Swiss Family Treehouse Model
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 9:48PM Posted by Fritz I ran across this on one of Mike Cozart's blogs. Hope you don't mind me posting this, Mike. You guys may be familiar with one of his other blogs, TomorrowLounge67. He built this 1/8 scale model at the request of a friend who worked with him at Disney a while back. It models the Disneyland Swiss Family Treehouse of the late 70s.
This thing is one of the coolest looking scale models I have ever seen. I worked on scale models at a few model shops years ago and ever since I've admired a good model every time I've seen one. Excellent work, M.C. More photos here.
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The square grid marks 1" squares so you can see how small these pieces really are.
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Actual Swiss Family Treehouse Leaf on model
I remember seeing the scale model for the Tarzan Treehouse in 1998 being reviewed in an Imagineering board room and thinking it was well crafted (not a good idea, but well crafted). This one is more impressive in my opinion.
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Reader Comments (7)
WOW. I miss this version.
When we walked through Tarzan's tree house in Disneyland for the first time I was kinda bummed. But then we got to a point where the gorillas had made a mess, and Instade of the Doobeedoo music from the movie playing, they had Swiss family robinsons Christmas-time-lets-fight-over-Roberta-Dancing-music. My family loves Tarzan, but we also love Swiss Family Robinson, and when my sister and I heard this music playing, we started dancing around together as if we were Fritz and Roberta. We probably got weird looks, but we didn't care. We just got so excited that they had kept SOMETHING from the old tree house. I don't know if it is still like that, (it's been a few years since I've gone).
Thanks for posting this. It brought back a fun memory.
Fun memory. I walked through it and was excited to hear that music too, but I was extremely depressed about the overall change. Even if a large percentage of people are not familiar with the Swiss Family Robinson movie, the tree was unbelievably cool and fun to tour. If anything it encouraged people to experience for themselves a great movie. Splash Mountain encouraged me a few years back to learn about Song of the South and watch a copy of the movie.
SO DETAILED. I'D LIKE ONE.
That is fantastic looking! Great detail work!
I'm really glad Florida still has this Swiss Family addition..
I really think someone should create one of these for general sale to collectors, similar to other "Big Fig" models produced during the past several years. I have the Enchanted Tiki Room, and Jungle Cruise "Big Figs" in my collection; and a Swiss Family Treehouse would be a GREAT addition to those! Also, a Matterhorn "Big Fig" wouild be awesome, too! Has Disney expressed any interest in producing a Swiss Family Treehouse or a Matterhorn "Big Fig"?