What is your favorite fact about Walt Disney World, or cool story. Either one! Im curious!:mickey::mickey::mickey:
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What is your favorite fact about Walt Disney World, or cool story. Either one! Im curious!:mickey::mickey::mickey:
One of my favorite facts is that disney has put these little receptors around the parks and they pump out certain smells (like pop corn and turkey legs) to make you want to eat the food your smelling.... also i find it fun to pull on the rope near the indiana jones stunt show and hearing the guy in the well
I like the facts related to the original intention of Epcot as E.P.C.O.T., the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. I find myself drawn to the videos and models of that, and find it interesting to see what the park is(n't) today. It's also interesting to me the view of "the future" or "the ideal" from times past, just like when considering Tomorrowland.
Apparently, if Tower Of Terror Dropped at the same time Rock N ROllercoaster launched it would cause a power outage in sunset beulevard. Thankfully there are sub-stations to stop that happening. Or so I am told....
What I love is the back round music, and how it changes as you walk though the park. Also how the buildings in the distance blend in with the ones in the foreground, like when looking at Space Mountain from Fantasyland, in the back round is the futuristic Contemporary. Or standing at the entrance to World Showcase looking at Morocco, the Tower of Terror in the back round is the same color scheme.
I love the whole process to how the land was purchased for the "Florida Project." From the dummy corporation names, to tax breaks, to loopholes, it was a genius plan. Walt was a great businessman as well, and every shrewd businessman has a little bit of bending the rules in them.
I love the way the Disney busses always play music that is related to wherever you are going. IE pop music on the way to POP.
I love the fact that the park is built over the Utilidors. Just to know you don't see any "backstage" stuff is pretty cool. Plus the forced perspective of things, which is evident looking around Epcot at all the pavilions.
The general marketing genius. Free transportation from airport when you stay on site = less likely to rent a car and visit any other attractions. Price of park tickets decreases the longer you stay = longer vacations just at Disney.
The way they know people tend to walk towards the right, so Main Street has the candy store, bakery, and ice cream shoppes on the right as you enter, and the gift shops on right as you leave.
I'll play.
As a child of Disneyland (see signature below) this has always blown me away:
Disneyland - (the area "inside the berm") would fit (roughly) inside the World Showcase Lagoon at Epcot. Disneyland is 43 acres, the Lagoon is a bit over 40 acres.
Similarly, whereas Disneyland is 43 acres, WDW is 43 square miles - that's 640 times larger.
Steve
The front round music is also good. ;)
Richard Nixon's "I'm not a crook!" speech was from the newly opened Contemporary Resort at WDW.
It was a good-natured dig at Bay Lake, who apparently has heard "background music" as "back round music" most of his/her life, as it was written that way three times in his/her post.
Used in a sentence: I love the back round music but the front round music shouldn't be unappreciated! :mickey:
Kind of like how people say things like "doggy dog world" (for dog-eat-dog world) "for all intensive purposes" (for for all intents and purposes), etc.
Actually, that should be its own thread - similar malapropisms exclusive to WDW!
When I first wrote it the spell check line showed up so not thinking I thought it was wrong and went with it.
That's a tough one. I can think of lots of favorite Disney design details, but a singular fact...
I love that John Lasseter (head of Pixar) once worked as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise ride.