Disneyland is on the brink of change with the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. But as the park looks to its future, Kim Irvine looks to its past.
Disneyland's Kim Irvine is arguably the person most responsible for maintaining the look and feel of Disneyland.
“I went out with my friends and we came home, and then from downstairs there’s ‘Goblins! Ghoulies!’ My friends were like, ‘What isToombs died in 1991, but her image and voice remain in the Mansion today. And when the park introduced a seasonal Nightmare Before Christmas holiday makeover for the ride, Irvine found herself taking the role as the face of Madame Leota.
“When people come to Disneyland, they want it to be more fantastical,” she says, repeating a lesson passed down to her from John Hench, one of the park’s original designers, who would routinely tell Irvine to “push the color.” — can be fraught when one considers that the Disneyland fan base can react to the removal of a bench as if Sleeping Beauty Castle had been replaced by Avengers Tower.
In 1979, when Irvine — under the direction of Hench — sought to open the first Imagineering office in Anaheim, the park was lucky, she says, to attract 35,000 people in a day. It was, she adds, “kind of neglected,” as Imagineering and corporate interests had spent the previous decade focusing on the creation of Florida’s Walt Disney World.Today, park attendance of 65,000 is a “normal” day, Irvine says.
Irvine is emphasizing bright pink and darker blues — an illustration of “Sleeping Beauty” artist Eyvind Earle sprung to life, and a way to make the original designs of Herb Ryman pop. It’s a luminous and animation-friendly color palate, designed to more overtly look like something out of a storybook.
Kim Irvine is arguably the person most responsible for maintaining the look and feel of Disneyland. Irvine takes an early morning stroll through New Orleans Square, next to the Rivers of America before the park opens on April 25. Irvine has been in her current office, about 2 miles from Disneyland, for three years. Previously, Imagineers stationed in Anaheim were huddled in trailers near the Haunted Mansion.
Irvine’s office has the feel of a Disney library — if there’s an out-of-print book fans covet, it’s likely there. Scattered about are random knickknacks — the standard Disney and Mickey Mouse statues — but also bits of forgotten history. Although she was nervous that other Imagineers would believe she’d gotten the job because of family connections, she immediately created fans. “She was over there with her mom and the other kids in the model shop,” recalls Crump, who was integral in designing the Enchanted Tiki Room and It’s a Small World. “That’s when I first met her. She was a Disney person. A lot of the other kids came in to do a job.
Knowing that Disneyland would always need tweaks and updates, and yet wanting the park to maintain a certain patina, is what inspired Irvine to open the Disneyland-based Imagineering office. In the late ’70s, Irvine says, decisions were made with little regard for the theatrics that Imagineering had once dreamed up.
“Our castle compass is my favorite Kim design,” Bush says. “It was a very difficult design to build, with detailed brass lettering in colored concrete.” One of the last major makeovers of Sleeping Beauty Castle came in 2015 for the park's 60th anniversary.
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