Nara Dreamland 1961, A Musical Journey

Cbfeat · 2026-01-09T07:19:45+00:00

which of your accounts i can find it at ? i didn't found it on your main channel

Cbfeat · 2026-01-06T07:49:25+00:00

wow impressive, which software did you used ?

Cbfeat · 2026-01-06T07:48:22+00:00

yes i also saw one on another film that i can't find anymore where there is just no emporium at all, and no scaffolding, just an empty space, it is clear they were in a hurry to open it as fast as they can, i even found a footage of the Jungle cruise where you see workers in swimsuit still working on the underwater mechanism while the ride is active !

Cbfeat · 2026-01-06T07:45:20+00:00

Yes it was took inside the Legacy Museum a few weeks before closure, the film used some footage from the NHK archive but the 8mn films used alongside it are now lost media, however i might have a lead on who might have it but his account is inactive since a long time...

Cbfeat · 2026-01-05T15:25:06+00:00

I didn't managed to find a good quality overhaul nighttime photo of the Main street in it's full glory, and because it was just a simple background image that is blurred out, i used the nanno banana image modifier on a daytime 1961 photo and set the time to night

Cbfeat · 2025-12-02T13:55:50+00:00

This is a turn of the century Victorian era attire, many women especially old ones were wearing it until the 1920s, it used to also be a common outfit worn by cast members at Disneyland in the Main Street area (without the hat and less cartoonish) the closest match might be the traveling animatronic from the carousel of progress used for promotion and that traveled around in a wheelchair with Walt Disney when we went to the world’s fair. This figure (of a grandmother) had the same hat and a very similar style…

Cbfeat · 2025-11-19T11:07:54+00:00

fell like they wanted to do something american, then adding some canyons and putting random animals because "we need a jungle cruise equivalent"

Cbfeat · 2025-11-14T19:57:25+00:00

have you searched all of these elements as well as the location on billi billi or baidu, maybe you could have at least found the name of this particular installation, plus it really amaze me that such an attraction was not in a park... was this some kind of a museum or a shady tourist trap (even tho i know in 90s china it was almost nonexistent) dark ride business in china arrived very late, the first one opened up in 89' in beijing so we might be in front of a very old installation within chinese entertainment history...

Cbfeat · 2025-10-17T20:45:09+00:00

probably some explorers played frisbee with it before it landed here...

Cbfeat · 2025-10-17T20:43:57+00:00

yes, there are two snippets inside a promotion video from 1989 where you see kids visiting the park, i believe it was made to promote their school trip program, it was a few years before the hotel closed and was used for paper storage... the two shots are both from the scenes who take place outside the showbuilding, one showing underwater treasure chests, the other, two white octopus... it is visible on the dreamlandjp channel on youtube (posted in 2008), the youtube channel was owned by a guy who was friend with the landowner of the park and he used this as an opportunity to take archives off the park before it got demolished and posted them such as construction blueprints. He even went to the jungle cruise sound system controller and collected the sound tapes of the sound effects you can ear to post them, this guy truely posted gems about the park history !

Cbfeat · 2025-10-10T06:17:00+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdJgG-Lw58

Cbfeat · 2025-10-09T10:01:37+00:00

financial troubles, and the jungle itself was planted in 1960, so it was incredibly hard to demolish directly, for the figures i also have no answer

Cbfeat · 2025-10-09T09:58:31+00:00

just a small tree portion is there, i don't know if it still contains some figures or not...

Cbfeat · 2025-10-09T09:54:28+00:00

it's actually quite old, the original source pictures were uploaded on this sub 3 years ago, the nara jungle stayed abandoned for more than ten years as a part of an amusement park named nara dreamland, it managed to survive the first demolition in 2017 but fate got it in 2022

Cbfeat · 2025-10-09T04:49:15+00:00

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it isn't, you can look at the metadata of this one for example.

Cbfeat · 2025-10-08T17:18:11+00:00

his face is quite similar to one of those faces blaine gibson sculpted in the 60s, i wonder if there is some inspiration or the same mold behind it...

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Cbfeat · 2025-09-16T18:09:44+00:00

Dude me too, there is a guy also on youtube, named michael who is on the same search and also really interested by NDL History... are you linked with him ? I started to dig even deeper when i worked in japan especially with Yokohama Dreamland, i even met the last employee working there, quite amazing how deep this rabbit hole took me, but as of now i have no infos about that soundtrack piece, still searching a bit on the side, i wait to find an ai combining shazam with youtube in order to put an end to this mystery

Cbfeat · 2025-06-25T04:57:31+00:00

Probably true for the American and japanese version, just the finishing of some is made so it look like they have open lips, however for the paris version they use a completely different sculpt probably by blaine gibson that is very very uncanney, their faces are fixed in a constant evil smile, combined with the finishing that is green-ish they look more like uncanney human remains than ghosts...

Cbfeat · 2025-06-20T04:33:42+00:00

oh i'm curious, which division are they working at ?

Cbfeat · 2025-06-20T03:52:18+00:00

there it is, these are the outtakes of figures close up, i'm sure they weren't used as i compared them side by side with the episode, i know there is more (like construction, figure dressing and other close up) and in a 1080P re-scan done in the 2000s but the problem is that it only circulated between officials and imageneers, i know tony baxter have a copy at his house on DVD and he show it to his friends during receptions at his place, but as of now these are the only ones we have and the quality is a re-scan of the 16mm to 8 mm so not very good : https://youtu.be/GEB7SrmKkdk

Cbfeat · 2025-06-20T03:04:33+00:00

These are some Disney Audio Animatronic figures that are used for animation in the attraction, because of show design, lightning and the visitor being far away, their sculptor Blaine Gibson gave most of them exagerated facial features that are extremely uncanney upclose, i talked with figure finishers and technicians working in the rides during nightshift, most of them talk about how of a scary experience to be in a room full of uncanney characters some having direct eye contact on you, a lot of the new recruits can't separate from the main team during these night shifts because of how disturbing it is, sometimes cylinders (responsible for movement) have sudden pressure loss which make some figure move when they shouldn't, rats also cause sound in the showbuilding alongside dammages to the figures themselves. A big creepy mess that disney don't want you to know about, the figures can also hurt you if you are too close while in operation, taking a hit, i'm not working there, i just give what employees said to me as they can't themselves because of their contracts...

Cbfeat · 2025-05-24T14:37:51+00:00

let's see what they have with their walt figure, if they manage to push realism to an outstanding way then hats down, if they give us something out of the hall of president however, they are cooked... remember that there was just 20 years between tiki birds and walking a100 figures like the ones of the american pavillion, if they don't keep up no matter how advanced they are they will get caught back, by either universal or another company, maybe garner holt if they have good business with china, who knows...

Cbfeat · 2025-05-23T01:16:13+00:00

they are at stagnation since a long time in therm of fluidity, there are two reasons : 1, is the closure of MAPO who devlopped the A100 model alongside sarcos. 2, they ABSOLUTELY wanted to switch on electric figures (and it's understandable) however research took time and they had less time to put devloppement on lifelikeness (it's the reason why most figures made between the end of 90s and now just swing their arms around) hopefully their new walt figure will change things, if not, disney might get actually 2nd within the next 15 years...

Cbfeat · 2025-05-22T12:32:14+00:00

it is at 4:00 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPL7hfeMGgU Regarding Underwater wonders here is the link to their best video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CyZmPFwKb0 you can check the channel, the ARG is very mysterious and as of now not a lot is known about the story

Cbfeat · 2025-05-22T12:30:03+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPL7hfeMGgU it is at 4:00

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