple du crâne de cristal" est bien meilleur que la version de Californie. Un must !!!

En plus, voir les gadgets dans les magasins et les plats preparés par les japonais pour le parc sont de veritables merveilles !

Anonymous said...

Do you have more news about Disneyland Paris's Future?

Alain Littaye said...

I wish i'll have more news about DLP's future but so far there is nothing new... But come back next week for an upcoming article about a attraction which will very probably come to the WDS - and it's a different one than Ratatouille!

Anonymous said...

J'ai eu des infos concernant Ratatouille. Pour le moment, l'attraction n'est pas commandée auprès de la Walt Disney Company, l'attraction a juste été développée sur papier pour un parc mais pour le moment rien ne dit que c Paris qui l'aura en premier. Si nouvelle attraction il doit y avoir pour le 20e anniversaire (on m'a bien dit "si") car faute de budget, il pourrait ne rien avoir du tout, alors oui, ca sera bien le dark ride de Ratatouille. Quant aux déco "ratatouille" deja en place a cote de Toy PLay land, réponse : "parce que ca ne nous a pas couté plus cher de les faire maintenant en meme que le chantier de Toy Story, ct tj ça d'economisé mais pour le moment, rien n'est prévu, les décisions ne se prendront qu'en fonction des résultats de la saison 2010".