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I work for wdw. I think this backstagepictures and ttours are horrible. Guests should not be seeingany of this. Walt is spinning in his grave. He worked very hard to keep it magically. And you are ruining it....
Not everyone is a little kid living for a fantasy world. I for one, like to see the technical aspects of how things work. And I'd love to do some "urban exploring" of the abandoned sites.
We did the Magic Behind the Steam Engine tour a fews years back and they take you to the Roundhouse. It's really something to see the amount of work that goes on backstage with the trains and the monorails. This tour is well worth the cost and you get to come in to the park before opening, which is always a treat.
EPCOT actually utilizes utilidoors along with Avenue of stars. The utilidoors are just not as widely used as the Magic Kingdom's, and also do not reach the World Showcase.
Don't they already have a wedding pavilion?
I feel the best way to reuses Discovery Island is that they should make it all Honeymoon Suites and make it part of the Wedding Packeges..or private Bungalows
If you take the all day back stage tour you can mark off a few of these. The tour takes you to the fabrication shops and the Avenue of stars as well as the nursery. Plus a few more. Great tour I suggest it to anyone, well worth the money
That's why it's called The 'Magic' Kingdom:-) Wish I could LIVE there - happiest place on Earth:-0
Yeah, I considered moving to Orlando awhile ago, then I came to the conclusion that I don't want to live in Florida, I want to live in Walt Disney World. As that's not too practical, I decided against it. (Hey, read "The Free Lunch" by Spider Robinson. It's about a kid who tries to live in a theme park (not Disneyworld) and finds out there's someone there already. That person helps with the provision that the kid help her ferret out a mystery. Seems there are move dwarven actors leaving at the end of each day than came in that morning.
We have a friend who worked years ago in the horticultural department at Disney World and told the story of multiple versions of the tree in Liberty Square being planted in the nursery just in case. They actually replaced that gigantic tree overnight one night because the current tree had developed an illness that couldn't be fixed. They carefully dug up one of the gigantic "back up trees", and slowly transported it to the Magic Kingdom backstage area. Then in the brief hours between park close and park open, they pulled up the old tree, planted the new one, replaced all the surrounding plants, flowers, etc, and cleaned up the mess. No one visiting the park was any the wiser. Crazy to think that such a thing would even be attempted, much less successfully done. :) I would imagine that doing such a thing now would be more challenging since the roots have likely grown under all the concrete that makes up the walkways.