Disneyland Ride Concept Art For Attractions That Were Never Built Auctioned In Beverly Hills
deadline.comA rare collection of artwork featuring concepts for Disneyland rides and areas that never were built has been sold at auction.
Heritage Auctions handled the sales earlier this month in Beverly Hills, California. The event spotlighted hand-drawn sketches from the Bradley/Bushman Early Disneyland Archives, which conceptualized rides and themed lands for the Disney theme park in Anaheim.
Among the theme park plans and concepts was an “Anything Can Happen” land, and plans for underwater aquariums. In the latter, guests would have walked into the mouths of the crocodile from Peter Pan or Monstro, the whale from Pinocchio, to view marine life.
Another concept detailed an 80-foot-tall statue of Goofy dressed as a clown. The colossus would have been located where the theme park’s Sleeping Beauty Castle now stands.
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