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Disney California Adventure
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Disney California Adventure Park, commonly referred to as Disney California Adventure, California Adventure, or DCA, is a theme park located in Anaheim, California. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, the 72-acre park is themed after the history and culture of California. The park opened in 2001 as Disneys California Adventure Park, the concept of a theme park dedicated to California arose from a meeting of Disney executives in 1995, following the cancellation of the WestCOT project. Construction of the began in 1998 and was completed by early 2001. Disney spent the several years incrementally adding new rides, shows, and attractions. In 2007, Disney announced an expansion of the park as well as a major overhaul of a significant portion of the park. Construction lasted for five years and was completed in stages, culminating with the opening of Buena Vista Street, according to the Themed Entertainment Association, the park hosted approximately 9.4 million guests in 2015, making it the 11th-most visited theme park in the world that year. In front of the Sun Icon of the former Sunshine Plaza, To all who believe in the power of dreams, Disneys California Adventure opens its golden gates to you. Here we pay tribute to the dreamers of the past, the people, explorers, immigrants. And we salute a new generation of dreamers who are creating the wonders of tomorrow, from the screen to the computer screen. Disneys California Adventure celebrates the richness and the diversity of California and its land, its people, its spirit and, above all, the dreams that it continues to inspire. On the plaque of the flagpole in Buena Vista Plaza on Buena Vista Street, To all who come to place of dreams. This unique place embraces the richness and diversity of California and its land, its people, its stories and, above all, the dreamers it continues to inspire. In front of the Sun Icon of the current Sunshine Plaza while On the plaque of the flagpole in Buena Vista Plaza on Buena Vista Street, To all who believe in the power of dreams, Disneys California Adventure opens its golden gates to you. Here we pay tribute to the dreamers of the past, the people, explorers, immigrants. And we salute a new generation of dreamers who are creating the wonders of tomorrow, from the screen to the computer screen. Disneys California Adventure celebrates the richness and the diversity of California and its land, its people, its spirit and, above all, the dreams that it continues to inspire while To all who come to this place of dreams, welcome. This unique place embraces the richness and diversity of California and its land, its people, its stories and, above all, the dreamers it continues to inspire
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A Bug's Life
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A Bugs Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is inspired by Aesops fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, production began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The screenplay was penned by Stanton and comedy writers Donald McEnery, the ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixars animation unit employed new technical innovations in computer animation. During production, the filmmakers became embroiled in a feud with DreamWorks Animation due to their similar film Antz. The film was released to theaters on November 25,1998, and was a box office success, surpassing competition and it received positive reviews from film critics, who commended the storyline and animation, while others criticized it by comparing it to Antz. The film has released multiple times on home video. Flik, an individualist and would-be inventor, lives in a colony of ants in the middle of a dry creek and they are led by Princess Atta and her mother, the Queen. The colony is oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers, led by Hopper, one day, when the annual offering is inadvertently knocked into a stream by Fliks latest invention, a grain harvesting device, the grasshoppers demand twice as much food as compensation. When Flik suggests in earnest that they seek help from other stronger bugs, the other ants see it as an opportunity to be rid of him, and send him off. Making his way to the bug city, the naive Flik mistakes a troupe of circus bugs that have recently been dismissed by their money-hungry ringmaster, flea, for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, mistake Flik for a talent agent, during a welcome ceremony upon their arrival, the circus bugs and Flik both discover their mutual misunderstandings. The circus bugs attempt to leave but are forced back when a bird attacks the group, at Fliks insistence, they continue the ruse of being warriors so the troupe can continue to enjoy the attention and hospitality of the ants. After hearing that Hopper fears birds, the ants and the circus bugs create a bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper tells his gang how greatly the ants outnumber them, the ants finish constructing the fake bird, but during a celebration, P. T. Flea arrives searching for his troupe and accidentally exposes their ruse, outraged by Fliks deception, the ants exile him and desperately gather food for a new offering to the grasshoppers. When the grasshoppers arrive to discover the mediocre offering, they take over the colony, after overhearing Hoppers intention to kill the Queen, Dot has Flik and the circus bugs return to the colony for help. The bird initially fools the grasshoppers, but P. T, flea, also mistaking it for a real bird, lights it on fire, exposing it as a decoy. Hopper beats Flik in retaliation and proclaims that the ants are lowly life forms who live to serve the grasshoppers, however, Flik responds defiantly, realizing that Hopper actually fears the colony, and inspiring the ants and the circus bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers
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Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and it took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the units of Walt Disney Studios. Animated films such as those by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are released under this brand. Pirates of the Caribbean series is the corporations most successful franchise, the studios predecessor was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926, in 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a studio in Burbank. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Song of the South. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The Walt Disney Productions in April 1983 incorporated its film division as Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls, David Hoberman was promoted to president of production, Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion pictures at Walt Disney Studios and was replaced as Disney President by David Vogel. Vogel added the position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, then was promoted in 1998 to head up all live action motion picture units as president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Pirates of the Caribbean launched a film series and made the ride into a franchise. After four Pirates sequels, the franchise took in more than $5.4 billion worldwide, so, the corporation was looking for addition of the ride adaptations. In 2010, Disney released Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of the 1951 animated film of the name that became the second $1 billion-grossing film in the studios history. The film began a trend of fantasy genre films being green-lit. With sister units Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm successfully targeting the male market, with the success of Maleficent and Cinderella, the studio announced a whole series of live-action adaptations of animated films as being in early stages. The Jungle Book cemented this trend with a global near billion-dollar box office, some adaptations are sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels
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Pixar
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Pixar, also referred to as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, Pixar has produced seventeen feature films, beginning with Toy Story, which was the first-ever computer-animated feature film, and its most recent being Finding Dory. All 17 of its films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least an A−, the studio has also produced several short films. As of October 2016, its films have earned approximately $10.8 billion at the box office worldwide. Fourteen of Pixars films are also among the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time, the studio has earned sixteen Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and eleven Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Monsters, Inc. and Cars are the two films that were nominated for the award without winning it, while Cars 2, Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur. Up and Toy Story 3 were also the second and third animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first being Walt Disney Animation Studios Beauty. Luxo Jr. a character from the studios 1986 short film of the name, is the studios mascot. The award was presented by Lucasfilms founder George Lucas, Schure kept pouring money into the computer graphics lab, an estimated $15 million, giving the group everything they desired and drove NYIT into serious financial troubles. During the following months, they resigned from CGL, found temporary jobs for about a year to avoid making Schure suspicious. He was then reunited with Alvy Ray Smith, who made the journey from NYIT to Lucasfilm. At NYIT, the researchers pioneered many of the CG foundation techniques—in particular the invention of the alpha channel, Years later, the CGL produced a few frames of an experimental film called The Works. In 1982, the team working on special effects film sequences with Industrial Light & Magic. In 1983, Nolan Bushnell founded a new computer-guided animation studio called Kadabrascope as a subsidiary of his Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatres company, only one major project was made out of the new studio, an animated Christmas movie for NBC starring Chuck E. The animation movement would be made using Tweening instead of cel animation. After the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, Bushnell started selling some subsidiaries of PTT to keep the business afloat, sente Technologies would be sold to Bally Games and Kadabrascope would be sold to LucasFilm. The Kadabrascope assets s would be combined with the Computer Division of LucasFilm, PTT would later be sold to ShowBiz Pizza Place, a competitor, in 1985. Amongst the 38 remaining employees, there were also Malcolm Blanchard, David DiFrancesco, Ralph Guggenheim and Bill Reeves, Tom Duff, also an NYIT member, would later join Pixar after its formation
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It's Tough to Be a Bug!
