Disneyland In The Basement Of A House - Fantasyland Recreation / Full Tour & Interview with Larzland

0:04 welcome everyone Adam the Wu here having

0:04 some trouble buckling up but about to be

0:07 enroute to a very fantastic destination

0:11 Disneyland is the subject matter at hand

0:14 but I'm not heading to Anaheim not

0:17 California I'm heading to a recreation

0:20 not a miniature but a full-size almost

0:24 like a walk through front facade

0:27 glorious version a Fantasyland looking

0:32 forward to seeing this with my own eyes

0:34 the best part it's in someone's basement

0:39 I'm inviting you to join me shall you

0:43 made it inside heading down the

0:47 stairwell I guess I have to do the

0:52 secret knock on the door hi I'm Travis

1:00 welcome to Disneyland my first

1:04 impression I'm completely blown away

1:08 it's like stepping into the theme park

1:13 itself Wow all downstairs

1:33 speechless right now in 2005 when we

1:33 moved in the basement wasn't done and I

1:38 wanted to do something that was themed

1:39 something kind of unique and fun so I

1:43 had a couple of different ideas that I

1:46 wanted to do but I ultimately settled on

1:48 doing Fantasyland I really like the type

1:52 of architecture and it's obviously was a

1:55 challenge I really love the way Disney

1:57 does things where some people want to

1:59 see the interior of what I've made

2:06 instead of going in and boarding toads

2:06 vehicle you walk into the base of

2:10 operations this is where the magic

2:11 happens it's always good to have Mickey

2:14 as an inspiration so you have your

2:16 drawing board here you're coming up with

2:19 future ideas if we're basically inside

2:24 mr. Toad's Wild Ride from the opposite

2:27 perspective that might be a little more

2:31 comfortable than than the regular ride

2:33 cars what are the future plans for being

2:36 on that table mr. toad got a sculpt him

2:39 you're gonna sculpt him and put him

2:40 there yeah small scale and that's

2:42 actually a real slate up there sculpture

2:45 here that I made it's got a core of MDF

2:47 and then each individual leaf here is

2:51 applied and this is actually sculpey and

2:54 you bake us that's correct yeah each

2:57 individual leaf was applied it was the

3:01 the fake cracks were were sculpted in

3:05 and then baked and then painted but each

3:08 individual piece apply area installed as

3:11 an individual window this is paint for

3:15 the because this whole painting is a

3:17 perspective painting you have to be

3:19 standing back there yeah from back here

3:21 it looks like you just keep walking

3:23 around that corner looks so real that's

3:29 paint but it's like this piece when

3:33 you're standing back there blends in as

3:35 if it just continues the problem is is

3:38 the the dirt

3:39 on the other side is about right here so

3:41 your yard it's just on the opposite side

3:43 of that wall and right because I wanted

3:44 to have this the other side of mr.

