An auction featuring hundreds of Disneyland items owned by a Dana Point couple fetched more than $2 million as Disneyana collectors snapped up bits of the Anaheim theme park’s history to add to their personal memorabilia collections.
The Disneyland Signature Auction: The Rummell Collection auction held May 21 and 22 at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, brought in $2,081,875 for Scott and Terry Rummell’s collection of Disney, Disneyland and Walt Disney World memorabilia.
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Scott Rummell’s career as a Hollywood voice-over actor for movie trailers like “Rocketman,” “Interstellar,” “It,” “Dunkirk” and “Shape of Water” as well as a host of Marvel, Disney and Star Wars films helped finance the world’s largest Disneyana collection of 45,000 items which will be sold at auction over the next five years.
The two-day auction included nearly 1,500 items designed to make Disneyland fans drool — with everything from ride vehicles to restaurant signs to attraction posters from Walt Disney’s original theme park.
Here are the 10 most expensive Disneyland items sold at the auction.
1) Park-Used Original Autopia Car
Winning bid: $180,000
The circa 1967 Autopia car with original body, chassis, tires and seatbelt was used at Disneyland until the 1990s and acquired directly from the park.
A sign on the front rail reads “Do not bump car ahead, keep hands inside car.”
Designed by Disney Legend Bob Gurr, the car was designed to have a front-end inspired by a Corvette Stingray and a back-end fashioned after an Opal GT.
2) Park-Used Original Skyway Gondola
Winning bid: $160,000
The circa 1965 Skyway Gondola was one of the first rectangular models put into service when Disneyland switched from the original round buckets.
The red gondola features original seats, rails, roof and paint job and has been rewired to make the lights functional. Scratches on a side panel where the gondola regularly pulled into the station house add to the ride vehicle’s authenticity.
The Skyway Gondola was used at Walt Disney World after that Disneyland attraction closed in 1994.
3) Original Club 33 Sign
Winning bid: $108,000
The original Club 33 glass sign stood at the entrance from the club’s opening until an extensive renovation in 2014. The exclusive, private and secret Club 33 debuted in 1967 on 33 Royal Street in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square.
The sign’s glue-chipped glass features distinctive fern-like ripples, four flower-like stars and silver-toned metal leaf reverse glass gilding. The distinctive 33 address is painted with a shimmering teal with silvery outlines.
4) Park-Used Original Rocket Jets Ride Vehicle
Winning bid: $55,200
The original ride vehicle from Disneyland’s Rocket Jets attraction in Tomorrowland replaced the Astro-Jets in 1967 as part of the New Tomorrowland refurbishment.
The paint on the white and black rockets as well as the orange nose cone have been professionally restored. The working headlamp has not been tested in recent years.
5) Enchanted Tiki Room Next Show Sign
Winning bid: $40,800
The original, park-displayed sign from the 1980s notified visitors of the next show time for Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.
The 12-by-23-inch hand-carved and hand-painted wooden sign features intricate, tropical-inspired details. The sign has a crack on the top edge and scuffing where the clock hands rotate.
The 1963 Enchanted Tiki Room was the first Disneyland attraction to use Audio Animatronics — with singing birds and crooning flowers bringing the show to life.
6) (tie) Hand-Painted Storybook Land Sign from the Main Street Omnibus
Winning bid: $33,600
The Storybook Land Canal Boats sign shows excited riders being swallowed in the gaping mouth of Monstro the Whale as they proceed into a cave-like section of the ride. Casey Jr. Circus Train can be seen in silhouette in the background.
The 26-by-15-inch Disneyland Main Street Omnibus metal advertising panel from circa 1956 to 1970 is exceedingly rare.
6) (tie) Hand-Painted Jungle Cruise Sign from the Main Street Omnibus
Winning bid: $33,600
The Jungle Cruise sign features stylized images of an elephant, hippopotamus and the Congo Queen boat.
The advertisement for the 1955 opening day attraction was once affixed to the side of the Main Street Omnibus at Disneyland.
8) (tie) Tomorrowland PeopleMover Superspeed Tunnel Original Attraction Poster
Winning bid: $31,200
The rare PeopleMover poster from circa 1977 to 1982 advertises the attraction’s Superspeed Tunnel that was part of the elevated tour of Tomorrowland.
The 54-by-36-inch silk-screened poster was originally displayed in the Tomorrowland Skyway Station at Disneyland.
8) (tie) Hand-Painted Disneyland Railroad Sign from the Main Street Omnibus
Winning bid: $31,200
The circa 1974 to the 1980s Disneyland Railroad sign hand-painted in Disneyland’s sign shop advertises stops at Main Street U.S.A., Frontierland and Tomorrowland.
The exceedingly rare side panel signs from the double-decker Omnibus almost never come up for auction.
10) Hand-Painted Autopia Sign from the Main Street Omnibus
Winning bid: $28,800
The 1956 Omnibus sign advertises the unveiling of the Junior Autopia in Fantasyland next to the original Autopia in Tomorrowland.
The hand-painted metal advertising panel based on the Autopia attraction poster features five cars on a winding white track against a vibrant green background.
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