A: When Island at the Top of the World (1974) was in production, some executives in the company felt that it was going to be a huge hit, so the Imagineers began working on an attraction based on it. The company’s 1976 annual report had a description and drawings of what Discovery Bay, as the area was called, might be; besides Island, it was also meant to have a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction. The annual report said the area would “bring to life a time and place that climaxed an age of discovery and expansion.” For many reasons, Discovery Bay was never built. First and foremost, the company got busy with work on EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland, but also a partnership with George Lucas and suggested attractions based on Star Wars and Indiana Jones took precedence, with the feeling that they would have more interest to Disneyland guests. Of course, another reason was that Island did not do as well in theaters as was hoped. But some of the Discovery Bay ideas, including the Hyperion airship, were reborn in Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris.