The Publishing of the Great Disneyland Paris Book, "From Sketch to Reality" Has Ended !

The acclaimed Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality 320 pages book is no longer available from the publishing company Neverland Editions which has stopped its activities. Anyone looking for an English or French edition copy must send me an email at nme4@wanadoo.fr and i'll tell you where or how to find one. The price of the book will now probably skyrocket on eBay or Amazon by others sellers as soon as they'll know that Neverland Editions has closed.

Important: Do NOT use the previous Paypal button posted here to order the book as we'll do systematically a refund to you. Do NOT also send an email to neverlandeditions@gmail.com to order the book as the company will NOT take any new orders, thanks!

Le livre Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality n'est plus disponible auprès de la société d'édition Neverland Editions qui a arrété ses activités. Toute personne à la recherche d'un exemplaire en anglais ou en français doit m'envoyer un email à nme4@wanadoo.fr et je vous dirais où ou comment en trouver un. Le prix du livre va probablement désormais monter en flèche sur eBay ou Amazon par d'autres vendeurs dès qu'ils sauront que Neverland Editions a fermé.

Important: N'utilisez PAS le bouton Paypal précédemment publié ici pour commander le livre car nous vous rembourserons systématiquement. NE PAS envoyer un courrier électronique également à neverlandeditions@gmail.com pour commander le livre car l'entreprise ne prendra pas de nouvelles commandes, merci!

Although you've probably heard about this beautiful book, many of you may have never seen a copy of it. So we've done a video presentation of the full book which will show you each of the 320 pages of the book! The book includes 750 pictures of the park, including 250 gorgeous renderings of Walt Disney Imagineering and stunning pictures of the park seen from above. The book is so big that it took us seven and a half minutes to show you the full book, and that's without stopping turning each pages! So, if you want to have a closer look at a page don't hesitate to stop the video!

Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality Book English Updated Edition !

The acclaimed Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality 320 pages book is no longer available from the publishing company Neverland Editions which has stopped its activities. Anyone looking for an English or French edition copy must send me an email at nme4@wanadoo.fr and i'll tell you where or how to find one. The price of the book will now probably skyrocket on eBay or Amazon by others sellers as soon as they'll know that Neverland Editions has closed.

Important: Do NOT use the previous Paypal button posted here to order the book as we'll do systematically a refund to you. Do NOT also send an email to neverlandeditions@gmail.com to order the book as the company will NOT take any new orders, thanks!

Although you've probably heard about this beautiful book, many of you may have never seen a copy of it. So we've done a video presentation of the full book which will show you each of the 320 pages of the book! The book includes 750 pictures of the park, including 250 gorgeous renderings of Walt Disney Imagineering and stunning pictures of the park seen from above. The book is so big that it took us seven and a half minutes to show you the full book, and that's without stopping turning each pages! So, if you want to have a closer look at a page don't hesitate to stop the video!




Description of the book:


The book is a gorgeous "coffee table book" with 320 pages and 750 pictures - of which 500 are park and attractions photos and 250 are Walt Disney Imagineering renderings!

The size is 9 x 12 inches, all pages are in color and it's hardbound with a glossy dust jacket. The text (by Disney historian Didier Ghez), was written after more than 75 interviews he conducted with all the Imagineers who created the park. He goes into just about everything you wanted to know about this unique place that many describe as the best "Magic Kingdom" ever created by WDI.

It took five years to create the book, but it was worth all the time we spent on it, and the book looks just as good as we had hoped for at the beginning - in fact Imagineer Bruce Gordon told us that it was "probably the best book ever done on a Disney theme park". Coming from Bruce who did with David Mumford the great "Disneyland, The Nickel Tour" book, it was more than a compliment.

The first chapter about Main Street has 52 pages and introduces the reader to the "legend" of Main Street, USA. You'll learn all about the Disneyland Paris Railroad, the unique "Discovery" and "Liberty" Arcades; find out about the architecture, the restaurants (like "Walt's," a tribute to Walt Disney, but also inspired by Club 33 in Anaheim) and the shops; with dozens of photos, renderings, models, and reproduced for the first time here, all the "cities of the future" posters located in "Discovery Arcade."



The second chapter on Frontierland discusses the park's western side with extensive sections about its major attractions, "Big Thunder Mountain" and "Phantom Manor." In fact the book has the longest sections ever put together in a book on all the major attractions. The Pirates of Caribbean section in the Adventureland chapter is 26 pages, Phantom Manor has 16 pages devoted to it, as does Space Mountain, it's a small world, etc. The photo material was so great that we kept adding more pages to the book, which was supposed to have only 240 pages when we started... we ended up with 320 upon completion!