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Its Tough to Be a Bug. is a 9-minute-long 3D film based on the 1998 Disney·Pixar film A Bugs Life. Using theater lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects, Flik, from A Bugs Life, hosts the show and educates the audience on why bugs should be considered friends. The attraction opened in Disneys Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort on April 22,1998, a second version of the attraction debuted at the opening of Disney California Adventure on February 8,2001. At Disneys Animal Kingdom, the Bugs Life theater is located inside The Tree of Life, as the queue winds around the tree, visitors can glimpse animal carvings on the tree that arent visible from other vantage points. At Disney California Adventure, the Bugs Life theater is located in A Bugs Land, there, the queue passes through a replica of Ant Island before heading underground, where the queue appears the same as the one at Disneys Animal Kingdom. It was originally part of the Bountiful Valley Farms pavilion of the park until A Bugs Land was built around it. About a year before the opening of Animal Kingdom, Disney Imagineers had decided to place a show inside the parks centerpiece Tree of Life, but struggled to find an acceptable concept. Disney CEO Michael Eisner suggested a tie-in with the upcoming Pixar film A Bugs Life, the doors close, and the announcer tells the audience not to buzz, sting, pollinate or chirp during the show. Flik welcomes the audience in audio form from the ceiling. The show begins with butterflies formed as curtains flying away, the title card, a leaf that says Its tough to be a bug. appears. Then, jungle music begins to play, and a Mexican redknee tarantula named Chili makes his appearance, a pair of acorn weevils, along with Weevil Kneevil, place a slingshot on the stage and launch acorns from it. Chili shoots the first acorn with a quill, but fails to shoot the second due to Weevil holding on to it, Weevil then taunts Chili, who chases after him. The next guest is a soldier termite who defends his mound by spraying intruders with acid, a piece of the set falls with a rumble and the Termitnator steps out. The termite shoots at a taunting flea, sensing more intruders, the termite shoots at the audience, despite Fliks protests, until he runs out of acid and leaves, saying that he will be back. Flik next introduces a stink bug named Claire de Room, who walks onto the stage, the acorn weevils place a flower as a target. Weevil re-enters the scene and crashes into the flower, causing it move towards the audience, Claire then passes gas, an explosion is heard as Hopper, in audio animatronic form, furious that Flik has allowed humans into the insect world, appears. A rhinoceros beetle chases Flik off the stage and four hornets hold up an ad for Knock em Dead exterminators, the hornets turn over the ad and use it as a makeshift movie screen to show clips from old monster movies featuring giant bugs. Hopper thinks that its time for humans to have a taste of their own medicine, the screen goes black as a hand appears with a can of bug spray
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E ticket
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When Disneyland opened in 1955, visitors purchased an admission ticket to the park at the main gate booths and then purchased separate admission inside for each attraction. Less than three months after opening, Disney began selling Value Books, each of which contained several of each coupon labeled A through C, to supplement the pay-per-ride system. As determined by Disney, A attractions were the smallest or least popular, B attractions were more popular and/or more advanced, in 1956, Disney introduced the D designation for the most popular attractions and upgraded several former C attractions including Jungle Cruise to D. E remained the highest attraction/coupon designation for over 20 years, several E attractions were added throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In 1971 the coupon system was duplicated at the Magic Kingdom when it opened, the coupon system was gradually phased out with the introduction of unlimited use tickets beginning in the late 1970s. This was largely due to competition from Magic Mountain, which, by June 1982 coupons vanished entirely and were replaced by the present-day system where main gate admission entitles visitors to all rides and attractions, excluding coin-operated arcades. Although they were officially called coupons, visitors commonly referred to the media as tickets. This gave rise to the term E ticket, E ticket has survived the discontinuation of coupon admission at Disney theme parks and has transcended into the lexicon of popular culture. E-Ride Nights were eventually replaced with the Extra Magic Hours program, Disneyland held a similar E-Ride Night only once in November 1999. In 1983, astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, …That was definitely an E ticket. In 1985, the television show MacGyver referenced E tickets, during a harsh truck ride on Season 1, Episode 8 Hellfire, Angus MacGyver said this would definitely be an E ride at Disneyland. John Ondrasik, lead singer of the band Five for Fighting, the Disneyland Hotels concierge lounge is named the E-Ticket Club and features historic photos and posters from Disneylands E ticket attractions. The 2010 video game Disney Epic Mickey uses E tickets as a form of in-game currency. At the end of the 1991 computer game Monkey Island 2, LeChucks Revenge, the treasure of Big Whoop, dreams Come True fireworks show has been described in promotional materials as an E Ticket in the Sky
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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The Tokyo version, which features an original story line not related to The Twilight Zone, takes place in the fictional Hotel Hightower. A decade later, Disney began plans to add similar versions of the attraction to their newest parks at the Disneyland Resort in California, Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan, and Disneyland Resort Paris. In California and Paris, Disney sought to use the attraction to boost attendance at the respective resorts struggling new theme parks. The California and Tokyo versions of Tower of Terror opened in 2004 and 2006, respectively, the California version closed in January 2017. The Tower of Terror buildings are among the tallest structures found at their respective Disney resorts, at 199 feet, the Florida version is the second tallest attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort, with only Expedition Everest 199.5 feet being taller. At the Disneyland Resort, the 183-foot structure is the tallest building at the resort, at Disneyland Paris, it is the second tallest attraction. In the American and European versions of the attraction, guests make their way to the Hollywood Tower Hotel through the front gate, guests then walk along a cracked, curved pathway that leads to the hotel. The pathway goes past overgrown gardens, signs pointing to the stables, a green, tennis courts, swimming pools. In most parks, 1930s jazz music plays in the queue area, entering through the hotels front doors, guests encounter an interior designed to give the impression that the Hollywood Tower Hotel has been left untouched since the night of its closure. The lobby is covered in dust and draped with cobwebs, past the front desk, the main elevators are in a dilapidated state, and a sign reads Out of Order. Through the library window, guests can observe a severe thunderstorm raging outside, the television then turns off and the guests are directed through to the boiler room, where they await the maintenance service elevators arrival. In the late 1980s, a phase of development was being designed for Disneyland Paris. Included was a free-fall type ride in Frontierland that was to be named Geyser Mountain and it would have been part roller coaster, part free-fall ride that shot guests up a vertical shaft. The plan was scrapped, but was picked up by Disneys Hollywood Studios as part of an expansion to their U. S. park. Several attractions had already been proposed, including Dick Tracys Crimestoppers, still needing a major E-ticket attraction, the idea of a drop-shaft ride came up and was chosen. Walt Disney Imagineering eventually took inspiration from Rod Serlings anthology stories featured in The Twilight Zone, Imagineers mused that the attraction would be able to take guests into the Fifth Dimension that Serling always described as unlocking in every episode of the series. With the project in development, Disney licensed the rights to use The Twilight Zone intellectual property from CBS Inc. Otis Elevator Company created the vertical ride system, and Eaton-Kenway a ride vehicle that could drive itself horizontally, site-clearing and prep began early 1992
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Hollywood Land
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Hollywood Land is a themed land at Disney California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The area is inspired by the 1930s Golden Age period of Hollywood and hosts attractions themed to this concept, the land opened as Hollywood Pictures Backlot with the park in 2001. The lands entrance once had towering studio gates that featured intricately carved elephants atop massive columns, the gateway was a tribute to the spectacular epics made throughout Hollywood history, especially pioneering director D. W. Griffiths 1916 silent film Intolerance. After the parks re-design, the sign, elephants and columns were removed. Attractions include the Hyperion Theater, which opened with the park in 2001 and has hosted four productions, Monsters, mike & Sulley to the Rescue, based on the Disney·Pixar film Monsters, Inc. Former attractions include Muppet*Vision 3D which opened with the park in 2001, Disney Animation Animation Academy Character Close-Up Sorcerers Workshop Turtle Talk with Crush Frozen – Live at the Hyperion at the Hyperion Theater Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission, Breakout. The Hollywood Backlot Stage Monsters, Inc, mike & Sulley to the Rescue. Red Car Trolley Superstar Limo Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – Play It
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Cars Land
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Cars Land is a themed area of Disney California Adventure, inspired by the 2006 Disney·Pixar film, Cars. The 12-acre area, built as part of Disney California Adventure Parks $1.1 billion expansion project and it contains three rides as well as shops and restaurants, all situated in a replica of Radiator Springs, the fictional town in which most of the films events take place. The areas main attraction is Radiator Springs Racers, a ride that uses the technology of Epcots Test Track. A small portion of Cars Land was built over the site of the Bountiful Valley Farm, concept art for Carland appeared in the Dreaming section of the Walt Disney Companys 2006 Annual Report, released on December 12,2006,6 months after Cars was released in theaters. On October 17,2007, Disney announced a 5-year, $1.1 billion renovation and expansion plan for Disney California Adventure. Cars Land along with the entrance plaza, Buena Vista Street, were the last features of the 5-year project to be completed. Radiator Springs Racers - a slot car dark ride, the attraction takes guests in six-person vehicles through the winding roads up the mountains outside Radiator Springs and by the waterfall scene in the movie. The cars then enter the mountain and take a ride through the outskirts of town where they encounter a number of characters from the movie. Eventually they enter Radiator Springs at which point the track splits into two, one goes into Ramones while the other into Luigis, from here the cars enter a briefing room where Doc gives guests some advice for the upcoming race. The two tracks come back near one another and two cars stop side-by-side, the race begins as the vehicles accelerate out of the mountain and through hairpin turns and steep banks, ending with a randomized race result and then a brief trip through Tail Light Caverns. The technology used is similar to Test Track at Epcot in Walt Disney World in Florida, Maters Junkyard Jamboree - an attraction in the style of a whip ride themed to Maters Junkyard. Mater is the Master of Ceremonies of the Jamboree, the vehicles are baby tractors which pull trailers attached to them that move around with the music. Luigis Rollickin Roadsters - Guests queue in Luigis Casa Della Tires shop and ride in vehicles that move, the attraction uses a trackless ride system, similar to Aquatopia at Tokyo DisneySea. The ride vehicles are depicted as being Luigis cousins who have come to Radiator Springs for a dance celebration. The attraction, which officially opened March 7,2016, replaced Luigis Flying Tires, the main street is Route 66 coming in from the Golden State area, across from the Golden Vine Winery and Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar. The two other entrances are the path crossing through the middle of Cars Land. The paths name is Cross Street, at the end of Route 66 is the courthouse/firehouse where the street splits. To the left of the split is an access gate