3:47 Toad's finished and then walk into an

3:51 underground theater what's the time span

3:53 that has taken you to get to this point

3:56 well let the major what you see now is

3:58 about three or four years the the whole

4:03 project has been about twelve so just

4:06 pre-planning getting into ready yeah

4:08 pre-planning all of the drawings and

4:11 then working it in between my job I can

4:14 only work on it in between shifts this

4:16 one and the one on the other side

4:17 actually are the interiors of a Disney

4:20 play ball like a child's ball this was

4:23 way back when I very first started this

4:26 the mold was on the inside of the sphere

4:28 and I used a wrap to keep it you know a

4:32 shell essentially to keep it firm filled

4:35 it with concrete and then pulled

4:36 everything out those are what they call

4:39 trench grates and you can still purchase

4:42 those but that is sculpted because it's

4:44 a slightly smaller scale i sculpted it

4:47 in clay and then it was cast in resin

4:49 with iron filings it mixed in trying to

4:53 let all this this soak in it feels

4:56 doesn't even feel like I'm in a house

5:03 that's so cool how did you go about

5:03 getting all the details from Disneyland

5:05 the accurate details thousands of

5:08 photographs I have tons of photographs a

5:11 lot of them I took myself I actually

5:13 went to the park we went on vacation and

5:16 I went to the park all by myself one

5:17 morning and took a lot of pictures of

5:20 things that I needed to recreate you

5:23 know people were looking at me like why

5:25 you taking a picture of this laughs why

5:26 you taking a picture of this hinge well

5:29 I wanted to be able to recreate the

5:30 exact same thing down to the streets the

5:34 weather marks the the the rust or the

5:36 paint chips this is an acrylic window

5:38 with fake leaded glass and that's

5:43 because it's on a child window

5:45 but like this window on the other hand

5:47 and then that one those are real edit

5:49 glass I've learned how to actually start

5:52 all of that together cut the lead cut

5:54 the glass I looked long and hard to find

5:56 that pattern of glass in that exact same

5:58 window it wasn't a cheap piece of glass

6:01 so that's a bedroom it is back behind

6:03 that is that your room

6:06 what's up like living at Disneyland this

6:13 is actually just a regular regular lamp

6:16 that I purchased but I redid the sides

6:18 because it was shaped differently along

6:21 the sides and then I did the the frogs

6:25 and the lily pads

6:27 those are sculpted individually cast

6:28 individually then there's it's harder to

6:31 see but on the top it's got a it's

6:33 actually comes down and it mounts from

6:35 it's kind of suspended from the ceiling

6:37 and that's the exactly the way it is at

6:41 Disneyland as well just how did you

6:43 accept their I this is just sheet steel

6:46 that I I did the pattern I cut it out

6:49 with a scroll saw especially a really

6:52 fine tooth blade glass this dome came

6:56 from Hobby Lobby and it was about this

6:59 tall it's you know if we're putting like

7:01 little dolls in or like a watch or

7:02 something

7:03 so I sliced it cut the bottom of it off

7:07 and then painted it this is a welded

7:10 cage too I did the electric pole I won't

7:15 tell I won't tell anyone your secret's

7:18 safe with me and and the rest of the

7:20 Internet but that's not a real that's

7:23 not a real Lantern it's just a light

7:26 with tissue paper and I made a paper

7:28 version of it first so I had a template

7:30 on how to cut each individual piece of

7:33 copper and happen how they would

7:34 interact especially these curved curved

7:37 faces how they interact one with another

7:39 now this I believe was a gas lamp

7:42 because of these vents here and the one

7:46 at Disneyland has been cut in half so

7:48 this is exactly the way

7:50 Disneyland except the one of Disney labs

7:52 about this big this was Gepetto's

7:54 workshop these actually opened these

7:57 shutters opened and would be held by the

8:00 shutter stays and on the other side were

8:02 marionettes now the stairwell to access

8:07 the basement is on the other side so I

8:09 couldn't incorporate the marionettes I

8:13 did want to I wanted to have this whole

8:15 thing actually open and half the glass

8:18 and then have the marionettes hanging

8:20 from the other side but there's just

8:21 width the width the width of the wall

