Title: Maps of the Disney Parks Pdf Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai (Disney Editions Deluxe)
Author: Vanessa Hunt
Published Date: 2016-10-18
Page: 144
PRAISE FOR POSTER ART OF THE DISNEY PARKSOne of "42 Disney Gifts That Will Make Their Home The Happiest Place On Earth"―BuzzFeedPRAISE FOR POSTER ART OF THE DISNEY PARKSOne of "19 Disney Gifts For The Grown-Up Disney Fans On Your List"―RomperPRAISE FOR POSTER ART OF THE DISNEY PARKSOne of "the Best Books About the Happiest Place on Earth"―Los Angeles Magazine"I've been intrigued by the process of mapping Disneyland and the other parks since I first pored over the fold-out map in the August 1963 issue of The National Geographic. Years later I had the privilege of meeting Herb Ryman who mapped 'The Happiest Place on Earth' for Walt Disney before it was even built (!) and Sam McKim who created many of our treasured Disney maps. To look at a map of a Disney park is to relive visits past and dream of visits yet to be. . . This book promises to satisfy those twin emotions!"―Brian Sibley, writer, broadcaster, and Disney scholarOne of "The 9 Best Travel Books You Should Be Gifting This Holiday Season"―ForbesOne of "20 Books Every True Disney Fan Should Have in Their Collection"―POPSUGAR"There are many books out there about Walt Disney, The Walt Disney Company, and the Disney Parks, and two that are a must for any Disney fan are Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai and Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia, 5th Edition. . . . [Maps] is a beautiful coffee table book detailing six decades of maps and how each of the Parks evolved over the years. . . . This is a perfect book for the Disney fan and Disney historian alike."―Huffington Post
Not at all what you would expect - the title is misleading I had very high hopes for this book. Based on the product description, I was expecting to get tons of actual park maps from 1955 to today. Instead, what you get is a hodgepodge of concept art renderings with very little explanation of what you're looking at. There are very few actual maps of the parks. While the concept art included is beautiful to look at, it's all very poorly organized. The book jumps around from park to park without any transition. Instead of placing things chronologically, or by individual park, everything is kind of just smashed together. There are different chapters, but the chapter titles don't mesh with what's actually in that chapter. It's just a poorly designed layout for the book. There is very little in the way of descriptions of what you're looking at or why. Also, the other obviously had a huge fascination with Tom Sawyer's Island because he includes more renderings of it than he does for some of the actual parks.If you are looking for a book that contains all the park maps from all Disney parks from 1955 to today, this book is not for you. If you're looking for something to kill some time while you're on the toilet, this book might fit that bill. But, it would be an expensive toilet read.Seriously, if I had paid the full $30 retail price, I'd be mad and sending the book right back to Amazon. There are a lot of really good books out there about a Disney park history. This is not one of themSome nice art with little substance. A missed opportunity. On the positive side this book features a variety of different maps, from souvenir "fun maps" to concept art and advertising maps, covering all aspects of Disney parks, and even including some unexpected and easily overlooked items. But there is very little information given about the specific maps, which I would think a book devoted entirely to maps would provide.For example, they included a Fortune Red pirate treasure map, which is great, but offers absolutely no explanation as to what "Fortune Red" is, what the map depicts or where you would find it in the park... even one sentence could have answered that. Same with the Magic Kingdom MSK maps, also included here without any explanation as to what MSK is or what these maps were used for (they were actually components for an in-park game). It's just, "Here's the MSK maps. The end."Some other reviewers have mentioned the small dimensions of the book make it hard to appreciate the detail of the larger maps, and I agree... a slightly larger format would have alleviated much of that (no, the book would not have to be "map sized", LOL, just larger than the rather diminutive 11" x 12" that it is.)Finally, this isn't clear from the item description photo, but the hardcover is actually split down the middle, and opens out left and right, gate-fold style. This means the pages are actually twice as wide as the left cover and hang over the edge as you flip through, which is kind of annoying.I still am reluctantly recommending the book because there is some great artwork in here that I haven't seen in other books, but it could have been much, much better.Title is misleading I was expecting maps that are given out in the parks from over the years. I thought I would be able to look at them and see how each park has changed over the years. Instead it's full of maps that are just concept and art work. The title is very misleading. May be sending back.
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