Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/27/mr-toad-for-reals.html
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Ding-dong … “Who is it?” … [Disney IP lawyers break down front door with a battering ram]
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At least its not Tomorrowland.
That part of Disneyland was badly dated within a decade of the park’s opening. It is now largely just “the stuff surrounding Space Mountain”.
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Think if he’d done a 1/6th scale or smaller it’d be real interesting to try to recreate Disney. I don’t particularly care for this 1-1 recreation but as far as hobbies go i can’t really criticize the guy, there’s worse things to do with your own personal time.
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There are far worse contenders for the category of “worst appropriation of Disney IP”
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Holy jeosephat! The aging and detail he put into this is just gorgeous. Still one of my favorite areas of Disneyland and he put a ton of love into this.
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That’s impressive. I wonder what he will do now that he has finished?
I don’t, I can’t… fuck, OK fine!
Fine, it’s very nice, fine!
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If I had a 14,000 sq foot basement with 12 foot ceilings, and for whatever reason wasn’t expected to work constantly to pay for it, I imagine I’d like to do something like this too.
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It’s “retrofuturism”
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Subscribed. This DIY stuff is the best thing about the internet.
Now that’s obsessive dedication. Now, I don’t feel so bad about foregoing social events to write my books.
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Dig holes to extend his basement under his neighbors’ property so he can include the actual rides and not just the facades.
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It was futurism at the time it was made. Now just retro. 
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That would be heart breaking for the guy, but strangely and sadly, I can see that happening.
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Beautifully executed, but leaves me wondering just how big is that basement? Also, seems like opening one of those doors to the washer and dryer could be a bit anti-climatic.
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Well, he can’t be living in California as he has a basement and a large one at that.
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It’s been completely redone twice since then to try to ‘keep up’, but designing for the future is really impossible. For now they’ve consigned it to be retro-future, which works pretty well, though it (and WDW’s version) are solidly 90s-looking and need another overhaul.
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