Have You Seen Main Street USA's Hidden Buildings At Disneyland?

[@MaryeDisney]

It is all about the small stuff at Disney!!!! My favorite thing to do!!!!

[@jon-kl9mk]

My dad once told me when you're walking through Disneyland is to make sure you look up & far, you'll see different things that you never notice before. Since working at Disney for 20 years on the 3rd shift, i'm unable to see much in the dark but once the sunrise comes up i like to stroll through the park with my cup of coffee & just look around you'll be surprise what you see that you haven't seen before.

[@kwu2242]

Cool job. Any ghost stories?

[@lindsaysmith2510]

I would have never noticed that! Disney is so clever. I love that they think of the details big and small.

[@azjazzo]

I also love the “15 minutes” up the train station.

[@jasoncarbone5553]

When people say the magic is dead or dying at Disneyland I point to you Brickey. I tell them to watch some of your videos before the visit. I tell them to remember that feeling they felt the first time they walked through the tunnel to reveal Main Street. Between those two things they always come back with a new love and appreciation for this magical place. Keep the dream alive Brickey!

[@RedheadedMama]

I want an entire week to just spend at the parks and see every nook and cranny. That tour of yours would be pretty awesome.

[@katiestevens3613]

I swear I cry at every piece of content, Brickey! You are an incredible storyteller.

[@Olyphoto7]

If I had an annual pass, I would love to spend an entire day in each land, sit on every bench, take in every view, and enjoy watching and listening to guests experiencing the park in their own way. Thanks for sharing Brickey!

[@jamesl1130]

In the 90s, l was going to Disneyland multiple times a week. The Goal of each visit was to do something new each time. This led to many new discoveries and treasured moments, as well as writing my 1st book, with my friend.

[@chrismurray6606]

So many great instances of how the Imagineers manage the transition from one space to another. Need a comprehensive video from you on it.

[@MinuteManna]

Dude, Brickey, I don't hardly ever watch KZbin videos, but I took a break from my neverending yard work and watched this one. It's fantastic! It may have just turned me into a KZbin consumer.

[@MikeBramm]

You have discovered the secret of Disneyland. If you just keep riding the same rides every time you go to the park, you'll eventually get bored, and that ruins it for you. You just have to slow down and take it all in, every little corner and feature of it, as you have found. Keep it up Brickey!

[@RedheadedMama]

Yes! Make that tour! When you’re there as a tourist with limited time, you missed so much! That would be so interesting! 4:21

[@markwelker95]

while its always fun to go to disneyland and crush rides, disneyland has more to it than that....and in your hurry to go crush rides, a lot gets missed......you go under the bridge,and thru town square,and you miss seeing mr lincoln,and seeing tillie,and watching the cartoons that started it all....and going to the tiki room....sometimes,you need to forget crushing the rides,and see the attractions less traveled....and just walk thru ,and check the details they put there...from every angle.spend 2hrs of sitting on a bench on tom sawyer island watching the boats go by..and people having fun.this is what makes disneyland special.

[@maddercat]

When the park used to become overcapacity they used to open those backstage areas to let people pass through to exit...also the backstage between mainstreet and jungle cruise they still open a lot, it's pretty interesting...there's probably video of it on youtube I would imagine.

[@deborahdenison9225]

Yes, Please do that video. I want to know EVERYTHING about main street. My dream is do the walk in Walt's footsteps tour (I know it has a different name now) and although I probably know a lot of the facts already... I want to go behind the scenes a bit and I want to go into that apartment so badly. I would love to sit on the back patio of his apart and hear Jungle cruise

[@Anton7phone]

I’d love a 4 part series on Main Street! Give yourself plenty of room to create and explore your favorite place!

[@Anton7phone]

Lol no pressure

[@Anton7phone]

Break it down by section or by theme (building design, windows, interior, etc) I’ll watch every one!

[@hukalua]

We did a small stuff day recently and now Casey Jr. is in heavy rotation ❤

[@brianwisdom8051]

The magic of Disneyland isn’t in the rides, or the big WOW! stuff. It lies in those quiet little corners all over the park. If you take the time to experience them, Disneyland becomes an entirely new park for you. I love getting a mint julep and sitting near the fountain by the Haunted Mansion and just watching the people, the motion of the land and getting that New Orleans Square vibe.

