0100-11807 TRIBUTE TO CINDERELLA
TRIBUTE TO CINDERELLA - A FINE EXAMPLE OF POST CARD ART
Some people in this world are supposed to stay objective and not play favorites, Judges, Teachers, Marriage Counselors, luckily for me the position of post card collecting web master is not held to that standard. I say luckily because this is one of my favorite post cards of Walt Disney World. I'll admit I have had mixed feelings about multi-view postcards. There are times when I'd much rather see full sized cards of each of the subjects pictured, than to see sometimes tiny versions of them sharing the same card. But, when it is done as well as it has been done with this card it becomes one of those postcard images that ascends to the status of post card art. What do I like about it? Well there are probably several things that combine to make this a nice image. I think that there are three colors that are fairly strongly shared through the three frames Purple, Blue, and Gold. Don't see it? Well the colors are fairly easy to pick out in the tiles, so here are the other frames colors, I think that in the interior and exterior lighting you can see a lot of the gold, directly on the light fixtures inside, on the lower walls of the castle outside. The walls of the upper turret of the castle outside carry it's blue as do the stained glass windows of the interior shot, which also carry the purple for that shot, if you can't see the purple in the exterior shot...I'm not sure what to tell you. Additionally I like the combination of far view (exterior), medium view (interior), and detail (that small section of mural).
The rest of this page is dedicated to the multi view
postcards of the Magic Kingdom that came out during this
series. Now most of them are pretty well done, but you
can rest easy, none of the others are likely to elicit a
dissection of why I like the card as the card above
did.
Now about this card below. I like this card it's a pretty
card and still a nice example of a well done multi-view,
but, what may be most interesting about this card is what
is not shown. Theres no view of Epcot, think about it
here we have a card emblazoned boldly across the front
with the Walt Disney World logo, they make a point of
featuring one view of the Magic Kingdom, one view from
Disney's Shopping Village, one view of a resort hotel,
six of the top characters, and just so we don't forget it
was all started by a mouse top center is the head cheese.
So basically they have made sure to feature one aspect of
each of the parts of a Walt Disney World vacation,
perhaps they even looked at it as, the Magic Kingdom
representing the theme park aspect of the WDW experience
so that covered that aspect of the card, Still it is hard
to imagine them making a postcard today that tries to
cover the WDW resort experience without including Epcot.
In fact there is a current multi view that does cover the
resort pretty well in just 10 views, and Epcot is one of
those views. So I think that this goes back to the idea
they had at the opening of Epcot center that Mickey and
his friends didn't necessarily belong there, even though
that had ended by the time this card came out, with Epcot
being such a major part of WDW at that point I think at
least a vestige of that mentality must have kept it off
this post card.
0100-11800 WELCOME TO
OUR WORLD
0100-11801 MAGIC MOMENTS
IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM
0100-11803
ADVENTURELAND
0100-11804 LIBERTY
SQUARE
0100-11805
FRONTIERLAND
I'm guessing that the main reason the exchanged the above
Frontierland multi-view for the one below was the change
in the Country bears show, but all in all, I think the
other three views they picked work better as part of a
multi view than the originals did, A hearty Well Done! to
whoever picked those out (even if it is the
same person who picked the views on the first card).
0100-11805
FRONTIERLAND
0100-11812 ALL ABOARD
FOR BIRTHDAY FUN
And here we have a card that shows the shortest lived
land of all Mickeys Birthdayland! Created during the
celebration of Mickey's 60th birthday it was at first
temporary, but some time after the Birthday celebration
ended it was re-named Mickeys Starland. Later it was
later renovated to set up more permanent attractions and
converted into Mickey's Toontown Fair.
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