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Zamperla
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Antonio Zamperla S. p. A. is an Italian design and manufacturing company founded in 1966. It is best known for creating family rides, thrill rides, the company also makes smaller coin-operated rides commonly found inside shopping malls. Zamperla builds roller coasters, like the powered Dragon Coaster, Mini Mouse, Zig Zag, in 2006, Zamperla announced Motocoaster, a motorcycle-themed roller coaster. Rights to some of S. D. C. s rides were handed to Zamperla after the company went bankrupt in 1993, in 2005 the founder of the company, Mr. Another famous Zamperla project is Kernwasser, north of Düsseldorf, an ex nuclear power station turned into an amusement park
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Walt Disney Imagineering
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Imagineering is responsible for designing and building Disney theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, and other entertainment venues at all levels of project development. Imagineering also manages various properties held by units within the Walt Disney Company including Disneys Burbank Studios, New Amsterdam Theater, when Disney was in the sports team ownership that included Edison Field and the Mighty Ducks Disney Ice practice rink in Anaheim. Disney filed for a copyright for the term in 1967, claiming first use of the term in 1962, Walt Disney Inc. was formed by Walt Disney in 1953 with the Disneyland designing engineering division. In light of objections from Roy as well as those of potential stockholders, in 1961, WED moved into the Grand Central Business Park, the site of the former Grand Central Air Terminal, in 1961. The unit was renamed as of January 1986 to Walt Disney Imagineering, in 1996, Disney Development Company, the Disney conglomerates real estate development subsidiary, merged into Imagineering. Imagineering created Disney Fair, a U. S. traveling attraction, with poor attendance, the fair was pulled after a few stops. Disney Entertainment Projects Inc. a new Disney Asian Pacific subsidiary, by 1997, Imagineers were in several buildings in Grand Central Business Park when Disney purchased the park. In September 1999, Disney Imagineering announced the Grand Central Creative Campus redesign of the park with a new office-studio complex anchored by Disney Imagineering. Some of the building were demolished to make way for new buildings, the additional space would be for sound stages, production facilities and offices. Imagineers are governed by a few key principles when developing new concepts, often, new concepts and improvements are created to fulfill specific needs. Many solutions to problems are designed in this way, such as the vehicle of the attraction Soarin Over California. An Imagineer found an Erector set in his attic, and was able to envision, Imagineers are also known for returning to ideas for attractions and shows that, for whatever reason, never came to fruition. These ideas are often reworked and appear in a different form – like the Museum of the Weird, finally, there is the principle of blue sky speculation, a process where Imagineers generate ideas with no limitations. The custom at Imagineering has been to start the process with what is referred to as eyewash--the boldest, wildest, best idea one can come up with. Many Imagineers consider this to be the beginning of the design process and operate under the notion that if it can be dreamt. Imagineers are always seeking to improve upon their work--what Walt Disney called plussing and he firmly believed that Disneyland will never be completed as long as theres imagination left in the world, meaning there is always room for innovation and improvement. During an Imagineering workshop in 1991, Marty Sklar presented ten commandments attributed to Mickey Steinberg, WDI is responsible for technological advances such as the Circle-Vision 360° film technique and the FastPass virtual queuing system. The idea sprang from Disney’s fascination with a bird he purchased in New Orleans
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Disneyland Resort
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The Disneyland Resort, commonly known as Disneyland, is an entertainment resort in Anaheim, California. The resort was developed by Walt Disney in the 1950s, when it opened to guests on July 17,1955, the property consisted of Disneyland, its 100-acre parking lot, and the Disneyland Hotel, owned and operated by Disneys business partner Jack Wrather. During the expansion, the property was named the Disneyland Resort to encompass the entire complex, the company purchased the Disneyland Hotel from the Wrather Company and the Pan Pacific Hotel from the Tokyu Group. The Pan Pacific Hotel later became Disneys Paradise Pier Hotel, the property saw the addition of Disneys Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, a second theme park, named Disney California Adventure, and the Downtown Disney shopping, dining, and entertainment area. Walt Disneys early concepts for an amusement park called for a Mickey Mouse Park located adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, the consultant recommended a remote location near Anaheim, adjacent to the then-under-construction Santa Ana Freeway. The consultant correctly predicted that the location – covered by orange groves at the time – would become the center of Southern California. Since the location was far from Southern California population centers in the 1950s, Disneyland opened on July 17,1955, with a televised press preview event on ABC. Despite the disastrous event, later dubbed Black Sunday, during which several rides broke down and other mishaps occurred, the hotel, which opened three months after the park, enjoyed similar success. To Walt Disneys dismay, the city of Anaheim was lax in restricting their construction, the area surrounding Disneyland became the atmosphere of colorful lights, flashy neon signs, and then-popular Googie architecture that he wanted to avoid. The Anaheim Convention Center was built across the street from Disneylands original parking lot, eventually, Disneyland was boxed in, a factor which would later lead Walt Disney to acquire a significantly larger parcel of land for the construction of Walt Disney World. In the 1990s, Disney decided to turn the theme park into a similar multi-park. In 1991, Disney announced plans to build WestCOT, a park based on Walt Disney Worlds EPCOT Center. Its estimated cost was US$3 billion, largely due to the high cost of land that Disney would have needed to acquire. With the new Euro Disney Resort, which opened in 1992, becoming a financial and public relations albatross for the company, Disney was unable to finance the project, $1.4 billion was budgeted to build the park, a retail district, and hotels. Construction began in 1998, with much of the property being a construction site until 2001, the original park remained largely untouched during this time. Temporary surface parking lots were set up across West Street with tram service to the entrance to offset the loss of the 100-acre parking lot. Parking lots were set up on smaller parcels of acquired land Disney east and southeast of the park, primarily used for employee parking. Several Disneyland landmarks were demolished, notably the marquee on Harbor Boulevard, also demolished were the Disneyland Hotels original buildings from 1955, as well as most of the facilities outside of the three guest room towers
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Anaheim, California
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Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 336,265, making it the most populous city in Orange County, Anaheim remained largely a rural community until Disneyland opened in the city in 1955. This led to the construction of hotels and motels around the area. The city also developed into a center, producing electronics, aircraft parts. Anaheims city limits extend from Cypress in the west to the Riverside County line in the east and encompass a diverse collection of neighborhoods, Anaheim Hills is a master-planned community located in the citys eastern stretches that is home to many of the citys affluent. Downtown Anaheim has three historic districts, the largest of which is the Anaheim Colony. The Anaheim Resort, a district, includes Disneyland, Disney California Adventure. The Platinum Triangle, a redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium, is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets. Finally, Anaheim Canyon is a district north of California State Route 91. Anaheims name is a blend of Ana, after the nearby Santa Ana River, and heim, the city of Anaheim was founded in 1857 by 50 German-Americans who were residents of San Francisco and whose families had originated in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Franconia in Bavaria. For $750 a share, the formed the Anaheim Vineyard Company. Their new community was named Annaheim, meaning home by the Santa Anna River in German, the name later was altered to Anaheim. To the Spanish-speaking neighbors, the settlement was known as Campo Alemán, although grape and wine-making was their primary objective, the majority of the 50 settlers were mechanics, carpenters and craftsmen with no experience in wine-making. The community set aside 40 acres for a center and a school was the first building erected there. The first home was built in 1857, the Anaheim Gazette newspaper was established in 1870, for 25 years, the area was the largest wine producer in California. However, in 1884, a disease infected the grape vines, other crops – walnuts, lemons and oranges – soon filled the void. Fruits and vegetables had become viable cash crops when the Los Angeles – Orange County region was connected to the railroad network in 1887. The famous Polish actress Helena Modjeska settled in Anaheim with her husband and various friends, among them Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julian Sypniewski, while living in Anaheim, Helena Modjeska became good friends with Clementine Langenberger, the second wife of August Langenberger
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Tokyo DisneySea
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Tokyo DisneySea is a 176-acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. It opened on September 4,2001, at a cost of 335 billion yen, Tokyo DisneySea was the second theme park to open at the Tokyo Disney Resort and the ninth park of the eleven worldwide Disney theme parks to open. Tokyo DisneySea was the fastest theme park in the world to reach the milestone of 10 million guests, the previous record-holder was Universal Studios Japan 338 days after its opening. Tokyo DisneySea has an overall nautical exploration theme to it, the idea for the park can be traced to a proposal to build a second theme park in Southern California called Port Disney in Long Beach, California, with the RMS Queen Mary as the main attraction. The idea was scrapped after the company endured financial trouble with the Euro Disney project, later the idea was passed on to the Oriental Land Company to expand their resort. There are seven themed areas or ports of call, mediterranean Harbor is the entrance port-of-call and themed as an Italian port city, with Venetian Gondolas that guests can board and ride. Littered throughout the port are various shops and restaurants, mediterranean Harbors layout differs from the entry lands of other Disney parks as it is a large V shape rather than a main street that leads to a hub. To the right, the leads to Mysterious Island, and to the left. Built into the architecture in this port is the Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta, the hotel serves as a full-scale reproduction of the various buildings of Portofino and Venices ports. The Hotel MiraCosta serves as the southern berm of the park, premiered on April 28,2011, as part of the parks 10th anniversary celebration, Be Magical. A nighttime spectacular also situated on the harbor that uses barges, fountains, Disney Characters, Mysterious Island is a port-of-call within Mount Prometheus, the giant volcano that is the parks centerpiece and most prominent feature. It relies heavily on the storytelling of Jules Verne and, specifically, the Mount Prometheus ride employs technology similar to Epcots Test Track. The smallest port of call, it holds two of the more popular attractions, Journey to the Center of the Earth, a thrill ride, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. While appearing to be a volcano on the water, Mysterious Island is not an island, it is built into the side of Mount Prometheus, the architecture in this port is of Victorian style. Mermaid Lagoon is home to the characters of The Little Mermaid, the facade is made to look like the Palace of King Triton and features fanciful seashell-inspired architecture. This port of call is mostly indoors and recreates the feeling of being underwater, attractions include Flounders Flying Fish Coaster, Scuttles Scooters, Jumpin Jellyfish, Blowfish Balloon Race, The Whirlpool, all of which are childrens rides. It recreates an exotic Arabian harbor combined with a world from 1001 Arabian Nights. In Spring 2017, the land will become home to Nemo and this port of call represents the northeastern seaboard of the United States in the early 20th century
