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Friday, 18 March 2011

Viewliner to Tommorowland

Earlier I posted a cool toy Gotham Express train featured on Ebay by mr.chevelle1963 as pictured below. Readers Paul and Anonymous helped with information [thanks all] and informed me that it's based on a real vintage train called the GM Aerotrain aka Disneyland's Viewliner as pictured in black and white below the toy.
 
It has a  hint of the Lady Penelope Comic Gruber Moon Bus as seen below and the feel of later Shigeru Kamatsuzaki concepts to it [second and third below]. Wonderful !

4 comments:

Rocket Punch said...

I do enjoy any opportunity to view Komatsuzaki's great art. I must admit to not being familiar with the Disney Viewliner. Was it some precursor to the Disney Monorial?

philotoadia said...

Yep, it was, Rocket.

Rocket Punch said...

Thank you Philatodia. What's sad is that had I been bothered to click on the link for Viewliner I could have answered my own question and appeared less oblivious in the process.

philotoadia said...

Maybe, RP, but it gets us talking (smiles)

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