Even die-hard theme park fans have likely missed them.
“When you look at the model, it’s not like how Space Mountain looks today. It’s actually the original design, which was called Space Port. And that was designed by Herb Ryman and John Hench,” Quinn says. It was the original design that Disney signed off on, but the project was modified after he died. “They essentially had a big dome with a rocket ship going around the outside, rocketing off into space. That was the original design that he saw, so we kept that in there.
There are also older, now-defunct elements of the park, like the Chicken of the Sea restaurant, which is now Harbour Galley. Orange groves are a nod to the land’s original use before Disney bought it, and a miniature barn represents Marceline. A tiny lamp sits in the window of Disney’s apartment over the firehouse to mirror the remembrance lamp in the window of the Disney family apartment in the park.
The model also glosses over less glamorous parts of the real Disneyland; there are no trash cans, for example. “Walt was very much of the mindset that when you’re in Disneyland, he wanted you to actually believe you were in these lands,” Quinn says. “To depict a hyperrealistic model with backstage areas and parking lots just wouldn’t have been true to Walt’s vision.”
There’s one secret, though, that Disney never could have known about. Two, actually. While there are no hidden Mickeys in the model, there are two hidden Walt Disneys. If you’re looking straight at the model, right down Main Street, you’ll see a miniature Disney holding a young Diane’s hand underneath the castle. “It’s fun to point that out to people because you wouldn’t see it otherwise,” Quinn says. There’s another Disney riding in one of the cars in Autopia in Tomorrowland.
“They’re little Easter eggs we like to point out to people,” she says, “that tie back into the whole story we’re telling throughout the museum.”
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