Lowdown on the Plus-Up Episode 14: Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Indeed, Claude Coats was Tony Baxter's mentor as we discussed in the episode.
Here's a wonderful short video of Baxter describing meeting Coats for the first time - years before he actually worked for him.
This is delightful.
https://youtu.be/VnQTiIX8gfM?si=UiAY0EYQO7TeJ8ab
Lowdown on the Plus-Up Episode 14: Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Ok, we were talking about Arrow Development, unsure of its current status. Well, strangely enough, it ties into our Frontier Village episode!
The original Arrow Development was sole to Rio Grande Industries with an eye on building out their own theme parks, including Frontier Village, which Rio Grande bought. It didn't work out and Arrow was sold to a German company in 1981 and went bankrupt shorty after. The company was allowed to be bought out be several of the group's officers and re-emerged as Arrow Dynamics later. Arrow Dynamics is still going strong.
Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plu...
Lowdown on the Plus-Up Episode 14: Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
We talked a lot about Claude Coats and even mentioned this specific appearance on the Wonderful World of Color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQvbz8syWE
If you go to about 11:20, you'll see soft-spoken (and maybe dubbed) Coats working on the "Wicked Wench" model from Pirates of the Caribbean. (We Called it the "Sea Witch". Whoops.)
Lowdown on the Plus-Up Episode 14: Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
This is a picture of that original, early, Disneyland concept map being painted by Peter Ellenshaw. It's from the very excellent davelandweb.com site. As Pete pointed out, the lighting elements were done with fluorescent paint so that it would glow and give a sense of the park at night.
Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plu...
Lowdown on the Plus-Up Ep 14: Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!
Errata. So when we said "Least area of anything in Fantasyland." We meant DARK RIDE in Fantasyland. More space than, say, the Mad Tea Party (but not by much).
Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plu...
Plywood Hurts if You Hit it Hard Enough - Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Lowdown on the Plus-Up Episode 14
After the WDW Mr. Toad closed, several pieces were auctioned off. Here's a couple from the Van Eaton catalog.
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