Walt Disney World operates on a scale unlike any other theme park resort in the world. To illustrate just how big it is, here are some examples of everyday resources that the resort consumes like crazy.
Were you among the few people who managed to experience these short-lived Disney theme park attractions before they were closed for good?
New Jersey’s notorious Action Park is BACK, reopened under its original name. Let’s take a look back at the insane rides that gave this park its reputation as “the most dangerous theme park of all time”. Located in Vernon, New Jersey, Action Park originally operated from 1978 to 1996. It was split into three distinct…
Over the years, dozens of rides and shows have been removed or replaced at Walt Disney World’s theme parks. Here are 10 classic attractions that we miss the most.
Walt Disney World employs around 60,000 human Cast Members. But millions of other creatures help play a part in maintaining the guest experience. Have you ever wondered why there are so few mosquitoes around to bite into guests, despite the fact that the entire resort was built on swampland? Or why legions of rats aren’t…
Disney’s theme parks are the most popular in the world. Let’s compare them to see which are the biggest, smallest, busiest and most attraction-packed.
Take a look at 10 stunning ride concepts that were once proposed for a Marvel theme park – could they make their way into Disney’s first park based on the comic book firm’s heroes?
Over the years, dozens of new theme parks have been proposed, but never built. Some of these were almost impossibly ambitious – but came surprisingly close to becoming a reality. Five floors of rides housed inside an abandoned power station. A full-scale recreation of a fictional spaceship. A cage that lowered guests into a pool…
Universal and Disney are intense rivals in the theme park industry – but that hasn’t stopped Universal from referencing some of Disney’s most famous rides in its own attractions. Disney, for the most part, takes the “high ground” – refusing to acknowledge the existence of Universal in its own rides and shows, even those that…
Disney and Universal have built many of the best theme park attractions on the planet. But some of their most famous creations could have been very different. During the course of an attraction’s development, the Imagineers at Disney and Universal’s Creative team consider dozens of different concepts. Sometimes, these come very close to actually being…
