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Magic Kingdom
Park Opening: October 1, 1971
Dedication: October 25, 1971 by Roy O. Disney
Size: 107 acres
Lands: Main Street USA, Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantastland, Mickey's Toontown Fair, Tomorrowland

Cinderella Castle
Location: Entrance to Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom
Opening Date: October 1, 1971
Castle Height: 189 feet
Tinkerbell's Flight: Tinkerbell embarked upon her first flight from Cinderella Castle on July 4, 1984. She flies 750 feet, averaging 15 miles per hour and taking approximately 34 seconds for the trip.

EPCOT
Park Opening: October 1, 1982
Lands: Future World, World Showcase
Facts: EPCOT is an acronym, standing for Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. Walt's original vision for EPCOT was a land where technology and people of all cultures could co-exist. He initially envisioned people living in EPCOT.
There are 11 countries represented in the World Showcase.

Disney-MGM Studios
Park Opening: May 1, 1989
Size: 154 acres
Facts: The park opened in 1989 with only five attractions and one exhibit. There is a full animation studio in the park, which has produced full length animated movies created entirely in-studio, such as Lilo & Stitch.

Animal Kingdom
Park Opening: May 1, 1989
Size: Over 500 acres
Lands: Discovery Island, Dinoland U.S.A, Asia, Africa, Camp Minnie-Mickey.
Facts: Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to the Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years, equaling 4.4 million yards of dirt.
Tree of Life: Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full time for 18 months to create 325 animal carvings in The Tree Of Life. The Tree of Life is topped with more than 103,000 translucent, five-shades-of-green leaves that were individually placed and actually blow in the wind.

hidden mickeys

Many of the attractions in Walt Disney World, have been "signed" by the Imagineers that created them. Imagineers often include a "Hidden Mickey", or a representation of that famous mouse's silhouette. Below is a partial list of some locations of Hidden Mickeys. Try to spot them next time to go to the parks!

Magic Kingdom

Haunted Mansion

  • Ballroom scene - arrangement of plate and adjoining saucers on the banquet table
  • Graveyard scene - left hand of the grim reaper forms a Mickey outline with his fingers

    It's A Small World
  • Africa scene - purple flowers on a vine on the elephant's left side

    Jungle Cruise
  • Side of plane
  • Temple - arrangement of three plates

    Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Treasure Room - iron work on the bottom of four lamps on the left side, one located on each of two columns and two more located on either side of the archway walls

    Splash Mountain
  • "Zip-a-dee-do-dah" scene - lying on his back in the pink clouds to the right of the riverboat

    Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
  • Queue area - map on the wall, shape of continent on a planet

    EPCOT

    The American Adventure
  • Lobby - painting of wagon train heading west, above the front leg of the formost oxen

    The Land Pavillion
  • Living with the Land - bubbles in the middle of the mural in the queue
  • Living with the Land - three circles near the bottom of the mural directly across from loading area
  • Living with the Land - in the film montage after the farm scene, on the nametags of Epcota greenhouse technicians in one of the pictures

    Spaceship Earth
  • Renaissance Italy scene - on the page of a book behind the sleeping monk
  • Hat in the teenage boy's bedroom
  • Alarm clock in the teenage boy's bedroom

    Disney-MGM Studios

    Backlot Tour
  • Prop Warehouse - on the refrigerator

    The Great Movie Ride
  • Ride loading area - in Hollywood Hills mural, a profile of Minnie Mouse can be seen above the roof of the gazebo
  • Gangster Alley - on the billboard
  • Gangster Alley - in window above the bank
  • Well of Souls - on the hieroglyphics wall opposite Indiana Jones (four familar characters may be noticed here)

    Jim Henson's Muppetvision 3-D
  • Outside fountain - an inflatable toy raft
  • Queue area - "Top five reasons for turning in your 3-D glasses" sign
  • Lobby video - test pattern the second time Scooter crosses the screen
  • Final Scene - the balloons

    Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith
  • Lobby - between the doors that have marble panels; before entering the next room, there are two sets of three small circles in the floor tiles, unlike any other tile pieces in the room
  • Lobby - poster of the "8th Street Kidz Band" featuring rock singer Jesse Camp wearing a demin jacket with a Mickey Mouse patch on the upper left hand corner

    Star Tours
  • Queue area - on "phone directory" sign
  • First worker robot called G2 is wearing a Mickey Mouse patch

    Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
  • Entrance area - just before you go inside, on main balcony designs
  • Library video - little girl in elevator holding Mickey Mouse plush
  • Library - on sheet music
  • Bolier room - water stain on the wall, just after the queue splits
  • At the doors to the final drop, in a swirl of stars

    Animal Kingdom

    Dinosaur
  • Building entrance - in wall mural depicting Florida's Cretacious Era wildlife; look on the bark of the painted tree in the far left background
  • Building entrance - under wall mural, three floating water lillies
  • Photo imaging pick-up - in Carnotaurus wall mural; in shadow under a fold in the dinosaur's lower jaw

    Pleasure Island

    8 Trax Club
  • DJ Booth - on wall, arrangement of large record and two 45's