Animal Kingdom is five times the size of the Magic Kingdom making it the largest Disney Theme Park in the world. It is a 580 acre park including many species of wildlife, including Africian plains animals.
There is a "talking" water fountain in Future World near the main fountain. It is just outside the Centorium shop on the east side of the big fountain. There is another one to the right of the play fountain between Future World and World Showcase. There's a third one to the left of the restrooms between Imaginations and Innoventions West.
A small plane crashed in the parking lot of EPCOT in 1994 close to Thanksgiving during park hours. The small plane was carrying a family for the holiday season. The pilot nearly hit Spaceship Earth and the Monorail before crashing in the parking lot. The pilot, Mother and Father were killed but the children survived.
If you go up to the resource center, in Epcot, ride the elevator. There's a great Aerial photo of Walt Disney World in lieu of wallpaper. Most of the locations are labeled/identified.
The World of Disney, the
Disney Store at the Marketplace, is the largest Disney Store in the world. At the widest point it is just shy of the width of a football field. It has twelve rooms full of Hidden Mickeys.
Did you know that the only place on Disney World Resort property where you can buy a photo of Walt Disney is at Sid Cahuenga's one-of-a-kind shop in the Disney MGM Studio's where they sell for $4.00. Occasionally, the store carries an authentic autograph of Walt that can be purchased for about $3,000!!
The cap in the center of MGM weighs a wopping 150 tons and stands 122-foot-tall. Under the cap are computers with quizzes about Walt and his work. The pens they give out will light up at certain attractions through-out the park (Like over at the Haunted Mansion, it lights up like a heart beat). At night they call it a "Pen Light presession" as the pens light up and flash during the night.
At Beaches and Cream if you look at the back of the menue you can see a "Kitchen Sink." It has every kind of ice cream, topping and whatever else they throw in there in this dessert. I ordered it and if you finish it within an hour and eat it all by yourself you get it for free. Well I only took up this offer because something free from Disney almost never occurs!! So I decided to get myself some free ice cream. Well, I did finish it and almost got sick when I did. I did receive a certificate that I was in the "Kitchen Sink Club" and Mickey signed it himself. For a good time, I would recomend trying this sundae! <this was not me who tried it, just copied it from a different web site.>
