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About LinkBacksJust took this vid on 9/9/09 have a look
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVu79tfgkZo"]YouTube - Grand Canyon and Primeval World Diorama[/ame]
Just took this vid on 9/9/09 have a look
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVu79tfgkZo"]YouTube - Grand Canyon and Primeval World Diorama[/ame]
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Way cool! Thanks for posting that.
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Thanks for that! It's great to see it again. I have always loved the Primeval World diorama since the first time I saw it. At first, I didn't appreciate the Grand Canyon one but as I got older I learned to. The background murals in the Grand Canyon were painted by none other than the legendary Claude Coats!
wow..amazing...I love the crystal clear of the video
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Thanks for posting the video, I've never seen this before!
Quick question: What was there before the grand canyon and primeval world diorama? Did the train just travel in darkness or the back side of buildings? This video made me curious!
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Thre indeed was nothing--just the back of buildings (although the Wikipedia entry on the DRR states otherwise).Originally Posted by krpink
Quick question: What was there before the grand canyon and primeval world diorama? Did the train just travel in darkness or the back side of buildings? This video made me curious!
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Wasn't there always a short "tunnel" (actually covered bridge over the backstage access road) there? The same one that separates the two dioramas today?
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Not in the photos I've seen. Will try to find/post some.
EDIT: Here you go. No tunnel, at least as far as these old eyes can see:
Photo from USC:
It does look like "berm" was built on the Park side, to shield backstage, however...
Another weird "Grand Canyon" connection:
The final bars of Ferde Groffe's "On The Trail" movement of "Grand Canyon Suite," which plays in the diorama, can also be heard in "A Christmas Story" as the mystical music playing when Ralphie first wakes up in his bedroom on Christmas morning.
Aha! Okay, I was looking at a 1958 park map (not a photo) and it does show the "covered bridge tunnel" - so it was no doubt installed at the same time as the original Grand Canyon Diorama. That explains why it's been there as far back as I can remember. Thanks for posting the photo. Must be from around '56 or so?
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Diorama? DIORAMA!? You mean we don't ACTUALLY go through the Grand Canyon????
Next you'll be telling me those are fake dinosaurs!
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The animals in the Grand Canyon diorama are actual stuffed (taxidermied) animals.
Does that include the Dinosaurs?
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Yeah, my image search included the year "1956," so that's probably the year.
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