8:24 there just wasn't enough room to work

8:25 with these brass the brass carriage

8:29 bolts here are actually carriage bolts

8:32 that I applied a brass I brought I

8:36 bought some brass disks and I've dumbed

8:38 them so I could solder them on to the

8:41 tops of each one of these so those even

8:45 the bolts are handmade I welded on

8:47 there's a essentially like a boot it's

8:51 got an inch flange all the way around

8:54 and then there's a rubber insert so it's

8:56 sitting on rubber to protect to not

8:58 damage in the floor right oh yeah I can

9:00 see it there the photo opportunity are

9:05 you filming here taking a picture oh no

9:07 I couldn't accommodate the width so I

9:09 opted to come out this direction rather

9:11 than step back for accuracy all of this

9:14 is towed starting from here and going

9:16 along the fence line this would be the

9:20 exit to the wild ride and in reality if

9:24 you were in Anaheim mr. Toad's car would

9:28 be right about there where you can get a

9:30 photo op and then of course the entryway

9:33 and then down this direction would be

9:36 where the queue line goes around that

9:39 corner this tree that's there is

9:41 actually a little Bharti poplar and the

9:44 pearls that are all all growing all over

9:47 it makes it look somewhat whimsical but

9:49 I also want to be able to utilize this

9:51 space for different things like

9:52 Christmas or

9:55 so I this is actually a carpet - with

9:58 expanding foam with paint or sealant

10:03 Alex to latex caulking that's just

10:06 tooled in to give kind of a barky look

10:09 and then painted because it's not

10:10 supposed to be anything that's heavy or

10:12 necessarily permanent it's going to have

10:14 rhododendron plants there so they're

10:17 like they're a bush with little white

10:19 flowers so those will be incorporated

10:22 here I just haven't made them yet and

10:24 that will cover the speakers which right

10:26 sometimes you could pump sounds of the

10:28 rides and sounds of a Fantasyland and

10:31 crowd noises yeah into here to give it

10:34 the proper ambiance bricks were

10:35 individually molded individually applied

10:38 individually painted and then mortar

10:42 squeezed in with the grout bag to make

10:45 it look like they've actually been

10:47 applied stacked and that they're

10:49 actually big thick breaks but what

10:51 substance is this made out of mortar in

10:53 some high-strength mortar so you got the

10:55 exit to snow white there then you have

10:57 the rest of the facade and of course the

11:00 entryway to the scary adventures

11:05 actually isn't a window at Disneyland

11:08 it's actually just a piece of wood I

11:10 think it has a handle or something on

11:12 the inside then it has a climbing

11:16 rosebush that sometimes not all the time

11:19 there'll be photographs with the

11:21 climbing rosebush that goes up and or

11:22 arches over the window but I wanted to

11:25 have a window here so my my daughter

11:28 could look out and this actually opens

11:31 but it opens to the interior of her room

11:33 this is a piece of conduit this is a

11:35 piece of ABS plastic that's painted to

11:40 look like old copper and this downspout

11:44 this is a BS as well but individually

11:47 cut pieces to give that corrugated look

11:50 they're filed to make it look like it's

11:53 bent and then the downspout and is

11:55 painted just to look like old copper but

11:57 it's fake I like doing fake but people

11:59 think that is

11:59 that you have to hand-carve these no

12:02 that is that I made a sculpture out of

12:05 clay

12:06 and then these are cast and apply it to

12:09 real wood so these are this is real wood

12:11 this is a sculpture how do you get the

12:14 wood to bend like that all the way

12:15 around there are relief cuts you cut

12:18 from the back and then then I saturated

12:22 the front with me got wet made it a

12:24 little bit more pliable then bends it

12:26 around the framework clamped it in place

12:30 while it dried loops around and what's

12:32 on the other side of hid this is

12:34 actually the dungeons the dungeon where

12:35 the where the which is like a laughing

12:37 and you throw the coin try to throw the

12:38 coins in the in the Goblet I never done

12:41 that hand straps all of the the balls

12:48 the locking mechanism this were made

12:51 handmade that actually made myself a

12:54 little coal Forge so I could bend the

