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Disney's Animal Kingdom
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Disneys Animal Kingdom is a zoological theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks and Resorts division, it is the largest theme park in the world, the park opened on Earth Day, April 22,1998, and was the fourth theme park built at Walt Disney World. The park is dedicated and themed entirely around the environment and animal conservation. The park is represented by the Tree of Life, a 145-foot-tall, in 2015 it had 10.9 million visitors, ranking it the fourth-most visited amusement park in the United States, behind the other three Walt Disney World parks, and seventh-most visited in the world. Welcome to a kingdom of animals, Disneys Animal Kingdom is divided into six themed areas. The Oasis is the main entrance, providing guest services. The main paths lead deeper into the park, and onto Discovery Island, a Rainforest Cafe is located at the entrance prior to entering Oasis and the park proper through the turnstiles. Discovery Island is located at the center of the park, in the middle of the Discovery River waterway and it is the central hub connecting the other sections of the park, with the exception of Rafikis Planet Watch. It was originally called Safari Village, as Discovery Island was the name for the zoological park located in Walt Disney Worlds Bay Lake. The Tree of Life, the sculpted, man-made Baobab tree, is located in this section and is surrounded by trails. Beneath the Tree of Life lies Its Tough to Be a Bug, a 4D film based on the 1998 Disney·Pixar film, A Bugs Life. The parks largest gift shops and two of its restaurants are on Discovery Island. Africa is one of the areas of the park. Set in the fictional east African port village of Harambe, this area contains several animal exhibits, the village is the namesake of the Harambe Wildlife Preserve, the fictional home of Africas main attraction, Kilimanjaro Safaris. Guests climb aboard a safari vehicle for an expedition to see African species in savanna, rivers. On the western side of Africa is the Harambe Theater, which is home to the Festival of the Lion King, Rafikis Planet Watch is the only section of the park not connected to Discovery Island, it connects only to Africa. Guests board the 3 ft narrow gauge Wildlife Express Train for the trip to and from the area. Guests first encounter Habitat Habit. where they can see cotton-top tamarins, along the way, guests can also learn how to provide animal habitats in and around their own homes
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Expedition Everest
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Expedition Everest — Legend of the Forbidden Mountain is a steel roller coaster built by Vekoma at Disneys Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The ride is themed around the Yeti hiding in Mount Everest and it is listed in the 2011 book of Guinness World Records as the most expensive roller coaster in the world. Including sets and extras, its total cost was reported to be US$100 million, following 6 years of planning and it is the tallest artificial mountain in all of the Walt Disney Parks, though contrary to popular belief, Expedition Everest is not Floridas tallest mountain. It is Disneys 18th mountain-themed attraction, the attraction first was announced publicly on April 22,2003, during an event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Disneys Animal Kingdom. It took three years and more than 38 miles of rebar,5,000 tons of structural steel, and 10,000 tons of concrete to build the mountain. Expedition Everest first opened for previews on January 26,2006, the attraction features a stand-by, Fastpass+, and a single rider line. The queue starts at the office of the fictional Himalayan Escapes travel agency, visitors next enter a tea garden, followed by a room with equipment from a successful expedition, and then the Yeti Museum, which contains information on the Yeti and a moulding of a Yeti footprint. There are also about 8,000 artifacts brought from the Nepal trip in the museum, the single rider line skips all of the exhibits. The riders board the coaster in the model village of Serka Zong. The train departs the station to the right and climbs a small lift leading to a drop, then circles around to the 118-foot lift hill. It is the tallest attraction at Walt Disney World, beating The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror by 6 inches, on the way up it passes through a ransacked temple with murals of the yeti, warning the riders that the mountain is his territory. At the top of the mountain the train curves around the main peak, when it emerges, it draws to a halt in front of track that has been torn apart, presumably by the yeti. The train itself is held in place by a series of rubber tires while an automatic switch rotates the piece of track directly behind the train. The train then rolls backwards along a new route that spirals down through the mountain, coming to a halt in a large cave and this effect distracts riders from noticing another automatic track switch rotates in front of them. As the shadow moves away, the train rolls forward out of the mountain and it enters a 250° turn and speeds back up through another cave in the mountain, where the roars of the yeti are heard once more. The train exits from the rear of the mountain and enters a large helix before being lifted back into the mountain a final time, the train drops through a cave, where the yeti is reaching down toward it. On reaching the bottom of this drop, riders return to the unloading dock, one ride takes about 2 minutes and 50 seconds. Expedition Everest has six trains, each with six cars that together provide 17 rows seating two abreast, for a total of 34 riders per train