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Caterpillar
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Caterpillars /ˈkætərˌpɪlər/ are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera. As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, caterpillars of most species are herbivorous, but not all, some are insectivorous, even cannibalistic. Some feed on other products, for example clothes moths feed on wool. Caterpillars as a rule are voracious feeders and many of them are among the most serious of agricultural pests. In fact many moth species are best known in their caterpillar stages because of the damage cause to fruits and other agricultural produce, whereas the moths are obscure. Conversely, various species of caterpillar are valued as sources of silk, as human or animal food, the origins of the word caterpillar date from the early 16th century. They derive from Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably an alteration of Old North French catepelose, cate, cat + pelose, caterpillars have soft bodies that can grow rapidly between moults. Only the head capsule is hardened, the mandibles are tough and sharp for chewing leaves. Behind the mandibles of the caterpillar are the spinnerets, for manipulating silk, antennae are present on either side of the labrum, but small and relatively inconspicuous. Some larvae of the Hymenoptera order can appear like the caterpillars of the Lepidoptera, such larvae are mainly seen in the sawfly family. Caterpillars can be confused with the larvae of sawflies, lepidopteran larvae can be differentiated by, the numbers of pairs of pro-legs, sawfly larvae have 6 while caterpillars have up to 5 pairs. The number of stemmata, the larvae have only two, while a caterpillar has six. The presence of crochets on the prolegs, these are absent in the Symphyta, sawfly larvae have an invariably smooth head capsule with no cleavage lines, while lepidopterous caterpillars bear an inverted Y or V. Many animals feed on caterpillars as they are rich in protein, as a result, caterpillars have evolved various means of defense. The appearance of a caterpillar can often repel a predator, its markings and certain body parts can make it seem poisonous, or bigger in size and thus threatening, some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous. Caterpillars have evolved defenses against physical conditions such as cold, hot or dry environmental conditions, some Arctic species like Gynaephora groenlandica have special basking and aggregation behaviours apart from physiological adaptations to remain in a dormant state. Many caterpillars are cryptically colored and resemble the plants on which they feed and they may even have parts that mimic plant parts such as thorns. Their size varies from as little as 1 mm to about 75 millimetres, some look like objects in the environment such as bird droppings
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Candy corn
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Candy corn is a candy most often found in the United States and Canada, popular primarily around Halloween. The three colors of the candy – a broad yellow end, an orange center. Each piece is approximately three times the size of a kernel from a ripe or dried ear. Candy corn is made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, confectioners wax, artificial coloring, Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Philadelphia, PA-based Wunderle Candy Company. The Goelitz Confectionery Company began production at the turn of the 20th century, in 2001 the company was renamed the Jelly Belly Candy Company. The National Confectioners Association estimates that 20 million pounds of corn are sold annually. Originally the candy was made by hand, manufacturers first combined sugar, corn syrup, carnauba wax, and water and cooked them to form a slurry. Fondant was added for texture and marshmallows were added to provide a soft bite, the final mixture was then heated and poured into shaped molds. Three passes, one for each colored section, were required during the pouring process, the recipe remains basically the same today. The production method, called corn starch modeling, likewise remains the same, a popular variation called Indian corn features a chocolate brown wide end, orange center and pointed white tip, often available around Thanksgiving. During the Halloween season, blackberry cobbler candy corn can be found in eastern Canada, Confectioners have introduced additional color variations suited to other holidays. In 2011, there were caramel apple and green apple candy corn variants, in 2013 there were smores and pumpkin spice variants. In 2014, carrot corn was introduced for the Easter season, typically being green and orange
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Animal cracker
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An animal cracker is a particular type of small cookie baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or circus, such as an African lion, tiger, bear or elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, but darker chocolate-flavored, although animal crackers are made with a layered dough like crackers, they are sweet like cookies. Other animal-shaped crackers and cookies are popular, such as Teddy Grahams, Goldfish, Hello Panda and these differ from traditional animal crackers in flavor and assortment, and though not usually called animal crackers, are still considered animal crackers. In the late 19th century, animal-shaped cookies called Animals were imported from England to the United States, the demand for these cookies grew to the point that bakers began to produce them domestically. Stauffers Biscuit Company produced their first batch of animal crackers in York, Pennsylvania, Animal biscuit cookies were made and distributed under the National Biscuit Company banner. In 1902, animal crackers officially became known as Barnums Animals and evoked the familiar theme of the Barnum. Later in 1902, the box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching a string to hang from the Christmas tree. Until that time, crackers were sold only in bulk or in large tins. These small cartons, which retailed for 5 cents at the time of their release, were a big hit and are sold today. The number and variety contained in each box has varied over the years, in total,54 different animals have been represented by animal crackers since 1902. In its current incarnation, each package contains 22 cookies consisting of a variety of animals, the most recent addition, the koala, was added in September 2002 after being chosen by consumer votes, beating out the penguin, walrus and cobra. In 1948, the changed the product name to its current designation of Barnums Animals Crackers. In 1958, production changed to improve the cookies visual details. Until then, animal shapes were stamped out of a dough sheet by a cutter and this produced outlines with little sophistication. By installing rotary dies, bakers can actually engrave details onto each cookie, the rotary dies are still used today. Barnums Animals Crackers are all produced in the Fair Lawn, New Jersey, more than 40 million packages of Barnums Animals Crackers are sold each year, both in the United States and exported to 17 countries worldwide. The cookies are baked in a 300-foot -long traveling band oven and they are in the oven for about four minutes and are baked at the rate of 12,000 per minute. About 15,000 cartons and 330,000 cookies are produced in a single shift and this runs to nearly 8,000 miles of string a year
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Carrot
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The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. Carrots are a form of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe. The plant probably originated in Persia and originally cultivated for its leaves, the most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, although the greens are sometimes eaten as well. The domestic carrot has been bred for its greatly enlarged, more palatable. The carrot is a plant in the umbellifer family Apiaceae. At first, it grows a rosette of leaves while building up the enlarged taproot, fast-growing cultivars mature within three months of sowing the seed, while slower-maturing cultivars are harvested four months later. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that production of carrots and turnips for the calendar year 2013 was 37.2 million tonnes. Carrots are widely used in many cuisines, especially in the preparation of salads, in Old English, carrots were not clearly distinguished from parsnips, the two were collectively called moru or more. Various languages still use the word for carrot as they do for root. Molecular and genetic studies, along with history, support the idea that the cultivated/domesticated carrot has a single origin in Central Asia. The wild ancestors of the carrot are likely to have originated in Persia, which remains the centre of diversity for Daucus carota, when they were first cultivated, carrots were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds rather than their roots. Carrot seeds have been found in Switzerland and Southern Germany dating back to 2000–3000 BC, some close relatives of the carrot are still grown for their leaves and seeds, for example, parsley, cilantro/coriander, fennel, dill and cumin. Three different types of carrots are depicted, and the states of them that the root can be cooked. The plant appears to have been introduced into Spain by the Moors in the 8th century, in the 10th century, in worldwide locations like West Asia, India and Europe, the roots were purple. The modern carrot originated in Afghanistan at about this time, the Jewish scholar Simeon Seth describes both red and yellow carrots in the 11th century. The 12th-century Arab-Andalusian agriculturist, Ibn al-Awwam, also mentions roots of these colours, cultivated carrots appeared in China in the 14th century, and in Japan in the 18th century. Orange-coloured carrots appeared in the Netherlands in the 17th century, which has been related to the fact that the Dutch flag at the time, the Princes Flag, included orange. These, the carrots, were intended by the English antiquary John Aubrey when he noted in his memoranda
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Brussels sprout
