{"product_id":"the-disney-monorail-imagineering-a-highway-in-the-sky-disney-editions-deluxe-9781484737675b","title":"The Disney Monorail: Imagineering A Highway In The Sky (Disney Editions Deluxe)","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWalt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt’s prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThrough a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow’s realities!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Disney Editions","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42994062983248,"sku":"9781484737675B","price":19.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-disney-monorail-imagineering-a-highway-in-the-sky-disney-editions-deluxe-9781484737675b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}