12:56 metal any plans I've ever constructing

13:00 the book and the Apple right there I've

13:04 actually considered it yeah but I got

13:06 that a recycle place it doesn't do

13:08 anything so this is not a real sprinkler

13:10 no oh so you're just using that you put

13:13 that up there because that is the it's

13:15 actually their exact recreation at

13:17 Disneyland is loose here and over time

13:20 it's been wearing away here and then

13:24 down here so absolutely I actually

13:27 ground this out made it look like it had

13:30 been wearing worn as well a while

13:32 same-same wear pattern that is awesome

13:35 this lamp here is the same style just

13:39 smaller scale but it has this weird

13:42 pattern in it where it's purple and

13:44 orange and purple again and it's really

13:47 similar to the way it is at Disneyland

13:49 and that actually is because I've got a

13:51 blue glass and then I've got a colored

13:56 crepe paper on the inside so when it

13:59 illuminates it gives that weird glow and

14:01 this is the village house restaurant and

14:04 this handmade all of the woodwork I did

14:09 all the glass all the leaded

14:11 laughs actually learned how to sew sew

14:14 and made my own pattern so I could make

14:17 the cafe curtains the curtain rod rings

14:19 are actually the exact same one that

14:21 they have at the restaurant and those

14:24 are expensive and they're super hard to

14:26 find but I found a lady on eBay that was

14:28 selling a bunch of over dirt-cheap

14:30 so the door at the restaurant actually

14:31 swings the opposite way but because of

14:35 the way this is designed I didn't want

14:37 to have it it would have been weird to

14:41 have a swing this way it's a really

14:43 stout mechanism that goes actually into

14:45 the floor

14:47 the Rickson hinge that they have there

14:49 is a spring mechanism it's a door closer

14:53 but it's like 1,500 bucks

14:56 so anyway I got that one on eBay I was

14:59 like $95 this portion right here there's

15:02 another one on the other side of the

15:04 ride are actually at the restaurant if

15:06 you look carefully in the stonework and

15:08 I had to incorporate that as well and

15:10 why is because when you open the

15:13 original doors that opened up this way

15:15 these side lights here weren't there the

15:18 door would open up and interfere this

15:22 this concrete or the stonework

15:24 interfered with the operation of the

15:25 door so when I open my door it's the

15:28 same exact thing so I had to have that

15:31 clearance

15:32 oh yeah that's where that little

15:33 indentation came from the door yeah and

15:36 those are in the photographs and unless

15:39 you know what they're there for

15:40 you just think it's part of the

15:41 sculpture years ago when they make glass

15:43 they had what the pintle the glass

15:47 portion the glass rod that attached to

15:49 the glass layer that they were making

15:51 they cut out and sometimes discard but

15:55 it makes a neat detail for the window so

15:59 I went through a process of casting them

16:02 I went through a process of possibly

16:06 making them out of glass but then I just

16:08 saw that it would work fine if I just

16:10 use the bottom of glasses here's an

16:12 opposite view looking out of the

16:15 restaurants perspective back out into

16:18 the basement and that's the window from

16:20 the exit of Pinocchio's daring journey

16:22 right and then

16:23 eight that you'd walk through this

16:29 actually if I remember correctly is

16:31 actually the handicapped exit and then

16:33 this has a gate here and this is the

16:36 actual exit that says exit and then you

16:42 have the painted woodwork up here and

16:46 that's from Pinocchio's during journey

16:48 as well this door is actually at Snow

16:50 White scary adventures and done near

16:53 exactly the same with the exception of

16:55 there's a lock mechanism that goes here

16:57 that I haven't made yet you know I don't

16:59 I don't know what this is it's actually

17:01 there on the stonework but I decided I

17:05 put an outlet in there so I don't I

17:08 don't know what that's for this is brass

17:10 or excuse me it's copper this right here

17:13 is copper and I what my wove copper wire

17:17 and stuck it on the back and then tool

17:20 that just pressed the copper around and

17:23 made this indentation Disney avoids

17:26 using black because it looks dirty

17:29 things look old not dirty