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The Brussels sprout is a member of the Gemmifera Group of cabbages, grown for its edible buds. The leafy green vegetables are typically 2. 5–4 cm in diameter, the Brussels sprout has long been popular in Brussels, Belgium, and may have originated and gained its name there. Forerunners to modern Brussels sprouts were likely cultivated in Ancient Rome, Brussels sprouts as they are now known were grown possibly as early as the 13th century in what is now Belgium. The first written reference dates to 1587, during the 16th century, they enjoyed a popularity in the Southern Netherlands that eventually spread throughout the cooler parts of Northern Europe. Brussels sprouts grow in temperature ranges of 7–24 °C, with highest yields at 15–18 °C, fields are ready for harvest 90 to 180 days after planting. The edible sprouts grow like buds in helical patterns along the side of long, thick stalks of about 60 to 120 cm in height, each stalk can produce 1.1 to 1.4 kg, although the commercial yield is about 900 g per stalk. Harvest season in temperate zones of the northern latitudes is September to March, in the home garden, harvest can be delayed as quality does not suffer from freezing. Sprouts are considered to be sweetest after a frost, Brussels sprouts are a cultivar group of the same species as cabbage, in the same family as collard greens, broccoli, kale, and kohlrabi, they are cruciferous. Many cultivars are available, some being purple in colour, such as Ruby Crunch or Red Bull, in Continental Europe, the largest producers are the Netherlands, at 82,000 metric tons, and Germany, at 10,000 tons. The United Kingdom has production comparable to that of the Netherlands, production of Brussels sprouts in the United States began in the 18th century, when French settlers brought them to Louisiana. The first plantings in Californias Central Coast began in the 1920s, the harvest season lasts from June through January. Total American production is approximately 32,000 tons, with a value of $27 million, about 80% to 85% of US production is for the frozen food market, with the remainder for fresh consumption. Once harvested, sprouts last three to five weeks under ideal near-freezing conditions before wilting and discolouring, and about half as long at refrigerator temperature, American varieties are generally 2. 5–5 cm in diameter. Brussels sprouts, as with broccoli and other brassicas, contain sulforaphane, although boiling reduces the level of sulforaphane, steaming and stir frying do not result in significant loss. Consuming Brussels sprouts in excess may not be suitable for patients taking anticoagulants such as warfarin since they contain vitamin K, in one reported incident, eating too many Brussels sprouts precipitated hospitalization for an individual on blood-thinning therapy. The most common method of preparing Brussels sprouts for cooking begins with cutting the buds off the stalk, any surplus stem is cut away, and any loose surface leaves are peeled and discarded. Once cut and cleaned, the buds are typically cooked by boiling, steaming, stir frying, grilling, to ensure even cooking throughout, buds of a similar size are usually chosen. Some cooks will make a cut or a cross in the center of the stem to aid the penetration of heat
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Watermelon
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Watermelon is a scrambling and trailing vine originally from southern Africa. It is a large, sprawling annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and it is grown for its large edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind of berry with a hard rind and no internal division, botanically called a pepo. Considerable breeding effort has been put into disease-resistant varieties and into developing a strain with only digestible white seeds. Many cultivars are available that produce fruit within 100 days of planting the crop. The fruit can be eaten raw or pickled and the rind can be cooked, the watermelon is a flowering plant thought to have originated in southern Africa, where it is found growing wild. It reaches maximum genetic diversity there, with sweet, bland, in the 19th century, Alphonse de Candolle considered the watermelon to be indigenous to tropical Africa. Citrullus colocynthis is often considered to be an ancestor of the watermelon and is now found native in north. Evidence of its cultivation in the Nile Valley has been found from the second millennium BC onward, watermelon seeds have been found at Twelfth Dynasty sites and in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. In the 7th century watermelons were being cultivated in India, and by the 10th century had reached China, moorish invaders introduced the fruit into Europe and there is evidence of it being cultivated in Córdoba in 961 and also in Seville in 1158. It spread northwards through southern Europe, perhaps limited in its advance by summer temperatures being insufficient for good yields, the fruit had begun appearing in European herbals by 1600, and was widely planted in Europe in the 17th century as a minor garden crop. European colonists and slaves from Africa introduced the watermelon to the New World, around the same time, Native Americans were cultivating the crop in the Mississippi valley and Florida. Watermelons were rapidly accepted in Hawaii and other Pacific islands when they were introduced there by such as Captain James Cook. The watermelon is a plant with long, weak, trailing or climbing stems which are five-angled. Young growth is densely woolly with hairs which disappear as the plant ages. The leaves are stemmed and alternate, large and pinnately-lobed, they get stiff, the flowers grow singly in the leaf axils and the corolla is white or yellow inside and greenish-yellow on the outside. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers occurring on the same plant, the male flowers predominate at the beginning of the season, the female flowers, which develop later, have inferior ovaries. The styles are united into a single column, the large fruit is a kind of modified berry called a pepo with a thick rind and fleshy center. Wild plants have fruits up to 20 cm in diameter, while cultivated varieties may exceed 60 cm
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Fruit
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In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate seeds, accordingly, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the worlds agricultural output, and some have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings. On the other hand, in usage, fruit includes many structures that are not commonly called fruits, such as bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes. The section of a fungus that produces spores is called a fruiting body. Many common terms for seeds and fruit do not correspond to the botanical classifications, however, in botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds, a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed, and a seed is a ripened ovule. Examples of culinary vegetables and nuts that are botanically fruit include corn, cucurbits, eggplant, legumes, sweet pepper, in addition, some spices, such as allspice and chili pepper, are fruits, botanically speaking. g. Botanically, a grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat, is also a kind of fruit. However, the wall is very thin and is fused to the seed coat. The outer, often edible layer, is the pericarp, formed from the ovary and surrounding the seeds, the pericarp may be described in three layers from outer to inner, the epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Fruit that bears a prominent pointed terminal projection is said to be beaked, a fruit results from maturation of one or more flowers, and the gynoecium of the flower forms all or part of the fruit. Inside the ovary/ovaries are one or more ovules where the megagametophyte contains the egg cell, after double fertilization, these ovules will become seeds. The ovules are fertilized in a process starts with pollination. After pollination, a tube grows from the pollen through the stigma into the ovary to the ovule, later the zygote will give rise to the embryo of the seed, and the endosperm mother cell will give rise to endosperm, a nutritive tissue used by the embryo. As the ovules develop into seeds, the ovary begins to ripen and the ovary wall, in some multiseeded fruits, the extent to which the flesh develops is proportional to the number of fertilized ovules. The pericarp is often differentiated into two or three distinct layers called the exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp, in some fruits, especially simple fruits derived from an inferior ovary, other parts of the flower, fuse with the ovary and ripen with it. In other cases, the sepals, petals and/or stamens and style of the fall off. When such other floral parts are a significant part of the fruit, it is called an accessory fruit, since other parts of the flower may contribute to the structure of the fruit, it is important to study flower structure to understand how a particular fruit forms. There are three modes of fruit development, Apocarpous fruits develop from a single flower having one or more separate carpels
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Vegetable
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In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a meal. The term vegetable is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and it normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts, and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses. The original meaning of the vegetable, still used in biology, was to describe all types of plant, as in the terms vegetable kingdom. At first, plants which grew locally would have been cultivated, nowadays, most vegetables are grown all over the world as climate permits, and crops may be cultivated in protected environments in less suitable locations. China is the largest producer of vegetables and global trade in agricultural products allows consumers to purchase vegetables grown in faraway countries, the scale of production varies from subsistence farmers supplying the needs of their family for food, to agribusinesses with vast acreages of single-product crops. Depending on the type of vegetable concerned, harvesting the crop is followed by grading, storing, processing, and marketing. Vegetables can be either raw or cooked and play an important role in human nutrition, being mostly low in fat and carbohydrates. Many nutritionists encourage people to consume plenty of fruit and vegetables, the word vegetable was first recorded in English in the early 15th century. It comes from Old French, and was applied to all plants. It derives from Medieval Latin vegetabilis growing, flourishing, a change from a Late Latin meaning to be enlivening, quickening. The meaning of vegetable as a plant grown for food was not established until the 18th century, in 1767, the word was specifically used to mean a plant cultivated for food, an edible herb or root. The year 1955 saw the first use of the shortened, slang term veggie, the broadest definition is the words use adjectivally to mean matter of plant origin to distinguish it from animal, meaning matter of animal origin. More specifically, a vegetable may be defined as any plant, part of which is used for food, a secondary meaning then being the edible part of such a plant. A more precise definition is any plant part consumed for food that is not a fruit or seed, falling outside these definitions are edible fungi and edible seaweed which, although not parts of plants, are often treated as vegetables. In everyday language, the fruit and vegetable are mutually exclusive. Fruit has a precise meaning, being a part that developed from the ovary of a flowering plant. This is considerably different from the words culinary meaning, while peaches, plums, and oranges are fruit in both senses, many items commonly called vegetables, such as eggplants, bell peppers, and tomatoes, are botanically fruits. The question of whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable found its way into the United States Supreme Court in 1893
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Mad Tea Party
