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10. Spoilt for choice

 

The Emporium store on Main Street, USA covers a massive 16,742 square feet.

9. The oldest ride


 

The oldest ride at the Magic Kingdom is the Prince Charming Regal Carrousel. The ride was originally built in 1917 by The Philadelphia Toboggan Company. 90 of its horses are originals, made of hand-carved wood. There are 11 fibreglass horses added by Disney.

8. A landmark

Big Thunder Mountain The enormous Big Thunder Mountain required 650 tons of steel, 4,675 tons of "mud" and more than 9,000gallons of paint to construct.

7. The Liberty Tree

 

The enormous Liberty Tree in Liberty Square is a live oak tree, and commemorates the meeting place of the Sons of Liberty (as seen in Disney's Johnny Tremaine). It was transplanted from elsewhere on Walt Disney World property, is more than 135 years old and weighed some 35 tons when it was moved. The tree is the "parent" of more than 500young trees, each of which started out as an acorn harvested from the oak.

6. The Liberty Bell

 

Nearby, the replica of the Liberty Bell was built from the same cast as the original in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

5. Not your average treehouse

Swiss Family Treehouse
Image © Disney

The Swiss Family Treehouse in Adventureland stands at 60 feet tall, weighs around 200 tons and is made of concrete and around 300,000 fake polyethylene leaves.

4. Genuine locomotives

Walt Disney World Railroad

Image © Disney

The four narrow-gauge locomotives used on the Walt Disney World Railroad were built between 1916 and 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán in Mexico.

3. The PeopleMover

 

The Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover uses 629linear synchronous motors to speed its cars along. It is an evolution of the original Disneyland system, whch used rotating Goodyear tiles to propel its vehicles.

2. A third home

 

Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress debuted at the 1964/65 World's Fair in New York. It was then moved to Disneyland, where it continued to be sponsored by General Electric. Eventually, the company decided that most Californians had seen the attraction, and asked for it to be moved to the Magic Kingdom. It opened there in 1975.

1. Reusing materials

Seven Seas Lagoon The Seven Seas Lagoon is located in front of the Magic Kingdom. The soil that was excavated from the man-made lake was used to cover a complex of "utilidor" tunnels that sit underneath the Magic Kingdom (so, as a guest, you are actually above ground-level).

 
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I love Disney World and I love to hear the story's about Walt Disney

Everyone always talks about the trash system in the Magic Kingdom, but what about the other parks. Do they just use regular old bags emptied every night?

In reply to by Visitor (not verified)

Yes, the other parks use ordinary disposal systems. I may be wrong, but I think that the waste from Magic Kingdom is also bagged before it's dropped into the duct. I'm assuming that because the sound it makes when it passes you is as if one large item is moving down the system. I would think that dumping a bucket of loose trash would give you the sound of several objects clanging their way down the pipe.

The other parks (and parts of Magic Kingdom) are surrounded by a perimeter road that really resembles the back side of a strip mall or shopping center. It's just a road with random/nondescript buildings, loading docks, delivery trucks, dumpsters, recycling bins, golf carts, and wigless princesses on a smoke break.

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