Another one of George Long’s horses. This one is a referred to as a “stander” since it remained stationary instead of going up and down like a jumper. When Walt Disney bought the carousels that are now at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, he had all of the “standers” converted into jumpers by replacing the legs, much to the horror of the preservationists among the devotees of traditional carousel figures. |
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Seabreeze Park #5
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I was doing some electrical work at Disney World's Florida Staff Shop about 15 years ago and during the two weeks I was in the building, I got to watch the paint shop "artists" re-finish the horses for the Magic Kingdom's. At the time I think they had about 120 horses (110 on the ride). It took them weeks for the two guys that worked in that part of the paint shop to strip them down to bare wood, repair the gouges in the wood and then repaint them. The base coat was sprayed on, but the details were hand painted. Very detailed work and took several weeks to finish each horse. They had a 4 or 5 inch binder that had detailed pictures of each horse and how it was to be painted. What a treasure. I hadn't heard that the horses legs had been changed. Typical of Walt, but what a shame historically.
In order to change thos standing
horses to jumpers they would have
had to add upper eccentrics (or
change some) as well as add the
swivel sleeves in the platforms
On many of the 3 abreast jennies
only 2 rows were jumpers
The outer row often had charriots
& other stationary animals
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