WALT DISNEY STUDIOS

At the end of my short run on "TRON", the Walt Disney Studios kept me around for a while working on a
proposed film to be aired as a Disney Television Special, sometime in early 1981.  The special was to be
about life in the future, it's new work, new living, and new play.



I immediately thought of what a new ORBITAL DISNEYLAND might look like.
Here, you see the arrival/departure area on the lowest level while the various zero-gravity recreation
spaces occupy the center.  A rotating (for gravity) hotel can be seen mounted on one side of the park
while the rotating accommodations for crew, cast members, and park administration is mounted on the other.

This idea wasn't used.




My second pass was based on  a modified Gerard O'Neill space station (space city) concept.
This idea featured a rotating hotel, at the park's equator, where the guests could enjoy a view of the park
(at their discretion) through their room ceiling.  The rotating administration wheel is mounted, in the
foreground, around the entry/departure ports.  This idea, at least, made it past round one.

THE PARK LOGO


As far as I know, I was the first to come up with this three-circle Disney Park graphic.
An official version of it emerged years after this, and is still in use today,.....hmm.