Park guidemaps from August 1992?

jephyork

Earning My Ears
Joined
Feb 12, 2017
Hi, all! Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. I'm working on a story set in Disney World in summer 1992, and want to make sure I get the details right.

Is there an archive of park guidemaps anywhere on the web? I'm looking for maps of Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios from late July or early August 1992.

Google suggested florida-project.com, but the site seems to be gone. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it! Thank you!
 
If you do a google search, you'll find a wealth of resources. I found a few wishing just a few minutes.
 
Hi, Rockbro. I don't mean to be rude, but I *did* do a Google search before posting this thread. More than one, in fact. I did not find a wealth of resources. Would you mind sharing what you found?
 


Thanks, chalee. That Mousemuseum link was actually one of the ones I did find, but I'm dubious that it's from 1992 -- at least not the mid-92 era I'm looking for -- because Splash Mountain (opened October 1992) is present. And on the "map room" page on the same site, its cover is identified as a 1993 map.

Does anyone know what happened to florida-project.com? According to the Internet Archive it was up and running just fine as of three weeks ago...
 
I found this page that might help.

https://wdwpast.tripod.com/https://wdwpast.tripod.com/mkmaps.htmlhttps://wdwpast.tripod.com/epcotmaps.htmlhttps://wdwpast.tripod.com/studiosmaps.html
The dates on there seem to be more accurate than the ones that were on Florida Project.

I think the MK map marked Late 1991 is probably the closest you'll get, unless you wanted to push the story far enough to have Splash Mountain be open, or earlier to take place during the beginning of the 20th anniversary.

The maps themselves weren't dated properly during that era, so I think it'll be hard to pin things down perfectly. (They started printed dated weekly maps at the end of 1995.)

I went through my own pile. I've got a Times & Information brochure dated June-July 1992 (from early June 1992), but I'm assuming that wouldn't be helpful. (It's got ticket info, park hours, and special event times.)
 
I'm seeing multiple sites saying that Splash Mtn soft opened in July, so might have been on the map in mid-summer. I did see a map that was supposedly from 1992 that advertised the Extraterrorrestrial ride "coming in 1994" so I would think they would put it on the map before it opened (probably).

I vaguely remember an engineer with pdfs of the old guide maps but that was probably a decade ago. It seems like that is long gone now...
 


Hey! Work got the better of me for a few weeks, so my apologies for never following up. BIG THANKS to everyone who replied! Brightlined, those links are great! I can't seem to download but I can view them, which is good enough. And Chalee, thanks for cluing me in to Splash Mountain's soft opening! That's a fun little detail I'd love to include in the story.

I really appreciate all the replies! :)
 

GET A DISNEY VACATION QUOTE

Dreams Unlimited Travel is committed to providing you with the very best vacation planning experience possible. Our Vacation Planners are experts and will share their honest advice to help you have a magical vacation.

Let us help you with your next Disney Vacation!





Top