Disney+ - Behind the attraction will be available July 21

By Mulder, 08 june 2021

The attractions at Disney parks around the world have been inspiring visitors for generations. To celebrate the July 28 release of the film Jungle Cruise - based on the attraction that opened in 1955 at Disneyland - Disney+ will offer ten episodes of its new original documentary series "Behind the Attractions" on July 16, which will take viewers into the fascinating history of some of the most famous attractions in the Disney parks.  Archival footage, photos and never-before-seen footage document the genesis of these landmarks and their successive improvements over the years as new concepts and technologies were introduced. This is an opportunity to discover how Disney's "imagineers" designed and built each castle, the complexity of each park's public transportation system, or the genesis of the iconic Disneyland Hotel, through 10 episodes built around specific themes:

Jungle Cruise
Haunted Mansion
Star Tours
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
Castles
Disneyland Hotel
Space Mountain
It's a small World
Transportation
Hall of Presidents

Each episode features rare interviews with Walt Disney and exclusive interviews with many of the Disney Legends and dozens of Imagineers - both living and dead - including Bob Weis, Jeanette Lomboy, Kim Irvine, Scott Trowbridge, Tom Fitzgerald, Scot Drake, Carmen Smith, and Joe Rohde, who look back at the beginnings of famous Disney Park attractions. Among other things, we discover why "The Haunted Mansion" has 999 ghost-infested nooks and crannies, how the Tower of Terror became Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! (breaking the laws of gravity in the process) and why Space Mountain took so long to open.

This series by Brian Volk-Weiss (The Toys That Made us), Robin Henry and Cisco Henson (The Nacelle Company) is produced by Dwayne Johnson (Jungle Cruise), Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz and Kevin Hill of Seven Bucks Production. Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds) provides the original narration.

(Source: press release)