Bruce Bushman Brownline of Alice Walkthrough

Back in the summer I did a whole series of these Bushman brownlines for the Alice walkthrough attraction that never was.  I realized that I missed one.

 

This is a hand-colored rendering of the White Rabbit's house scene, where the house is like a fun house attraction.  You entered through the front door, then jumped on the slide out of the top window.

Nice that this is signed too.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #14

Number 14 is another funhouse item, the counter rotating barrels. This is supposed to represent Alice escaping from Wonderland and returning to the real world.



That concludes the Alice that never was series. I'm curious to know what scenes 1, 2, & 8 were. Since the scenes follow the film pretty well, I can guess that 1 is probably chasing the White Rabbit, 2 is falling down the rabbit hole. Number 8 is a puzzle though. In the film the Garden of Live Flowers is immediately after the White Rabbit's house (numbers 7,9). Hmmm...

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #13

Number 13 is the trial scene with a card maze. Sounds like one too many mazes to me...

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #12

Number 12 is the Hedge Maze, with a scene of the cards painting the roses red.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #11A

Number 11A is the Mad Tea Party. The caption says Animated Scenic, so I guess Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse would move about.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #11

Number 11 is more of the Tulgey Wood with lots of paths and trees. Again, another concept from the funhouse, apparently it was supposed to be like a mirror room.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #10A

Number 10A is the Cheshire Cat, who of course disappears.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #10

Number 10 is the Tulgey Wood, with the trees bearing the signs pointing this way and that. Looks to me like they were supposed to rotate.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #9B

Number 9B is the Caterpillar. Apparently he was supposed to rise up like an accordion, and blow smoke rings.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #9

Number 9 is the Garden of Live Flowers. Presumably they'd sing.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #7

Number 7 is the White Rabbit's house. Another funhouse item, you would crawl through the house and come out the top and slide down the outside.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #6

Number 6 is the Walrus and the Carpenter sequence, featuring the Fish Dinners shack as built by the Carpenter. The steps leading up to the shack were supposed to wobble. Inside the shack would be a scene featuring the Walrus and the Carpenter (and presumably the Oysters).

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #5A

Number 5A is Alice's encounter with the Tweedles. The figures were supposed to spin about and bump into each other.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #5

Number 5 is the Caucus Race, featuring a rotating floor. Very funhouse.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #4

Number 4 is Over the Wave, featuring Alice in the bottle on the Sea of Tears. You can also see the Dodo floating by on the left.

Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline - Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough #3

Bruce Bushman started his career at Disney in the animation department, as an art director and layout artist in the 1940s. By the mid 1950s he'd moved over to the WED division where he helped design this new concept Walt had called Disneyland.

This begins a series of concept pieces for the original Alice in Wonderland walkthrough attraction that was never built. These pieces are called brownlines, and not original drawings but blue-print-like copies, but brown (hence the name). I am missing a few, but you'll get the basic idea of what the attraction was supposed to be like. I also apologize in advance for some of these images, these are quite large (24x19) so I had to take photos rather than scan, so there is some glare on a few.

First up is the Forced Perspective Room. This would be just after Alice has landed at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Notice the key on the top of the table. The text reads: "3 Forced perspective room concealed exit at far end other door to no where".

I'm Going to Disneyland! Bruce Bushman Concept Brownline of the Teacups

I'm off on my summer vacation! Woohoo! First week in LA, Disneyland Sunday and Tuesday at a minimum, then a week in Colorado. To kick off my vacation here is a very cool Bruce Bushman concept brownline, hand colored, of the Teacup attraction.

Interesting to see the date on this, 4 months before the park opened. Guess there was not enough time to alter the OTS carnival ride to include the centerpiece.

Later parks did include a centerpiece, like WDW and Disneyland Paris, but Disneyland's has remained the same.

Stay tuned for the next two weeks for the Alice Attraction that Never Was series.