The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky Book

This deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney’s most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail. Through a lively narrative and stunning collection of historical photographs and rare concept and development art, readers will be transported into a future where yesterday’s dreams are tomorrow’s realities!

Magic in the details

Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon, but he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.

In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt’s prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world. 

• Written by Jeff Kurtti, Vanessa Hunt, and Paul Wolski
• Hardcover
• 208 pages
• Ages 12

The bare necessities

• Published by Disney Editions
• Paper
• 11 1/4” H x 9 1/4” W
• Printed in U.S.A.

Item No. 477412150676