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Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.
In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt’s prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.
Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow’s realities!
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Review
"The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky shows really how much a visionary Walt was in terms of transportation as he was in many other ways. He knew what he wanted, and as Bob Gurr said, it was ‘serendipity’ in how the Disneyland monorail came to be. This is a FANTASTIC book, it will be in my top three Disney books of the year, I'm sure―the artwork and pictures make it a must-have."―MouseSteps.com
"A great gift not just for Disney fans, but for any transit enthusiast . . ."―Attractions Magazine
"As a collector of Disney-themed books, The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky will be placed proudly on my bookshelf as one of my absolute . . . It is a work of art and deserves to be both read and viewed. But beyond the world of Disney, it is a fascinating look into the development of a transportation mode that has sparked the imagination on mankind for nearly two centuries."―Craig D. Barton, Communerdy.com
"Monorails hold a special place in the hearts of Disney fans, and Disney Editions has created a book that will appeal to many. . . . Written by Jeff Kurtti and Vanessa Hunt and designed by Paul Wolski, this book is a visually gorgeous journey . . . It is stuffed with stunning color photographs, as well as drawings, sketches, and paintings from Disney Legends such as Herb Ryman, Marvin Davis, and John Hench. The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky is as much of an art book as it is a book on Disney history."―DisneyMatters.com
"On almost every page of this 208-page volume you will find concept art, historical photos, and graphic art that would distinguish the walls of any Disney fan's home. It seems a shame to keep them hidden inside a book, where you can ogle no more than two pages at a time . . . Want to know the differences between each of the Mark series monorails that have run in the Disney parks? The service dates for each monorail train? Th