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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.
The football at the Touchdown Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort would use up enough pigskin to cover the end zone of a football field.
It would take nearly 9.5-million tennis balls to fill one of the tennis ball cans at Center Court Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort. That's enough to stretch from Walt Disney World Resort to Key West.
It would take more than 20-million 12-ounce cans of soda to fill one of the gigantic cups at the Home-Run Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort.
The mosaic mural in the fourth-floor lobby of Disney's Contemporary Resort was created in 1971 with 1,800 1-square-foot tiles and took 18 months to construct.
The rooms of the Contemporary and the original Polynesian buildings were actually made individually, poured as concrete shells offsite, and then stacked using a crane.. Problems developed when mold began forming between the concrete walls and a foul odor emanated... This method of construction was then abandoned. The Contempory Resorts construction was completed by building the Mexican Architecture shaped sell. Then, with a crane, slipped the nearly completed guest rooms in their places, like a three-dimensional puzzle. This was obviously only needed for the main tower, not the wings.
For those of you who have ever taken Disney Transportation to the Magic Kingdom or stayed at the Contemporary Resort, you may have wondered where the rest of that road leads...well, here it is!! If the Disney Transport Buses were to continue going straight, they would come across the MONORAIL SERVICE STATION!! All the way back and to the right, is the location where the train, Busses, and all the monorail trains are stored. Also, if you were to continue and take a left at the station, you would pass by the entrance to the utilidors and discover a parking lot in the back behind Splash Mountain. This is where electric water pagent boats, garbage collection, float storage, and rehearsal areas are located. However, only performers in the Magic Music Days and Disney Employees are allowed back here.
The original concept for the "victory lap" at Test Track had the vehicles doing closer to 95mph (they're capable of 150!), which would've increased the angle of the bank to nearly 70 degrees. However, during stops and evacuations, hanging sideways can become incregly uncomfortable, especially for disabled guests. Therefore, the angle was decreased, the speed slowed to 65.
The computer power in a single Test Track car is greater than the computer power required to run entire Magic Kingdom!
If you look at a map of Future World with Spaceship Earth being at the bottom of the map, the part of the park is designed after the human brain. On the right side of the park there is imaginative design being our creative side. On the left side of the park there are more squre angles being our balance side. Also in Future World West the buildings are designed to the creation of Earth, the sea being the first then comes land and imagination for the future. The same goes for the height of the buildings, the sea is the shortest, then comes the land and finally the skies the limit.
Spaceship Earth can grow and shrink several inches depending on the temperature.
Spaceship Earth is the most popular attraction in the world. More people pass through the ride every year than any other.
Spaceship Earth weighs 16 million pounds -- equal in weight to 158 million golf balls.
If Spaceship Earth were a golf ball, the person using it to play golf would be approximately 1.2 miles tall to be in proper scale!