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Mad Tea Party is a spinning tea cup ride at five of the six Disneyland-style theme parks around the world. The ride theme is inspired by the Unbirthday Party scene in Walt Disneys Alice In Wonderland, the ride has gained infamy over the years for the number of guests who get motion sickness as a result of the spinning component to the ride. The attraction is called Mad Tea Party at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom and it is known as Alices Tea Party at Tokyo Disneyland, Mad Hatters Tea Cups at Disneyland Paris, and Mad Hatter Tea Cups at Hong Kong Disneyland. All five versions of the attraction are located in Fantasyland, the Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland versions do not have a big teapot in the center of the ride platform. Like Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Disneyland and its Hong Kong counterpart have a replica of one of the teacups located outside of the attraction to be used by guests for better photo opportunities. Restrictions, The original attraction at Disneyland is unable to run in the rain because once the turntables are saturated with an amount of water, they slip. Unlike its Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, and Hong Kong Disneyland counterparts, several concepts for the Mad Tea Party were originally much more outrageous compared to todays version. One drawing showed the Mad Hatters dinner table featured in the center of the ride with various lanterns and decorations all around, another drawing showed 20 teacups circling a central hub, making it similar to a racetrack with banked curves. For the first few months after the ride first opened, the tea cups spun on a platform before it was painted with the psychedelic spiral that exists today. Also, during the ride’s first two years, the tea cups had no brakes or clutches, nothing limited how fast they could be spun, until 1982, the attractions original location was directly behind Sleeping Beauty Castle. It was also given slight modifications in 1972 with ornamental arches connecting the light posts, in 1983, the whole attraction was completely remodeled and relocated to its present location near Matterhorn Bobsleds. It also incorporated a few ideas from the concepts, such as the colorful Japanese garden lanterns. In 2004, the attraction was modified to make it difficult to spin fast after a disabled rider lost his balance. Like other remaining 1955 attractions, one of Disneylands teacups was painted gold in honor of the parks 50th anniversary in 2005, the installation at Disneyland was manufactured by Arrow Development. Like Disneyland, Magic Kingdoms original 1971 version of this attraction opened without a roof and it was eventually added in 1974 due to extreme weather conditions. It was updated in 1992 with a new scheme, new music. In 2010, the canopy was repainted, the Paris version of the attraction is the only version to feature a petal-shaped glass roof and surrounding gardens. It also uses the Dormouses teapot outside of the ride, near the March Hares Refreshments, the teacup designs were later used for Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneylands teacups
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Bumper cars
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They are also known as bumping cars and dashing cars. The inventor was Victor Levand, who worked for G. E, power is commonly supplied by one of two methods, The oldest and most common method uses a conductive floor and ceiling, each with a separate power polarity. Contacts under the vehicle touch the floor while a pole-mounted contact touches the ceiling, forming a complete circuit, a newer method uses alternating strips of metal across the floor separated by insulating spacers, and no ceiling grid. The alternating strips carry the current, and the cars are large enough so that the vehicle body can always cover at least two strips at any one time. The bumper cars on the Quantum-class cruise ships run on batteries and this avoids the conductive floor/ceiling of the traditional bumper cars setup, as the SeaPlex venue is to be readily convertible from a bumper cars ride to a multipurpose gym. The disadvantage is that these ships bumper cars take several hours to recharge their batteries, the metal floor is usually set up as a rectangular or oval track, and graphite is sprinkled on the floor to decrease friction. A rubber bumper surrounds each vehicle, and drivers ram each other as they travel, the controls are usually an accelerator and a steering wheel. The cars can be made to go backwards by turning the steering wheel far enough in either direction, although the idea of the ride is to bump other cars, safety-conscious owners sometimes put up signs reading This way around and No bumping. Depending on the level of enforcement by operators, these rules are often ignored by bumper car riders, especially younger children and teenagers. During their heyday, from the late 1920s to 1950s, two major US bumper cars brands were Dodgem by Max and Harold Stoehrer and the Lusse Brothers Auto-Skooter by. The current largest bumper cars floor is located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, the ride is 51 feet,9 inches by 124 feet 9 inches or a total of 6,455 square feet. Six Flags Great Adventures Autobahn is the largest bumper car floor, bumper boats Current collector Electric vehicle Go-kart Witching Waves Bumping Down Memory Lane, The Lusse Legacy
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The Verge
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The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media. It has offices in Manhattan, New York City, the network publishes news items, long-form feature stories, product reviews, podcasts, and an entertainment show. The website uses its own proprietary publishing platform with video content, the networks content is financed through advertising and sponsorship and is managed by its editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and executive editor Dieter Bohn. The site launched on November 1,2011, the Verge won five Webby Awards for the year 2012 including awards for Best Writing, Best Podcast for The Vergecast, Best Visual Design, Best Consumer Electronics Site, and Best Mobile News App. Throughout the 2010s, AOL began to acquire websites in pursuit of a new content strategy for the company. One of their first acquisitions was Weblogs, Inc. in 2005, a company that ran dozens of websites, including Engadget, according to Business Insider, Engadget became the industry-leading gadget site, and AOLs most popular and important media property. All Things Digital called it one of the largest in tech, joshua Topolsky became Engadgets editor-in-chief in 2007, and was responsible for new efforts like The Engadget Show and their mobile app, and the sites continued growth. When the acrimony between the two editors escalated in January 2011, AOL didnt intervene, the next month, an internal AOL editor training document called The AOL Way, a new content strategy that prioritized profitability metrics, leaked to the press. The document leaked before Engadget writers and editors saw it internally, the AOL Way dispirited the Engadget staff and created an ideological schism between the two entities. Topolsky and up to eight of Engadgets most prominent writers, editors, the other departing editors included managing editor Nilay Patel and staffers Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Joanna Stern, Chris Ziegler, as well as product developers Justin Glow, and Dan Chilton. In early April 2011, Topolsky announced that their new site would be done in partnership with sports news website SB Nation. Jim Bankoff of SB Nation saw an overlap in the two sites demographics and an opportunity to expand SB Nations model, Bankoff previously worked at AOL in 2005, where he led their Engadget acquisition. Other news outlets viewed the partnership as positive for both SB Nation and Topolskys staff, and negative for AOLs outlook, Bankoff also expressed a wish to attract other journalists and bloggers outside of the sports medium to Vox Media. Development of the Vox Medias content management system, Chorus, is led by Trei Brundrett, by August 2011, the site had reached 1 million unique visitors and 3.4 million page views. By October 2011, the site had 3 million unique views per month and 10 million total page views, time listed the site in its Best Blogs of 2011, calling the prototype site exemplary. The site closed upon The Verges launch on November 1,2011, on June 11,2014, The Verge launched a new section on TheVerge. com called This Is My Next, edited by David Pierce, as a buyers guide for consumer electronics. The Verge launched November 1,2011, along with an announcement of a new parent company, according to the company, the site launched with 4 million unique visitors and 20 million pageviews. At the time of Topolskys departure, Engadget had 14 million unique visitors, Vox Media overall doubled its unique visitors to about 15 million during the last half of 2012
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KABC-TV
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KABC-TV, channel 7, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. KABC maintains studios and offices on Circle Seven Drive in Glendale, in the few areas of the western United States where an ABC stations over the air signal is not receivable over-the-air, KABC-TV is available on satellite television through DirecTV. Channel 7 first signed on the air under the callsign KECA-TV on September 16,1949. At the same time, it was the last television station licensed to Los Angeles operating on the VHF band to sign on, and it was also the last of the Los Angeles classic seven TV stations to sign on. In addition, it was the last new Los Angeles TV station to sign on from 1949 until 1962 when the first two UHF Los Angeles stations launched, the stations callsign was named after Los Angeles broadcasting pioneer Earle C. Anthony, whose initials were also present on channel 7s then-sister radio station, KECA, anthonys other Los Angeles radio station, KFI, was aligned with the NBC Red Network. The Red Network survived the split of the two NBC radio networks ordered by the Federal Communications Commission in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network, purchased KECA radio a year later when the FCC forced Anthony to divest one of his Los Angeles radio stations, on February 1,1954, KECA-TV changed its callsign to the present-day KABC-TV. From the time of its initial sign-on in 1949, channel 7 was located at the ABC Television Center, on Prospect Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of Hollywood. In December 2000, KABC-TV moved from the Los Feliz studios to a new facility designed by César Pelli in nearby Glendale. The station is located four miles east of ABCs West Coast headquarters on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank. KABC-TV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1962, and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in 1997. The stations news anchors and reporters wear Circle 7 lapel pins when they appear on camera, in 1984, KABC-TV became the first West Coast television station to air Stereo audio for the 1984 Summer Olympics. On February 4,2006, KABC-TV became the first television station in the state of California to broadcast its newscasts in high definition using HD cameras in the studio. Along with the upgrades, the station debuted an updated news set. In July 2010, The Walt Disney Company became engaged in a dispute with Time Warner Cable. This dispute involved KABC-TV and three other ABC owned-and-operated stations, Disney Channel and the ESPN family of networks, if a deal was not in place, all of the Disney-owned channels would have been removed from Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems across the United States
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Buena Vista Street
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Buena Vista Street is a themed land at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort. Though named for the real-life Burbank thoroughfare that the Walt Disney Studios sits on, the central plaza represents Los Angeles in the 1920s, one of the main features is a small-scale replica of the Hyperion Bridge, which was being constructed when Disney stayed in Atwater Village. The replica functions as a bridge for the resorts monorail system. This land is similar to the layout and style of Main Street, USA at Disneyland and this land includes dining, shopping, parades, and entertainment. Disney California Adventures original main entrance, Sunshine Plaza, was designed to evoke a sensation as if one were stepping into a California postcard. After guests pass the giant letters spelling out California, they would pass beneath a mock-up of the Golden Gate Bridge, flanking both ends of the faux Golden Gate Bridge were two massive murals depicting the vast mountain ranges in California. A few metres into the park from the gate was Sunshine Plaza that served as an access hub to all of the parks other themed lands. At the end of the path, there was a featuring a large metal sunburst designed to reflect solar rays into the surrounding area. Sunshine Plaza was also home to a replica of the California Zephyr, the plaza was also home to two of the parks biggest souvenir shops, Greetings from California and Engine Ears Toys. On October 17,2007, The Walt Disney Company announced a multi-year, included in this expansion plan was the re-theming and complete overhaul of Sunshine Plaza into Buena Vista Street. The building serves as the new centerpiece of Disney California Adventures reincarnation. In early August 2011, the California Zephyr display was removed, the parks main gate was extended outward to where the postcard letters formerly stood, and resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium like the entrance at cousin park, Disneys Hollywood Studios in Florida. The Red Car Trolley travels through the plaza, the main gate was opened on July 15,2011. The construction of the Red Car trolleys began on January 10,2010, Construction of Buena Vista Street itself began in October 2010 and opened on June 15,2012. Throughout construction, the entrance remained open with areas blocked off from time to time to aid in construction. 2010 September 9, Removal of Plazas Sun Icon, September 13, Removal of entrance mosaic murals. November 3, Red Car Trolley construction begins November 15, Hollywood Pictures Backlot sign removed, November 18, Carthay Circle construction begins. 2011 January 4, Entrance turnstiles begin dismantling, may 29, Construction begins on temporary path into the park near Soarin Over California
