Moonliner--Disneyland History--TMS-551

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00:00I've heard you tell a story about the crane being featured in some of the artwork.

00:26Yeah, we're going to see when the lunar rocket arrives.

00:30In a minute, which was only days, like 10 days before opening, and they set it up, and

00:35they got the publicity people out there, and they took a really great shot, which was made

00:38into a silk screen, a beautiful silk screen piece that we sold in the Disney Gallery many

00:44times, and I always wondered, what is that crane?

00:46And it turns out it was actually the construction crane, and whoever shot the picture and painted

00:51the painting just thought it was part of, there's the crane, and if you see any of that

00:56original artwork, you'll see that crane actually in the picture, as though it's part of the

01:01gantry or something.

01:02And what did I know?

01:03As a seven-year-old kid, it looked great to me.

01:06So they had to hold it in the air while they actually attached the landing gear here.

01:10And we are about 10 days from the opening of this attraction, and I can't believe that,

01:18doing what I do with Walt Disney Imagineering.

01:22If we were 10 days away and the facility looked like this, I can tell you everyone that I work

01:27for would be having a heart attack.

01:29The Moonliner was not a ticketed attraction, and guests could not go inside it, but by

01:34its very design and placement, it was a dramatic invitation to come explore the world of the

01:39future.

01:40Most of the early concept drawings that rendered aerial views of the proposed park show the

01:45rocket standing tall in the eastern section of Disneyland.

01:47In 1954, Herb Ryman sketched a spindly rocket that looked a lot like the elegant design that

01:54John Hench eventually drew up.

01:56When its pieces were assembled just a few weeks before opening day, the Moonliner towered an

02:00imposing 76 feet high right in front of the low-slung Rocket to the Moon attraction.

02:06Unlike the actual moon rockets that fired from the Florida coast in the 1960s and 70s,

02:11the Moonliner had no separate stages, capsule, cluster engines at the bottom, or an adjacent

02:16support gantry.

02:17What it did have were three legs of slender, tapered shape, a cockpit near the top two rings

02:23of portholes, horizontal red stripes on its white hull, and a corporate sponsor, TWA.

02:29The Moonliner was sponsored by TWA from 1955 until 1962.

02:33It was sponsored by Douglas from 1962 until 1966.

02:37The Moonliner was designed by John Hench, one of the original Disney Imagineers, with the

02:42help of German rocket scientist Werner von Braun.

02:45It resembled von Braun's V-2 rocket design, but depicted what a commercial spaceliner might

02:51look like for traveling to the Moon in the faraway year of 1986.

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