17:32 so weathered but as you go up then it

17:36 looks cleaner it looks more new but

17:38 there's the water mineral the drips

17:41 there's drips of water mineral oh yeah I

17:45 see here yeah you've even done that and

17:47 those are actually in the photographs as

17:49 well from from I'm assuming that that's

17:52 now so they're starting at a darker

17:54 color on the bottom to give it that like

17:56 older element and a lighter towards the

17:58 top and there's purples and blues

18:02 incorporated and that's that's what's

18:04 weird too is going through all this

18:06 process of the colors that they used

18:08 there are a lot of colors that you don't

18:10 assume you would have used for stonework

18:13 right here is what's at village house

18:15 restaurant now the color is going to be

18:19 muted it's a little bit brighter it's

18:21 like water mineral as it as the water

18:24 dries it just cools and dries on the the

18:27 brickwork when you buy or you get a

18:30 for an attraction that's the back side

18:32 of it and it was just pressed in there

18:34 so you just took the pen and created a

18:36 hidden Mickey mm-hmm on the floor yeah

18:37 the broken out rock there

18:40 so even down to the little details of

18:42 the rock being broken out in this alcove

18:47 that's incredible and it came from a

18:49 fireplace path that my dad had that he

18:53 tore out so I took the individual bricks

18:55 I've got a glass saw and I made myself a

18:59 jig where I was able to slice the bricks

19:01 up into individual pieces that are about

19:04 3/16 of an inch thick they were applied

19:07 just like you would tile then black

19:10 grout traveled in because it appears to

19:13 me that a Disneyland these are red

19:17 granite I'm pretty certain they're red

19:19 granite so if you notice there's a

19:21 curvature to it and it changes as a

19:23 pageant walked down that was not super

19:27 easy to do if you take this door and he

19:30 walked it over Japan's workshop and

19:33 walked it over here and stuck it there

19:35 that's actually the door that you would

19:37 enter say you're gonna get your

19:39 photograph taken because that's usually

19:41 what they use that space for that door

19:44 right there is what you would enter and

19:46 then it opens this direction where our

19:49 washroom is every once in a while it

19:51 decides it wants to leak and it would

19:54 come down it would drip so this is

19:56 actually a functional drain actually

19:58 comes out here but this is fake water

20:00 that makes it look like it's been used

20:01 with ton of times

20:04 this is a nice touch garbage-can I'm

20:06 gonna do the brown garbage can that you

20:08 find at Fantasyland that's gonna go

20:10 right here it's gonna be sitting right

20:12 there here

20:12 this stonework here that's more smooth

20:16 is actually the stonework that goes

20:21 around the entrance there are steaming

20:24 the exit of that archway and the more

20:27 rough rock belongs over here and I

20:30 didn't I flip-flopped them because I

20:32 liked better I like the rough look for

20:37 the more medieval type the Snow White

20:42 period we have someone else I wanted to

20:46 get in it's a little kitty cat

20:48 hi kitty cat I come into Fantasyland

20:53 I can't he I'm gonna pull back the

20:56 curtain just peek out where toads view

21:00 would be looking outward out of his

21:04 little window these these are hand

21:08 sculpted excuse me hand are welded

21:11 together hand shaped hand forged I'm so

21:14 used to seeing the sign that's right

21:16 here that has a little toad you know be

21:18 there on top of it you're gonna put that

21:20 there - yeah nice as you walk run it

21:24 down so there's a right hand and a left

21:25 hand for the door and then when when

21:28 these two doors are open if you look the

21:30 handle that's on this door is actually

21:32 upside down it's the real handle the

21:36 real hand with Disney Land is actually

21:38 mounted upside down and I think I know

21:39 why though because the company that

21:41 makes those when I was talking to them

21:43 about it they don't sell that anymore

21:45 they have the back plate but not

21:47 actually the handle portion are you

21:49 planning on putting handles on these

21:51 doors yeah those are I'm gonna have to

21:52 sculpt those and those will be cast this

21:54 is a drawing of what the back plate is

21:56 gonna look like this is the mold that we

22:00 made for the hinge straps I sculpted the

