Tuesday, May 15, 2007

A Disney Subway

To start, I'm going to head over to the Streets of America at Disney/MGM Studios. The Imagineers have done an incredible job of recreating a bustling Manhattan street, right down to the ever-present noise of honking taxi cabs.

As someone who has a quite strange love of the New York subway system (I wrote my thesis on the ceramic tile decorating the stations), I was quite pleased to find a subway station in the middle of the Studios.


It's incredibly accurate, as anyone who has been to New York can see. Yet, at first I was struck by the fact that the W and D lines do not run together, nor do they stop at 18th Street (and as pointed out to me, the D should in fact be orange and white). Then I caught myself, and realized that it is in fact one of the most clever tributes to the man behind all of the magic
that I have ever seen.

3 comments:

Stephanie said...

There is a W train and it is in fact part of the yellow line - but the D train symbol should be colored orange....nonetheless, a clever tribute!

Jessica said...

You are quite correct - I left off a very important piece of information - there are no W and D lines *that run together*. Thank you for pointing out my omission!

Danielle said...

There used to be a 18th street 6 stop.