Best Disney Theme Park Books

[MatterhornJ]

I know that there are SO many Dland books, but which are your favorite?

[disneylandfan95]

My collection consists of:

1. The Disneyland Encyclopedia
2. 101 Things you Never Knew About Disneyland
3. The Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland
4. MouseTales
5. More MouseTales
6. Mouse Under Glass
7. The Imagineering Way
8. Little Known Facts About Well Known Places- Disneyland
9. The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
11. The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at its Peak
12. Disneyland: The Inside Story
13. Disneyland: Now, Then, and Forever

They are all great and really fun reads

[Coheteboy]

Mine, in no particular order:

-The Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland



-The Art of Disneyland by Jeff Kurtti



-Designing Disney by John Hench




-Walt Disney's Imagineering Legends and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park by Jeff Kurtti and Bruce Gordon



-The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at its Peak by Jason Surrell



-Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind-the-Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real




-Disneyland: Then, Now, and Forever by Bruce Gordon & Tim O'Day



-A Brush with Disney: An Artist's Journey, Told through the words and works of Herbert Dickens Ryman by David Mumford and Bruce Gordon






And a book I look forward to getting next month:
-Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real

[k_peek_2000]

The only 2 disney books I have are, Disney: Then, Now and Forever and Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind-the-Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real. I am ALWAYS looking at the Imagineering book. It such a fantastic book and is a MUST if your into the creation of the parks and talks a lot about the making of each resort, TDL, DLR, DLRP, and WDW.

[phi1215]

My collection consists of:

1. The Disneyland Encyclopedia
2. 101 Things you Never Knew About Disneyland
3. The Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland
4. MouseTales
5. More MouseTales
6. Mouse Under Glass
7. The Imagineering Way
8. Little Known Facts About Well Known Places- Disneyland
9. The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
11. The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at its Peak
12. Disneyland: The Inside Story
13. Disneyland: Now, Then, and Forever

They are all great and really fun reads

By David Hoffman, this book is horrible! It's full of misinformation and reinforces those crazy rumors that keep popping up! It was the biggest waste of 6 bucks I've ever spent!!! BLAHHHH!!!! LOL

[yoyoflamingo]

IMO Disneyland: The Nickel Tour is one of the best Disneyland books ever.

Every one CB mentioned are amazing as well.

[Coheteboy]

IMO Disneyland: The Nickel Tour is one of the best Disneyland books ever.

Every one CB mentioned are amazing as well.

*sniff sniff

That's the one book I don't have.

Oh and I forgot that I have the Pirates and Haunted Mansion books by Jason Surrell. Those are also really good.

[disneylandfan95]

By David Hoffman, this book is horrible! It's full of misinformation and reinforces those crazy rumors that keep popping up! It was the biggest waste of 6 bucks I've ever spent!!! BLAHHHH!!!! LOL

Yeah it is pretty bad. Fortunately, it was a gift from my grandma so I didn't waste my money on it. haha!

And all the books on Coheteboy's list are on my Wish List. I've looked at all of those and want them all! I'm pretty spoiled I guess.

[themur]

The Nickel Tour and Disneyland: The Inside Story are my two go to books!

[phi1215]

I do like that Unofficial Guide book, that was so helpful on our last trip!

[DisneyTrains]

*300th post!!!!*

These are all I have but they are really good nonetheless:
-The Disney Mountains


-From Plantation to Theme Park (by our very own Steve DeGaetano)

And,
-Walt Disney's Railroad Story

[jesterjack]

Walt Disney Imagineering
Haunted Mansion:FTMKTTM
Unnoficial Disneyland Enciclo....thing...
those two 101 fact books by that guy here on Micechat whose name slips my mind at the moment (but dont worry it will come back to me in an unrelated moment)
and that Disney Mountains book

[WarriorPoets]

The Nickel Tour. Bar none, greatest book about the park ever.

The Surrell books are great suppliments, followed by the Imagineering Guides. Mouse Tales is fun if interested in getting underneath the Pixie Dust, but you need a fundamental grounding on the Park first.

[Steve DeGaetano]

The Nickel Tour. Bar none, greatest book about the park ever.

Agreed. No collection of Disneyland books is complete without it.

It's expensive, but it's worth 10 or 20 other Disneyland books put together.

[loveforfamily]

I do like that Unofficial Guide book, that was so helpful on our last trip!

I used the Unoffficail Guide book and the Birnbaum book alot...they were very helpful in planning.

I also have the Disneyland Detective and Disneylands Hidden Mickeys...Cant wait for my first hidden mickey adventure