Jim Shull
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Imagineer (33 years) Retired. Watch me on YouTube at Disney Journey with Jim Shull and read me at . Co-Host .
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For all the talk about what will be announced at
#D23
at this point I’d take it as a win if
#Disney
provides a date for the completion of the two planters in front of
#Tomorrowland
. When was this project announced?
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During my career as a creative designer at Walt Disney Imagineering I was given many name badges of which these are just a few. The ones with worn printing were my everyday badges.
#Imagineering
#badge
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Since Universal Studios Hollywood doesn’t offer theme park maps I was compelled to draw and paint one of my own. I own this image, so give me credit if you reuse, repost, etc.
#UniversalHollywood
#map
#maps
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Image of me on the site of Rock n Roller Coaster during construction at the Disney MGM Studios. Image dates to 1997.
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I listened to Governor DeSantis regarding Walt Disney World and TWDC. Answering one accusation as a Imagineer I was never instructed that the company goal was to indoctrinate children in any political or social view. This is insulting to my friends and colleagues.
#DeSantis
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Guests don’t care that according to the films Darth Vader is dead. They want a Instagram photo with Darth. Theme parks are follies. Places to escape the real world. And never places where guests pay to be denied what they want.
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Being the Creative Director for Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree was one of my favorite WDI projects. I had support, a decent schedule, a respectable budget, Zamperla as my ride vendor. I have a ride patent for Mater and I keep the document safe and sound.
#Disneyland
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These numbers make me crazy. I expanded the queues for Space Mountain and Star Tours to handle guest demand. These numbers are the result of guests waiting outside the queue due to Genie+ which pushed people outside to wait before they wait in queue. Nuts!
#Disneyland
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This is not journalism. This is click baiting. As I twitted I have no contact with Universal or Comcast. This is personal work not for profit and I am not a current Disney Imagineer.
Disney Imagineer Gives Universal Ideas For 'Harry Potter' Expansion.
#WizardingWorldofHarryPotter
#UniversalStudios
#UniversalStudiosHollywood
#Disney
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During my 40 years in theme parks as a designer I would give notes on all my projects. With
#DarkUniverse
I have no notes. It’s perfect.
#EpicUniverse
Monstrous details released! Explore a twisted landscape where unearthly creatures roam. Dark Universe opens 2025 at Universal Epic Universe.
#EpicUniverse
Visit the link to learn more:
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The Tomorrowland spaceman is back. Decades later but back. Must have to do with the time warp thing shown in the new movie.
#Pixar
#Lightyear
#Disneyland
#WDW
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This video highlights the process of track less vehicle charging at Aquatopia in Discovery Bay at Tokyo Disney Sea. The wand is the tracking antenna for each ride vehicle. Complex design for the two separate ride systems.
#TokyoDisneyland
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IMHO if Alien Encounter was located at the Disney MGM Studios the attraction would still be operating today. The idea was good. It was just located in the wrong park.
#Tomorrowland
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When Fast Pass premiered in Disneyland, it was free and it offered no more than a five minute wait to board the ride vehicle. Reservation+Park Admission+Genie++Lighting Lane+=Hassle.
#DisneyHassle
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This image by other is worth studying to learn how Disneyland grew and evolved. This is a history lesson in a single picture.
#Disneyland
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Always amazes me how dense Tokyo Disneyland Resort is. This image documents 2 parks, monorail, retail & dining, back of house and hotels. And all on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. If you dream it you can build it.
#TokyoDisneyland
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Concept artwork for Mysterious Island at Tokyo Disneyland. All by hand using classic techniques. Lovely work.
#ToykoDisneysea
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To my best estimate this is a chart for the family of Disney park castles. I have both versions of the Hong Kong Disneyland castle for comparison.
#TWDC
#Disneyland
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Time for a rant. This is an unacceptable embarrassment as show and it is a waste of investment capital for
#TWDC
. When there’s no festival using the space it looks like a bus station.