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Sky lantern
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A sky lantern, also known as Kongming lantern or Chinese lantern, is a small hot air balloon made of paper, with an opening at the bottom where a small fire is suspended. In Asia and elsewhere around the world, sky lanterns have been made for centuries. The name sky lantern is a translation of the Chinese name, in China and Taiwan, sky lanterns are traditionally made from oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame. The source of hot air may be a candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material. The general design is a thin shell, which may be from about 30 cm to a couple of metres across. The opening is usually about 10 to 30 cm wide, and is surrounded by a collar that serves to suspend the flame source. In Thailand, sky lanterns are traditionally made from oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame. They may also be constructed from other lightweight papers, the source of hot air is usually a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material lit and which usually stays lit despite the surrounding air currents. The Thai name is khom loi, many areas of Asia, however, do not permit sky lanterns because of widespread fire hazards as well as danger to livestock. A design that was fairly common was two pyramids joined by the base sometimes with a cube or prism inserted in the middle, the candle was usually a packet of paraffin or rosin tightly wrapped in cloth and bound with wire. When lit, the heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density. The sky lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame stays alight, traditionally, however, their invention is attributed to the sage and military strategist Zhuge Liang whose reverent term of address was Kongming. He is said to have used a message written on a sky lantern to summon help on an occasion when he was surrounded by enemy troops, for this reason they are still known in China as Kongming lanterns. Sky lanterns are an explanation for some UFO sightings through the years. In ancient China, sky lanterns were used in wars. However, later on, non-military applications were employed as they became popular with children at festivals and these lanterns were subsequently incorporated into festivals like the Chinese Mid-Autumn and Lantern Festivals. Pingxi District in New Taipei City of Taiwan holds an annual Lantern Festival in which sky lanterns are released into the sky with peoples wishes written on the lantern. The Lanna people of northern Thailand use floating lanterns year round, for celebrations, one very important festival in which sky lanterns are used is the Yi Peng festival, which is held on a full moon of the 2nd month of the Lanna calendar
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Projection mapping
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Projection mapping, also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings, by using specialized software, a two- or three-dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment it is to be projected on. The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface of that object and this technique is used by artists and advertisers alike who can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects. The video is combined with, or triggered by, audio to create an audio-visual narrative. Although the term projection mapping is relatively new, the dates back to the late 1960s. One of the first public displays of projections onto 3D objects was debuted in 1969, the ride used fake disembodied heads as objects which had 16mm film projected onto them to make them appear animated. By 2001, more artists began using projection mapping in artwork, after the object which will be projected on is chosen or created, software is used to map the corners of the video to the surfaces. First, one must choose the images or video to project, then, place each video on to its designated surface. Alternatively one may choose to map the entire scene in 3D and attempt to project, the next step is defined as masking, which means using opacity templates to actually mask the exact shapes and positions of the different elements of the building or space of projection. One such tool to achieve this end is BLAM. add-on for blender 3Ds open source 3D animation suite. Adjustments are commonly needed and made by manually tweaking either the physical or virtual scene for best results, large projectors with 20,000 lumens or larger are used for large-scale projections such as on city skyscrapers. Otherwise, for productions, a projector with a basic lower lumens will work. A2200 lumen projector is adequate for projections under indoor light