Disneyland For Designers

In what has been one of the saddest weekends in many of our lives as Americans, I don't want you to ignore the chaos, heartbreak, and good fight/conversation that I hope you're having. It would be best if you didn't hit stop even though you may be tired and fatigued, but I wanted to give you a place to go when you hit decide to hit pause.  Leave this world behind for 90 minutes, close your ey...

We asked, and you demanded it, it's a complete look at The Prince of Fantasyland Peter Pan and the history of Peter Pan's Flight. With Mark Brickey and Jerrod Maruyama.  Do you want Disneyland For Designers to continue it's weekly episod e releases? Please support Disneyland For Designers here to keep the episodes coming to you every Wednesday: https://anchor.fm/disneylandfordesigners Want Mo...

Are you ready to kick off the Disneyland summer season with a lap around the park with nonother than our bud Mr. Cheezy Pop? Max picked 10 of his favorites spots that he'd love to walk all of us to for a quick hangout in Walt's Original Magic Kingdom.  Do you want Disneyland For Designers to continue it's weekly episode releases? Please support Disneyland For Designers here to keep the episod...

Are you ready to visit the safest place on earth?   Episode 19 is a very different episode of Disneyland For Designers. Today Mark Brickey and Jerrod Maruyama look at all of the potential changes coming to Disneyland when it reopens in California's Phase IIII. How will the park react and adjust to the most significant health scare in its 65 years of operation? What does the initial audie...

Special guest Tasha Sounart walks around Pixar Pier with us and shares how being a part of the Theme Parks Team at Pixar allowed her to design attractions and experiences inside of Disneyland. Tasha worked on the fast-paced Pixar Project and gives us a look into the creative process of transforming Paradise Pier into Pixar Pier and creating the beautiful Emotional Whirlwind.  Do you want Disn...

Are you ready for the deepest Disneyland For Designers dive yet? Today we walk around the park and look at the details of Walt's favorite land Fantasyland. But we go a little deeper than most, because that's our thing, as look at The Facades of Fantasyland. Recreated in 1983, New Fantasyland took a Renaissance fair and converted it into a European Village where each pocket of the land would be tra...

Disneyland VIP Tour Guide Philander Butler is back to take a lap around Disney’s California Adventure.

Mark & Jerrod review the fascinating history and breathtaking design of Disneyland's classical "little boat ride" It's A Small World. 

The often asked question that requires an impossible answer.

On the day that Disneyland was supposed to reopen, we wanted to be there for you. Even though we can't cure Covid-19, we can hopefully cure your missing The Happiest Place On Earth. Desperate times mean bringing out the big guns, as we have asked our good friend Philander Butler a Disneyland VIP Tour Guide to join us on today's episode. Sit back, close your eyes, and let your worries go away as yo...

After we rode Rise Of The Resistance, we were too excited to drive to the studio and record a podcast, so we did it sitting in Batuu. Today's episode is the 12th episode of the podcast Disneyland For Designers, where each month, we do a deep dive into one aspect of Disneyland. Breaking down the design, tricks, and tips of one corner of the place we love most. In this episode of the podcast, we can...

It's the Disneyland For Designers Office Christmas Party! We look at all of our favorite Disneyland Christmas decorations, locations, and annual traditions. 

Mark & Jerrod are thankful for some new Star Wars via the Mandalorian,  their new friend "Baby Yoda" and, most importantly, The Imagineering Story documentary series on Disney+. In The Circle of Trust, the guys talk in detail about the importance of capturing these original Disneyland stories while the last members of this generation are still with us. Look at the first-ever Life Day in S...

Jerrod Maruyama & Mark Brickey break down every Disneyland Halloween detail that they can find. A full review of Disney's California Adventure, Oogie Boogie's Halloween Bash, and explore the ideas and concepts that we can all learn from Disneyland's marketing of the Halloween Season. In part two of today's double episode, the duo takes you inside the walls of Disneyland in search of Halloween...

Jerrod & Mark review the top 10 Disney Parks Announcements from D23 2019. In the Circle of Trust they share the exciting Disney summers they have both had from backstage to the parking lot.

Mark & Jerrod look at the sketches, the stories, the concepts and ideas that all got whittled down to the final wild and unpredictable style guide that crafted the Haunted Mansion. The Haunted Mansion building that sat empty for seven years and created the most significant challenge that Walt Disney Engineering ever faced. The first significant attraction built in the absence of Walt Disney. T...

The complete guide to all of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland. 1 massive new land, 2 E-Ticket attractions, divided into 3 fully themed regions with 9 shops and 5 refreshment locations. We break it all down from the Disneyland For Designers perspective.  To hear the full version of today's episode become a member of the Circle of Trust: http://aid.network/

We know you love Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland, but have you ever stopped to think about why it's designed the way that it is with no real main show building and a 1/2 mile walk to the attraction? Why did this ride ever get designed at Disneyland and why did they take a nearly 25 break from making any more attractions? Today we explore all of this and how "Indiana Jones Will Be Looked Back...

The Attractions of Pixar Pier explores the history, design, theming and future of Disney’s California Adventures   pier. All five attractions are broken down into a deep dive of their design, technology and place in this land. For Circle of Trust members only, a conversation about the evolution of this land into the future and how can design possibly save the theme of a classic Californi...

Are you ready to take a lap around Disneyland with Mark & Jerrod and explore The Quiet Spaces of Disneyland? Listen the guys share what it meant to be hired to do illustration work for the park and does Galaxy’s Edge seem to be a tribute to the design principles of Walt’s 1955 American classic Disneyland.

Episode two Snow White's Scary Adventures the Disney corporations first big win and one of the original 1955 opening day attractions. We also explore the future of Tomorrowland and how Marvel Land could affect its future as well as what emotionally makes Disneyland feel different than other Disney parks around the world and a rumor about the Galaxy Edge rollout that seems to be catching the media'...

Let's take a deep dive on the design, history and tips n tricks of the heart of Disneyland's Main Street USA. Follow along with Disneyland super fans podcaster Mark Brickey & Disney featured illustrator Jerrod Marayuma as they explore the most perfect parts of Walt's creation.