See what’s inside the Walt Disney Archives exhibition at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (December 19th 2018 and to January 20th 2019) in this Tokyo Travel Tips video!
Subscribe to the channel!
TRANSCRIPT
Inside the Walt Disney Archives is a travelling exhibition of 420 items selected from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank California.
Among the items shown are production materials from Disney movies and amusement parks, historical items relating to Walt Disney himself and merchandise and publicity materials.
The exhibition has previously been held in Osaka and Tokyo and is now on at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Building No.1, starting on December 19th 2018 and finishing on January 20th 2019.
The opening times are 10:00am to 8:00pm. Admission is ¥1,500 for adults, ¥1,200 for High School Students and ¥800 for Junior High School students and below.
Unfortunately, photography is forbidden in most of the exhibition, but there is a sizable section where it is allowed. Here’s a flavour of what to expect.
The first sections show mainly merchandise, artwork and letters. Perhaps only of interest to real Disney fans.
The middle section is the most interesting. Here, many props and costumes are displayed from popular Disney movies, such as TRON Legacy, the Rocketeer and Tomorrowland. OK, those are not so popular.
The costumes from Beauty and the Beast are more attractive, with the famous ballroom outfits on display along with the enchanted ornaments, this time thankfully not singing.
In the next room, you can get close up to stand-in puppets used in the CGI remake of the Jungle Book, inclusing Kaa the snake. Scary.
There’s also costumes from the Princess Diaries, Beauty and the Beast and… Pretty Woman. Yes, that’s a little out of place here, but still fun to see.
There’s also various items from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, like production models, treasure and Davy’s Jones’s heart in the Dead Man’s Chest! It’s plastic, don’t worry.
The exhibition then leads into retired parts of the Haunted Mansion attraction in Disneyworld, with the hitch-hiking ghostsand tombstones, including this one which I’m sure is a tribute to attraction designer Marc Davis.
You can also see the famous portraits from the Stretching Room.
However, most of this part is dedicated to the films Mary poppins and Saving Mr Banks, the Tom Hanks movie chronicling its production.
In the movie, Walt Disney takes Poppins author PL Travers to Disneyland, and here are vintage tickets from that time, the early 1960’s.
Notice that there are different lettered tickets- the ‘E’ tickets were for the biggest and best attractions.
It’s interesting to see how closely the film props resemble their real-life counterparts. But to be honest, Tom Hanks doesn’t look much like Walt Disney!
The centerpiece of this room is the reproduction of Walt Disney’s personal desk from Saving Mr Banks. The original is back in the archives in Burbank.
Notice the ashtray. Usually, this would be full. Disney was a heavy smoker.
After sections dealing with the archives themselves and Japanese Disney mechandise through the years, you exit into the gift shop. This being Japan, there
are of course plenty of omiyage, or souvenirs for people to gift to co-workers and friends. It is, of course, quite expensive.
There are also some exclusive Gatcha capsule gifts, these light-up medallions depicting early mickey designs.
For more information, check out the website- (Japanese only).
Thanks for watching!
AloJapan.com