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Red Car Trolley
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The Red Car Trolley is a 1,000 mm metre gauge tramway and transportation attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Construction began on January 4,2010 and the attraction opened on June 15,2012 as part of the re-dedication of the park. Built by Brookville Equipment of Brookville, Pennsylvania, these cars are replicas of the Pacific Electric Hollywood class cars, Brookville is a builder of diesel switcher locomotives and a rebuilder of classic trolley cars. Unlike the original Pacific Electric trolley cars, which drew their power from an overhead wire, the cars operate completely cordless through onboard batteries using inductive charging. The batteries are charged through non-contact charging using induction coils in the ground where the cars rest at Sunset Boulevard stop. The Red Car Trolley line has four stops throughout Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Land
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Grizzly Peak (Disney California Adventure)
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Grizzly Peak is a themed land at Disney California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The area is designed to look like the typical Californian National Park setting found in the 1950s. The land opened with the park in 2001 as part of a subsection of a land, Golden State. The Golden State name was retired and the three sections were broken off into their own lands in 2012, as part of the parks redesign. The Condor Flats section was incorporated into the Grizzly Peak area, as Grizzly Peak Airfield. The lands name is eponymous with its central icon, Grizzly Peak
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Grizzly River Run
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Grizzly River Run is located at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is similar to Kali River Rapids in Disneys Animal Kingdom, the attractions name comes from Grizzly Peak, the bear shaped mountain that the rapids flow around. It was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering and constructed by Intamin, elements that evoke the golden age of national parks are placed around the entrance, alluding to the wave of turn-of-the-century wildlife conservation. The raft trip around Grizzly Peak begins with the raft being lifted up a conveyor that runs under leaking pipes that spray water on the riders. Upon reaching the top of the conveyor, the rafts are dropped into the water to be descended down the peak, passing through a cave, the climax of the ride drops the rafts down into a geyser field. The final drop has an element in that the rafts are spun as they begin their descent. As with all rides, there must be a location to store or drain the water in the upper sections of the flumes when the pumps are shut down. The original plan was to create a large, underground basin beneath Grizzly Peak to hold water and this would have required costly excavation and construction. Upon looking at the layout of California Adventure, it was noticed that the Pacific Wharf area of the park had a water element meant to simulate a tidal basin. The tidal basin is located across a walkway from Grizzly River Run, the rise and fall of water in the tidal basin serves the dual purpose of providing a location to store water and being a scenic element that simulates a rising and falling tide. Kali River Rapids at Disneys Animal Kingdom Official website
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Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
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The Redwood Creek Challenge Trail is a forest-themed play area at Disney California Adventure. Explorers can also visit the Spirit Cave to find what spirit animal represents them, the area was one of the parks original attractions, and opened to the public on February 8,2001. It is currently themed after the 2009 Disney-Pixar film Up, and centered on the Wilderness Explorers, a fictional scouting organization from the film
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Soarin'
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Soarin, also known as Soarin Around the World and Soaring Over the Horizon, is a flight motion simulator attraction at Disney California Adventure, Epcot, and Shanghai Disneyland. The original iteration of the attraction, known as Soarin Over California, was an opening day attraction at Disney California Adventure on February 8,2001, the initial version took guests over several locations in California, and included a pre-show tribute to the history of Californias aviation industry. Due to its consistent popularity, Soarin Over California was duplicated at Epcot in Walt Disney World as Soarin in 2005, the current global version of the ride debuted at Shanghai Disneyland Park as Soaring Over the Horizon on June 16,2016. Concurrently, the American versions were replaced with the new film as Soarin Around the World on the next day. A fourth attraction was announced in 2016 for Tokyo DisneySea, and is expected to open in 2019, Soarin was first conceptualized in 1996 as Ultra Flight, a name which can still be seen on the tower consoles of the California Adventure attraction. It was to feature an OMNIMAX screen with an inverted track allowing guests to fly over Californias landmarks, the attraction would have three load levels and the system would operate on a horizontal cable, much like a dry cleaners rack. This plan was abandoned, however, when it was determined that the construction and it seemed that Soarin wouldnt become a reality until engineer Mark Sumner developed a different idea for the ride vehicles, using an Erector Set and string to create a working model. This design would allow Disney to efficiently load guests on one instead of three, thus cutting construction and labor costs greatly. Each ride vehicle consists of three rows of seats under a canopy, and has a capacity of 87 guests at a time. The vehicle is lifted forward so that guests look into a large, the scenes were shot with an IMAX HD frame rate -48 frames per second, twice the conventional output for regular films. Since the vehicle is moved forward toward the center of the dome, guests can see the images projected on the screen. The ride structure contains about one million pounds of steel, and 37 tons are lifted during each ride cycle, to enhance the illusion of flight, subtle vertical movements of the seats are synchronized to the film. Sensations of horizontal motion are created using a combination of vertical carriage movement, in addition, scents complementing the various scenes are injected into the air streams blowing on riders. These scents include rose blossoms in the Taj Mahal scene, the aroma of grass in the Africa scene, Soarin Around the World is located in the Grizzly Peak Airfield section of Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort. It is one of the most popular attractions in the resort, however, the attraction is tied into the parks FASTPASS system, allowing guests the option of bypassing a long wait. While waiting in line, guests pass the Wings of Fame, some of these include the P-51 Mustang, SR-71 Blackbird, and the Bell X-1. Inspirational music from a variety of films, many of them war- or flight-themed, is played in the queue hallways, the Air Force Song and Jupiter from Gustav Holsts orchestral suite The Planets are also included, based on their use in The Right Stuff. Before entering the area, guests are placed in one of three preshow areas, called Alpha Gate, Bravo Gate, or Charlie Gate
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Animation Academy
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Animation Academy is an attraction at Disney California Adventure, Walt Disney Studios Park and Hong Kong Disneyland. The same attraction formerly existed in Disneys Hollywood Studios and DisneyQuest, tokyo Disneyland also features an almost identical attraction, named simply Disney Drawing Class, within The Disney Gallery in World Bazaar. The attraction will be permanently in fall 2016, to make way for Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. The attraction opened together with DisneyQuest in 1998 and it was also recently added to Disneys Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure. It can be found within Art of Disney Animation at Walt Disney Studios Park, the attraction opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on July 14,2007 and is located adjacent to the Opera House in Main Street, U. S. A. The attraction itself is a session with a Disney animator who teaches guests to draw a Disney character. Guests may take their own home if they want after the drawing session. Disney California Adventure official website Hong Kong Disneyland
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Turtle Talk with Crush
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Turtle Talk with Crush is a talk show type attraction that has appeared at several of the Disney theme parks. It first opened on November 16,2004 at The Living Seas pavilion at Epcot, the attraction was open in Hong Kong Disneyland from May 24 to August 10,2008 as part of the Nonstop Summer Fun celebration. The attraction opened in Tokyo DisneySea on October 1,2009, a similar version is also featured in the Animators Palate restaurant on the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy cruise ships operated by Disney Cruise Line. In addition, another Turtle Talk with Crush unit was donated to the new CHOC Bill Holmes Hospital by Walt Disney Imagineering during early 2013 to entertain the child patients and their siblings. This was the first attraction created by Imagineering to be placed in a non-Disney environment and it was featured in the advertisement for the new Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage submarine-shaped tour in 2007 before the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage opened to the public in 2007. Guests are admitted to a movie theater-like room featuring what appears to be a large window opening onto an undersea vista. Children are encouraged to sit on an area up front so that they may have a better view, while parents. The host and moderator gives an introduction to the show. Crush looks and sounds much as he does in Finding Nemo, complete with animated facial expressions, Crush individually chooses the children by saying what they are wearing. Other events may occur during this conversation, including cameo appearances by other characters from the original film. Though the format, structure and rough duration of the show are consistent, for example, if an audience member asks where Dory is, a special ending involving Dory and Destiny will be triggered, complete with another attempt by Dory and her friend Destiny to speak whale. Crush will also refer to the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage when asked where Nemo is, the show is a blend of computer graphic techniques, image projection, and interactive improvisation. The Window to the Pacific is a large rear-projection screen portraying an animated undersea environment, the animated image of Crush is a computer graphic avatar controlled by a puppet, operated by a backstage actor/puppeteer whose performance is digitized in real time. Crushs movements and voice-activated lip synch are rendered on the fly and are projected at 60 frames per second, digital puppetry techniques allow the puppeteers movements to control the body motions of the projected turtle image. The technology enables each show to be different as Crush responds uniquely to each individual audience, the actors performance is a combination of semi-scripted banter and improvised responses to guests questions and comments, delivered in a mimicry of the character voice from the film. Epcot attraction and entertainment history List of current Disney California Adventure attractions Turtle Trek, laugh Floor Epcot - Turtle Talk with Crush Disney California Adventure - Turtle Talk with Crush Tokyo DisneySea - Turtle Talk Turtle Talk With Crush Video
