D23 Expo, 2011
The Disney Experience | August 28, 2010
The D23 Expo has been scheduled for August 19-21, 2011, and tickets are on sale now. D23 members get a discount price, and the longer you wait to buy the tickets, the more they will cost.
The website doesn’t have too much information up right now, but you can get a heads-up on the Fan Art Contest, themed to 101 Dalmations. Although, if you’re sensitive about your artwork, note that the fine print clearly states that all work (sketches, final submissions) become the property of Disney Enterprises, Inc.. Anything to make a buck, right?
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Interesting developments on the carousel. Now that I have some good starting references, I may be able to actually create it. All I need now are the benches (they replaced a few of the horses) and the Sleeping Beauty illustrations.
Thanks, everyone!
Anything YOU do I don’t HAVE to! LOL
That’s funny. I feel the same way about Ray Keim’s models! You won’t see any Haunted Mansions from me.
I was looking through the archives and saw Becky shared a monorail model on here? Is it still available?
Also, I found this image of one of horses: http://allears.net/dlr/tp/dl/gold_horse.jpg
It turns out their all white! There are only a couple of things on the horses that are different colors.
http://media-files.gather.com/images/d841/d611/d744/d224/d96/f3/full.jpg
Have you tried contacting Disney for maybe concept art… Or just some Disney freaks that have these kinds of things ?
No, that model has been rotated out of the Fan Board.
Hoop! Hang on, found another one!
http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/king-arthurs-carrousel-horses/
Aww… I always wanted to go to the D23 Expo! I have been urged to ask you if (when you have the time) you could possibly make models out of the Fantasyland Dark Rides (made to connect to the castle) and some Main Street buildings. I have a model Disneyland and want to upload some pictures of it here. Also, will Becky be uploading the Cinderella Castle paper model here when finished? PLEASE WRITE BACK!!!
-George
I’ve been toying with that very same idea, chopping the Fantasyland buildings into individual models (a series?). I’d also like to do King Arthur’s Carousel, complete with moving horses. But, each horse would have to be photographed individually, which would be a daunting task.
I think Becky’s model will be too much of a bandwidth hog. I’m afraid that she’ll have to find a way to host her own files somehow. Maybe we can work something out, and she can host them here permanently. It’d be a shame to see so much hard work never surface.
I’m supposed to go to Disneyland in October or September. I can probably get you pictures of each horse. But I’m afraid that it will be with people on it.
That’s one of the reasons that it is a daunting task. The horses have to either be people-free, or be easily Photoshopped. Plus, I don’t think there is enough room between horses to fit them into the camera frame.
Every horse/vehicle is different, so they all have to be photographed.
Ask and ye shall receive! It’s not a 100% complete record, but this is pretty close to the motherlode:
http://davelandweb.com/carrousel/
Found it by googling “King Arthur Carrousel”.
Also – if you look on pinpics.com, you’ll see there was a pin made of each horse, so that might give you a nice simplified graphic guide to each of them.
Thanks. Those will help.
Again…one of these days!
Yeah, I’ve been thinking along the lines of asking if you wanted to do a “piece or section of the month” kinda thing as a series of fanboard postings. They could start where I did with the front portico and add walls and towers sectionally. That way we could keep the files small and it wouldn’t kill the bandwidth. Plus they’d get them here exclusively first and after awhile they’d dissappear from the board.
Since Aol shut down their free website program I lost my “Mine forever” web page. And since I’m not really ready with anything, I haven’t really seriously looked into starting a site. Yet. Jon at the Challenger center offered to host if I want to go that route, but that offer was made awhile ago. But you’re right, I do want it “out there” when it’s done.
When last I worked on it, that model that must not be named, I spent so much time and effort going back and re-doing everything I’d already done that I got burnt out again. Luckily(?) I have a lot of other projects going simultaneously so it’s not like I’ve been bored!
Last year’s big project was re-building the train station for my big Christmas layout. This year I’ve been focusing on acquiring and repairing new (old)trains. In a day or two I’ll be done stripping my current restoration job and I’ll finally get to run the vaccuum and stop having tiny spikes of steel pelting me in the face! Then I can dissassemble and pack the train layout that’s currently in my bedroom and get the rest of the paint dust cleaned up that’s all over the place. Not a good environment for paper models! I also have about 50 toy soldier sized figures to hand paint.
Anyhoo. If I’m going to have a website of my own, I really should finish a lot of older models first. I have half of the work done on my Mark V monorail color variations (Most are WDW). I still want to go back and “supe up” my mini models like the Main Street, Adventureland and Tomorrowland info kiosks and redo the Fantasyland version. I’ve always wanted to do the Astro-Jets, Peoplemover and 20,000 Leagues platform (For which I have a decent 3d rendering already). And I’d like to re-scale and re-work my Small World Clocktower into a more user friendly kit. About the only thing I’ve done that’s ready to go as-is is the Casey Jr. Station. (I just built a giant size version of that one for my G-Scale circus by the way. Oh yeah, I’m also building a G-Scale circus!) But I always intended to have the Casey Jr. train to go with that, and it’s a LONG way from ready.
About all I can say definitively at the moment is keep checking, you’ll hear it here first!
Yeah, that “get the art for free” thing bugs me too. As a rule, and your own experience would prove this, they treat people fairly. But I’d still rather have my art and own it too! Besides I’ve never even heard of “D23” and have never been a big fan of 101.
What!? It’s the official Disney fan club. I kinda like the magazine (it’s large with ″high-def″images), but not at $15 a pop. It’s sold at the Disney Store or comes with a year’s club membership. The membership gets you small discounts on things, and it gives you access to exclusive merchandise. You’re basically paying for the privilage to buy high-priced items.
Its not even sold at Disney Stores any more.
I’m on the fence about going to the expo, but I’m certainly not going to enter that contest. First off, I’m not a D23 member any more, so I can’t enter. Second, I don’t like the fact that Disney gets to own anything that I submit.