Backyard dreamers are those true visionaries who build their dreams at great expense and for only personal reward. They are seized by a vision and they must realize this vision in physical form. If anybody can be called the patron saint of backyard dreamers, it would have to be Kim Pedersen of Fremont, California. In… Continue reading Birth, Life, and Death of the Niles Backyard Monorail
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The Man Who Built Disney’s Fantasyland in His Basement
Talk about humble and unassuming. A man builds a painstaking recreation of some elements of Disneyland’s Fantasyland in his basement, uploads a less than two minute-long video to YouTube, and all he says is, “This is a short video about my Fantasyland basement.” But there you have it. An as-yet-anonymous maker known only as Travis… Continue reading The Man Who Built Disney’s Fantasyland in His Basement