Arrow Development

Harriet Burns was, um, she built a lot of the models for this, for the Matterhorn and the, uh, designing stages.

Sam McKim, he drew some of the renderings for the mountain and, uh, well, it's actually called in the arrow development company and they were brought in to collaborate with the wet enterprises.

Um, they had, Arrow Development did other designs for some of the other early Disney attractions.

They did Mr. Toad and Casey Jr.

So they were familiar with Disneyland and the way things ran.

WED essentially designed and engineered it, and another manufacturer, in quotation marks, built the track.

I'm just reading Wikipedia at this point, and it says the first two installations were constructed by Arrow Development, which opened at Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 1979 and 1980.

Okay.

But it was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, and then...

... became a, a safety issue and a noise issue and all of that.

Uh, so what they ended up doing is they bought a fleet of motorboats from, um, uh, Arrow Development.

Uh, Arrow Development, you know, they worked very closely with, they're, they're the ones who came up with the, uh, Mr. Toad cars.

They later, you know, developed the, the innovative track thing for, uh, Matterhorn.

They had, uh, worked on a lot of things at, at Disney.

You know, little kids get to go on this, and adults get to go on that, and the teens go on that.

You want something that everybody can do together.

Um, but, but again, the demand was so great, and especially with these smaller kids, once again, they went to Arrow Development, and, uh, these were the same type of little, uh, k- kiddie car rides that they were selling to other amusement parks.