22:02 the hinge strap out of clay and my

22:05 brother made a mold out of silicone this

22:09 spot right here is probably the hardest

22:11 spot to actually identify but this is

22:14 the bottom of the tower I have Peter

22:19 Pan's flight so if you're standing over

22:21 by the carousel looking at the tower

22:23 these are similar to the windows these

22:26 are actually doors

22:28 oh those okay there's this door here and

22:33 this door here but I wanted to be able

22:34 to completely hide those because it

22:40 maintains the story when they're hidden

22:43 awesome it's quite the illusion there

22:46 but I never guessed that there was a

22:47 door let's switch from day view tonight

22:51 vo okay going into the darkness

23:18 Wow so cool it's about as close to the

23:18 real deal as you're ever gonna get

23:21 that's for sure

23:23 it definitely feels homeless as if I'm

23:26 outdoors more with the lights off than

23:28 on you know when everything's dumped it

23:34 feels like I'm outside could almost hear

23:36 the witch laughing in that corner and

23:45 it's just a pantry

23:46 there's no Pinocchio down in there

23:50 no Pinocchio whoo that was a close one

23:55 well gives me every time barely escaped

23:58 monstro so that I made them walk to

24:03 these don't open as well as I'd like

24:05 because they they interfere with the

24:07 arch Wow look at that

24:09 now that's awesome just looking right

24:12 out right wow that's so cool I'm just

24:15 like I'm looks like lost my train of

24:18 thought in breath they're got so

24:20 overwhelmed that's so neat you ever just

24:25 come down here and just like stare

24:27 lovingly at your creation this is

24:31 actually salt so it makes it crystal e

24:34 there's little little deposits here yeah

24:37 if you look closely you can see some

24:39 salt in there sparkling you have to look

24:42 like like crystals and I just noticed

24:44 the rock work continues and kind of

24:47 slithers into the rest room

24:50 see how it just kind of is incorporated

24:52 and molds itself into the floorboards

24:55 that is some serious attention to detail

24:59 that's it going going the extra-mile

25:02 check out the doorknob this little hand

25:05 here and then up top there's some sort

25:07 of a little secret doorway peekaboo and

25:12 most of this down here is about 70 77

25:15 percent scale because of the sealing

25:18 limitation I have to in order to court

25:21 incorporate the same size of things I

25:24 had to strength them down and where it

25:26 would fit fit within the space but I did

25:29 all of my drawings from graph paper that

25:31 I printed out and it that way I can take

25:34 all of my measurements from the drawing

25:36 that I make if the drawing works on the

25:38 piece of paper it's gonna work in real

25:39 life and just measure directly off of

25:41 that have you ever done a project and it

25:44 didn't work and he had to completely

25:45 start over at a section no that's all

25:48 just kind of just gone no because I've

25:50 gone according to plan I've taken so

25:51 much time to make sure I didn't have to

25:53 redo anything that I've gone over the

25:56 processes several several times in my

25:58 head several different drawings so no

26:00 there hasn't been anything I've had to

26:02 redo I'm also just noticing wedged in

26:04 the painting are real red lights in that

26:08 force perspective section there's two of

26:11 them one on the left and another next to

26:15 that tree more of the how-to type of

26:18 video about how I created various things

26:21 the concrete the brick the paint items

26:24 like that and what's your YouTube

26:25 channel man where can they find you it's

26:27 large land lar Z la nd go check us stuff

26:32 out tell them I said hello I'll see you

26:34 in the next video the block is over

26:38 where'd Adam go where's he at

26:55 oh hey I was gonna I was gonna ask you a

26:55 favor I got my pillow but if I just just

26:58 crash here this evening no go ahead I'm

27:00 just going to wait for a tow wait here

27:01 for mr. toad because later it is lay

27:04 right ear rat yep I'm kind of nestled up

27:07 right here just kind of relax thank you

27:10 so much does it dream come true

27:14 nice this is my happy place 40 winks 40

27:23 winks

Disneyland In The Basement Of A House - Fantasyland Recreation / Full Tour & Interview with Larzland

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