[@gregcollins5585]

Please make the Main St. USA tour video sooner than later!

[@christopherquinn1879]

If you look at the side of the Opera house right by the parade exit there is a sign on the door that says Employes only not cast Members Only. Also, in the Opera House there is a peanut cart that was there on opening day at Walt saw all the peanut shells and got rid of the carts the next day. I learned these facts from Chris Provest. Thanks for another fun video.

[@StephanieOlea]

I heard about some castmembers not been nice to visitors and I couldn't believe it util I saw the cold way that duck refuse to answer your questions. How dare you come back, mister! I already waved goodbye! Anyway thanks for another great video!

[@keighters]

I'm hear for all the design TED Talks. The whole reason I jumped into the subscribe crowd on the podcast and youtube after Avengers Campus opened was because of your unique design perspective. There are things I've never noticed or understood about the theme parks ...and I love to unlock them. ❤

[@mikeysteins1784]

This is what makes Disneyland so great. NOTHING is by accident and everywhere you look, you're bound to find a story.

[@damilla1958]

I have never had a Disneyland trip when I haven't discovered something new on Main Street USA or Fantasyland! I love the details!

[@PaulAdler11]

These videos are awesome. Would absolutely love to see more of these in wdw! Keep up the great work.

[@mandymoments73]

Disneyland is like home to me, as it is to so many others, and, while I love all the videos by so many creators, your videos bring the home and the comfort to me like nothing else. As many times as I've been to Disneyland, you always make it feel like a new journey. Thank you for these videos.

[@robertjones1729]

Those are stage pieces to hide Space Mountain from the MS site line...ingenious!

[@katrinaandrews5263]

Gotta take time to enjoy the small stuff and soak it in, on every trip to Disneyland! I try to take it in every time I watch your videos, just to enjoy and embrace those feelings I had enjoying the park! I miss it ❤ thanks Brickey!

[@rynebeuseling1986]

The fact I knew the answer and still watched your video anyway speaks to your showmanship. And lol at the shitty rocks.

[@jyishika]

This is awesome, these bits of the Disney parks are what makes them special. Thanks for sharing!

[@kennyfleas]

Awesome video. You gave me a reason to slow down, take it in, and not feel like I’m missing anything. Thank you.

[@clinttaylor8730]

I remember appreciating that same main street facade while I worked in the park. Just behind Plaza Inn, was a lunch spot for castmembers. I used to walk the back ally and look up at that facade; amazed how detailed it was and how it stuck out from the top half of the building. The bottom half had nothing going on at all. 😅

[@robertjones1729]

yep...is the Inbetween still there?? class of '72 CM here

[@ocdebi]

I’ve never noticed that building!!! And umm yeah would love to see a Main Street Secrets!!

[@My_hearts_on_main_street]

Amazing video! I absolutely love how you experience, enjoy, and love Disneyland. So inspiring! Thank you.

[@ParkMind]

It’s amazing how much details and effort Disney used to put into there parks

[@dianebloxham4757]

Love your content, it's always so fun and inspiring

[@JeffA_]

Another great knowledge bomb to drop on my friends and family when visiting the park. Thank you 🤘🏻 club 1313

[@daniels7971]

make it! Make it!! MAKE IT!!!

[@JeffA_]

Also, Yes on a Brickey Main St. tour.

[@Tea_and_Arsenic]

Please do a “small stuff day” video! I’ve been to Disneyland more times than I can count, but we’re “ride rippers”, and I’d love your best tips for taking it slow one day!

[@sunnybearify]

Definitely want the main street video very very soon!

[@bekkibKindNest]

I would love a complete Main Street tour video. I very much enjoy your niche content! Thank you.