#BadEpcot
#EmptyEpcot
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I didn’t fall on my sword for everything however I did to add this shaded rest area under the Swings ride during DCA 2.0. Walt wanted areas for families to sit and enjoy the views. So do I. Guests go to Disney parks to enjoy and recharge. When going is work the goal is lost.
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This image captures the roof top of the Hollywood Tower Hotel at Disney MGM Studios Theme Park. Note the building theming goes all the way up the building with real roof tiles when a flat painted roof could have been installed.
#WDW
#Disneyland
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My reaction to this newly released concept image is to question ‘why’? What problem does this change fix? Is this the entry to a major attraction? How does what’s there fix with this concept? Design is meant to solve problems and this doesn’t.
#Disneyland
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Your moment of charging zen at Tokyo Disney Sea. The vehicles charge as they move through the ride station.
#TokyoDisneySea
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This image documents are good example of a folly. Here is a staircase at Tokyo Disney Sea that serves no other purpose than giving guests a place to explore. Such follies provide guest satisfaction and should count as capacity.
#TokyoDisneyland
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Without revealing sources this is more than merely a rumor.
#UniversalStudios
#UnibersalUK
NEW VIDEO! Rumors for a new Universal theme park coming to the United Kingdom seem to be backed up by the company purchasing land in England, registering domain names, and more.
Video Version:
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Since paper maps are on the way to extinction I’m in the process of creating theme park ‘fun maps’. This is the one I drew for Shanghai Disneyland. Currently I’m in the process of creating a map for Disneyland Paris.
#Disneyland
#TWDC
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When Bob Iger looks at the WDI project menu hopefully he will cancel the brand slap Big Hero 6 of Pacific Wharf at Disney California Adventure. Money spent needs to be channeled into new marketable attractions & this doesn’t meet that measurement. A ride require 2 1/2-3 year.
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Sorry to disappoint but I’ve got no problem with these animated figures. They are stunning.
Sure, these seem cool, but keep in mind, we haven’t heard Jim Shull’s problem with them
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A personal Blue Sky project was to develop a Oswald & Ortensia ride to replace Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin. Keeping the facility and ride system. Use projection mapping and painting the sets in 1920s black and white style for low cost investment to deliver a unique ride.
#WDW
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Disney Wharf was a project imagined for Sydney Harbor, Australia. Located on a site designed to lift the area it was to be a mixed use project. Not a theme park but more than a retail and entertainment project, Disney has tried this several times with mixed results.
#Disney
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I had a special pleasure closing a career chapter of built projects at Walt Disney Imagineering to create ideation, show and prop drawings, plus historical details for the queue show at Mickey's Runaway Railway. I worked on the original Toontown and now Toontown 2.0.
#disneyland
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Rock n Roller Coaster was constructed in a parking lot used by the team working at Disney Feature Animation Florida. This is a view of the future Gower Street with the Tower or Terror behind.
#WDW
#Disneyland
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Space Mountain interior Tuesday. Arrow points at how close track comes to the dome edge. Second image arrow points to helix spanning the yet to be enclosed queue.
#DisneylandParis
#Space
mountain
#DisneylandParis
#Spacemountain
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Could the Tomorrowland in California simply be restored to a modern version of the mid century modern vision of the future? The style is classic California. It doesn’t date. It is unquestionably unique. It is flexible. It is popular.
#Disneyland
#midcentury
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Fast Pass was touted as a guest service which if used would ensure they would wait no more than five minutes. For a free reservation service. This is not that.
#WDW
#longqueues
This is the LIGHTNING LANE for Tower of Terror. Yes even the extended queue…
Holy fuck.
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Image taken in 1995 at the opening of Indiana Jones at DLR. No guest seemed to mind the wait in queue. There were no smart phones for entertainment or paying $20 each for priority so everyone was equal and all managed.
#Disneyland
#IndianaJones
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Congratulations to the team at Universal Creative who with their partners designed and delivered Universal Studios Beijing! Being part of opening Euro Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland I attest the long days and great effort it takes to open a resort of the scale of USB.
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Before Tokyo Disney Sea there was proposed for the site a studio inspirited theme park, along the lines of the Disney MGM Studios Theme Park. This released image captures the look & feel combining familiar & new attractions.