or theatrical lighting in most cases, also, extensible open-source software frameworks such as MPM are available among others. Theatrical, where projections are preset and scenes are cued on demand, usually in a set order, in conjunction with dance or onstage performance, static/Interactive, where a display is set up and loops or interacts with the environment and viewers via programming. Video, where a long segmented show is present as a single fluid video that is not interactive. Projection mapping first came to prominence through guerrilla advertising campaigns and video jockeys for electronic musicians and these advertising campaigns commonly use mapping techniques to project scenes onto the sides of buildings. Projection mapping can also be interactive, as Nokia Ovi Maps did a project in which the projections would mimic peoples movements, common techniques for these performances included both 3-D mapping techniques and 3D projection to create the illusion of depth, as well as motion such as crumbling buildings. In the electronic music community, it is becoming increasingly common for DJs to accompany their music with synced visuals
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Kilimanjaro Safaris
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Kilimanjaro Safaris is a safari attraction at Disneys Animal Kingdom on the Walt Disney World Resort property in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It simulates an open-sided safari ride through the savanna of East Africa, the current story is a short photo safari aboard a safari vehicle through the Harambe Wildlife Reserve in Harambe, East Africa. It is 800 square miles of terrain, including Ituri forest, wetlands of the Safi River valley. The game driver points out animals and provides entertainment, the zebras were removed four months after their arrival due to acclimation issues. Some reports claim that the zebras were fighting other, biting at vehicles or each other, standing in the road. They were quickly replaced with addax, recently, the zebras have been reinstated, and can be viewed during the course of the safari. However, for reasons, Audio-Animatronics replicas were placed instead. The poachers would have captured at gunpoint by another cast member and this element of the attraction was eventually eliminated and replaced with scaring off the poachers after a pursuit. During Cast Previews of Disneys Animal Kingdom, there was a Dark Ending in which the vehicle encountered the slaughtered corpse of Big Red. This scene proved too shocking for families and children, and thus was eventually changed to give the attraction a happier ending, Kilimanjaro Safaris typically operates until sundown. However, during the season of 1998, the safaris were continued at night. Though many animals were asleep, or unable to be seen at night, Kilimanjaro Night Safaris only ran during that initial holiday season. After this time, it was deemed that the costs, plus the fact that animal visibility was poor. In 2004, much of the drainage system had to be replaced. The attraction remained open during the rehab, with green tarps covering the sites to keep the animals out. In 2007-9, the trucks were extended with a row of seating, allowing for more capacity. Also, the safari script/story, along with the Wilson/Jobson story has significantly changed, there is less of a story about Little Red, and more about the animals in the reserve and the need to find a lost elephant at the end. This led to a somewhat confused plot in which guests are searching for a lost mother elephant and eventually find her baby which, in July 2010 it was announced that guests will soon be able to go on guided treks around the savanna
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The Jungle Book (2016 film)
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The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film, directed and co-produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. The film introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and also features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyongo, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken. Favreau, Marks and producer Brigham Taylor developed the story as a balance between Disneys animated adaptation and Kiplings original works, borrowing elements from both into the film. Principal photography commenced in 2014, with filming taking place entirely in Los Angeles, the film required extensive use of computer-generated imagery to portray the animals and settings. The Jungle Book was released in North America in Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, D-Box and it became a critical and commercial success, grossing over $966 million, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2016 and the 32nd highest-grossing film of all time. The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Mowgli is a man cub raised by the Seeonee Indian wolf Raksha and her pack, led by Akela, in an Indian jungle ever since he was brought to them as a baby by the black panther Bagheera. The truce is disrupted when a tiger named Shere Khan arrives detecting Mowglis scent in the large crowd. Resentful against man for scarring him, he issues a warning that he will kill Mowgli at the end of the drought, after