[@OSO209]

Awesome video brother keep up the badass work

[@mikespeedfromspeedway2812]

Love this man! Side Questing is definitely a ultimate goal for me some day when I can frequent the parks on a regular basis. And the neon light up at sunset is another one I'll be looking to experience. Main Street is the happiest part of the park to see when you first enter and the saddest part of the park to see when your day has come to an end. I miss my cast member days in WDW when I would linger in the park after hours to take in the atmosphere of an empty park and observe the architectural magnificence Imagineering has done. Also them leaving the music on all night shows just how much they care to keep the park alive as if it too were a living breathing thing. I would have no complaints about working overnight at a Disney Park! I miss the feeling!

[@twizshiz]

I worked at Disneyland between 1998-2000. If I remember correctly, that building is the home of the aircraft simulators of Star Torus. Now, what I am about to say is that things do change a lot backstage. To the right, it was scheduling for cast members. To the left, it was where cast dining which was the same kitchen that served guests on the stage side. Now, it's been years ago and I am only going off memory. But I think it is the show building for Star Tours. There is also where Rocket Rods/People Mover tunnels are. To the right, you get into Starcade and then into the theater at tomorrowland and Magic Mountain. Let me know if this is what you concluded. Again, it was years ago. When I worked at DL, I was the parking lot tram guy in the back. Fun job.

[@azjazzo]

Just wondering. We have spent the 15 minutes on the train station. Love it. Is there a spot DCA that offers the “perspective “?

[@tbx59]

Guess it shows what a good job they did with it because I never even thought about the show building for Star Tours unlike most of the other rides.

[@mydisneyenergy]

Please do a Main Street video. After years of hitting the rides hard, on my visit earlier this month I realized Main Street Vibes were the ones I was chasing and what continue to call me back to the park.

[@azjazzo]

We would love to see your deep tour of Main Street.

[@tsl196345]

I LOVE you and your channel!! It would be AMAZING to go with you. I grew up going to Disneyland (live in Seattle now). I remember learning about forced perspective and other illusions in my 8th grade math class! LOL it's always fascinated me ever since. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

[@nzjonty]

One of your best Brickey! Loved this

[@caledoniaskytower]

Well done, Mark! Bravo! Love it!

[@eddunaway5371]

Yeah I saw St Louis St Louis 1904 you know those Street lamps and main Street USA they were made right here in St Louis looks like the Palace theater for 1904 St Louis

[@marcmooney9293]

I knew it was Star Tours! Lol but still a awesome video. I've been going to the park my whole life but usually just one weekend every year or so. So I have some knowledge. I need to move there!! Haha great video.

[@bradleysanker5625]

Hey Brickey! I know this is from a year ago but I am sharing that my wife and I are making a trip to Epcot and the Magic Kingdom next weekend for a side quest. We are going to the Halloween party and to enjoy food and wine but while we are in Epcot we are planning to focus on the things we pass by on our normal trips. Thanks for the inspiration and I love the channel. Keep up the amazing work. Hope to get to DL next year.

[@myquietislandlife]

Yes please, MAKE THAT VIDEO!!!

[@derradune6722]

Is the tree at 10:40 real? It just loooks so green compared to the others

[@dawnsiberts8232]

Love the details!

[@judithcampo8822]

Brickey, when you were showing is those buildings from the upper deck of the Omnibus and explaining that it was the Main Street side of the Star Tours building, I looked a little higher in the picture and it looked also like you could see the very top part of Space Mountain. Please correct me if I am wrong. I also have a list of things I would like to take the time to do in the park that has nothing to do with riding any of the attractions. Some people would probably read the list and shake their heads wondering why I would want to do those things.

[@miked6947]

Love me some Main Street

[@sarahskillin8436]

Thank you 🙏

[@SilverStarz]