The Frontierland chapter also covers the Mark Twain, the River Rogue Keelboats, Fort Comstock, all the restaurants, the shops and Cottonwood Creek Ranch.and featuring stunning photos of Disneyland Paris from the air by Yann Arthus Bertrand, author of The Earth from Above that make spectacular "double-pages," and allow the reader to discover the park from a whole different angle.


The Adventureland chapter is even more interesting, as many elements of the land exist only in Paris - such as the Bazaar and Aladdin to Africa and the ex-"Explorer's Club." Plus there's a long section about "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril," "Adventure Isle" and "The Swiss Robinson Treehouse" and, of course, "Pirates of Caribbean" the land's major attraction and featuring its amazing Audio-Animatronics! All in all there are 56 full pages about Adventureland, and as in the previous chapters, there are dozens of photos, lots of concept art, and many shots of Imagineers at work. There's even a great bonus here, with the Marc Davis artwork for "Pirates" also included.


56 full pages are also dedicated to Fantasyland. There's an extensive look at Sleeping Beauty Castle, sections on all the dark rides (Snow White, Peter Pan and Pinocchio), as well as a look at "Alice's Curious Labyrinth," the "Mad Hatter's Tea Cups," "Storybookland," and "Casey Jr." There are even 14 pages about "it's a small world" with stunning photos of nearly all the scenes in it. Here the reader can discover a new attraction that exists only at Disneyland Paris, with a great view from above of Alice's Labyrinth.

Discoveryland also gets 52 pages of special treatment, with sections on the Visionarium, the Nautilus, Star Tours, Space Mountain, and everything you wanted to know about the other attractions in this land – Autopia and Orbitron. In fact the Nautilus chapter takes you on a visit with photos of every room of this detailed walk-through and two double page photo spreads, one which makes you feel you're inside Captain Nemo's grand salon, and the other showing you a unique view of Discoveyland featuring the Nautilus and Space Mountain in a kind of "CinemaScope" view.


When the book was released in early 2002, the Walt Disney Studios didn't exist, so you won't see them in the book. But there's still one last chapter about the hotels of the park, and Disney Village too, with the great Buffalo Bill Wild West show that entertains hundreds each evening.

And because every day in a Magic Kingdom should end with a parade and fireworks, we have the Main Street Electrical Parade that close the book, with also an Herb Ryman gorgeous painting in the very last pages!


Pictures: copyright Disney

Video: copyright Alain Littaye 2012

Livre Disneyland Paris, De l'Esquisse à la Création en Version Collector Francaise - EPUISE !

Le livre Disneyland Paris, From Sketch to Reality n'est plus disponible auprès de la société d'édition Neverland Editions qui a arrété ses activités. Toute personne à la recherche d'un exemplaire en anglais ou en français doit m'envoyer un email à nme4@wanadoo.fr et je vous dirais où ou comment en trouver un. Le prix du livre va probablement désormais monter en flèche sur eBay ou Amazon par d'autres vendeurs dès qu'ils sauront que Neverland Editions a fermé.

Important: N'utilisez PAS le bouton Paypal précédemment publié ici pour commander le livre car nous vous rembourserons systématiquement. NE PAS envoyer un courrier électronique également à neverlandeditions@gmail.com pour commander le livre car l'entreprise ne prendra pas de nouvelles commandes, merci!

Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas l'édition collector voici ses caractéristiques: l'édition collector est imprimée sur un papier encore plus luxueux que l'était l'édition normale, a une impression couleur or sur la jaquette et la couverture, est limitée à 2000 exemplaires en français ( et 2000 en anglais ), chaque exemplaire est numéroté, ET chaque exemplaire contient quatre "tirés à part" de magnifiques concept-arts réalisés pour la conception des Walt Disney Studios, chacun d'entre-eux étant encadrables. De sucroit, le contenu du livre de cette nouvelle impression est strictement identique aux exemplaires de l'édition collector imprimés il y a 10 ans.

Ci-dessous quelques photos montrant l'intérieur du livre ( cliquez sur les images mosaïques pour les voir en grand). Et pour ceux qui n'ont jamais vu le livre vous pouvez voir ci-dessous une vidéo de présentation qui vous montrera TOUTES les pages du livre - navré, le commentaire est en anglais car la vidéo est postée sur mon site Disney and more, mais comme je le dis toujours les images sont en langage "international"! La vidéo montre l'édition "normale" du livre (pas l'édition collector que ceux qui commandent le livre recevront) mais le contenu intérieur est strictement identique à celui présenté dans la vidéo ci-dessous. N'hésitez pas à stopper la vidéo pour vous arrêter sur une page si besoin.


Quelques photos de l'intérieur du livre: 















Pictures: copyright Disney

Video: copyright Alain Littaye