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Nothing like this had ever For his next project, Walt wanted
been conceived before to make sure he would have
and Walt turned to his enough land to house all of his
own staff of talented dreams and ambitious plans.
film-makers and artists
to help fully realize his Walt and his Imagineers began
dream. looking at a second theme park
site in the US and quickly, Florida
These artists, designers, became the favorite for its
architects, engineers good, year-round weather and
and more, were dubbed transport infrastructure.
‘Imagineers’.
With much secrecy, ‘The Florida
Project’ began.
Walt wanted to dream even bigger and retain the beautiful, natural look of the
landscape, purchasing 43 square miles of undeveloped swamp land in Orlando,
The Disneyland Resort welcomed its first guests on Sunday, July 17, 1955 and after Florida.
a shaky first day’s operation, Disneyland quickly went on to become a runaway
success and continues, to this day, to be the most visited park in the world. Part of the plan for the new Florida
Project involved an ambitious
With the almost overnight success of Disneyland, businesses and developments design for a futuristic city as well
began to spring up all around as a bigger version of Disneyland.
the park, breaking some of
the illusion Walt was trying to Sadly, Walt passed away before
create with the park. the plans for the Florida Project
were finalized.
After talking to Walt’s family,
his brother Roy came out of
retirement to oversee the
construction of Walt’s final
dream and as a lasting tribute to
his late brother, the resort was re-
christened, ‘Walt Disney World’.

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