#TokyoDisneyland
#Disney
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Viewing this image reported to be guests waiting in the Lighting Lane line, I am reminded of when Fast Pass was available for free with the promise that guests with Fast Pass would wait no more than five minutes before boarding a ride. Fast Pass was meant to remove queue lines.
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Once upon a time when Typhoon Lagoon opened guests would swim in this pool with fish and harmless sharks. Guests could watch from inside the rusty ship hull. The hull ramped downward and was dark. Unique experience and now closed.
#TyphoonLagoon
#WDW
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Today's news release for the Spider-man launched coaster at Shanghai Disneyland will bring the most popular character in the MCU to China. On small land comes great responsible.
#SpiderMan
#ShanghaiDisneyland
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This art released by Tokyo Disneyland shows proposed changes to Fantasyland. A theater replaced Small World that would have moved to be replaced with Pixie Hollow.
#TokyoDisneyland
#Fantasyland
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Impressive by the smoke effects rising from the faux ‘Neverland’ mountains in Fantasy Springs. OLC which owns and operates Tokyo Disney Resort continues to be the gold standard among all Disney Parks worldwide.
#FantasySprings
#TokyoDisneyland
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Continuing my quest discovering what's in the cloud while goggling I found these early sketches of the Tower of Terror. The search took five minutes of asking the correct questions. Amazing!
#TowerofTerror
#DisneylandParis
#WDW
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Disney offered me a big California home with all I had in Los Angeles, or this. I picked this.
#apartment
#Disney
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Reusing the same vehicle design developed for Shanghai Disneyland fitted for Chinese body types was not the very best of ideas. Americans and especially the Disney guests in the U. S. do not match Chinese body types. Expect increase in number of GWD vehicles replacing bikes.
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Back to the Future marketed the ride’s opening in 1991 at Universal Studios Orlando with signs (see arrow) and a countdown clock.
#BackToTheFuture
#universalstudios
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The ghosts appear after the scene where Madam Leota summons them. The hall box ghost belongs in the attic scene because it’s after Madam Leota. Changing the order is like starting dinner with desert.
#HauntedMansion
Later this year at
@WaltDisneyWorld
, one of our most iconic specters will set up residence in the Haunted Mansion of Liberty Square in Magic Kingdom Park. The Hatbox Ghost will appear to guests as they pass the Endless Hallway. 🕯🕸
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Congratulations to the entire Epic Universe team on today's announcement. A game changing addition to the Universal Orlando resort.
#EpicUniverse
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During the fifth birthday of Disneyland Paris the castle in Fantasyland was redressed to support the animated film “Hunchback”. and the Festival of Fools. Photo taken 1996.
#Fantasyland
#DisneylandParis
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It’s good that the Nautilus walk through attraction at DLP has been refreshed however replacing the animatronic squid for a video screen runs against the show that Tom Scherman (who I worked with) designed. The effort to create the bubbles in the view port & the figure are gone.
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WDI cast members are given name tags such as these examples to be worn on campus or in public.
#DisneyImagineering
#Disneyland
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The sign was supposed to be temporary to marketing the then new Tower of Terror in 1994. Now in 2022 it is reported to be removed shortly and I discover that I will miss the billboard. Over time it became a signal that the Magic Kingdom was ahead!
#WDW
#DisneyHollywoodStudios
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A carefully planned & captured image of the Pinocchio village scene in the Storybook Land canal boats attraction in Fantasyland at Disneyland California. I wanted an image with the Matterhorn behind the village peeking above the trees.
#Disneyland
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When it opened the Hollywood Tower Hotel rose over the miniature world of Flik’s Fun Fair. FFF was a peaceful and green area of Disney California Adventure to be replaced by concrete and no shade in Avengers Campus. Guests want shaded parks.
#Disneyland
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A very different type of time wait board. Here in Tokyo Disney Sea a cast member writes in chalk on a black board near a dock for the boats which circle the park, the wait times for the rides, shows and attractions. Old school.
