Spaceship Earth through the Japan Pavilion

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The Disney Parks are filled with amazing architecture, but one underappreciated aspect of that architecture is how it can often play together in the same field of view.

Disney is very aware of this fact, and they usually design their buildings such that they fit together when viewed with the naked eye. The camera, unfortunately, flattens the world down into a two-dimensional image — forcing that interplay to appear a bit more simplistic.

Put plainly, if you stand in the right spot, you can fit Spaceship Earth inside a bit of Japanese architecture. It’s super fun to do, and you’d be lying if you said you hadn’t done it yourself.

Blurry Space Mountain with the lights on

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Everyone loves Space Mountain. The idea is so beautifully simple that it seems impossible for anyone to dislike it. But while everyone can agree that Space Mountain is awesome, there’s something that is even more universally true:

Space Mountain with its lights on is extremely cool.

On occasion, maintenance workers need to turn on the work lights inside Space Mountain’s show building to perform repairs or evacuate riders. Because the Tomorrowland Transit Authority passes right through the building, such work allows riders the opportunity to take pictures of the ride’s inner structure fully lit.

But, because of the speed of the TTA and the relative darkness of a show building, most of the photos come out blurry. We’ve all been there — but they’re still super cool. 

The purple wall

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Despite the fact that the Magic Kingdom boasts Cinderella’s Castle, the monorail, the Walt Disney World Railroad, Main Street USA, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, the Haunted Mansion, and so on, one of the most popular places to visit in the park is ... a purple wall.

Originally just a wall in Tomorrowland, the advent of the photo sharing app Instagram gave the wall an entirely new reason for being — that is, people look amazing when they pose for pictures in front of it.

Disney has since repainted the wall slightly to add a more interesting background pattern, but it remains one of the biggest Instagram spots at Walt Disney World. 

Disney doesn’t just sell experiences anymore — it sells experiences for you to show off to your friends. The purple wall is the best example of that.