the drought ends, the wolves debate whether they should keep Mowgli or not. Mowgli decides to leave the jungle for the safety of his pack, Bagheera agrees with the decision and volunteers to guide him to the nearby man village. En route, Shere Khan ambushes them and injures Bagheera, later, Mowgli meets an enormous python named Kaa who hypnotizes him. While under her influence, Mowgli sees a vision of his father being mauled while protecting him from Shere Khan, the vision also warns of the destructive power of the red flower. Kaa attempts to devour Mowgli, but she is attacked by a bear named Baloo. Baloo and Mowgli bond while retrieving some difficult-to-access honey for Baloo, upon learning that Mowgli has left the jungle, Shere Khan kills Akela and threatens the pack to lure Mowgli out. Bagheera eventually finds Mowgli and Baloo and is angered that Mowgli has not joined the humans as agreed, during the night, Mowgli finds a herd of Indian elephants gathered around a ditch and uses his vines to save a baby elephant from the ditch. Although Baloo and Bagheera are both impressed, Baloo realizes that he cannot guarantee Mowglis safety after learning that he is being hunted by Shere Khan, Baloo agrees to push Mowgli away to get him to continue onward to the man village. Mowgli is kidnapped by the Bandar-log who present him to their leader, assuming that all humans can make fire, King Louie offers Mowgli protection from Shere Khan in exchange for it. Baloo distracts King Louie while Bagheera tries to him out. As King Louie chases Mowgli through his temple, he informs Mowgli of Akelas death, King Louies rampage eventually causes his temple to collapse on top of him
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Aurora
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An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar lights or northern lights, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high latitude regions. The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emits light of varying colour, the form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles. Precipitating protons generally produce optical emissions as incident hydrogen atoms after gaining electrons from the atmosphere, proton auroras are usually observed at lower latitudes. A region that currently displays an aurora is called the auroral oval, early evidence for a geomagnetic connection comes from the statistics of auroral observations. Elias Loomis, and later Hermann Fritz and S. Tromholt in more detail, day-to-day positions of the auroral ovals are posted on the internet. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights, the former term was coined by Galileo in 1619, from the Roman goddess of the dawn and the Greek name for the north wind. The Aurora Australis is visible from southern latitudes in Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand. A geomagnetic storm causes the auroral ovals to expand, and bring the aurora to lower latitudes and it was hardly ever seen near the geographic pole, which is about 2000 km away from the magnetic pole. The aurora can be seen best at this time, which is called magnetic midnight, Auroras also occur poleward of the auroral zone as either diffuse patches or arcs, which can be sub-visual. Auroras are occasionally seen in latitudes below the zone, when a geomagnetic storm temporarily enlarges the auroral oval. Large geomagnetic storms are most common during the peak of the sunspot cycle or during the three years after the peak. An aurora may appear overhead as a corona of rays, radiating from a distant and apparent central location, an electron spirals about a field line at an angle that is determined by its velocity vectors, parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the local geomagnetic field vector B. This angle is known as the “pitch angle” of the particle, the distance, or radius, of the electron from the field line at any time is known as its Larmor radius. The pitch angle increases as the travels to a region of greater field strength nearer to the atmosphere. Thus it is possible for particles to return, or mirror. Other particles that do not mirror enter the atmosphere and contribute to the display over a range of altitudes. Other types of auroras have been observed from space, e. g. poleward arcs stretching sunward across the cap, the related theta aurora. These are relatively infrequent and poorly understood, there are other interesting effects such as flickering aurora, black aurora and sub-visual red arcs
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World of Color