#TokyoDisneySea
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Image taken during a break down guest walk off in the Heffalumps and Woozles scene in Pooh's Hunny Hunt in Fantasyland at Tokyo Disneyland. Open doors lead to maintenance from where the workers came to assist we guests. A larger space than it appears in show conditions.
#wdw50
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TRON is a challenging coaster to board. There are lanes for guests to travel depending upon if they sit on the right or the left side of the coaster train. Good luck to the Orlando WDW MK operators as they learn the ride.
#WDW
#Disneyland
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Before the construction for the Universal Florida Resort this is the way the site looked when the studio theme park first opened to guests. Nearly everything in this image would change. The transformation was well designed and delivered. Worth studying.
#urbanplanning
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Allowing for the fact that cultural changes occur over decades it must be acknowledged that in the context of the tale on which the film is based that the ride is accurate. People are of course allowed to dislike the story but the Imagineering team did a spectacular job!
#Disney
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The view from the upper deck of the great ship in the harbor. Tokyo Disney Sea. Guests can spend hours walking the decks looking at the views.
#TokyoDisneySea
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This image documents Michael Eisner enjoying a coaster at Europa Park in Germany during his research leading to the creation of Euro Disneyland. I found Eisner to always be engaged whenever I would pitch projects.
#Eisner
#TWDC
#WDW
#Disneylandparis
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Celebrating the idea of the mural, however the design of the mural is completely contemporary. The story for the ride is anchored in the Disney movie which is set in the 1920s. Mural art in the 1920s is well known and documented. This mural is nice but not story appropriate.
FIRST LOOK: New mural coming to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at
@WaltDisneyWorld
and
@Disneyland
! ✨🎨 Check out the story of the artist behind this masterpiece and her partnership with Walt Disney Imagineering to bring it to life:
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Judging from the Encanto house raised position will Animal Kingdom get a version of Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland? Just speculating.
#animalkingdom
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Recently when I tried to enter the Magic Kingdom at WDW due to a series of problems it took two hours before I could enter. I was told to first ride the monorail, enter & exit Epcot, ride the monorail back to the MK & enter. In response to asking if I could talk to someone…
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When Typhoon Lagoon opened it did so with the 'Shark Reef' encounter where guests could either swim among the sea life or stay dry and examine the sea life from inside the sunken ship. A unique experience since removed.
#WDW
#waterpark
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This image captures the wave machine at Paradise Pier during its phase 1.0. The created waves would push beyond the wall opening and into the lagoon. The waves covered the then 5 acre lagoon which made a big statement. Gone since the World of Color equipment was installed.
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Several times when rides break down and guests are walked off the ride, I’ve been able to capture some very interesting video of the ride. Here is the video of Winnie the Pooh at Tokyo Disneyland.
#Winniethepooh
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Imagineering can take decades to deliver on a concept. This story art by Tim Kirk shows an idea where guests 'break through screen'.
#Disneyland
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When I designed Gadget Go Coaster for Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland starting 1989, I intended to shroud the coaster columns with Tinker Toy connectors which would have been a story based and cost effective design solution. Photos of the 1/2” model and finished coaster.
#Disney
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This image is an example of a trend when the product being sold to consumers is less the focus of importance than the consumers. These consumers are focused on each other and the environment they are in is treated as unimportant. They could be sitting at Applebee’s.
#Bars
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I was a young Imagineer and Rolly took me under his wing to teach me how to think and how to apply my thinking to three dimensional spaces. His lessons informed my work on projects for decades.
#RollyCrump
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More 'fun map' exploration of the announced new Marvel area being built at the Disney Studios Paris.
#DisneyMarvel
#MarvelsAvengers
#DisneylandParis
#Disneyland
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Disney released concept artwork for the Indiana Jones attraction proposed for Adventureland at Disneyland California. The artwork shows the Disneyland railroad, the mine car coaster and the E ticket Jones ride existing in the one common show space. Art by Brian Jowers.
#WDW
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Looking at this character design in the forthcoming Disney Animated film ‘Wish’ reminds me of Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex.
#MeghanMarkle
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