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Walt Disney World. By Michael Trycieckyj. “ Project X” The Florida Project. Walt Disney bought land and was going to build a city. The original plan was not to have a Magic Kingdom. Walt did not want another Disneyland. ←Walt Disney presenting his Florida project plans. A change of plans. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Walt Disney World
By Michael Trycieckyj
““Project X” The Florida Project X” The Florida ProjectProject
Walt Disney Walt Disney bought land and bought land and was going to was going to build a city.build a city.
The original plan was not to have a Magic Kingdom. Walt did not want another Disneyland.
←Walt Disney presenting his Florida project plans
A change of plansA change of plans
The Disney board The Disney board of directors of directors convinced Walt to convinced Walt to put the Magic put the Magic Kingdom Park into Kingdom Park into the Florida project.the Florida project.
ConstructionConstruction
It took 18 months to build!It took 18 months to build!
9000 Workers!9000 Workers!
$4 Million $4 Million
ALL FOR ONE PARK!!!ALL FOR ONE PARK!!!
Opened October 1Opened October 1stst 1971 1971
Why not another?Why not another?
EPCOT was decided EPCOT was decided to be a Theme parkto be a Theme park
Reason: It would Reason: It would be too hard to be too hard to build a city like build a city like Walt wantedWalt wanted A vision of the City Epcot could
have looked like is shown above
← Walt Disney telling about his plans
••The park opened October 1The park opened October 1stst 19821982
••The park also had an add on. The park also had an add on. The World ShowcaseThe World Showcase
Hollywood: From California to Hollywood: From California to FloridaFlorida
EPCOT was to add a pavilion themed like a movie place.
The movie theme was to go in one of these building ↓
Michael Eisner Michael Eisner changed the changed the plan to a park, plan to a park, themed like themed like Hollywood- Hollywood- Disney’s MGM Disney’s MGM StudiosStudios
The newest logo and name for the park →
The parks name changed in 2008
↑The original logo and name
Final Park (For now)Final Park (For now)
June 20, 1995- The next park was announced: The Animal Kingdom