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World of Color is a nighttime show at Disney California Adventure, part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The show is inspired by Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color anthology television series, the process of assembling, installing, and testing the shows numerous components and equipment in Paradise Bay spanned a period of approximately 15 months. The original version of World of Color premiered on June 11,2010 as part of the Summer Nightastic, the entire show cost $75 million to design, manufacture and build. Other nearby attractions such Mickeys Fun Wheel and California Screamin become part of the performance as they undergo various forms of lighting, the effects utilized in World of Color are choreographed to work in synchronicity with the featured music and image projections. The show was first announced as part of the Disney California Adventure Park expansion in the fall of 2007, construction for the water show began with the draining of the lagoon on November 3,2008. Construction on the platform began on January 5,2009, the water was refilled in Paradise Pier in November 2009. Testing began during and after hours in January 2010. A 25-minute video of sequences from the show was posted on YouTube by a hotel guest staying at Disneys Paradise Pier Hotel, the first public performance was held on June 5,2010 for the creators of the show and guests. In the week leading up to June 11, private viewings for cast members, contest winners, the show uses nearly 1,200 fountains that can shoot water up to 200 ft in the air. Each fountain is equipped with an LED light ring, other water features include a 380-foot -long mist screen on which images are projected. Isopar instruments are capable of shooting flames up to 50 ft in the air, a 65 tall telescopic mast was installed in the lagoon to create Chernabog of Fantasia, but the tower has not been used in the show. The LED lights on Mickeys Fun Wheel, as well as LED lights installed on California Screamin, are synchronized to the show, light trees rise from boxes bordering Paradise Pier. The light trees bordering the area and the bay include speakers, bubble machines, infrared transmitters. On either side of the bay, there is a light tree with five Syncrolite fixtures. The viewing area, known as Paradise Lagoon Amphitheater, is situated along the shore of Paradise Bay. It is multi-tiered, similar to the area for Fantasmic at Disneyland in Anaheim. It features trellises, flowers, and an interactive play fountain during the day, hidden fountains located in the flower beds in the viewing area are incorporated into show. When World of Color Celebrate was being programmed, a large scrim shaped like Mickeys head was added to be raised to cover the face on Mickeys Fun Wheel giving the show another projection surface
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Fantasmic!
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The area was reworked, including terracing the walkways to accommodate viewing and modifying part of Tom Sawyer Island to allow the shows staged live action segments. The producers employed the resources of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Imagineering, a second version, featuring new scenes, debuted at Disney-MGM Studios in 1998 and a third version debuted at Tokyo DisneySea in 2011, replacing BraviSEAmo. Transpires on the waters of the Rivers of America at Disneyland, the show begins with a faint musical note that swells into a lush fanfare, revealing Mickey Mouse onstage. He dances and orchestrates various water effects to the shows theme, until bringing up the mist screens. From there, the stars of the scene bloom into flowers. The music segues into a guitar rendition of Pink Elephants on Parade from Dumbo, as animated pink elephants appear onscreen. The scene transitions into an onstage marionette sequence from Pinocchio, jiminy Cricket appears onscreen underwater searching for Pinocchio. An animated Monstro appears suddenly, accompanied by a musical score as he crashes through water. The sea morphs into the Sorcerers Apprentice flood scene, as Mickey looks around in the dark, a ship caught in a storm appears. The screens disappear, and the lights darken, a cannon is fired from Sailing Ship Columbia, portraying Captain Hooks pirate ship from Peter Pan. Hook, Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy, and pirates participate in a stunt sequence, following the ship is a crocodile barge, with the sound of a ticking clock emanating from its tail. The scene ends with Hook hanging from the end of the boat, the music takes on an ominous tone as Mickeys dream takes a turn for the worse. The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on stage, angered by Mickeys optimistic imagination, she transforms herself into her old hag disguise and invokes a riled Ursula, who ecstatically joins the Queens plot to destroy Mickey. Ursula calls upon Chernabog who summons deceased spirits and he summons Maleficent who threatens Mickey, now in his Brave Little Tailor outfit, as she transforms herself into an enormous dragon. On stage, the 45-foot dragon sets the waters ablaze breathing fire onto the river, Mickey faces the dragon, claiming that he is in control of his imagination, and defeats the dragon, destroying the villains in the process. Everything is silent, until Tinker Bell appears, Magical stars sparkle in the tavern as the Mark Twain Riverboat approaches. A spark of pyrotechnics ignite from The Mark Twain, revealing black, the vessel glides past the audience, carrying several dozens Disney characters as a celebratory atmosphere prevails. With another flash, Mickey appears atop the highest point of the tavern as the Sorcerers Apprentice as he controls a series of water, fireworks, laser
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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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