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A Portrait of Walt Disney World

Author : Kevin Kern

Publisher : Disney Editions

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 36,25 MB

Release : 2021-09-28

Category : Art

ISBN : 9781368052849

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This expansive, must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Walt Disney World Resort, across half a century, through diverse and vibrant voices and mostly unseen Disney theme park concept art and photographs. Walt Disney's vision for the Florida Project begins with Disneyland and the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. After an imaginative and expansive design, a unique land acquisition process, and an innovative construction period, the Walt Disney World Resort celebrated its Grand Opening in October 1971. It featured a theme park dubbed the Magic Kingdom and three recreational resorts: Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Village, and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. As Walt Disney World consistently grew and further evolved through the five decades that followed, certain themes reverberated: an appreciation for nostalgia, a joy for fantasy, a hunger for discovery, and an unending hope for a better tomorrow. Inspirational and memorable theme parks, water parks, sports arenas, recreational water sports, world-class golf courses, vast shopping villages, and a transportation network unlike any other in the world resulted in fun, festive, and familiar characters, traditions, spectacles, merchandise, and so much more. The resort has come to represent the pulse of American leisure and has served as a backdrop for life's milestones both big and small, public and private. Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century serves as a treasure trove for vacationers, students of hospitality, artists, and all Disney collectors. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic Poster Art of the Disney Parks



Universal Versus Disney

Author : Sam Gennawey

Publisher : Unofficial Guides

Page : pages

File Size : 34,5 MB

Release : 2018-10-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781628090949

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Universal Studios never really wanted to get into the theme park business. They wanted to be the anti-Disney. But when forced to do so, they did it in a big way. Despite the fits and starts of multiple owners, the parks have finally gained the momentum to mount a serious challenge to the Walt Disney Company. How did this happen? Who made it happen? What does this mean for the theme park industry? In Universal Versus Disney, his newest work to investigate the histories of America's favorite theme parks, seasoned Disney-author Sam Gennawey has thoroughly researched how Universal Studios shook up the multi-billion dollar theme park industry, one so long dominated by Walt Disney and his legacy.



Beyond Disney

Author : Bob Sehlinger

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 34,94 MB

Release : 2007-04-23

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0470098430

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Book Description

"Comprehensive coverage of theme parks, dinner theater, mini-golf, water parks, adventure outings, sports, museums, and more"--Back cover



Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2019

Author : Bob Sehlinger

Publisher : Unofficial Guides

Page : 832 pages

File Size : 19,31 MB

Release : 2018-08-14

Category : Amusement parks

ISBN : 9781628090819

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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2019 explains how Walt Disney World works and how to use that knowledge to make every minute and every dollar of your vacation count.



Stories from the Magic Kingdom

Author : Patrick Kling

Publisher : Theme Park Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 46,31 MB

Release : 2018-05-10

Category :

ISBN : 9781683901426

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Admit One to Magic In this collection of fanciful stories set in Disney's Magic Kingdom, one for each of the six lands in the park, you'll take a grand circle tour of exploration, mystery, intrigue, exotic thrills, and things that go bump in the mansion. Brave danger with the intrepid skippers of the Jungle Cruise, team with Mr. Tom Morrow as he fights galactic crime in Tomorrowland, attend a swingin' birthday party in the Haunted Mansion, delve into the fearsome bowels of Big Thunder Mountain, take the villains' side in an all-out assault on Fantasyland, and ride a Main Street train to an enchanted station not on any map. Tickets, please!



The Thinking Fan's Guide to Walt Disney World - Magic Kingdom

Author : Aaron Wallace

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,20 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Orlando (Fla.)

ISBN : 9781937011246

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Introducing a different kind of guidebook for a different kind of theme park experience. This is a guide for those ready to immerse themselves in the magnificent achievement that is Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Wallace goes beyond the average guidebook to provide a lighthearted but scholarly look at the history, lore, and literature that inform the designs and storylines of every ride and attraction in the Magic Kingdom.



Stories from a Theme Park Insider

Author : Robert Niles

Publisher :

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 47,32 MB

Release : 2012-04

Category : Amusement parks

ISBN : 9780983813019

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What time is the 3:00 parade? Why does a child need to be 40 inches tall to ride a roller coaster? What happens when the president of France gets lost inside Pirates of the Caribbean? A former employee, or "cast member," at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom answers these and other questions while sharing humorous stories about working inside the world's most popular theme park. "Stories from a Theme Park Insider" takes you inside the park's famous tunnels and backstage for a look at how theme parks really work, and the funny moments and embarrassments that can happen when your work is someone else's vacation.





Where Is Walt Disney World?

Author : Joan Holub

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 114 pages

File Size : 35,93 MB

Release : 2018-05-22

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0515158437

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Building the most magical place on earth was no fairy tale. Learn the story behind the creation of Walt Disney World. In 1964, when Walt Disney and his brother Roy decided to build a second theme park in the Florida swamplands, they kept it super hush-hush. Why? Well, if word got out that they planned to buy up lots of land, the price would have skyrocketed. So the Disneys cleverly covered up their trail, avoiding the Orlando airport and even using made-up names, like Walt and Roy Davis, for their flights. The deception worked. In covering the history of the "Most Magical Place On Earth," Joan Holub takes readers both behind the scenes and underneath the park (there are secret employee-only tunnels that form one big circle under the Magic Kingdom). Loaded with fun facts, this book is a great companion to Who Was Walt Disney?



Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space

Author : Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 33,95 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780754643333

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Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy environments are an extreme example of the totalization of public space. By illuminating the relationship between theme parks and public space, the book offers an insight into the ethos, design and expectations of public space in the twenty-first century.