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Relive the past with historical maps of Walt Disney World - from The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT Center, Discovery Island and more! Maps from all over WDW.
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The first publication of a book of Walt Disney World recipes...
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This film captures a family’s visit to the Magic Kingdom...
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When Progress City posted a photo of an original 1982 EPCOT...
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Discovery Island holds a fond place in the hearts of many...
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We also have a brief restored film of the parade from 1979.…...
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Test Track may be thrilling, but the attraction which...
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- Epcot Expansion
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In the early 1960s, Walt Disney was riding high on the success of Disneyland in California. Disneyland had a problem though. Only a small fraction of its guests were from the East Coast of the U.S., which meant Disney was missing out on a huge potential audience for his theme park. To expand the company’s reach and scope, he began looking for a loc...
When Walt Disney World finally opened in 1971, it included the main Magic Kingdom site, as well as two golf courses and two hotels—Contemporary Resort and the Polynesian Village Resort. These areas were all connected by a monorail system. As these maps depict, there was a plan to develop three unique themed zones around the Seven Seas Lagoon: Persi...
The first major Disney World expansion was Epcot Center, which opened in 1982. The site, which was twice as big as the Magic Kingdom, is best described as a permanent world’s fair. The park was anchored by Future World and “Spaceship Earth”, the iconic geodesic sphere structure that sat at the entrance of the park. Surrounding the nearby lake were ...
Disney-MGM Studios opened in 1989, in a location just south of Epcot. The park featured “imagined worlds from film, television, music, and theater, drawing inspiration from the Golden Age of Hollywood”. To make this happen, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with MGM to help increase the variety of film representation within the park. Approx...
In 1998, WDW added a fourth theme park called Animal Kingdom. It’s the largest theme park in the world, covering 580 acres, and combines elements of both a zoo and theme park. A central feature of Animal Kingdom is the massive Tree of Life. The 145 foot tall work of art contains 325 unique animal carvings and over 100,000 artificial leaves. The par...
So, how big is Walt Disney World today? 43 square miles, which is about the same area as San Francisco and and twice the size of Manhattan. The scale of today’s WDW has fully eclipsed the original version of the site. The resort, which featured two hotels in 1971, now has more than 20, with 30,000 hotel rooms. WDW is also the largest single site em...
While the stylized maps above do a great job of highlighting WDW’s many attractions, they generally downplay an important fact. Much of the land owned by Disney is still undeveloped, and there is a lot of space between the various parks. Much of this space is earmarked as conservation areas, and only some of the remaining land is actually suitable ...
Jul 27, 2020 · Take a look at Your Complete Guide to Walt Disney World, showing the Magic Kingdom and everything else on Disney World property at that time.
Sep 25, 2024 · Magic Kingdom is part of the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, whereas Disneyland is in Anaheim, California. While both parks share some similarities, such as iconic Disney characters and attractions, they also have unique rides, experiences, and layouts.
You’ll be able to choose any year from the opening year to the present. When you click on one of the dots, you’ll get information on what attraction resided in that location during the year you...
Dec 13, 2020 · With plans near finalized, the company broke ground on the EPCOT Center project on October 1, 1979. Card Walker, Florida governor Robert Graham, and former governors Charlie Kirk, Reuben Askew and Haydon Burns participated in the ceremony beneath a near full-scale Spaceship Earth replica.
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Vintage Magic Kingdom Guide Map (©1979) 3 comments. Best. Add a Comment. BubbleOfInspiration • 6 yr. ago. My mom was going through old keepsakes and happen to find a guidemap from one of her trips to Disney World! She believes she got it in the 80s and it has a 1979 copyright date!