Your topic is most interesting and not known by most. You caught my interest sure as I like to study Main Street most of my Disney life of 50 years. Before Center Street East was made it was blocked off. Walt spoke about expanding Main Street to add another street parallel to Main Street on the East side. International Street was the name given. You are most right about that red brick wall on Center Street East but that was not the first place the wall had been constructed. That red brick wall was on Main Street proper for quite some time then moved to its current location when Center Street East was constructed. As you said the red brick wall is another show all in itself. The second street as we know was not constructed mainly due to budget restraints at the time. The Matterhorn was about to open in 1959 and that cost a bundle at the time. Then Center Street East was made as that is how much money was left for Main Street at the time. Now if we look at Tokyo Disneyland and I'm sure you have been there. There is a second street running parallel to Main Street proper to give Walt that second road. It is very interesting to see this street in Tokyo Disneyland because we get the "feel" of that second street that Walt so wanted at his Disneyland so many years before. This is a testament to just how Walt thought so far in advance and how his thoughts still are in place and working today. That might be about 5 shows worth of content and I have studied that area very thoroughly. Go J. Pike Go. On a very side note - take a walk into New Orleans Square as this is walking in Walt's exact footsteps. You can get 10 shows of content out of New Orleans Square sure. There is a reason why no other Disney Park has a New Orleans Square. When Walt passed New Orleans Square could not be duplicated.

[@scottconway8361]

Thanks!

[@HeyBrickey]

Thanks Scott! Appreciate you.

[@GeriMars]

I'm a fairly new subscriber and love your channel. Like you, I'm a long-time Disneyland fan. But did I hear you correctly? Did you say the Tomorrowland subs give you nightmares? If you don't mind my asking, how so? My only gripe about the "Finding Nemo" subs is the same as my gripe about "Star Tours": it's not themed appropriately for the land. Neither attraction has anything to do with the future. "Finding Nemo" is a cartoon better suited for ToonTown, Fantasyland or the Pixar Pier areas. And "Star Tours" takes place "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." Since Star Wars Land is short on rides, I think "Star Tours" would be placed better there. Also, I wish Disney would remove the post-apocalyptic "Star Wars" overlay from the futuristic-looking Tomorrowland Terrance. Most people still view the future in Atomic style. The style of "Star Wars" is war-torn wasteland. That's not to say I don't enjoy (most of) the "Star Wars" series. I do. Just put it where it belongs. When it comes to Earth, I'm not a fan of war-at all. I hope our planet's future is far more bright. Walt Disney would agree. I don't know exactly when post-Walt Disney Parks stopped adhering to land theme. It was not a good choice. Poor Tomorrowland needs real attention. I'd love for it to return to and even surpass its original glory.

[@ggosline]

The small stuff! Get a Starbucks & vibe out. One of our favorite things to do at wdw.

[@TimelapseSends]

I’m digging BLUE Brickey

[@nf1nk]

Did it look like that back when it was Adventures in Innerspace?

[@federalist4561]

Now I have.

[@GeoTactics]

Only the upper 2 stories of the back of Star Tours are painted for the "illusion". The rest is just a plain white warehouse look.

[@trey1941able]

Can you walk up the staircase to that door in Galaxy edge??

[@dawn.ginger]

Home of the happiest ducks on earth.

[@JennsHaunts]

😀❤

[@shashona3084]

Main Street secrets sign me up

[@Ratedgforgtfo]

Does the Matterhorn tree behind Westward Ho count as a hidden Frontierland "building"? It's very much positioned and shaped to hide something you're not supposed to see from New Orleans Square, while not being very obvious on its own

[@simplysuelou2014]

Anaheim Duck 😂

[@glennk.7348]

What camera do you use? I know (personally) that Disney forbids “selfie sticks”. 😮😬👮‍♂️

[@manta18]

Have you talked about the real MERMAIDS that were in the water at the submarine ride.

[@jimbazinet7172]

you do know the “subs” don’t actually go under water . . . .

[@customairbrushing9224]

brickey!!! so the building is back stage to star tours down stains you have access to the luggage room and to be able to get under star tours flight simulator I cleaned the floor under the simulators there is a character break room and a cleaning building for the star tours glasses they clean the glasses in big dish washer machines I know because I had to clean the machines in the character break room there's dryers to dry out the sweat in the character heads and these special ice pop for the cast members

[@crissykeenoo2862]

Can you ee the buildings from the monorail?

[@customairbrushing9224]

@@crissykeenoo2862 I'm not sure there are a lot of secret buildings in the park a lot of hidden stuff back stage a lot of door to different attractions back stage