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Hyperion Theater
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The Hyperion Theater is located at Disney California Adventure in Hollywood Land. It is currently presenting Frozen – Live at the Hyperion, the theater can seat up to 1,984 people. The facade is modeled after that of the Los Angeles Theatre on LAs Broadway, the Hyperion Theater opened with the park on February 8,2001. The venues first show was Disneys Steps in Time, a musical featuring songs from various Disney films, later that year, The Power of Blast, a scaled-down version of the musical Blast. was created for the theater. The Power of Blast closed in fall 2002 to make room for Disneys Aladdin, inspired by Disneys 1992 animated film Aladdin, the show premiered in January 2003. In spring 2010 it was announced that Disneys Aladdin, A Musical Spectacular would close and be replaced by Toy Story. However, later that year it announced that the plans were cancelled, the theater held the world premiere for Disneys The Lone Ranger on June 22,2013. Disneys Aladdin, A Musical Spectacular closed in January 2016 and it was announced that the venues next show would be a musical inspired by Disneys 2013 animated film Frozen, entitled Frozen – Live at the Hyperion. The show premiered in May 2016, in April 2003, a 36-year-old stage technician fell 60 feet from a catwalk in the theater, prompting an investigation by the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The victim did not regain consciousness following the incident and died in May 2003, in October 2003, Cal/OSHA fined the Disneyland Resort $18,350 for safety violations related to the cast members death. No one was hurt in the incident
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Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
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Mike & Sulley to the Rescue. is a dark ride attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is based on the 2001 Disney·Pixar film Monsters, Inc and it opened January 22,2006 with a grand Sulley-Blue-Fur Carpet Premiere. The attraction replaced the short-lived Superstar Limo dark ride, and utilizes the same track layout, the CDA agents in the ride are all re-dressed and repositioned celebrity figures from Superstar Limo. In addition, Superstar Limos ride vehicles were reused for the attraction, guests board taxis on a journey through the streets of Monstropolis. The news is the subject of consternation as contact with humans is considered deadly to the monsters of the city. The taxis exit a tunnel through a detour from the gate and go down the dark streets of the city, passing characters Mike. Riders proceed to see Randall, who looks around angrily, following are news reporters interviewing monsters frightened by alleged encounters with the human, Boo. Sulley pops up from an alley holding Boo, looking to see if the coast is clear. The taxis drive into the sushi restaurant Harryhausens, where frantic monsters run around as Celia shouts angrily at Mike, as he and Sulley sneak through the door of Monsters. The taxis encounter the CDA searching for Boo as they enter the Monsters, Randall appears then disappears in a nearby corner. In a giant room where closet doors are hanging in storage, the riders again see Randall who threatens to destroy Boos door, preventing her to return home, but Mike and Sulley find it again. Riders pass by various closet doors as they open, revealing various monsters from Monsters, Inc. such as the Abominable Snowman, George, Boo can then be seen hitting Randall with a bat, changing his colors as the taxis are passed by hundreds of flying doors. Mike and Sulley say goodbye to Boo as the exit the door vault. CDA agents cleanse exiting riders as a cameraman films them, an audio-animatronics figure of Roz talks to the passing riders, often singling out riders by the row theyre in as the vehicles approach the unload area. In Tokyo Disneyland, there is an attraction called Monsters, Inc, ride & Go Seek which features an interactive flashlight system, allowing guests to search for hidden monsters in the dark. The attraction is held in the Star Tours area of Tomorrowland, the attraction uses the same ride system as the Toy Story Midway Mania. Attractions at Disney California Adventure, Disneys Hollywood Studios and Tokyo DisneySea
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A Bug's Land
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A Bugs Land is an area of Disney California Adventure themed after the 1998 Disney·Pixar film A Bugs Life. Theater, which was an area of the park when it opened in 2001. The fictional backstory for Fliks Fun Fair holds that Flik and the bugs were inspired to create their own fun fair when Disneys California Adventure opened next door to them. When the Imagineers set out to build The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, they discovered the bugs in the garden, Fliks Fun Fair opened on October 7,2002, and became part of A Bugs Land, the new name for the collection of A Bugs Life-related attractions. Concurrently, Its Tough to Be a Bug. and Bountiful Valley Farm were transferred from Golden State to A Bugs Land, and the areas only store was re-themed with more focus on the films characters. In 2010, Bountiful Valley Farm as well as the shops and restaurants were closed and demolished, their site is now part of Cars Land. With the construction of Cars Land, two new entrances from Hollywood Land and Cars Land to the Fliks Fun Fair area were opened, the area originally had one entrance. Fliks Flyers is a ride at Fliks Fun Fair inside A Bugs Land at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. Guests ride in Fliks bug-made contraption fashioned from man-made objects, the vehicles appear to have been fashioned from used food containers and have been stitched together by leaves and twigs to become “balloons” that whirl around a pie plate centerpiece. Also, the wait time sign resembles a button, whirring, cranking gears are heard as they leave the ground. The attraction provides guests with a view of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Fliks Flyers is similar to Blowfish Balloon Race at Tokyo DisneySea. Heimlichs Chew Chew Train is a slow moving train-type ride inside A Bugs Land at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim and it first opened in 2002, along with the rest of A Bugs Land. Guests board a train in the shape of Heimlich, the German-accented caterpillar from the film, Heimlich himself narrates the ride through the speakers on the trains. Heimlichs tendency to overeat is the theme of the ride, as the train appears to eat through oversized portions of human foods, candy corn, animal crackers, carrots, Brussels sprouts, appropriate scents accompany the giant food sets so guests can sniff to attract them. Large bites have been out of all the foods, so guests can tell that Heimlich has been there before. At the rides end, Heimlich bids guests farewell and reminds them to eat their fruits, Francis Ladybug Boogie is a spinning attraction and first opened in 2002, along with the rest of A Bugs Land. Guests board one of the six Francis Lady bugs with up to six adults, the ride spins guests around in a figure eight style. Unlike the Mad Tea Party, guests are able to spin the ride, the theme of this ride is the character Francis from the Disney·Pixar film A Bugs Life
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Paradise Pier
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Paradise Pier is a themed land at Disney California Adventure, Disneylands sister park, which are all part of the Disneyland Resort. Its appearance is based on that of Victorian boardwalks that were found along the coast of California. Despite its name and the presence of a nearby lake, Paradise Pier is not actually a pier. The roller coaster California Screamin sprawls across much of it, with other attractions. A new attraction, Toy Story Midway Mania. opened on June 17,2008, the attraction is the first in a series of theming upgrades to the land and park as a whole. This was followed by changes to the Sun Wheel to become Mickeys Fun Wheel, in 2010, World of Color and Silly Symphony Swings were added. To complete the Paradise Pier makeover, Disney opened Goofys Sky School and The Little Mermaid, guest were invited to design holiday greeting cards at a special LuminAria greeting card making station inside the park, in which select cards would be used and presented during the actually show. The show was presented during the holiday season of 2001, due to the intense amount of smoke the show would generate. Although the show was never resented again after 2001, an island structure which was used in the show remained in the center of Paradise Bay for several years. Maliboomer - A space shot ride which shot rides up a 180-foot tower, the ride was closed and removed in 2010 and replaced with a park. Mulholland Madness - A wild mouse rollercoaster themed to California freeways, the ride was closed in 2010 and re-themed as Goofys Sky School. Orange Stinger - A swing ride inside a giant orange peel structure, which featured seats shaped like bees, and an orange scent inside the ride. The bee shaped seats were removed shortly after opening due to being damaged from seats bumping into each other. The ride was closed in 2009 and extensively remodeled, the giant orange peel structure was completely removed, and the ride was renamed Silly Symphony Swings. S. S. rustworthy - An outdoor play area themed to a run-down fireboat, a portion of the play area adjacent to the Orange Stinger/Silly Symphony Swings was closed and demolished in early 2010 as part of that attractions renovation. The main play area closed on September 7,2010, and was demolished, its site is now used as seating area for the Paradise Garden Grill and Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta restaurants. Sun Wheel - Ferris wheel inspired by Coney Islands 1927 Wonder Wheel, which featured swinging and stationary gondolas, the ride closed in October 2008 and reopened as Mickeys Fun Wheel on May 8,2009. Rockin The Bay Concert Series - A Series of concerts on Paradise Bay, Lilo and Stitchs Luau - A small show featuring Lilo & Stitch
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Ariel's Grotto
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Ariels Grotto is a meet-and-greet area at several Disney parks, as well as a restaurant in Disney California Adventure based on Disneys animated film The Little Mermaid. Formerly a colorful grotto in which Ariel, in form, was available for autographs. The meet-and-greet area was decorated with starfish, coral, and waterfalls, king Tritons Fountain leading to the grotto featured a soft-surface sandy beach play zone dotted with jumping fountains. In August 2008, the area at was closed and it has now been re-themed to Pixie Hollow, a Disney Fairies meet-and-greet attraction amid oversized plants which gives guests the sense of being the size of a fairy. In April 2010, the Ariels Grotto attraction at Magic Kingdom was closed and it reopened as part of the New Fantsyland expansion along with the ride Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid. It features a similar meet-and-greet, beside the attraction Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid and it is in a cave, next to Prince Erics Castle, surrounded by waterfalls and large rock formations. Restaurant which offers Character Dining, an opportunity for guests to dine as Ariel, the restaurant is located on Paradise Pier, and features American, Healthy Selections, and Vegetarian cuisine. World of Color water show upcharge dining package reservations can be made as an alternate to required fastpass general viewing, Ariels Greeting Grotto is a character meet-and-greet attraction
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Golden Zephyr
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Golden Zephyr is an attraction at Paradise Pier in Disney California Adventure Park built by D. H. Morgan Manufacturing. Themed to the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon style rocket ships, the Golden Zephyrs design comes from the Harry Traver Circle Swing rides of the early 20th century, specifically the Aerostat / Strat-O-Stat ride that operated at Riverview Park in Chicago. Unfortunately, the ride cannot operate at constant wind speeds over 10 miles per hour, neither this attraction nor Jumpin Jellyfish was removed or changed as part of the billion-dollar expansion
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